did a school project on this engine in the 60s teachers didnt believe it was only 1.5 litres,@ 16 cyls. great engineering for those days.still sounds better than a f1
***** I don't wanna 'dis' the engine because it sounds epic. But 'great engineering'? It was one of the most unreliable cars to hit the track. It hardly finished any races. Although I would argue, who needs to finish the race when you sound this good!
Simple answer, they only had points ignition in the 50's which didn't work very well at those high revs. Modern electronic ignition would have sorted it.
+Rogue Qall It was great Engineering but it's logical that it's unreliable because it has too much moving Parts which are very small . You need 16 cylinders, at least 32 valves, valve springs for every valve, a supercharger,... Everything in very small dimensions so something is about to fail everytime
Yes it sure is. How only 1.5L sounds that menacing! I will say however the Mazda R26B gives it a good run for its money in intimidation and I think has the edge in 'angriness'! Both are brilliant sounding engines in my opinion.
I was witness to one of the few wins ever registered by the BRM. The race was at Charterhall in southern Scotland, and the car was driven by Mike Hawthorne: the time 1952. Mike wore his peculiar crash helmet and lucky bow tie. The sound of the car was a characteristic scream. - a sound I shall never forget. BTW I have still not heard the right sound reproduced by runs of surviving machines. The car I saw had the large grill and was finished in British racing green.
This man is like 85 and he not only remembers that day to the point of differentiating the sound, he knows how to comment normally on CZcams with slang like BTW. I wish to be as clued in as you at that age
I quite agree an amazing sound and all home built in a workshop / garage only a few miles away from where I live . Very clever engineering skills the parts that were unreliable were always the parts BRM couldn't make themselves, ignition systems magnetos and solenoids. Modern engine mapping an ECU and electronic ignition would solve all its problems today and make it an unbelievably powerful beast.
cant believe how similar the last high rpm clip sounds to modern screamers. this was in the 50s when stuffing aircraft engines in race cars was the norm.
Aircraft engines usually top out about 3000 rpm, unless you want the complexity of a geared prop . This beast was revving over 10000 according to this story . It’s an amazing bit of Engineering. It is a shame they didn’t build a 3.0 litre version of their gorgeous 2.2 lite motor . That engine was a ripper.
the fly by at 0:44 is just mind numbing. sounds so amazing. i wish someone would rebuild this engine with modern technology so it would be more reliable
I remember the wonderful sounds, watching racing cars with open pipes, when I was a kid. I had ringing in my ears from the noise. The ringing never went away. Now I'm deaf. Today, we know to wear ear protection.
Themayseffect I think the H16 was the unreliable car. This one had problems with ignition due to the high revs and supercharging. You can hear the misfire.
Everything about it made it unreliable. The design was simply to advanced for it's time. And unfortunately to much of a waste to reproduce in this day in age.
1.5 litre V-16, the sound for this clip is from a CD that accompanies the book "Into The Red" by ex pink floyd drummer Nick Mason, he owns a BRM V-16 and tests this along with the rest of his amazing car collection around a race track in the book, with recordings of each cars engine noises.
this is what they sound like on a circuit, but if anyone went to the BRM day at Bourne you would know that you cannot watch this car drive past with out your hands firmly on your ears... Beautiful car and beautiful engine
Nice to see just how much interest the original BRM F1 V-16 race car continues to generate, some 60-odd years down the line. It was certainly ahead of its time in complexity due to miniaturisation of components, but gradually BRM overcame the many problems. Trouble was, just when it was beginning to get reliable around the end of 1954, the Formula 1 goalposts got moved with a change not only of engine size to 2500 cc but also from methanol to gasoline/petrol. That meant the end for a highly supercharged race engine like the BRM V-16, which was designed to run on methanol just like the current Indy cars (albeit turbocharged, not supercharged). Interesting from a historical viewpoint to note that BRM's 'new' race car to meet the now 2.5 litre formula, only had 4 cylinders! It was just as if BRM had decided 'Bigger Was Better', when it came to piston sizes. Also interesting to note that reputedly, Rolls-Royce carried on experimenting with the 'old' V-16 engine using more sophisticated supercharging gizmos, and reckoned it was possible to get 1,000 bhp out of it. Amazing stuff, and an amazing sound, eh?
