mantaque wrote:Personally I think this series is going to fall fast. Just look at Formula 1 fan rage about lack of cars proper noise. Of course, tracks, cars, drivers - all this package looks interesting, but we haven't seen it in action yet. I'm not a fan of these machines, not beacuse they are electric, but I can't see going fast silently to be fascinating thing to look at for more than 2 minutes.
Then not only FE is not for you, probably racing isn´t either
I´ve seen tons of racing categories, MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3 (that IS an ugly noise), WRC, DTM, F1, GP2, GP3, WTCC, World Series, Superleague Formula, karting.... Some have beautiful noises, and some are even disgusting, but racing has never been about sound, but about competition, overtaking, rivality...
To me critizicing the sound of a competition is like criticizing the box where the 9th symphony comes stored, absurd. We all would prefer a solid and beautiful box, but that´s not the important part, if you stop buying the 9th symphony because the box didn´t like you, then you have a problem IMHO
Problems is we humans are really reluctant to any change, we´re used to loud engines, we actually are used to make the relation more noise -> faster car and we´re used to this relation because it has been true for any car since the first one more than a century ago. Now a car can be fast and quiet, but we´re not used to that, and many people is not prepared for that change
Sound is just one of the drawbacks of IC engines, yes I said drawback. It´s only that relationship between louder noise -> faster car what made it cool at some point, but it´s just something we got used to, not the important part.
Once people get used to a quiet formula, we all will ask ourselves how could we enjoy a noise that makes impossible any comunication, that makes you go out of the track with headache, that does not let you hear any interesting noise, just an engine going up and down the rpm margin always the same, without any difference, always the same, more monotonous is imposible...
At FE we will be able to talk each other, nobody will leave the track with headache, nobody who want to assist the races frequently will loose hearing sensivity, we will be able to differ different driving styles just with the sound of the tires... FE sound will be more interesting, actually FE sound will be first interesting noise we´ve ever hear on a competition, v12 and v10 sound was cool, but told us nothing about drivers, driving styles or any other parameter, it was just a cool noise, but too strident, too monotonous and provide no information at all
