Guilty as charged, your honour. I am blessed with a pretty decent hifi system and this is my favourite way to demonstrate its potential to those who express an interest 👹
No video has ever deserved headphones more than this. Between 1:15 to 1:29 you can clearly hear throttle blips and downshifting on the right channel, immediately followed by its echoes on the left. And the way the whole damn thing screams past you from right to left at 2:00 is just phenomenal.
I lived on Silverstone cct back then and this was the most distinctive engine sound ever. You could hear the BRM from the village centre and everyone knew what car was practicing when it did a lap.
That was me! I was taken to the 1950 British Grand Prix where the BRM was first demonstrated - I was three. The wail from the supercharger echoing off the old hangers is still fresh in my mind.
When I was just a little kid, my mom was taking me to the mall and we were at a stoplight and a dodge viper ACR was on the right of us. The owner saw me staring at it and started revving it for me. Looking back I don't think it was stock because just the idle was shaking my moms car rocking it side to side. I'll never forget that day
I was at Oulton Park sometime in the 60s when J Stewart did a demo run in a v16 BRM. Every day since that event I hear that unique engine sound in my mind at some time or another. Unforgetable!!!!
I remember this recording being on a free CD which was given away with a motoring magazine (I think it was "Motorsport" but I may be wrong). I took the CD into work where we had a conference room with a brilliant sound system and huge speakers and put it in the CD player. The whole company - and a few people from the floor above - turned up to listen to it :-)
pretty sure this was from Nick Mason's (Pink Floyd drummer) book Into the Red where he introduces the cars he owns,, and it came with this awesome audio cd!
Played this on my stereo loud once. After that I had to smoke a cigarette. As I stepped outside, I could see some confused faces that thought there'd be some maniac racing between the village I live in and our neighbour village, which happens from time to time... 11/10 would confuse them again 👍
They _did_ win races. Not many, mostly because they broke down, or they simply couldn't get them started in the first place, but when they did go, they _went_! This is from the soundtrack of the book 'In to the Red' which features, unusually, not only writing and photographs of the cars (from Nick Mason's collection) but a CD with audio. It's a good read, and the T35 Bugatti, ERA B type, Jaguar D type and Ferrari 250GTO are all worth a listen too.
The most un-godly noise I have every witnessed in my life was the day I set a foot down in Chichester 1998. Landed at a house on Sherbourne road from the usa. lead upstairs to an open window and heard these things off in the distance.. the scream. The violence of an un earthly noise.I kid you not, the shriek was incredible and miles away. 2 maybe 3 running in practice on a Thursday. Tears.. and then a Spitfire flew by...circling the town. I could see him. fuckin topped it. My introduction to England.
I went to to Silverstone in1950 to see it's first race but at the start when driven by Raymond Sommer it only lurched foreward a few feet with a broken clutch. I never saw it as I was on Club corner. Eventually under Tony Rudd and years too late it the bugs were ironed out. If they had the engineering Knowhow we have to day things would have been different. Peter Berthon was abit ambitious for the time he designed it in the late 1940's What a great sound I swear I can smell Castrol R or what ever they used.
The post war formula was four and a half litre unsupercharged, one and a half litre supercharged. Berthon knew the supercharged option had greater potential, but the design and reliability challenges were awesome. There were simply not the facilities or funds for extended running, and the bulding of enough engines. Neubeuer, who oversaw the pre war all-conquering Mercedes Silver Arrows simply could not believe the conditions when he visited the BRM facilities at Bourne.
Consider this... according to wiki, Max boost is sitting at around 86 psi. That 1.5L is going to be roughly the equivalent of a 7.5 - 9L naturally aspirated engine in terms of airflow. No wonder it makes such a sound.
i believe it is the '53 v16, driven by either Mark Hales or Nick Mason at Donnington Park. The sound was recorded for the cd included in the book Into the red. he recorded 13 cars he loves and the sounds linked to piccies etc. its Nick's car and part of his collection. iirc he was the rfirst person to ever win a reace in a v16 brm and when it was the 50 anniversary of brm the car was the main attraction and it didnt get off start line. 2 things have made my sternum vibrate, Floyd playing sorrow at Wembley and me on the bridge over to the old paddock while this went underneath me
For an engine that is 70 years of age (or not far off it) to be making that kind of power and sound is simply astonishing. Pure, blissful, heavenly audio.
This engine just creamed all over my top 5 best sounding engines of all time. The BRM V16 will now sit in its own place. A place higher than the first. The sound brought tears to my eyes.
Seriously, I have tears in my eyes from the on-board sounds. This is magical. This is the best engine sound I have ever heard and I don't think anything will come close to the sensation of pure, unshackled power this engineering beauty shocks you with after 7.500 RPM. Absolutely the best sound I've heard in my life so far.
When the driver opens it up down the back stretch it echoes a melody throughout the valley. All birds stop chirping to listen to the beautiful music. The street musicians on main Street put away their instruments quickly as they are seen running from main street to the race track grounds with hopes is seeing the object from which the orchestral sounds are emanating.
