Totaaly ruined with all these cr*p new rules,thank god for moto gp

1.6 V6 turbocharged engines with a large battery pack and a couple of systems to harvest wasted energy. A turbo naturally makes an engine quieter because before it's just straight through exhausts with nothing in the way of the high velocity gas. Sound is also technically wasted energy.

They actually now have much more peak torque and they are going to be massively fast in a straight line because of that and less drag. They are gonna be hitting 230mph+ at Monza.

All the rules changes would get accustomed to has time goes on! Hamilton seem to be finding joy now so i will say he makes hay while the sunshines now because any moment vettel picks it would be a smooth ride for the redbull lad, hes such a fast learner

might watch it if im awake that should put me to sleep zoom zoom zoom

The sound might seem disappointing and engine rule changes expensive but necessary. No manufacturer cared about the sport much because it was becoming irrelevant, the engine technology outmoded and pointless in relation to road car technology.

The new powertrains are bang up to date and their development totally useful to modern hybrid designs. Which is why Honda are coming back. They never would have without this.

I know all that waffle ,They sound like cr*p and look like cr*p.

''Bernie says think before you drive '' signs

Should be 'think before you bribe'

That's me done tried and tried to watch F1 just couldn't do it .. Battery powered F1cars ..fk off

They just hybrids. They still have like a 650bhp ICE. I quite like all the whistling and whirring they sound more mechanical than they ever have if anything, the previous turbo era was one of the sport's very best

Sure it was the 1980's through to mid 1990's was were it was at . These new cars are scalextric

Back then they still had fuel constraints, boost contraints, similar sized engines. They can sort out the terrible ugly noses I think for next season but the power units are here to stay.

It's 2014, super high revving naturally aspirated engines are basically irrelevant, naturally aspirated is slowly becoming irrelevant for modern road cars. Most supercars these days have turbochargers and whatnot on them, the cutting edge ones (e.g La Ferrari, 918, P1) are hybrids the same because it does have advantages.

We have a limited amount of oil in the world. They merely reflect the computer age, high tech hybrid and electric systems more and more prevalent.

buttons nose falling off when up on the Jack did make me chuckle

They squirm about a lot more that's for sure. They seem very difficult to drive at the moment. Downforce is often the bane of good racing, the less there is of that and the more power the better for the racing.

I was sort of hoping for a wet race, maybe one soon

don't like the sound of the engine, they sound like Scalextric slot cars.

Maybe they just need to be louder then. Maybe it's also a shock for people that hadn't heard them before this weekend? I followed it for a long time and heard the engines middle of last year and the testing so used to it now

I like the sound of them, especially when slowing down for corners

spartan u seem to be very grounded in this, are an auto-person?

Yes. But I have always followed F1, I liked F1 before I liked anything else it's kind of my first sporting love. I distinctly remember watching Mansell destroy everyone in 1992 and then race my F1 toys around the carpet after at about 6 years old

Two Williams Renault F1 cars, the proper transporter truck that they could actually load in the back. Also a Mansell branded Formula Tyco set aka cheapo scalextric with broken cars because they usually flew off the track at incredible speeds into furniture with their wings and bits of shredded plastic exploding everywhere.

Happy days.

that nice, i would love to always get some of ur own personal preview and review of races as the season wore on! gracia!