Pete Naylor To think this was conceived designed and manufactured in a small back street workshop in Bourne Lincolnshire by highly skilled craftsmen who worked for BRM . They even made their own castings from a local foundry on a shoestring budget. If better quality metals had been available at the time it would have been unbeatable, the thing produced so much power it would shear halfshafts on the start line and often had to run de-tuned to aid reliability. Hats off to these men who built these engines and the sound they created. Astonishing
69 seconds of pure bliss, this is what F1 is supposed to sound like! Sends shivers down my spine every time I hear this. If this would would be the last thing I'd ever hear, I'd die a happy man!
I don't think so. I've heard this sound clip and it's from a CD called "Sounds of Goodwood" in which they had sounds from Nick Mason's collection of cars. The BRM V16 was indeed the BRM V16. There are very video clips of the actual H-16 but unfortunately the damage was made when a lot of people used the sound of the BRM V16 with images of the 1967 BRM using the H-16 engine. This led to a lot of people being confused even though some repeatedly pointed out the V16 was in 1950-1951. Front-engine
I listen to this beast every once away for years now like when this video was 3 years old so a little over a decade. Gives the car community much excitement.
I've heard this in real life twice. The first time was this exact car and was at Goodwood Festival of speed in about 1997, the second was at Goodwood revival a few years later. This sound good here, but compared to hearing in for real there is no comparison. You have no idea how loud this car is, even at half a mile away you still have to shout at someone standing next to you for them to be able to hear you. The most epic sounding engine ever made bar none.
Sometimes I just roll around parking lots in my truck, just idling through, playing this at full volume with my windows down. On some gangsta rap sh*t!
God's car will surely sound better than this one, it will be right when it hits the road. Obviously the engine in this video is Satan's ride since it isn't perfect and skips a beat now and again.
Literally the best sound ever. Also worth checking out if you like engine sounds; the Auto Union V16s of the 1930s. The BRM beats all IMHO but the Auto Unions are pretty savage!
You can get a sample of this on a CD set called Sounds of Goodwood. It is Nick Mason from Pink Floyd with some of his cars and some good recording equipment. In my opinion this engine is one of the best sounding in the world. The low freq growl combined with the scream of the supercharger, magic.
What makes this engine sound the best in the world is this: Close your eyes and you will not hear an engine, but a beast. An anchient beast that will tear your body apart and eat your soul whole.
The BRM p-15 was from 1949, and it has an amazing sound. With 600 bhp at 12000 rpm it was amazing someone could do it at that time. The small displacement (1500cc) is the limit of its class. Id still prefer this sound over the smallblock v8, it sounds twice as good, at least.
Absolutely. When I first heard this music, I thought it was at least 7 liters. It has such a deep bass sound, I was shocked to find that it had only 1.5 liter displacement. I must have heard that recording a hundred times and it still makes the hair on the back of my neck. What MUSIC!!!
In the small book I have on the engine ( you can dismantle it with plastic pages in the middle) it states at the back... 1000bhp / ltr is not beyond the bounds of possibility. It all depends on the amount of money can be invested in the project.
I love the sound it makes in some the clips, so visceral!!!! Almost like it gets supercharger whine at the high RPM band, love this. Wish I could get my coyote to sound like this.
That whine sounds unreal. I would have loved to seen any race from the 50's or 60's. You didn't need to look at the car to know what it was, you could just hear it and know.
I feel so fortunate that I heard this monster at full chat 25 or so years ago at the British GP they gave it a run. 2 laps and then probably had to have a full engine rebuild. Never heard it rev so high again.
currious sounding engine isn't it. starts off at idle sounding like a rumbling V8 from a dragster or monster truck. then as the revs rise it slowly shift through the sound of a nascar V8 into what reminds me of the angry growl of a ducati motorbike engine. as for at the top of the rev range, i can't find anything to compare it with. just gives me chills ever time a hear this engine. love it!!!
One is the car coming towards the camera, the others are from a distance with the car going past/away from the camera. You don't get that lovely scream until you can't hear the velocity stacks pulling air into the motor.
