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i went down for the race i cheered when vettel was knocked out felt so good, sux for daniel though seems like red bull always find a way to screw the aussie.

the sound was nice the two best sounding teams were ferrari and force india i especially liked how ferrari deliberately made the blow off valve audible, the only thing is they were much too quiet, the word tamed comes to mind a word that should never come up when describing an F1 car, and that's what i think they have to correct they've tamed what is supposed to be the pinnacle of motor racing the V8's could be heard while you were on the way to the track and when at the track the atmosphere was amazing the moment you heard the cars EVERYONE ran to get as close to the track as possible, i didn't experience this feeling this year the cars were not audible from my seats on the straight when they were started and could not be heard on the back straight when both the V8 supercars and porsche cup cars could be heard.

i get all this eco friendlyness all this making the 1% of the people who actually watch these races happy but that 99% of us that go to and F1 race expect to hear THAT sound, THAT sound which around the world cannot be mis-understood for anything else but a Formula One car, in interviews in the past two years Bernie said that the sound was the most important thing and if that was lost then he'd have to step in and do something WELL BERNIE DO SOMETHING BECAUSE F1 HAS BEEN TAMED it is a shadow of its former self, make the engines sound louder get THAT SOUND back otherwise you will loose more fans that you stand to make!!!

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