1996 f1

[Mark]

Just watching highlights of the 1996 Australian GP. Man I do miss the sound of those engines. Something you don't appreciate until it's gone! Those V10s were awesome.

Wide cars with wide tyres looked good!

Murray Walker! Those were the days!

[anfield5]

Don't know if you will agree Mark, but even better than the sound was the vibration in the air that your whole body felt because of the sound, you could literally feel the noise of the engines in every bone in your body. With less of the bullsh#t regulations the racing was better, drivers could actually race without the fear of being black flagged for any little thing.

[steveaki13]

Don't know if you will agree Mark, but even better than the sound was the vibration in the air that your whole body felt because of the sound, you could literally feel the noise of the engines in every bone in your body. With less of the bullsh#t regulations the racing was better, drivers could actually race without the fear of being black flagged for any little thing.

I agree. The first times I went to see F1 cars live, the sound was ear piercing, the vibrations were bone rattling. Awesome.

Plus as you say, slightly more physical racing. That does annoy me know. Always must be someone to blame. I mean look at Malaysia. Perez was at high speed and could not stop a tad of natural understeer. Also Hulkenberg was unfairly penalised. Both racing incidents in which the other drivers could have avoided too.

[jens]

Aww, 1996.

I have been watching some of the old qualifying sessions. Murray Walker, but also Eurosport's Ben Edwards-John Watson is a classic commentary as well. And I don't know, but if I watch a random quali lap driven by Montermini, Lavaggi, Inoue, or whoever else was there at the back, it creates a unique nostalgic feeling.

[zako85]

The energy-saving power units is where the manufacturers wanted to head. The same situation is in the top LMP1 class in WEC. Audis pass by with a whisper and Porsches sound surprisingly sedate. Only Toyota still sounds like a proper race car.

[Tazio]

The 1998 047D trhat was sort of a Ferraris Suzuka special, produced 800 crude normally aspirated Bhp. I saw the 2006 BMW Sauber traveling show as I've mentioned on here before, the car driven by a very young Graham Rahal. I was so close to that exhibition that I swore that thing was a v10, but at that time I was on a forced vacation from this forum, and someone on another forum pointed out that that was actually a detuned v8.




Sorrry ...

[Storm]

Just watching highlights of the 1996 Australian GP. Man I do miss the sound of those engines. Something you don't appreciate until it's gone! Those V10s were awesome.

Wide cars with wide tyres looked good!

Murray Walker! Those were the days!

oh yeah.

My 2+ yr old likes to watch a couple of videos on my phone - '96 and '98 season review. I tend to fall into nostalgia at the sound/look of those cars.....they howl and scream and give me goosebumps even in a 2.:30 video

sad to see what a joke the cars are thesedays...look bad and sound worse.

[journeyman racer]

1996 Australian Grand Prix. The peak of popularity for the race in this city. We loved taking it off Adelaide. Did you know, round about the same time, Sri Lanka beat Australia in that year's Cricket World Cup final?

What I don't get from the OP. Is that why get excited over the engines from that time? Watch videos from the early 90s if you're serious about engine noise. The throaty roar, rumble from a genuine wide variety of engines.

[journeyman racer]

Plus as you say, slightly more physical racing..

Tbh, I remember those times being particularly processional. In the 96 AGP, Hill didn't even attempt to pass JV's failing car til it was particularly bad.

[Mark]

Tbh, I remember those times being particularly processional. In the 96 AGP, Hill didn't even attempt to pass JV's failing car til it was particularly bad.

Agreed, I remember when I was watching the particular race live, that it was all rather boring until JV started having issues.