• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    the screaming engines we all love

    “we all”? I don’t. It’s bullshit that has absolutely nothing to do with race action. On TV you cannot experience it at all and live it’s just damaging the ears, making hearing protection absolutely necessary. Also, the rumbling gets old quite soon. After a few laps it’s just there and nothing special at all.

    That engine noise fetish is a marketing ploy by the fossil fuel lobby. In motorsport entertainment, the on-track action has to be good. That’s it and that’s 100% unrelated to noise.

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      5 days ago

      I agree! The focus should be on great wheel to wheel racing, I find it crazy that so many people focus on how it sounds :/

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        4 days ago

        Fully agree.

        Last year’s DTM finale was among the most gripping motorsports events ever and they race GT3 cars without any hybrid unit. Not even a second of that race did I think “ooooh, that sound” (especially not on TV because I didn’t attend that race). Great action speaks for itself.

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        6 days ago

        I think you’ll prefer formula e then

        I prefer any form of good racing. I don’t fetishize noise.

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          6 days ago

          There is more good racing in 5 laps of Formula E than an entire season of snormula yawn. Then we can talk about MotoGP.