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I caught a race recently on TV and the "engine noise" is horrible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ovY8oSjDY Watching 20 cars together making this high pitch sound is more like a punishment than something enjoyable

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I mentally wrote this comment off as petrol-head snobbery at first, but then clicked on the link and, well, wow. That sounds just like everyone's favourite sound, the dentist's drill.

Yeah, and while that video is 5 years old, more recent videos (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jMcvb7she8>) still make it clear that hasn't changed (even if they try to mask it by playing music over it). I don't really think there's a way around it, though, electric motors spinning fast will just make that kind of sound.

That said, there's people who complain about F1 cars not sounding the same any more like they did back in the early 2000s (with the classic V10 engine), so even if the FE cars get modified in some way to change what they sound like there might be people complaining. Would be funny if for broadcast they replaced the FE sound with '60s V12 sounds, though.

EVs can sound very different than that. A good example of this is the McMurtry goodwood run where the car sounds like a space ship going to warp, in the best possible way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JYp9eGC3Cc

I can hear the audio editing when the car is about to make that dentist drill sound. Although, fan cars always sound pretty cool anyways.

Less intense but still there especially when decelerating.

I dont get it. Sounds fine to me and matches with expectations. I like it.

There is a wee bit of "dentist drill" at the very high frequency range. Makes my teeth hurt a little. Some people can't hear it so there's that.

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