re: Mid-engine Corvette gettin' a Big Mac and some nuggets

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As far as track sounds (my opinion) The Ferrari V8 sounds like complete shite. The AMG V8...meh. Audi V10, eh, not bad. Ford GT, worst sounding race car ever.

Nothing comes close to the sound of the C7R or Porsche 911 RSR. Those you can feel in your guts and require hearing protection if you're standing next to the track when they come by. LOUD af.

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I can see how one could say that about the current Ferrari GT cars they are seriously restricted compared to the road cars. The most glorious road car to me is the 458 with the F136F engine but the F154CB in the 488 is turbo muffled.

I hadn't really thought about track cars, the LMP cars are rather muffled and not much of a fan of the GT car sound either. My favorite in-person track sound was the NA V-10 era F1 cars when they were running up to 20-21k. It was always amazing to me that each engine manufacturer had a distinct sound even though the formula for the engines meant they were very much the same. I like the Ferrari and Renault the best but Jordon was really cool as well and had the most distinctive sound on the grid.

The high revving NA super car engines are just about gone, when Audi drops the V10 it will be all turbo save the odd duck SCed engines. Well I guess we might have one more generation of the 911 GT3 with a NA engine.