That would be fine by me.
In reality, F1 shouldn't have mandated cylinders or engine sizes anyhow. Oh well.
If they could have made the fundamental of the sound louder and deeper, and then have it rev to 19,000+, and then increase the "ah" vowel note as it accelerated through the middle... and made them as loud as the V10s...Yeah, that would be cool. The way all of that sounds now makes it tend towards sounding like a vacuum cleaner stuck on sucking up a rug, or a two stroke dirt bike. That can't be changed by increasing revs a little bit.
A Ferrari road car sounds great. Porsche GTs sound great. They paled in comparison, in races before the F1 cars came on track on a GP weekend. When one is trying to sell something, throwing away such a massive differentiator is flat out stupid.
You are quite an expert on sound and noise theory, so I assume athat you are among the first ot understand the the low noise level has several reasons as of why, the turbo damping some dB's being one of them.
No pun or offence intended, but do I understand things right? That you want the V6 engines to rev at 19000+ rpm? To keep the power under control then you must definitely apply a number of power restricting rules, eiter by fuel flow restrictions or limit the maximum boost which effectively is nothing else but another manner to prevent large amounts of fuel burned off.
Taking the atmo V8 performances for comparion, then I think that the boost levels on which a 19000+ rpm V6 produces the same power output as a atmo V8 at 19000+ rpm will be very low, the more if you want to retain some of that hybrid technology and electic engines.
As long as electric power is to be part of the F1 cars, you can all but forget about 19000+ rpm engines. Such engines produce that much power already without any hybrid assistance that it spells the end for the use of such technology within F1. And since that is the future....
Henri
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