On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 01:44:39PM -0500, frank theriault wrote: > > In motorsports the largest widescreen TV with 1000 watts of > surround-sound home theatre can never come close to the visceral > experience of several dozen big-block V8's rumbling, tires squealing, > the smell of smoke and gasoline, or in the case of F1, several dozen > 3.5 litre V10's screaming at some 18,000 RPM (and at those revs, > "scream" is the word).
That was last year. This year they're 2.4L V8s, revving to 20K+ But the big-block V8s in NASCAR or Trans-Am (or some ALMS classes) are the most awesome sound, if you ask me. Especially if you catch them at some event like Long Beach, where they are running on city streets (aka concrete canyons). The sound of a Trans-Am pack running between the vertical walls of the Convention Center and the parking structure has to be felt to be believed. It literally shakes the buildings enough to trigger car alarms.
