Jambo
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Fucking epic noise. 18,000rpm is the best noise ever.
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SVM 286
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Red Bull:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFUHbeIsOCI
Caterham:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yXWGJJlf74
Meh. For the most part, it sounds like someone using a plasma cutter, or angle grinding through some corrugated iron to me.
With the exception of Barrichello's '09 Brawn 001, i've had little or no interest in any V8 F1 cars since they phased the DFV out.
The V12s and V10s were where it was at.
Agreed! The 3.5 litre V8s, V10s and V12s of the early 90s sounded far far better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVa_8N1a46U&feature=youtube_gdata_player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsl2mBOHKdU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
V12 is my personal favourite 
That Reynard sounds lovely. So much nicer than the latest crop of cars. And that wasn't a big front runner.
The V10 sounds even better... you almost can't beat the howl.
But then the V12 pulls a scream or three out of the bag and knocks everything else into a cocked hat.
The way they breath could be to do with it, but I reckon a lot of the more 'engine-like' sounds that you get from earlier cars are to do with having more displacement/a larger capacity.
I think there's a good chance that simply having more internal mass and that having more inertia in the reciprocating & rotating components, makes for more of a mechanical sound track.
Older cars seem to sing, whereas newer cars seem more about the science and efficiency. I think this plays out in their 'voice' so to speak.
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SVM 286
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Fucking epic noise. 18,000rpm is the best noise ever.
Jam, didn't some of the McLaren V10s rev to more than 19.5k?
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I heard the Lotus and Maruissa go past me at Goodwood twice, and my god the noise is fucking epic.
I can't tell people enough how incredible they sound in the flesh. I know people who have watched/followed F1 their whole lives and have never heard one properly.
Echo this. They were using the V10's when i went to see them in 98 and 99. Cant beat the noise when you first hear them fire up, especially when you are half a mile away and it almost sounds like they are right next to you 
Hearing them exit and becketts and scream down the hanger straight is just epic.
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Jambo
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JJ
I want to to to a GP.
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Tiger
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I went to the 1993 European GP which was held at Donnington Park. Doubt there'll ever be another F1 race there!
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