When I was a kid, I used to listen to this recording on repeat. It's simply the best sounding engine, and best sounding recording of that engine, ever made. In case you don't know, this recording is from a book called "Into the Red" by Nick Mason. I really wanna get my hands on a copy of the book and accompanying CD!
The heart and soul of motor racing, pure and haunting enough to pull me back year after year. In the mid sixties I witnessed Jimmy Clark and Graham Hill battling it out at Watkins Glen. Halfway into lap one, Jimmy flew by, 5 lengths ahead. This level of man and machine were new to me. Tears and cessation of breathing! Never forgotten.
It is pure joy to hear a master piece like this hit the redline. It brings tears to my eyes. This is what a real race engine sounds like and not something neutered they circle around with today. F1 do you hear me?
This is a howling screamer of which I've never ever heard before. And they told me that these engines were hand drawn (duh!) in those days!! Uberrrr fantastic!!! Utmost respect for those engineers.
For me the best BRM,which l like the most is the F1 1957-1960 era one, in English racing green!!!Thank you for sharing this great historical racing legend video!!!
Legend has it SIr Stirling went to Monza with it, a stealth test......Ferrari got wind of it, it's times and lodged a complaint. Formula One rules changed and it was left to race in Formula Libra. I was told of this car by my father, we listened to this over and over. Then got to see one at Goodwood wake the dead, like Mason said, Victorians making moon rockets!
O`Lord , thank you for giving man this skills and talent , for making great machine with this wonderful sound and bringing the dinosaurs back to live for a scream just one more time.Thank you .
Was für einen geilen Sound das ist. Ich war 1966 zum ersten mal auf dem Nürburgring. Eine Woche Camping mit meinen Eltern in der Hatzenbach Kurve. Das war schon Tradition für uns.
This is genuinely incredible. It's such a shame that modern F1 cars are so regulated in their configuration. It seems as though it'd be reasonable for them only to restrict downforce, weight, and power, and leave how the appropriate figures are achieved to the various designers involved. The races might be interesting again; were that to happen, maybe we'd see a spiritual rebirth of machines like this.
I would also add in a way to make sure that following cars don't get just obliterated by dirty air. After all while the sound and power are in the equation it's the over taking that also makes good viewing. maybe also a spending cap that they currently have. it's not fun if the it's the same top three teams winning year after year.
Not genuinely incredible, but simply incredible. By intensifying an extreme adjective, one actually defeats the objective of the exercise, which is, in this instance, drama. What we have here, though, is a mismatch of the qualifier to adjective. Do you get the picture, old bean?
@@stuartbritton4811 I do. If I truly didn't believe it, it mightn't be so unbelievable! Statements of fact often pack less a punch than statement of affect. Kudos for the catch!
Why changing material ? What interest ? the soul of this engine is in the material at this time. Modern transformation is good for Playmobil .Forget the idea , please!!
I have this on a contemporary single vinyl record that belonged to my father. One of these days I'll fish it out and try to do a really good rip to audio file.
I bought the Nick Mason book & CD with this and others on it. I think the BRM was track 2. I played it that much, (always at full volume), that I wore the CD out.
@@atholheys - yes, but don't forget, that was 13 years earlier, before the hot-house engine development that WW2 brought along - and they got their car working ... BRM never really got the V16 properly sorted while it was remotely current - the best it ran (according to my reading of Tony Rudd's autobiography) was when Graham Hill ran a few laps as a demo in South Africa in the 1960s; they changed the throttle to the RR-designed one and Rudd calculated from the fuel usage and so on, that it was putting out about 750bhp.
Fangio said, "No car has ever given me such a thrill to drive, or a greater sense of absolute mastery." From the exhaust scream the motor is very obviously supercharged - supercharged motors all really bark I've noticed. The flywheel seems like its about 500g :). No motor I have ever heard excites me quite like this. This is as much of a man's motor as a Kieth Black Hemi in a top fuel dragster I reckon.
"Twin superchargers"??? Back in the '60s I had a book called "The BRM Story", written by the designers Raymond Mays and Peter Burthon. It had a complete cut-away drawing of the V16. Clearly visible was a single crankshaft driven centrifugal supercharger, geared at 4:1.It was designed for the BRM by Rolls Royce and at max revs it was turning over at 48,000 rpm. The breakdown on the starting line at Silverstone in 1950 was caused by a broken axle half-shaft. The sub-contractors had substituted a cheaper grade of steel for the high-grade steel specified. The British press had a field day blaming the French driver, Raymond Sommer. "Those dirty Frogs, after all we did for them in 2 World Wars.......etc..etc"
its starts like an tiger having a cold then it starts roaring like a beast. at high revs its starts screaming like a banshee. and sometimes you hear the rattle of the gears connecting the 2 engines before reving up again. the sound just seeps into my skin and resonates tru my body
Not so. This is Nick Mason's V16, recorded from outside for the first five minutes, then from inside the car for the rest. You can hear the original recording on the CD that came with Mason's unmissable book, "Into the Red", detailing the driving experiences and sounds of his unique collection of historic racing cars.