To raise funds at the British GP, BRM had a show tent you paid to go inside. There before you were the internals of this engine, it's piston diameters the size of a half crown coin. Moss could get the best out of it, Fangio too - a bit like Pedro and the early 917. Special cars require special drivers. Spectacular engineering, too advanced for its time. I've heard it in the metal, I can die happy.
@Fraser Anderson, that would be several bikes, the Ducati V Twins with aftermarket cans have that sound, the Honda VFR750 with the 180 degree crankshaft and gear driven camshafts, the current generation Yamaha R1 with the crossplane crankshaft also has that sound.
Its funny when you read Nick Masons book... all those throttle blips were actually the engine cutting out when he gave it too much gas. SUCH a finnicky car but so rewarding to hear. Pure engineering MADNESS.
Thumbs up if you saw the person who uploaded this nick.. And giggled thinking about the corner on Nordschleife, and the fact he must be a fan of that track as well..
I had a recording of this lovely engine on full song ,it was the go to after a bad day sounds daft but how can you not love that sound great for petrol heads like me 👍👨🏻🏭🇬🇧
Ohh My Dear God. The first roawring kinda sound, i was like dear god that engine could turn the world around with that torque. Then i heard the second F1 kinda sound and my god i had goosebumps over my entire body.
True! On the CD it actually goes for about 5 or 6 minutes, and of all the cars recorded, including a 3 of all the cars recorded, including a 312 Ferrari all the cars recorded, including a 312 Ferrari, its the only recorded, including a 312 Ferrari, its the only one you can hear right around the track - the others you only hear on the straight or at the start. It never fails to make the hairs stand up on the back of my neck, and It's always hard to stop playing it again and again ... !
not plain and definantly not simple. 2 magnetos, 3 bar of boost. The car struggled to complete races due to its complexity. The engine sounds brilliant it was well ahead of its time. It is by far one of my favs of the era
It was the early 1950's. While the BRM V16 was incredibly powerful for 1951 with its rumored 600hp (Alfra Romeo had 420hp in their supercharged straight 8, and Ferrari had 350hp from their 4,5 NA V12) reliability was really bad and these V16 BRM's rarely finished a race. It was much too advanced for its time, but a bold project everybody loved just for its sound.
the sound clip is off a CD that came with a book called 'into the red' which is a collection of cars that are owned by Nick Mason, the drummer of Pink Floyd, it's actually a good read and the CD with all the cars he's got just sounds fantastic!
@0289XYZ The sound clip is from the CD that accompanies Nick Masons book "into the red". The driver let off the throttle not because he was out of control, but because the engine would cut out if he gave it too much gas or went over 9000rpm. Apparently when they did get the engine running right (for a lap and a half) the car was spinning the tires at half throttle in every gear. It would've been an amazing car had the technology been reliable in 1953.
did a school project on this engine in the 60s teachers didnt believe it was only 1.5 litres,@ 16 cyls. great engineering for those days.still sounds better than a f1
***** I don't wanna 'dis' the engine because it sounds epic. But 'great engineering'? It was one of the most unreliable cars to hit the track. It hardly finished any races. Although I would argue, who needs to finish the race when you sound this good!
Rogue Qall It was an awful engine. Most drivers hated it. and Jackie Stewart compared it to a boat anchor. sounded like a dream though......
Simple answer, they only had points ignition in the 50's which didn't work very well at those high revs. Modern electronic ignition would have sorted it.
+Rogue Qall
It was great Engineering but it's logical that it's unreliable because it has too much moving Parts which are very small . You need 16 cylinders, at least 32 valves, valve springs for every valve, a supercharger,... Everything in very small dimensions so something is about to fail everytime
+ascitiesburn672
Stewart was talking about the BRM H16 engine from 1967 which was another engine but with same problems
This is the most intimidating engine sound I've ever heard. I love it!
Yes it sure is. How only 1.5L sounds that menacing! I will say however the Mazda R26B gives it a good run for its money in intimidation and I think has the edge in 'angriness'! Both are brilliant sounding engines in my opinion.
