Lower the SPL levels on the microphones and let us turn it up louder so we get amazing unclipped undistorted sound next time! Do a run then adjust the gain so there's no clipping and then do the main shoot! Also tunnels suck for hearing the true clear crisp sound of the car
Mark my words this video will be generational. This is probably the highest quality documentation of the most visceral engine ever created! 8:55 Top of 3rd at over 10k rpm, double clutch on the 3-4, full throttle letting her scream to the top of 4th, then that backfire on the overrun... no other engine can compare, fact.
The last good video was from a few decades back, visuals weren't great either. This is BRM goodness in 4k binaural audio. I could fall asleep listening to it.
Years ago I helped with the running of one of these for a private museum. Incredibly we were allowed to test the car in the lunch hour at a track day at Brands Hatch. When the car was pushed into the pitlane none of the TVR/ Caterham etc. drivers took much notice: - old car, yeah, yeah, back to the burgers and chips. -Then we fired it up! By the time it came round to cross the start line everyone was hanging over the pit wall going crazy!
Actually, Mister "Power! Power" (you know who I mean...) would just describe the driver of that car "having plums the size of coconuts" for piloting such a monster in that tunnel! Yes there are cars that went much faster but had a bit more safety features built in... Respect to the STIG!
"..Mike Hawthorn, who drove the car at Folkingham but later complained: "It was no use - every time I came to a corner and went below the 8,000rpm mark, the power went right off. Then, suddenly, as you reached the 8,000 mark the full power would come in and you had a job to hold the car straight. At 8,000rpm it really did motor, but the steering was nothing to write home about"
@@jcgabriel1569 And Fangio said "I consider it to be, basically, the best Formula One car ever made. All it needs is improvement in certain details. No car has ever given me such a thrill to drive, or a greater sense of absolute mastery. I will stand by it.”
I have never been a car person. Not once in my life did I think I would be into cars... but I have been working with BRM on a project with work. I got to go to Blyton race day last year, and I was NOT expecting the V16 to sound like such a monster. It started up right behind me and my ears were ringing for two days! Huge fan now.
@@JeffKopis Yes, the family who own BRM, decided to remake the same vehicle, I think superchargers are the only thing that has been improved, otherwise it is the very same thing. I am so glad the made it again.
When Sterling Moss tested it at Monza, Ferrari was there, clocked the lap times and immediately lodged an appeal for a rule change. The king of F1 engines for me.
"We had to wait a week for Fangio to arrive. He lapped at Folkingham 3 seconds faster than anyone before and then got lost, breaking an exhaust. We took the car to Silverstone. It was raining but he didn't seem to notice. The BRM was going sideways, at 45 degrees." Tony Rudd, BRM technical director
@@PuncakeLena he drove for BRM after Alfa Corse withdrew from Grand Prix racing after 1951. He drove for them in 1952, cut short by a massive accident at Monza that gave him a neck injury and prevented him from racing for about a year.
In addition to Fangio, another Argentine Jose Froilán "el Cabezon" González drove for BRM with the type 15 . I remember that in an interview he jokingly said "The only thing that accelerated faster than the BRM were the pieces of rubber that came off the tires."
No offense, but you can't replace Clarkson. I really needed a quick, "some say he invented the color red, France still doesn't allow him to fly over their airspace, but we call him the Stig".
I know there will always be people who will say the LFA or some V12 supercar out there sounds the best, but for me personally the BRM V16 has the greatest and most insane engine noise out there. This thing sounds like it's perpetually at it's limit and also not straining itself at all. When you press on the gas it immedietly reminds of entire groups of V8 Stock cars rushing past your ears at 200mph, while the BRMs engine isn't even at it's limit even has some more noise packed in store above 9000RPM. The engine screams like it doesn't want to be inside the chassis and is ready to hop straight out of it any minute, but it also looks so resolutely built you'd be hard pressed to find a reason to fear the machine besides the noise. The entire car is an enigma, a 2L V16, revving to 11k RPM, it's something you think up as a concept while daydreaming, not something you'd ever see in a car and I love it for that!
Surround sound headphones cranked up to 100 with hands on either side at nearly fifty years old and grinning like a goofy kid. 🤣 Thanks, can't wait for the LFA.