The best I've heard in person is a 8v92 under load at 2000RPM, with a cut off exhaust after the turbo. That was a real joy. I would LOVE to hear this one in person.
Seldom, if ever, has a fast paced series of petro-chemical based explosions sounded SOOOO GOOOOD!!! Bernie, you can shove your V6's where the sun don't shine. !.5 Litres - 650hp - 16 cylinders - Twin superchargers - Now there's the perfect recipe to bring the crowds flocking back to F1, if you want my opinion.
+sgtgrash be a LOT more than 650HP at the F1 level of competition. They are pushing out 650 HP out of 5L v8's from the 80's, naturally aspirated/carby fed. I honestly wouldn't expect less than 3000 hp at the f1 level of competition. Remembering before they banned forced induction in F1, they were getting 1400 horses out of 1.5L. It would be SO ABSURDLY DANGEROUS and I would watch it so much.
It still staggers me that they were able to get well over 1000hp from 1.6 litre 4 pot turbo motors during the 80's. In fact BMW achieved 1800hp on their test bench if I'm not mistaken. Incidentally, the development process for the BMW engine is well worth a Google for the method they used to strengthen the cast iron block (yup, you read that right). It is as elegant in its simplicity as it is hilarious in its discovery.
not that dangerous with nowaydays construction materials (carbon fiber and other nano-techs) also, brakes and a proper aerodynamic to hold the whole thing on the road could be possible... but such sounds doesn't sound "green" to ecologists ! politic, this is what kills the F1
I love this sound-track, I downloaded it from the net about about 6 years ago and use it as a ring-tone. It always has petrol-heads looking up and down the road waiting and watching.
This sound clip is from the CD that comes with Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason's book "Into The Red". He owns this car. The blipping sounds are the ignition cutting out on the dual magnetos due to the fact that the vegatable oil injection (!), used to control detination by oiling the methanol washed cylinders was on the fritz. What's all that mean? The car sounds this glorious when the driver said he could only use half throttle or the engine would stall. It would be even louder.💪
To hear it on video is awesome. I've seen ,and heard, it race twice in historic events. In the flesh it really does make you tingle. The best engine sound ever, even putting a Lancaster bomber down to second place
This sound is taken from Nick Masions dvd Into The Red along with the sounds of the other cars he owns, in fact his BRM wouldn’t run prior to the recording so they used the one from the Donnington Museum, I took video of the car at the 2000 motor festival in Northern Ireland at our Parliament grounds celebrating all kinds of motorsports from here
this soundtrack comes from a cd/book - into the red by Nick Mason(drummer Pink Floyd). in the book he goes into detail on the troubles he had to get the car to run for more than 30 seconds. it was on the FOURTH trip to the circuit he achieved this seemingly simple task. as for the noise, Sir Stirling Moss who drove the car in the 50's commented that the most memorable part was the sound of the car, could be heard for miles from the track!!! if you dig this kind of stuff, try to get a hold of the book with cd. he and his man Roger Hales, take quite a few of his car collection to various circuits to record the symphonic exhaust noise. some of his priceless collection which are recorded are Maserati 250F, ERA, 50's F1 Aston Martin,various Porsches, his legendary 250 GTO and 512M (which he laments is arguably the loudest car in the world). now Nick a knows a little about sound recording so the results are, to a true disciple, worthy of quite a deal of trouble to get hold of, i enjoy it regularly. as stated by Mike B this is a truly memorable experience - think i'll play it again!!!! - Grayman49
when i hear him coming down the last straight on the last lap before he pits, i be flagging him saying " bring her home!!!" one of the best sounding engines ever made
I was at the 50 years anniversary thing in Bourne in 1999, and the sound they make ! It was like the sound had come to life and was a palpable thing, a solid force that pushed against your body ! Your brain was fighting against the instinctive urge to flee !
The car was INSANE! It screamed as hell! The car was fast! But the engine was too heave ( we are talking about v16) and the suspensions or the engine simply breaked up
New materials, 4-valve heads, even shorter piston stroke but bigger bore, keeping displacement while allowing for an even more free-revving engine. If I had enough coin, I'd commission Cosworth or Mahle Powertrain to develop such engine.
The sound has definitely been taken from the book and cd "Into the Red" from Nick Mason about his car collection. They recorded some of his racing cars on the track both inside and outside the car.
Straight out of the sound CD that comes with Nick Mason’s book (Pink Floyd’s drummer). Driven by Mark Hales. If you like this, see if you can still get the book. The CD has all Nicks historic race cars in it. The Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 and the ERA B type all sound wonderful. As you can imagine, coming from a musical legend like Nick Mason, the recordings and sound quality is spectacular.
