scott wrote:
>> Hehe... All the classic cars rush past sounding like a pack of angry 
>> bees, and then an F1 car comes out, sounding like an angry mosquito.
> 
> Something to do with the F1 car engine rotating at 3x the speed of the 
> classic cars.

Yeah, probably that. ;-)

Actually, what was notable about the F1 cars wasn't so much the speed, 
but the *acceleration*. You see the cars go past on a straight, and it 
looks just like any other road full of traffic. But we sat at 
Silverstone on a corner. The cars would come up to it, go round it quite 
slowly, and then just *VANISH* off into the distance like they wer toy 
cars made of paper... it was pretty insane.

Also, watching an F1 car going round the tiny, twisty indoor circuit at 
the RoC, I noticed that it sounded like the engine was on a limiter the 
whole time. It produced a constant note like a tuning fork. Then the 
driver did a few dounuts, and it's amazing how quickly the engine revs 
up and down. Like it just has no flywheel at all! Heh.

>> I don't know about that - I tried driving my car with no silencer, and 
>> it was *actually impossible* to exceed about 25 MPH. The car simply 
>> would not accelerate, even on the flat.
> 
> OK, so maybe you need to redesign the other parts of the exhaust system 
> that were designed with the silencer in mind.  But there's a reason why 
> race cars don't have silencers.

Fo' shizzle! ;-)

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