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Here's What The Ferrari And Mercedes F1 Cars Will Sound Like This Year
Here's What The Ferrari And Mercedes F1 Cars Will Sound Like This Year-February 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:16

It isn’t 2021 and therefore Formula One’s rules for louder and cheaper engines aren’t in effect yet (because F1 is silly and four years in advance), but the engines are still decently loud up close. Here’s what the series-dominating Ferrari and Mercedes F1 engines will sound like this year.

Ferrari and Mercedes posted videos of their 2018 cars firing up, but made sure not to show anything but that because the cars have official unveilings soon:

Those videos probably left me feeling somewhat excited for the season, but also robbed that there wasn’t more to them. That’s understandable, because F1 is bad about this “car teasers” thing: Instead of casually showing the cars like a normal team would, F1 teams have this weird, self-important procedure in which they tease their cars for the year . That’s two months too long.

Around the end of one year and start of another, F1 teams start publicizing “car launch dates” for the next season—basically, that they’re going to make an announcement in a couple of months.

Then, we start getting teasers like this. Mercedes fires up its engine for 2018, making sure to show nothing of the car because it isn’t time for the debut. The view then turns to Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff, whose team has for years, flashing a smile to everyone that seems to say “Oh, wow, I can’t believe we made a race car!” when he’s probably just there because he has to be.

Then there’s the Ferrari video, which looks like an animation of the photos I got back when a doctor stuck a camera into my stomach looking for ulcers—all because the team needs to keep the car a secret until its big, important reveal.

Here’s a spoiler: The cars likely won’t look that different from last year, they’ll all have , and, while aerodynamic features will be interesting and different from team to team, we’ll all complain about them anyway because . Mercedes will probably edge out Ferrari on performance, while Renault and begs for one, just one, more chance to next time.

Just show us the cars, please, F1 teams. There’s no need to tease a storyline we’re familiar with, and surely you learned in school that teasing isn’t very nice.

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