Alot of drivers hated this car, Stirling Moss included. The many linkages that the steering shaft had to go to, just to make it around the engine was astounding. And the powerband was insane. However, that noise... It was said, when the BRM entered the tracks with a perfectly running Type 90 no other driver could hear anything else.
the neighbours love this!
Guilty as charged, your honour. I am blessed with a pretty decent hifi system and this is my favourite way to demonstrate its potential to those who express an interest 👹
I am a Goodwood neighbour and there is no better sound of a 1.5 litre V16 BRM - until it grenades of course!
Finally I found the full sound clip! Don't trust in multiple HDD backups!
I would.
64 Ferrari GTO 250 sounds pretty sweet as well but this is the winner.
in my opinion, one of the single best sounding internal combustion engines ever produced for any purpose. simply amazing
Up there with the Merlin V12 for sure
Along with all iterations of 917
Along with the Honda 297cc six cylinder with Mike Hailwood riding it
Definatley
This is obviously one of the best sounding cars. I get that there’s many cars, but no need to build up or emphasize so much your appreciation.
When I'm depressed, I come listen to this. It never fails to leave a big smile on my face.
that fly-by at 2:08 gives me goosebumps every time
TheVancen especially the downshifts
Its the pull away at 2:20 that gets me
Every damn time!
F*** off Formula E.
Moosebumps
No video has ever deserved headphones more than this. Between 1:15 to 1:29 you can clearly hear throttle blips and downshifting on the right channel, immediately followed by its echoes on the left. And the way the whole damn thing screams past you from right to left at 2:00 is just phenomenal.
Put on my nice surround sound headphones because of this comment, thank you VERY much. Insane stuff.
Now I really wish both my headphones worked, only the right one works and it doesn’t quite have the same effect.
Damn thank you 🙏🏽
I lived on Silverstone cct back then and this was the most distinctive engine sound ever. You could hear the BRM from the village centre and everyone knew what car was practicing when it did a lap.
I keep returning to this soundtrack. It is the most thrilling sound I have ever heard
Indeed. It is very unique. Makes it truly great.
Imagine being a child in the 1950s, taken to a Formula 1 race for the first time, and this flew past. The memory would stay with you for a lifetime.
That was me! I was taken to the 1950 British Grand Prix where the BRM was first demonstrated - I was three. The wail from the supercharger echoing off the old hangers is still fresh in my mind.
Birth of another automotive genius right there
When I was just a little kid, my mom was taking me to the mall and we were at a stoplight and a dodge viper ACR was on the right of us. The owner saw me staring at it and started revving it for me. Looking back I don't think it was stock because just the idle was shaking my moms car rocking it side to side. I'll never forget that day
I was eleven years old when I heard it at Silverston in the early fifties, unforgetable!!!
You describe what happened to my father. Having played this to him, I can confirm that the sound has indeed stayed with him for a lifetime.
I was at Oulton Park sometime in the 60s when J Stewart did a demo run in a v16 BRM. Every day since that event I hear that unique engine sound in my mind at some time or another. Unforgetable!!!!
I remember this recording being on a free CD which was given away with a motoring magazine (I think it was "Motorsport" but I may be wrong). I took the CD into work where we had a conference room with a brilliant sound system and huge speakers and put it in the CD player. The whole company - and a few people from the floor above - turned up to listen to it :-)
Sure there was a book also that had similar tracks.
@@edgarbeat275 Into The Red if i'm not mistaken.
@@Nick_Parau That's it thank you.
pretty sure this was from Nick Mason's (Pink Floyd drummer) book Into the Red where he introduces the cars he owns,, and it came with this awesome audio cd!
@@gowen_places_5471 - that's where I heard it first. A great CD.
Dear god. The downshifts, the throttle blips and the drive-bys. I could listen to this for hours.
infiniteyoutube is your friend..
This and the Rolls Royce Merlin!
The howl this thing makes as it gets to the last couple thousand revs in the distance is SUCHHHH A SOUNDDDD! What a haunting howl!
Amazing that a 67-year old engine can produce a sound like that. It sends chills down my spine. Those were engineers.
Smaller the cylinder bores the funkeer the sound
@@kindows7665 it's supercharging that creates that distinct raspy bark.
No it isn't. That brutal sound is pure exhaust😎
The fact its from my home town gives me soo much pride
Played this on my stereo loud once. After that I had to smoke a cigarette.
As I stepped outside, I could see some confused faces that thought there'd be some maniac racing between the village I live in and our neighbour village, which happens from time to time...
11/10 would confuse them again 👍
They _did_ win races. Not many, mostly because they broke down, or they simply couldn't get them started in the first place, but when they did go, they _went_!
This is from the soundtrack of the book 'In to the Red' which features, unusually, not only writing and photographs of the cars (from Nick Mason's collection) but a CD with audio. It's a good read, and the T35 Bugatti, ERA B type, Jaguar D type and Ferrari 250GTO are all worth a listen too.
Where can this cd be bought?
Marcell Brinkman You tend to have to get it with the book, which can be had from Amazon for not very much money.