Mark Anderson Both are greats to their times and great classics. This is * mind blown effect * mind blowing
There are people who like the sound of rotary engines. Sound exactly like my 2-stroke Victa. On with the earmuffs.
antechinus100 the R26B doesn't sound like an average rotary though. Or anything else for that matter! ;-)
antechinus100 the R26B is an outstanding car with an amazing engine note. It's a classic. Can't say things like that about a classic
This is really an amazing engine! A 1.5 liter supercharged V16 producing 600hp @ 12000rpm! It's crazy...
Not one, but two superchargers.
I was witness to one of the few wins ever registered by the BRM. The race was at Charterhall in southern Scotland, and the car was driven by Mike Hawthorne: the time 1952. Mike wore his peculiar crash helmet and lucky bow tie. The sound of the car was a characteristic scream. - a sound I shall never forget. BTW I have still not heard the right sound reproduced by runs of surviving machines. The car I saw had the large grill and was finished in British racing green.
Wow. How old were you then?
This man is like 85 and he not only remembers that day to the point of differentiating the sound, he knows how to comment normally on CZcams with slang like BTW. I wish to be as clued in as you at that age
How special, I can only imagine the impression. Thanks for sharing, the internet is awesome.
I Hope the new Bugatti will sound as crazy as this 🙏🏻🤩
I don't believe so, it would be muted if turbocharge were installed
It is now @@udontknowme1654
It's naturally aspirated @udontknowme1654
That is one master peice that will never to be equiled.
benzman 113 I beg to differ
I quite agree an amazing sound and all home built in a workshop / garage only a few miles away from where I live .
Very clever engineering skills the parts that were unreliable were always the parts BRM couldn't make themselves, ignition systems magnetos and solenoids.
Modern engine mapping an ECU and electronic ignition would solve all its problems today and make it an unbelievably powerful beast.
Apart from connaught that are building an X20 engine that will be better than this in every way 😂
Bugatti
Wow, the 1950s F1 cars make better sounds than I initially thought! Great sound!
I honestly get goosebumps from this
cant believe how similar the last high rpm clip sounds to modern screamers. this was in the 50s when stuffing aircraft engines in race cars was the norm.
I thought the aircraft engine use was more the 20's and 30's ?
JINXED _JINXED_ yeah you are probably right
Aircraft engines usually top out about 3000 rpm, unless you want the complexity of a geared prop . This beast was revving over 10000 according to this story . It’s an amazing bit of Engineering. It is a shame they didn’t build a 3.0 litre version of their gorgeous 2.2 lite motor . That engine was a ripper.
@@beagle7622 It sounds almost like an LFA nearing 10,000 rpm.
some cars make me smile when i hear them but this one just gave me that tingle down my spine
if this was the sound that came out of my wifes mouth when she talked id listen to her
ROFL :D
Even my wife thinks your comment is hilarious
A real lol here
I think it would get annoying after a while.
@@NicB-Creations, never. I get goose bumps every time I hera this BRM v16 engine.
the fly by at 0:44 is just mind numbing. sounds so amazing. i wish someone would rebuild this engine with modern technology so it would be more reliable
Google. They have now!
Engineering wise, it was a marvel, but it was just too heavy & complicated.
The new Bugatti
They did.
I remember the wonderful sounds, watching racing cars with open pipes, when I was a kid. I had ringing in my ears from the noise. The ringing never went away. Now I'm deaf. Today, we know to wear ear protection.
Oh my god, words can't describe how wonderful that sound is.
This is the 4th time I’ve watched this today
How many times upto now? (16.10.2020)
I’ve listened to this video at least once a month for the last year. That sound still gives me goosebumps. Especially on the flyby.❤️
Now Bugatti is going to carry the V16 legacy!
1.5l over 600hp at 15.000 rpm.
In the 50s
Well they never drove it over 12.000 rpm and maximum 450 hp but still one of motorings most glorious fails
+TheNecromancer6666 it also horrible reliability so they say.
Themayseffect I think the H16 was the unreliable car. This one had problems with ignition due to the high revs and supercharging. You can hear the misfire.
Everything about it made it unreliable. The design was simply to advanced for it's time. And unfortunately to much of a waste to reproduce in this day in age.
It needed electronic ignition, points just could not hack 16 cylinders at such high revs.
glorious Fails? have you heard yourself you clown. you clearly dont understand proper engineering and the work involved
Who is here after the bugatti v16 release
Fricking hell remember seeing this in 1980's at Silverstone, very very unreliable but the sound.. Unforgettable..
