I take it all back

[Vaud]

dr_gn said:

That's the problem for the connoisseur wanting to hear a decent multi-cylinder F1 engine pushed to its limits again: The historic F1 races and Clienti type events consist of valuable cars mainly driven by random drivers. I noticed at a Donington event a few years ago than some could barely scoop thier guts into an F1 cockpit. One even had to be pretty much lifted out afterwards by two sycophants.

Sad.

Why sad? Make money, buy car you love and maintain it, and get it on the track and let people hear it, The realistic option is them sitting in museums.

Though it would be nice to see a few out on days like today in Monaco, or at Monza to delight the fans, driven by current or recent racers, but I guess that is too risky for the teams.

[dr_gn]

Vaud said:

dr_gn said:

That's the problem for the connoisseur wanting to hear a decent multi-cylinder F1 engine pushed to its limits again: The historic F1 races and Clienti type events consist of valuable cars mainly driven by random drivers. I noticed at a Donington event a few years ago than some could barely scoop thier guts into an F1 cockpit. One even had to be pretty much lifted out afterwards by two sycophants.

Sad.

Why sad? Make money, buy car you love and maintain it, and get it on the track and let people hear it, The realistic option is them sitting in museums.

Though it would be nice to see a few out on days like today in Monaco, or at Monza to delight the fans, driven by current or recent racers, but I guess that is too risky for the teams.

No, I meant sad that they can only be heard being driven at about 6/10, and possibly running de-tuned into the bargain. There is a massive difference between experiencing those same cars running in a Grand Prix (or test) compared with a historic F1 event/demo. Better than nothing, but it's all a bit naff compared with the real thing. I think the DFV or more common V8 stuff might get run to more realistic limits, but the '89-'06 era multi-cylinders were where it was really at AFAIC.

[Jez m]

Loved that V12 vid! Just spent the past hour watching vid after vid of V12, V10 and V8 F1 clips!

I remember staying in downtown Melbourne 2012 and waking up to the noise of F1 V8's screaming round the circuit about 2 miles away.. i literally could not wait to get down there! This year i couldn't even hear the F1 cars.. just the Aussie touring cars and that was barely audible, but at least something!