I saw one of these at the very first Goodwood Festival of Speed. In an attempt to start it, the car was being towed up and down a sloping grassy field that was the paddock, by a brown MkIV Cortina estate. First, three or four cylinders caught, then a couple more, with each following cylinder adding to the symphony. Epically memorable, maybe because of the Cortina' assist.... Some years later, a book called Into The Red, by Nick Mason and Mark Hales, has an accompanying audio CD of the cars featured, one of which is the BRM V16. (I'm sure it'll turn up on a search here on YT.) It is recorded at Donington Park, commencing with a push start in the pitlane, where you can identify the same sequence described above, until with the full compliment of cylinders howling, it sets off for some glorious laps. A single microphone (on the pit wall, I believe) captures the engine in all its glory as it starts and sings around the laps, and if you know the circuit you can truly identify exactly where the car is from the rise and fall of the furious mechanical orchestra. The effect of the drive-by as it passes the pits each lap is properly shiver-inducing. Even now I can feel it typing this......
Nothings screams "overcomplicated engineering" like a V16 with just 1.5 litres displacement using an overcomplicated supercharger and producing around 600 horsepower. But hey, Formula One always had the most crazy technology in racing. 😁🤟
600hp in those days is so much. Especially trying to put that power down on the track with those skinny wheels! I would just be clenched so hard the entire time sitting in that car. There'd be a noticeable crease in the middle of that seat, I can promise you that. 😂😂😂
First time I heard of this car was in high school so over 12 years ago. I would listen to videos of it running cause it was so crazy. When Bugatti released the V16, this was the first and only car that came to mind.
I don't think I've ever had a tear in my eye from listening to a car like I just did... Incredible Love the inventiveness of new segments like this. Keep it up team 👏
Request list for the future, a pre ware ERA, Bugatti type 35, any mid 90s F1 car and a Jaguar XJR 9 ,Metro 6R4 and the Beast of Turin. Thanks in advance 😉
90s V12 Formula 1, Audi 5 Cylinder, High RPM V8s, Inline 4 DTM inlet sound of doom...all fun, all great. But NOTHING beats this engine noise. I am beyond stoked that someone threw "a few bucks" towards rebuilding this beast with modern materials, it is awesome. THere is a soundfile here on youtube, originally from the book "into the Red" which had a sound cd included. It is this car driving a few laps at Donington, getting its teeth kicked in and NOTHING is better than that. Listened to that file 500+ times, at least. This is the upper echelon of engine noise, just unbelievable. The tunnel onboard was nuts! Goosebumbs all the way!
Binaural recording goes back way before ASMR was a thing. It was in use back in the 1970's for classical and folk recordings, and the technology goes back to the 1950's...
Please please, get the Ferrari-Lancia D50 for this! That V8 will sound amazing in that tunnel too! If it is not too much asking, a Matra MS120 would be nice 😊
absolutely amazing , i enjoyed every second of this video , the last onboard is a symphony , thanks a lot top gear for bringing this absolute experience
Many many years ago I had the unforgettable pleasure of hearing a BRM V16 being push started on the grass at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, between the parked visitors' cars, just as I was walking back to my own car to drive home again.
5:45 I thought it is just some evil music in the background, something a Bond movie would have. Then it kept going. And going. And then the car popped out. Oh. My. Gosh.
The video is awesome and so is the sound. But nothing will ever do that thing justice, seeing it and hearing it in real life, just a step away from the exhaust as it reverberates through your body, it’s truly one of the most beautiful sounds to the body.
That engine tone is wicked..My god what a great sounding engine. I found myself holding my breath and gritting my teeth while listenng with the phones on........Aewsome !
JO,,, NOW THAT is EPIC!!!!! PLEASE MORE for our 'old' 'folks' to HAVE THE ear-GASMS' to remember when the expiree date REACHES us.... PLEASE!!!!! MORE!!!!
Why is it that now I like Top Gear again since the era of Clarkson, Hammond and May. But this one is really sick! The last time I watched the Audi Quattro S1 Group B Rally Car episode, it was sick!!! 🔥🔥🔥If I usually watch videos through speakers, in this Tunner Run, I always use headphones because of recommended by Becky Evans. WOOHOO. The sound of BRM P15 1.5 ltr V16!!! SUPERCHARGED!!! This is nuts. A sound it's make me happppyyyyyyyy and a smile on my face. So precise. Can't wait for the next one. Good job, Top Gear! Good job!