The most haunting exhaust note I've ever heard. And the best
The most un-godly noise I have every witnessed in my life was the day I set a foot down in Chichester 1998. Landed at a house on Sherbourne road from the usa. lead upstairs to an open window and heard these things off in the distance.. the scream. The violence of an un earthly noise.I kid you not, the shriek was incredible and miles away. 2 maybe 3 running in practice on a Thursday. Tears.. and then a Spitfire flew by...circling the town. I could see him. fuckin topped it. My introduction to England.
Whoa, I would've loved to hear that. This must have been the greatest possible day for any traveling petrolhead
This is exactly the sound one would expect when two V8s make love.
Made my day LMAO!!!
you forgot "the sound one would expect when two V8s make love *in Hell* "
No sound this sublime comes from heaven let me say.
@@ThePaulv12 🙏🏻
This is how a formula one engine should sound!
Well, only in the 50s...
Dieser Sound ist der Hammer,ich bekomme jedes Mal eine Gänsehaut,wenn der Motor hochdreht.Ein wahrer Genuss für einen Motormaniac!!!!
I have never heard such a beautiful engine note anywhere else. It is simply Beautiful!
this is what a eargasm sounds like. just get goosebumps from that V16 sound
I went to to Silverstone in1950 to see it's first race but at the start when driven by Raymond Sommer it only lurched foreward a few feet with a broken clutch. I never saw it as I was on Club corner. Eventually under Tony Rudd and years too late it the bugs were ironed out. If they had the engineering Knowhow we have to day things would have been different. Peter Berthon was abit ambitious for the time he designed it in the late 1940's
What a great sound I swear I can smell Castrol R or what ever they used.
There should be more old people like you using the youtube or internet in general. Maybe we'd get to hear more great stories like yours :)
I wholeheartedly agree, we need more people like you on the internet.
The post war formula was four and a half litre unsupercharged, one and a half litre supercharged. Berthon knew the supercharged option had greater potential, but the design and reliability challenges were awesome. There were simply not the facilities or funds for extended running, and the bulding of enough engines. Neubeuer, who oversaw the pre war all-conquering Mercedes Silver Arrows simply could not believe the conditions when he visited the BRM facilities at Bourne.
thanks sir for sharing your memories with us
The original design was laid down in 1939. WW2 got in the way.
The best sounding engine ever..! Pure mechanical euphoria
I'm sure I've commented on this video before, years ago, but, my god....Hearing it rev up in the distance, especially at 2:20. What an unearthly howl.
RV8, SBC, Quattro S1, Metro 6R4, BDA, DFV, they all sound great, but nothing, nothing at all sounds as utterly divine as this screaming 1500cc V16.
Mazda 787B is right up there with it, but yeah, shit sounds fucking insane. I NEED to hear that in real life.
Correct!
It's a weird sound. F1 V10 and V12 engines have a screaming howl, this thing is a few notches lower but it has a deeper, malevolent edge.
Consider this... according to wiki, Max boost is sitting at around 86 psi.
That 1.5L is going to be roughly the equivalent of a 7.5 - 9L naturally aspirated engine in terms of airflow. No wonder it makes such a sound.
i believe it is the '53 v16, driven by either Mark Hales or Nick Mason at Donnington Park. The sound was recorded for the cd included in the book Into the red. he recorded 13 cars he loves and the sounds linked to piccies etc. its Nick's car and part of his collection. iirc he was the rfirst person to ever win a reace in a v16 brm and when it was the 50 anniversary of brm the car was the main attraction and it didnt get off start line.
2 things have made my sternum vibrate, Floyd playing sorrow at Wembley and me on the bridge over to the old paddock while this went underneath me
+dilthanas So did anyone film that particular session. It's great to listen to it, but I would love the visuals to equate noise to speed.
Yeah did anyone ever film it?
Yes sounds like a lap of Donington recorded from the pit wall. Car clearly audible for the entire lap. Amazing !
@@chrismc1977 what noise restrictions...? 🤷🏽♂️
For an engine that is 70 years of age (or not far off it) to be making that kind of power and sound is simply astonishing. Pure, blissful, heavenly audio.
This gives me goose bumps and tears of joy in my eyes every time I hear this sound!
This engine just creamed all over my top 5 best sounding engines of all time. The BRM V16 will now sit in its own place. A place higher than the first. The sound brought tears to my eyes.
Seriously, I have tears in my eyes from the on-board sounds. This is magical. This is the best engine sound I have ever heard and I don't think anything will come close to the sensation of pure, unshackled power this engineering beauty shocks you with after 7.500 RPM. Absolutely the best sound I've heard in my life so far.
As the admiral told Queen Victoria after America won the first race series: “There is no second place, your highness.”
When the driver opens it up down the back stretch it echoes a melody throughout the valley. All birds stop chirping to listen to the beautiful music. The street musicians on main Street put away their instruments quickly as they are seen running from main street to the race track grounds with hopes is seeing the object from which the orchestral sounds are emanating.
