The terrible temptation of the ageing Formula One fan is to opine that motor racing isn't as exciting as it used to be. This is rubbish. But one thing that is categorically true is that contemporary F1 cars don't sound as good as their predecessors. Today's hybrid engines are weedy compared with the normally aspirated V8s that they replaced, which in turn weren't as sonorous as a Nineties V10 pulling 17,500rpm, never mind the V12s that came before them,yada yada yada…Yet all must kneel before the mighty BRM Type 15 V16, a post-war monster consisting of 36,000 separate parts that makes a sound like gathering thunder on a day when said thunder is dealing with a particularly nasty hangover and has just stubbed a toe on the door frame. It's well worth a Google, except that no computer speaker can handle the vast complexity of the sound this thing makes.
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