F1 to use microphones to amplify horrible engine noise

Sean Bratches (c) wants to amplify the sick sound of the current F1 engine

F1's commercial boss, Sean Bratches has revealed that plans are underway for a microphone to be placed on cars' exhausts in order that the putrid sound they currently make can be amplified.

"One of the things that we want to amplify going forward are the sounds of the sport," he told Reuters, "because they are viscerally moving to fans and critically important in all the research that we do."

He said that David Hill, a man with a "stellar reputation in sports television and broadcast innovation" is working on the idea.

"He's working with a German concern to develop a ceramic microphone that we can actually adhere to the exhaust pipe to get the true amplification of sound for fans," said Bratches.

If Formula One has become that lost that it is seriously looking at placing microphones on exhaust pipes and amplifying the sounds, why not go a step further fit spoked wheels to the cars and attach playing cards to them.

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