1.5 litre V-16, the sound for this clip is from a CD that accompanies the book "Into The Red" by ex pink floyd drummer Nick Mason, he owns a BRM V-16 and tests this along with the rest of his amazing car collection around a race track in the book, with recordings of each cars engine noises.
this is what they sound like on a circuit, but if anyone went to the BRM day at Bourne you would know that you cannot watch this car drive past with out your hands firmly on your ears... Beautiful car and beautiful engine
Nice to see just how much interest the original BRM F1 V-16 race car continues to generate, some 60-odd years down the line. It was certainly ahead of its time in complexity due to miniaturisation of components, but gradually BRM overcame the many problems. Trouble was, just when it was beginning to get reliable around the end of 1954, the Formula 1 goalposts got moved with a change not only of engine size to 2500 cc but also from methanol to gasoline/petrol. That meant the end for a highly supercharged race engine like the BRM V-16, which was designed to run on methanol just like the current Indy cars (albeit turbocharged, not supercharged). Interesting from a historical viewpoint to note that BRM's 'new' race car to meet the now 2.5 litre formula, only had 4 cylinders! It was just as if BRM had decided 'Bigger Was Better', when it came to piston sizes. Also interesting to note that reputedly, Rolls-Royce carried on experimenting with the 'old' V-16 engine using more sophisticated supercharging gizmos, and reckoned it was possible to get 1,000 bhp out of it. Amazing stuff, and an amazing sound, eh?
Pete Naylor
To think this was conceived designed and manufactured in a small back street workshop in Bourne Lincolnshire by highly skilled craftsmen who worked for BRM . They even made their own castings from a local foundry on a shoestring budget.
If better quality metals had been available at the time it would have been unbeatable, the thing produced so much power it would shear halfshafts on the start line and often had to run de-tuned to aid reliability. Hats off to these men who built these engines and the sound they created. Astonishing
love to see it reproduce with today's metallurgy would be quite an engine to admire and perhaps for some to collect, incredible sound
That's the recording from the CD that came with the book "Into the red" by Nick Mason
I love the music of Mozart and I love this BRM.
What a brute. Supercharged, so no nasty turbo lag.
wow, that engines note is so smooth that it is just incredible. i can't imagine how great it would be to drive....
Hooooo-leey crap! That's amazing. Imagine how awesome it would be to watch professional motorsports if modern day cars sounded this badass.
They sounded even better before F1 went turbo hybrid.
Thanks to Nick Mason!
still love this sound ,16 cyl 1.5 litre
***** I love it... all this sound from a 1.5ltr engine haha, it must have the biggest supercharger in the world fitted to it!
Im not even a fan of v8 engines and v16 but this sound is just next level
69 seconds of pure bliss, this is what F1 is supposed to sound like! Sends shivers down my spine every time I hear this. If this would would be the last thing I'd ever hear, I'd die a happy man!
11 years later. we've truly lost that :(
Only nascar still really roars. but no cars that scream :(
@@user-pc5qj2ix2c Indeed, eleven years have passed, but the V16 still sounds as good as ever!
Holy crap i seriously had an eargasm through the whole video my hair is still standing
I don't think so. I've heard this sound clip and it's from a CD called "Sounds of Goodwood" in which they had sounds from Nick Mason's collection of cars.
The BRM V16 was indeed the BRM V16.
There are very video clips of the actual H-16 but unfortunately the damage was made when a lot of people used the sound of the BRM V16 with images of the 1967 BRM using the H-16 engine. This led to a lot of people being confused even though some repeatedly pointed out the V16 was in 1950-1951. Front-engine
I listen to this beast every once away for years now like when this video was 3 years old so a little over a decade. Gives the car community much excitement.
There are no words. It's the most f***ing incredible sound -- gives me the chills. I'll play this one over and over !!!
I've heard this in real life twice. The first time was this exact car and was at Goodwood Festival of speed in about 1997, the second was at Goodwood revival a few years later. This sound good here, but compared to hearing in for real there is no comparison. You have no idea how loud this car is, even at half a mile away you still have to shout at someone standing next to you for them to be able to hear you. The most epic sounding engine ever made bar none.
back when engines actually mattered and the only aerodynamics were the streamline
Sometimes I just roll around parking lots in my truck, just idling through, playing this at full volume with my windows down. On some gangsta rap sh*t!