When I was a kid, I used to listen to this recording on repeat. It's simply the best sounding engine, and best sounding recording of that engine, ever made. In case you don't know, this recording is from a book called "Into the Red" by Nick Mason. I really wanna get my hands on a copy of the book and accompanying CD!
Same here, from the CD that came with In To The Red book my step father had.
Me too. I only listened to the other cars on the CD once or twice, but I have listened to this a hundred times at least. Love it.
The heart and soul of motor racing, pure and haunting enough to pull me back year after year. In the mid sixties I witnessed Jimmy Clark and Graham Hill battling it out at Watkins Glen. Halfway into lap one, Jimmy flew by, 5 lengths ahead. This level of man and machine were new to me. Tears and cessation of breathing! Never forgotten.
best sounding race car ever built
Into the Red, great book with great CD. The sound of this BRM is the best. Thank you, Nick Mason.
2:23 gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it ☺
+Harry Old the same at 4:00
Im not a car person and I dont know how I got here but goddamn the chills from this beast :0
There is when the car goes insanity.
Sounds like the almighty smiting with great vengeance! What a sound!
As someone famous once said, ''It was so far ahead of its time, it was like the Victorians trying to build a space ship.''
Yes it has the Steam Punks about it.
The downshift at 7:02 is everything.
It is pure joy to hear a master piece like this hit the redline. It brings tears to my eyes. This is what a real race engine sounds like and not something neutered they circle around with today.
F1 do you hear me?
This is a howling screamer of which I've never ever heard before. And they told me that these engines were hand drawn (duh!) in those days!! Uberrrr fantastic!!! Utmost respect for those engineers.
I put this on when I have trouble falling asleep. Its so soothing :)
From 6:12 and onward, that is just the pure sound of power! This is, without a doubt, one of the absolute best sounding engines ever made!
It's the exact same audio sequence as the beginning of the video, but it's the onboard microphone instead of external recording of the car.
For me the best BRM,which l like the most is the F1 1957-1960 era one, in English racing green!!!Thank you for sharing this great historical racing legend video!!!
Legend has it SIr Stirling went to Monza with it, a stealth test......Ferrari got wind of it, it's times and lodged a complaint. Formula One rules changed and it was left to race in Formula Libra. I was told of this car by my father, we listened to this over and over. Then got to see one at Goodwood wake the dead, like Mason said, Victorians making moon rockets!
Amazing that a 1.5 litre engine can produce such a deep growling sound.
one of the most vicious, guttural, and addicting engine sounds I have ever heard
O`Lord , thank you for giving man this skills and talent , for making great machine with this wonderful sound and bringing the dinosaurs back to live for a scream just one more time.Thank you .
Was für einen geilen Sound das ist. Ich war 1966 zum ersten mal auf dem Nürburgring. Eine Woche Camping mit meinen Eltern in der Hatzenbach Kurve. Das war schon Tradition für uns.
This is genuinely incredible. It's such a shame that modern F1 cars are so regulated in their configuration. It seems as though it'd be reasonable for them only to restrict downforce, weight, and power, and leave how the appropriate figures are achieved to the various designers involved. The races might be interesting again; were that to happen, maybe we'd see a spiritual rebirth of machines like this.
I would also add in a way to make sure that following cars don't get just obliterated by dirty air. After all while the sound and power are in the equation it's the over taking that also makes good viewing. maybe also a spending cap that they currently have. it's not fun if the it's the same top three teams winning year after year.
Not genuinely incredible, but simply incredible. By intensifying an extreme adjective, one actually defeats the objective of the exercise, which is, in this instance, drama. What we have here, though, is a mismatch of the qualifier to adjective. Do you get the picture, old bean?
@@stuartbritton4811 I do. If I truly didn't believe it, it mightn't be so unbelievable! Statements of fact often pack less a punch than statement of affect. Kudos for the catch!
We need a 2019 modern version of the motor!, titanium , carbon fiber, ceramic, and beryllium! all dress!
Lobby with Jay Leno...or...infect Rob Dahm.
Why changing material ? What interest ? the soul of this engine is in the material at this time.
Modern transformation is good for Playmobil .Forget the idea , please!!
@@stephanemantovani7374 Why not? And i say! becuse you cant!
That howl at 2:20 is ethereal.
That sound... is just too damn incredible! A V16! Not something you hear everyday.
F*cking eargasm :)
That first run down through the Craners is spine tingling epic. Mazda Smazda Pah! THIS is sound.
I have this on a contemporary single vinyl record that belonged to my father. One of these days I'll fish it out and try to do a really good rip to audio file.
I've got that as well...
Please do!
I'll vouch for that, one of he most incredible sounds for sure.
I bought the Nick Mason book & CD with this and others on it. I think the BRM was track 2. I played it that much, (always at full volume), that I wore the CD out.
Imagine being from the middle ages and hearing this noise 2:00 coming at you
Ur pooped in ur ass xD
El único motor que da miedo 😨
I remember reading an article saying that from a standing start a BRM could catch a car travelling at 100 miles per hour within 1 mile.
