{"id":21860,"date":"2014-05-09T15:01:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T19:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21860"},"modified":"2014-05-09T15:01:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T19:01:29","slug":"trumpets-will-get-f1-sound-close-to-v8s-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/trumpets-will-get-f1-sound-close-to-v8s-report\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Trumpets&#8217; will get F1 sound close to V8s &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Megaphone&#8217; exhausts will get this year&#8217;s turbo V6s half-way to the volume of the popular V8s of last season.<\/p>\n<p>At the post-race Spanish grand prix test next week, Mercedes will try a trumpet-like attachment to the exhaust that is designed to spice up the controversial sound of F1 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Initial tests have shown that the decibels are significantly increased,&#8221; said Auto Motor und Sport correspondent Michael Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt said the FIA has involved three acoustic engineers in the development of the megaphone solution, who have already tested it in their laboratories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The tail pipe is shaped like a trumpet or megaphone,&#8221; he explained.\u00a0 &#8220;It changes not only the volume but the tone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Measurements have shown that the decibels will be half-way between the old V8 and the current V6 engines,&#8221; added Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Megaphone&#8217; exhausts will get this year&#8217;s turbo V6s half-way to the volume of the popular V8s of last season. At the post-race Spanish grand prix test next week, Mercedes will try a trumpet-like attachment to the exhaust that is designed to spice up the controversial sound of F1 2014. &#8220;Initial tests have shown that the &#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":[5262,5300,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21860"}],"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=21860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21861,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21860\/revisions\/21861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}