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I think shouting and screaming should be reserved for the rare moments of genuine excitement. Ben Edwards seems to get inappropriately exited, for example when Bottas crossed the line in Russia. There is no need at all to yell, it is a new winner which is different and good, and there was some mild excitement from Vettel being reasonably close, but that sort of meltdown level reaction should be reserved for a Gilles/Rene style battle, were it ever to happen again!
Pure volume is certainly not ‘all we want’, but F1 needs to be special, and these 2014 cars are blown into the weeds by GP2 cars, which is just plain wrong. I really hope that we will one day return to a sound that is more in keeping with all that F1 has traditionally been known for. Until then, for me, it will be a case of hearing ‘real’ F1 at Goodwood and watching ‘F1 light’ on TV.
I was at Barcelona and I am still depressed at how terrible the cars sound. It is not just that they are so quiet, I totally disagree that the sound is in any way particularly interesting. To me they sounded rather like a domestic appliance, what springs to mind is a combination of a strimmer crossed with a kitchen waste-disposal unit.
The old feeling of approaching the track and getting butterflies from hearing the cars from a distance has gone completely. Now you don’t even know if the cars are out until there is one right in front of you, so pathetic is the sound.