+neville collier what that means is it coluld do a standing mile in approx 40 seconds!!!!
Mercedes Benz did that back in 1937.
Colin Kepple Mercedes Benz did it on 5.6 litres not 1.5 !
@@atholheys - yes, but don't forget, that was 13 years earlier, before the hot-house engine development that WW2 brought along - and they got their car working ... BRM never really got the V16 properly sorted while it was remotely current - the best it ran (according to my reading of Tony Rudd's autobiography) was when Graham Hill ran a few laps as a demo in South Africa in the 1960s; they changed the throttle to the RR-designed one and Rudd calculated from the fuel usage and so on, that it was putting out about 750bhp.
Fangio said, "No car has ever given me such a thrill to drive, or a greater sense of absolute mastery."
From the exhaust scream the motor is very obviously supercharged - supercharged motors all really bark I've noticed.
The flywheel seems like its about 500g :).
No motor I have ever heard excites me quite like this. This is as much of a man's motor as a Kieth Black Hemi in a top fuel dragster I reckon.
sounds like it runs on it too a mix of alc and meth with 101 grade avgas and acetone - I can smell it
Yes, the greatest sex organ in the body is the brain.
Your comment adequately supports that assertion :)
I think it's a tiny motor that thinks BIG. At that power level, it would be a 3,000hp 7litre (427ci) !!
"Twin superchargers"??? Back in the '60s I had a book called "The BRM Story", written by the designers Raymond Mays and Peter Burthon. It had a complete cut-away drawing of the V16. Clearly visible was a single crankshaft driven centrifugal supercharger, geared at 4:1.It was designed for the BRM by Rolls Royce and at max revs it was turning over at 48,000 rpm. The breakdown on the starting line at Silverstone in 1950 was caused by a broken axle half-shaft. The sub-contractors had substituted a cheaper grade of steel for the high-grade steel specified. The British press had a field day blaming the French driver, Raymond Sommer.
"Those dirty Frogs, after all we did for them in 2 World Wars.......etc..etc"
Yeah Raymond wasnt too happy about that.
@@ToreDL87 I can imagine!
I've never heard something so wonderful.
I wonder what it's gonna take to see this monster in real life.
The banshee scream starting at 0:42, 2:22, 4:01... that change down at 6:43 & 7:16... oh my god
Nothing sounds quite as good as a cross plane 8 or 16 cylinder engine.
its starts like an tiger having a cold then it starts roaring like a beast. at high revs its starts screaming like a banshee. and sometimes you hear the rattle of the gears connecting the 2 engines before reving up again. the sound just seeps into my skin and resonates tru my body
+darkevilapie what 2 engines? :)) it's just one, I think you are mistaking this one with the H16.
this is a H16, at least the last part of the video is a brm H16, its the same audio clip as shown in a other video.
Not so. This is Nick Mason's V16, recorded from outside for the first five minutes, then from inside the car for the rest. You can hear the original recording on the CD that came with Mason's unmissable book, "Into the Red", detailing the driving experiences and sounds of his unique collection of historic racing cars.
darkevilapie there aren't two engine it's one engine
Without question one of best sounds out there
For anyone that appreciates automobiles, this is pure ear porn!
Nothing, I repeat, NOTHING sounds better, not even the scream of a WOT 787B's 26b!
The best I've heard in person is a 8v92 under load at 2000RPM, with a cut off exhaust after the turbo. That was a real joy.
I would LOVE to hear this one in person.
Seldom, if ever, has a fast paced series of petro-chemical based explosions sounded SOOOO GOOOOD!!! Bernie, you can shove your V6's where the sun don't shine. !.5 Litres - 650hp - 16 cylinders - Twin superchargers - Now there's the perfect recipe to bring the crowds flocking back to F1, if you want my opinion.
+sgtgrash be a LOT more than 650HP at the F1 level of competition. They are pushing out 650 HP out of 5L v8's from the 80's, naturally aspirated/carby fed.
I honestly wouldn't expect less than 3000 hp at the f1 level of competition. Remembering before they banned forced induction in F1, they were getting 1400 horses out of 1.5L.
It would be SO ABSURDLY DANGEROUS and I would watch it so much.
It still staggers me that they were able to get well over 1000hp from 1.6 litre 4 pot turbo motors during the 80's. In fact BMW achieved 1800hp on their test bench if I'm not mistaken.
Incidentally, the development process for the BMW engine is well worth a Google for the method they used to strengthen the cast iron block (yup, you read that right). It is as elegant in its simplicity as it is hilarious in its discovery.
not that dangerous with nowaydays construction materials (carbon fiber and other nano-techs) also, brakes and a proper aerodynamic to hold the whole thing on the road could be possible... but such sounds doesn't sound "green" to ecologists ! politic, this is what kills the F1
1.5l
I love this sound-track, I downloaded it from the net about about 6 years ago and use it as a ring-tone. It always has petrol-heads looking up and down the road waiting and watching.
