Bernie Ecclestone has admitted that he too is worried about the sound of F1’s new engine formula for 2013.
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said recently that for “the top class of racing”, 1.6 litre four-cylinder power plants “sounds a bit pathetic”.
Triple world champion Niki Lauda agreed: “I am worried about the sound, which in Formula One has been so unique.
“Hopefully there will be  … More
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If you believed the golden age of steam was in the dim and distant past, think again.
This streamlined British supercar that went on a test run at a military airstrip near Chichester last week is about to attempt to smash one of the world’s most enduring records, the highest speed for a steam-driven car.
Known as the ‘World’s Fastest Kettle’, the car is being shipped to America where driver Charles Burnett III will make the record attempt across a dried-up lake bed in the Mojave Desert of Southern California in early June.
The steam-car record of 127.659mph was set by American Fred Marriott in 1906 in a machine called the Stanley Steamer.
He tried to break his record a year later but the car  … Pictures & More
They sounded perfect, individually, each one producing a uniquely beautiful noise that echoed throughout the otherwise empty forest. But collectively they sounded like some kind of wild monster, howling its way through the woods, occasionally spitting flames, even, at anyone who got too close. Never before had the normally subdued confines of our test track sounded like they did on that day.
Then again, when a 458 Italia meets an F40 and an Enzo on straight-through pipes, the noise is going to be pretty spectacular, no matter what piece of road you choose to compare them on … Pictures & More
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