As a kid, I could imitate any car or truck sound, this however, would have stumped me. It’s like a car singing opera.
The proof of the existence of God
matkarp
Ironically designed by a man.
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and drives a sorted BRM V16.
God's car will surely sound better than this one, it will be right when it hits the road. Obviously the engine in this video is Satan's ride since it isn't perfect and skips a beat now and again.
Proof of the existence of satan more like it. God wouldn't make something so deliciously wrong lol
Literally the best sound ever. Also worth checking out if you like engine sounds; the Auto Union V16s of the 1930s. The BRM beats all IMHO but the Auto Unions are pretty savage!
When Darth Vader breaks wind , this is what it sounds like.
This is downright awesome. The sound is amazing!! It sounds V8'ish, but better! Incredible!!
Quite literally, that sound makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. What a STAGGERING sound that is! Glorious and ludicrous!
You can get a sample of this on a CD set called Sounds of Goodwood. It is Nick Mason from Pink Floyd with some of his cars and some good recording equipment. In my opinion this engine is one of the best sounding in the world. The low freq growl combined with the scream of the supercharger, magic.
What makes this engine sound the best in the world is this:
Close your eyes and you will not hear an engine, but a beast. An anchient beast that will tear your body apart and eat your soul whole.
insane sound ...just awesome ..
The most incredible engine sound ever.
Possibly the most remarkable sounding engine ever for me. Indescribable.
The BRM p-15 was from 1949, and it has an amazing sound. With 600 bhp at 12000 rpm it was amazing someone could do it at that time. The small displacement (1500cc) is the limit of its class. Id still prefer this sound over the smallblock v8, it sounds twice as good, at least.
You should play this at 1am in the morning with the speakers on the deck - sounds even better
The only f1 engine that can rival the sound of the f1 v10s.
More true words have never been spoken.
Absolutely. When I first heard this music, I thought it was at least 7 liters. It has such a deep bass sound, I was shocked to find that it had only 1.5 liter displacement. I must have heard that recording a hundred times and it still makes the hair on the back of my neck. What MUSIC!!!
In the small book I have on the engine ( you can dismantle it with plastic pages in the middle) it states at the back... 1000bhp / ltr is not beyond the bounds of possibility. It all depends on the amount of money can be invested in the project.
wow! that sound is sick!
I love the sound it makes in some the clips, so visceral!!!! Almost like it gets supercharger whine at the high RPM band, love this. Wish I could get my coyote to sound like this.
MrEgopathy It is supercharger whine. Supercharged V16 1500cc.
The sound of a four cylender Offenhouser is the sweetest sound to hear.
That whine sounds unreal. I would have loved to seen any race from the 50's or 60's. You didn't need to look at the car to know what it was, you could just hear it and know.
It would be very interesting to see a drag car with this engine. And that snoring is spectacular. 😍🚀
I feel so fortunate that I heard this monster at full chat 25 or so years ago at the British GP they gave it a run. 2 laps and then probably had to have a full engine rebuild. Never heard it rev so high again.
the sound give you the sense of an engine with a lot of torque, pretty good
God that sounds bloody brilliant!!!!!
currious sounding engine isn't it. starts off at idle sounding like a rumbling V8 from a dragster or monster truck. then as the revs rise it slowly shift through the sound of a nascar V8 into what reminds me of the angry growl of a ducati motorbike engine. as for at the top of the rev range, i can't find anything to compare it with. just gives me chills ever time a hear this engine. love it!!!
Oh!
I do love such carefully thought out music.
The sound, unreal, amazing, in those days... I adore that car.
That sound is SECOND TO NONE .
Brittish Racing Music .
❤❤❤❤❤
One is the car coming towards the camera, the others are from a distance with the car going past/away from the camera. You don't get that lovely scream until you can't hear the velocity stacks pulling air into the motor.
this is the gost sound of an engine, never replicated lost for legends
To raise funds at the British GP, BRM had a show tent you paid to go inside. There before you were the internals of this engine, it's piston diameters the size of a half crown coin. Moss could get the best out of it, Fangio too - a bit like Pedro and the early 917. Special cars require special drivers. Spectacular engineering, too advanced for its time. I've heard it in the metal, I can die happy.
