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Heidfeld says screaming engines part of F1 DNA
Former Formula 1 driver Nick Heidfeld has lamented the loss of the sport's familiar screaming engines.
Despite now racing an almost silent Formula E car, the 37-year-old former BMW and Williams driver said loud engine noise should be part of the F1 package.
'When I think of my time in formula one,' said Heidfeld, 'I still hear those engines at 20,000rpm and screaming so loud you have goose bumps.
'That sound is important for formula one,' he told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 'it is part of the DNA of the series and it's a pity they don't sound like that anymore. Even a touring car is louder now.'
The German insisted, however, that the sound of F1 and Formula E cannot be compared, just...
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