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."
Freddy Mercury would be proud! The song is available for
download at the Renault F1 Team
website.
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Norman Bates @ Dec 18th 2005 10:50PM
Renault race engines are cool. The clown in the picture isn't.
Dux @ Dec 18th 2005 10:50PM
Coolest thing in the world!
:D
Tom W @ Dec 18th 2005 10:50PM
Can the engine actually change RPM's that quickly?
Chrysler 300C @ Dec 18th 2005 10:50PM
I've seen this done before, but I dont remember what other song was played, but I believe it was a Honda F1 engine. Very cool tho!
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Jimbo @ Dec 18th 2005 10:50PM
Top Gear (UK) tv show did it awhile back with different engines to play their theme music.
Mal Fuller @ Dec 18th 2005 10:50PM
Don't the French know about radios?
Eric Bryant @ Dec 18th 2005 10:50PM
Chrysler 300C,
There was a clip going around a year or two ago of an F1 engine playing "When The Saints Go Marching In". I can't remember who's engine it was, though. "We Are The Champions" is a far, far cooler song.
I wish I owned something with that kind of throttle response.
Motorin' @ Dec 18th 2005 10:50PM
"Renault race engines are cool. The clown in the picture isn't."
Anyone who can engineer a Formula 1 V10 engine is pretty damn cool in my book.
Especially considering the RV25 is one of the most (if not THE most) reliable F1 engines this season. Not to mention that he probably makes boatloads of cash in addition to the coolness of simply being part of a successful F1 team.
Kianoosh @ Dec 18th 2005 10:50PM
I agree with 7...
And man does that engine ever change its RPM so quickly!
Wangatang @ Dec 18th 2005 10:50PM
The engine that played 'when the saints go marching in' was a minardi engine.
The engine internals must be extremely light since it revs up/down so fast. They probably don't even use a flywheel.
I hear the new V8s are running at 20K RPM :)
kent @ Dec 18th 2005 10:50PM
This reminds me of getting my old 1541 C64 floppy disk drive to play tunes by vibrating it's read head at certain frequences :>
Justin Bell @ Dec 18th 2005 10:50PM
Jimbo: I just saw that last night. Completely different... Top Gear drove a whole lot of cars, recorded a note from each one, then composed them all in a sound-editing/music program. The F1 plays it out live, simply by adjusting the throttle.
Mark @ Dec 18th 2005 10:50PM
Awesome throttle response - even with no load.
Das @ Dec 18th 2005 10:50PM
Looking for some suppoting evidence here... hearing a lot of people say this wasn't actually done and that it was put together by an editing program...