@Fraser Anderson, that would be several bikes, the Ducati V Twins with aftermarket cans have that sound, the Honda VFR750 with the 180 degree crankshaft and gear driven camshafts, the current generation Yamaha R1 with the crossplane crankshaft also has that sound.
Its funny when you read Nick Masons book... all those throttle blips were actually the engine cutting out when he gave it too much gas. SUCH a finnicky car but so rewarding to hear. Pure engineering MADNESS.
I have the same clip as you and I try to listen to it at least once a month. It sends chills up and down my spine every time I hear it!
If that doesn't give you chills, i don't know what will.
Thumbs up if you saw the person who uploaded this nick.. And giggled thinking about the corner on Nordschleife, and the fact he must be a fan of that track as well..
Holy shit. That's not an engine. That's an orchestra which is playing a wonderful symphony. I use it on my cell phone as ring tone.
I had a recording of this lovely engine on full song ,it was the go to after a bad day sounds daft but how can you not love that sound great for petrol heads like me 👍👨🏻🏭🇬🇧
putting this engine in a modern supercar and possibly aspirating it with a biturbo would make one of the best sounding cars ever produces
Incredible! one of the best sounding engines Ever!
There IS an H16 (two V8s base to base with conjoined cranks), but this is definitely the V16.
Ohh My Dear God. The first roawring kinda sound, i was like dear god that engine could turn the world around with that torque. Then i heard the second F1 kinda sound and my god i had goosebumps over my entire body.
wow very nice tribute vid i like how it was put together. all you needewd was teh engine sound and its perfect.
ok. that is the best engine sound i ever heard!!
Such an ADDICTIVE sound
True!
On the CD it actually goes for about 5 or 6 minutes, and of all the cars recorded, including a 3 of all the cars recorded, including a 312 Ferrari all the cars recorded, including a 312 Ferrari, its the only recorded, including a 312 Ferrari, its the only one you can hear right around the track - the others you only hear on the straight or at the start. It never fails to make the hairs stand up on the back of my neck, and It's always hard to stop playing it again and again ... !
That is no machine. . .it's a living beast!
This is the best engine sound ever...
I want this sound played at my funeral. that is how much I like it.
not plain and definantly not simple. 2 magnetos, 3 bar of boost. The car struggled to complete races due to its complexity. The engine sounds brilliant it was well ahead of its time. It is by far one of my favs of the era
If this doesn't give you goosebumps, you're not a gearhead.
Tim Fritz goose bumps ? Nah more like huge climax!!
It was the early 1950's. While the BRM V16 was incredibly powerful for 1951 with its rumored 600hp (Alfra Romeo had 420hp in their supercharged straight 8, and Ferrari had 350hp from their 4,5 NA V12) reliability was really bad and these V16 BRM's rarely finished a race.
It was much too advanced for its time, but a bold project everybody loved just for its sound.
The matra 650 is a close second in my book. Its absolutely terrifying to listen to, but the brm just has that little more soul twisting sound.
I was just listening to a Porsche 917 and this is even better...
the sound clip is off a CD that came with a book called 'into the red' which is a collection of cars that are owned by Nick Mason, the drummer of Pink Floyd, it's actually a good read and the CD with all the cars he's got just sounds fantastic!
Damn, that's a great sound from only a 1,5 litre engine...they sure knew how to build an engine back then....
Displacement makes very little difference to noise, layout and revs are what matter.
One minute and eight seconds was approximately the most amount of time this engine ever ran for.
That sound is unbelievably awesome :D
When u posted this comentary i was just 1 year old, insane
The song of the 16. There's nothing like it.
@0289XYZ The sound clip is from the CD that accompanies Nick Masons book "into the red". The driver let off the throttle not because he was out of control, but because the engine would cut out if he gave it too much gas or went over 9000rpm. Apparently when they did get the engine running right (for a lap and a half) the car was spinning the tires at half throttle in every gear.
It would've been an amazing car had the technology been reliable in 1953.