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Formula 1 cars not much louder for 2016
Formula 1 is louder but not loud enough to meet the expectations of its audience, one correspondent at the Barcelona test reported on Monday. For 2016, following widespread complaints that the ‘power unit' era has left the previously screaming sport with little more than a whimper, the F1 rules were tweaked. Teams have had to install a separate tailpipe for the so-called ‘wastegate', for the sole benefit of turning up the volume of the turbo V6 engines. Bild am Sonntag reports that Mercedes' 2016 unit is 12 per cent louder than its predecessor, cranking it up from 96 to 108 decibels. As for what it sounds like in reality, Autosprint's Cesare Maria Mannucci said from Barcelona:...
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