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[Nin-Chin]

The only thing potentially ruining this battle is double points at the last round. That will make it closer but also artificial in a way.

[LRW]

To all those complaining about the noise; are you happy now.....

[racechick]

That looks stupid. It looks like one of those 'pwarp, pwarp' horns that kids have on bikes. And it's artificial, it's not real noise so why bother. The engines are what they are and we have to get use to it. They give us much better racing and opportunity to see drivers on the edge( or over it in the case of one of them) but they don't sound so good. That's a fair trade off for me.

[LRW]

Im guessing Merc have made it look deliberately stupid....

[racechick]

Quite possibly......like......'there you go folk, a noisy engine'.

[LRW]

[LewEngBridewell]

That looks stupid. It looks like one of those 'pwarp, pwarp' horns that kids have on bikes. And it's artificial, it's not real noise so why bother. The engines are what they are and we have to get use to it. They give us much better racing and opportunity to see drivers on the edge( or over it in the case of one of them) but they don't sound so good. That's a fair trade off for me.

Yup, agree with that.

And to be honest, I'm already used to the noise now anyway.

[racechick]

Here's the prototype....

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It does indeed look as though Merc are taking the piss out of Bernie and his stupid ideas. More here from the guy who cuts to the chase...thejudge13
He starts of writing about Vettel's apparantly 'bent' carbon fibre chassis, but if you read down to the next bit it's about the Merc. exhaust.

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[stonemonkey]

Silly tailpipe to sound more sporty, next they'll be lowering the suspension and fitting big spoilers.

[1Lemon]

Silly tailpipe to sound more sporty, next they'll be lowering the suspension and fitting big spoilers.

Add some Nyons!

[myownalias]

And it's artificial...

Much like many other aspects of modern F1, so it should fit in perfectly!

...next they'll be lowering the suspension and fitting big spoilers.

Haven't they been doing that since the 70s?

[spankyham]

I'm going to wait and see what it sounds like. Unfortunately it doesn't look silly enough to distract from the phallic-noses.

Niki Lauda has an interview with Autosprint saying he and Mercedes believe they need to fix the sound and its better to do it now. Although as much as I don't like the sound now, I would have been in the camp that said its better to fix it next year.

[What's Burning?]

I think it's myopic to complain about the sound. I understand why some would complain, but I think it's ridiculous.

[Nin-Chin]

I had started to like the throaty sound of the Mercedes anyway.

[1Lemon]

It just sounds like a louder drone, someone put some videos on Reddit.