Pieman wrote:Just how fantastic do those Mercs sound?
Very fantastic. It's why I quite like seeing the safety car on track, because there's bound to be a camera shot from inside it, where the screaming soprano of the F1 engines is temporarily replaces by the loud "GRRRRRRRR" of an AMG-tuned Merc.
See, this is what DTM should be. I've checked the regulations, they allow for "V8 engines with a 90° V angle, producing about 470 hp" - but the end product just doesn't sound right. (Evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEwbicpzhXw - Gary Paffett's 2009 season review). If, instead, there was some kind of "production class" of AMG C63s, then we're talking. The medical car is a previous-model C55 estate (no need to copy Volvo's BTCC experiment from the mid-90s, mind...), the safety car is a CLK55 (the CLK63 didn't appear until 2007); and here's what the C63 sounds like at 200-and-something km/h before the engine note mysteriously disappears: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKEGFUWBekA
Better still: one of the perks of the Red Baron signing for Merc is that he gets to drive the SLS, which has an engine note to die for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l48errZPPa4 - even though there's all that music over it (STOP IT, YOU BATHPLUGS) you can still hear it. Imagine an SLS-based racing series. It'd sound brilliant, and it'd look brilliant, because the SLS isn't exactly built for racing and it kicks its arse out at the slightest provocation. Although, given that it's the latest incarnation of the saftety car (which needs to be driven fast, even in treacherous condition) it must be possible to tweak it into a racer. Now we need some fearless drivers... Takuma Sato, can you hear us?
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Great find!
