KEVIN MCCALLUM: The soothing sound of climate-cool motorsport
The sound of a Formula E car is not the sound of silence. An easy way to describe it would be as a high-pitched whine, but it is more like a jet fighter taking off than a politician taking umbrage, promising an unassuming sense of power rather than smashing the drums of your ears.
At a 2018 race, the New York Times described the sound of a Forumla E race in Zurich thus: “The silence of a warm summer Sunday was broken by a high-pitched sound reminiscent of the rebel fighters attacking the Death Star. The whine came from battery-powered race cars running laps on a course laid out on the streets of Zurich — the first urban circuit race in Switzerland in more than half a century.” ..
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