The supercharger its.... Its.... Calling my name.....
a well build Buick-Rover 3500 sounds amazing too, short stroke high revs
This sound clip is from the CD that comes with Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason's book "Into The Red". He owns this car. The blipping sounds are the ignition cutting out on the dual magnetos due to the fact that the vegatable oil injection (!), used to control detination by oiling the methanol washed cylinders was on the fritz.
What's all that mean? The car sounds this glorious when the driver said he could only use half throttle or the engine would stall. It would be even louder.💪
Shifts are pretty quick!
To hear it on video is awesome. I've seen ,and heard, it race twice in historic events. In the flesh it really does make you tingle. The best engine sound ever, even putting a Lancaster bomber down to second place
This sound is taken from Nick Masions dvd Into The Red along with the sounds of the other cars he owns, in fact his BRM wouldn’t run prior to the recording so they used the one from the Donnington Museum, I took video of the car at the 2000 motor festival in Northern Ireland at our Parliament grounds celebrating all kinds of motorsports from here
Fucking awesome data
I bought the book because of the CD with that sound!
this soundtrack comes from a cd/book - into the red by Nick Mason(drummer Pink Floyd). in the book he goes into detail on the troubles he had to get the car to run for more than 30 seconds. it was on the FOURTH trip to the circuit he achieved this seemingly simple task. as for the noise, Sir Stirling Moss who drove the car in the 50's commented that the most memorable part was the sound of the car, could be heard for miles from the track!!!
if you dig this kind of stuff, try to get a hold of the book with cd. he and his man Roger Hales, take quite a few of his car collection to various circuits to record the symphonic exhaust noise. some of his priceless collection which are recorded are Maserati 250F, ERA, 50's F1 Aston Martin,various Porsches, his legendary 250 GTO and 512M (which he laments is arguably the loudest car in the world). now Nick a knows a little about sound recording so the results are, to a true disciple, worthy of quite a deal of trouble to get hold of, i enjoy it regularly. as stated by Mike B this is a truly memorable experience - think i'll play it again!!!! - Grayman49
If NASCAR used this kind of engine in a parallel universe. My god, what a sound.
This is AWESOME!
when i hear him coming down the last straight on the last lap before he pits, i be flagging him saying " bring her home!!!" one of the best sounding engines ever made
Sounds fantastic. Can't believe it's only 1.5
That and only 2 valves per cylinder, despite being a dual overhead cam/DOHC design.
goosebumps from the flyby.
So many chills with nice headphones omg
Some incredible things were created in UK in 53. Including me!
Yes phenomenal engineering and no electronics or engine management either.
I was at the 50 years anniversary thing in Bourne in 1999, and the sound they make ! It was like the sound had come to life and was a palpable thing, a solid force that pushed against your body ! Your brain was fighting against the instinctive urge to flee !
Sterling moss said it was the most dangerously fastest car he ever raced, easily topping over 200mph
The car was INSANE! It screamed as hell! The car was fast! But the engine was too heave ( we are talking about v16) and the suspensions or the engine simply breaked up
Imagine rebuilding this engine with new composites so that you can rev it to 16.000 rpm, what sound would that be!? 💣
they just rebuilt them from scratch
They just did that
New materials, 4-valve heads, even shorter piston stroke but bigger bore, keeping displacement while allowing for an even more free-revving engine.
If I had enough coin, I'd commission Cosworth or Mahle Powertrain to develop such engine.
who's still having eargasms in 2020?
I have comments in this from like 4 years ago. I've listened to this so many times 😂
I LOVE this recording.
Meeeeeeee.....!!!
On song that noise gives you goose bumps.
always come back to this did a school project on it in the 1960 s the teachers at the time didnt believe it .
God bless you Peter Berthon. God bless you man.
Just the best music of every time.. a legend engine.. at 1:18 it even sound like a flying saucer 🤩
BRM and Can-Am series....I can only imagine.
Absolutely gorgeous! Got goosebumps!
The sound has definitely been taken from the book and cd "Into the Red" from Nick Mason about his car collection. They recorded some of his racing cars on the track both inside and outside the car.
Straight out of the sound CD that comes with Nick Mason’s book (Pink Floyd’s drummer). Driven by Mark Hales. If you like this, see if you can still get the book. The CD has all Nicks historic race cars in it. The Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 and the ERA B type all sound wonderful. As you can imagine, coming from a musical legend like Nick Mason, the recordings and sound quality is spectacular.
Yep, certainly, this is how F1 engines should be!
Haunting sound indeed. Glorious.
Absolutely the most stunning soundtrack. Can you imagine F1 with this now?
Alot of drivers hated this car, Stirling Moss included. The many linkages that the steering shaft had to go to, just to make it around the engine was astounding. And the powerband was insane. However, that noise... It was said, when the BRM entered the tracks with a perfectly running Type 90 no other driver could hear anything else.
screaming magnifico!