{"id":12653,"date":"2011-06-06T07:03:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T11:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12653"},"modified":"2011-06-06T07:03:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T11:03:06","slug":"mercedes-loudest-f1-car-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-loudest-f1-car-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes loudest F1 car in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mercedes is the loudest formula one car in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>That is the finding of the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, after testing the volume of this year&#8217;s field trackside in Monaco just over a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>The silver W02 registered 127.8 decibels, which is louder than the average human pain threshold, and nearly as loud as a military jet aircraft take-off with afterburner at 50 feet.<\/p>\n<p>The Renault comes next at 127.5 decibels, followed by McLaren-Mercedes (127.3) and Renault-powered Red Bull (127.1).<\/p>\n<p>The quietest F1 car this year is the Cosworth-powered Virgin, at 125.9 decibels.<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Ecclestone has cited the awesome sound of the current crop of F1 cars as his main objection to the proposed four-cylinder turbo rules for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The FIA last Friday acknowledged that the 2013 debut could be delayed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In consultation with the main stakeholders, and following the outcome of this consultation, a fax vote by the World Motor Sport Council could be considered by 30 June latest to redefine the implementation date&#8221;, the governing body said after its Barcelona meeting.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mercedes is the loudest formula one car in 2011. That is the finding of the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, after testing the volume of this year&#8217;s field trackside in Monaco just over a week ago. The silver W02 registered 127.8 decibels, which is louder than the average human pain threshold, and nearly as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,34],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12654,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12653\/revisions\/12654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}