Musical cars

[brrm]

A recording, on the Renault F1 site

[archived here for permanency purposes.]

To celebrate their 2005 F1 championship victory, and the last race for the V10 engines, the Renault team persuaded one of their V10’s to sing! The solo performance of the Queen classic “We are the Champions” was performed by one of Renault’s RS25 V10 engines at the teams dyno testing facility in France.

RS25 project leader Axel Plasse, pictured at right with his pride and joy, explained that making an engine “sing” is a fairly simple matter of finding the engine rpm that generates an exhaust sound of the right frequency for each musical note. The engine management system of the dyno is then programmed to manage engine rpm and duration to “sing the song.”


From Autoblog

Comments

[sparrowsion]

It's more tuneful than Alonso's version….

[cjholding.livejournal.com]

Did you see them record the top gear theme using exhaust notes? Had to get a very old Bugatti for some of the low frequencies. Chap in the studio said that some of the cars had better pitch than the singers he'd worked with.