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I'm sure this Shell and Ferrari commercial doesn't even come close to the real life experience. Still, what a soundtrack it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

• eftpotrm 16y ago
  I note in the interests of the soundtrack they skipped the 80s turbo cars completely! No bad thing though; they were spectacular performers but not spectacular noises, to me at least. I'm fairly sure I've seen all the cars they had in the advert running in person. What it's really lacking is the physicality, unsurprisingly; the pops and cracks of the overrun, the way the howl of even the older engines just reverberates and I think must have some key harmonics that are out of the range this reproduces, the guttural roar of the engine at low (for it) revs just shaking the world as it brings everything together. Think of the difference between an orchestral recording and hearing the orchestra in person. Now give it the power of Metallica in concert. Welcome to live F1 engines.