No. You have it wrong. I've heard both of those, and they don't come
close to the king. The most incredible sound in motorsports is an
8-liter, 8000 horsepower, nitromethane-burinng, supercharged drag
racing engine at full tilt. That much air moving that fast creates a
sound unlike anything you have ever heard. Of course you shouldn't
listen without ear plugs. The exhaust note lays right under the banshee
scream of the intake, and it is wide, deep, and awesome. You can feel
it in the ground, and in anything you touch. Of course, if you're
standing near the starting line, you can also feel the pavement move
when the cars accelerate at an off-the-mark rate of about 100 feet per
second. Speeds at the 1/8th mile mark are now around 270 mph. Zero to
200 comes in somewhere between two and three seconds. Unfortunately,
television chooses not to broadcast the real sound of any motorsports.
Unfortunate, to say the least.
Paul
On Mar 28, 2006, at 5:03 PM, John Francis wrote:
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.
