LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One is working on a microphone that can be attached to a car's exhaust system to make the sport louder and more 'visceral' for television viewers. Formula One's commercial managing director Sean Bratches said more needed to be done for the worldwide audience. "He's working with a German concern to develop a ceramic microphone that we can actually adhere to the exhaust pipe to get the true amplification of sound for fans," he said, as one example. Formula One insiders said the Australian had been working with F1 broadcast operations at Biggin Hill airfield in southern England. A trumpet-like ‘megaphone’ exhaust was tested by teams in 2014 to try to boost noise levels but the experiment was deemed a failure.

Source: The Star September 22, 2017 12:45 UTC