Since i was a child, this has and still is my favorite car of all time. Being raised listening to the sounds of old f1 cars like the Maserati 250f and the Mercedes W196 driven by Fangio. This experience is the closest i will probably get to the real thing. Im literally in tears. Thank you, Top Gear.
My father always described the sound as a babys wail, but good. 😂 Always had a spot for the noise these monsters produce! The sound of one coming down the straight from "Into The Red" is seared into memory! I've been a fan of the BRM V16 since I was a kid, this video has been an auditory sensation!
This new sound you guys have going on here is absolutely awesomely amazing. My heart rate shot up as if I was driving that car and at one point I was expecting a bomb to go off.
Absolutely speechless! To be honest, this made me cry a little bit. Craziest sound ever, then flame's on the lift off 😱😱😱. Well done top gear for dedicating so much to the sound of combustion. Coolest video ever. I've saved it, so I can watch it now and again.
It's one of the best sounding engines, but these recordings sound pretty distorted. Part might be the echo/reverb in the tunnel, port might be limitations of the microphones because it's simply too loud to make all the audio details and frequencies audible. I think the old audio clip (BRM V16 Engine Sound here on YT) from ~17 years ago still sounds better.
Shivers up my spine and goosebumps galore! Find the audio of one of these howling around Goodwood - glorious!! Visited the BRM museum in Bourne a few years ago - the pistons for this V16 are tiny!
My God! An ear-shattering exhaust note and a screaming supercharger, accompanied by cackling overruns, backfires and spitting out hellfire - all this from 1.5 ltrs. Hope to see it again at Goodwood and go the distance this time.
What a cool piece of history! The fact that they took the time to replicate the BRM-16 in it's entirety is just crazy! I'm sure with modern steel alloys and such, it's a lot more reliable than the original.. and sounds just as wicked! I'll bet if they put that engine in a relatively modern F1 frame and did a few mods, it would be a pretty tough contender!😉👍👍
They manufactured the BRM's back in the 1960's in Bourne, Lincolnshire in a factory which is now the auction house, the team owner, Raymond Mays, used to live in the house next door to the factory. The team behind this V16 revival are located 2 minutes around the corner at the Hall & Hall garage down the appropriately named "Graham Hill Way" who won the F1 Championship in a BRM. Damon Hill & Jackie Stewart drove BRM's alongside other cars of the era through Bourne back in 2012, videos are on RUclips if you are interested under "BRM day 2012". That is still one of the best days of my life! Excited to see BRM living on and putting our small town of Bourne on the map.
@@KCNJDMSTI Oh really, wow that must have been interesting, quite exciting I bet. Yes, the Delaine bus station is right next door and has been there for over 100 years now! Wonder what pub they went to, the closest one on the same street was hit when an American WW2 plane crashed into it during the war.
I wonder if it's due to the box not being synchromeshed, or just allowing for faster shifts due to older synchro technology. Would be interested to get more info from the driver or someone more knowledgable as there isn't anything about why this is done on 50s race cars online.
V16, the ultimate automotive engine. 1931 & '32 Marmon, 1929 ton 1934 Cadillac [OHV] as well as the 1937 to '40 Cadillac [side valve]. There may have been others, but the smooooothness is a feeling to behold.
Whenever people say ‘no F1 ever sounded better than the V10s’ I always think ‘you’ve never heard the BRM v16, eh?’ Nothing compares to the absolute fury of that engine at full song.
This was in the early 1950's . 1500 cc ,centrifugal supercharged V16 . Insane amount of power available instantly at 8000 rpm . Power through hard ,narrow tires .
She wasn't kidding: headphones (preferably the full sized ones that actually covers your ears and not airpods) really needed for the tunnel run. Incredible stuff. Thanks for this. Almost as intense as listening to Metallica.
Want more tunnel run goodness? Check out how the Audi Sport Quattro S1 E2 sounded ➡ ruclips.net/video/NAwH6d1Gp9g/видео.html
Telemetry data would be very informative...
S1 still the favorite at this moment. Until 2x5cyl arrive ….. then maybe just…
Lower the SPL levels on the microphones and let us turn it up louder so we get amazing unclipped undistorted sound next time! Do a run then adjust the gain so there's no clipping and then do the main shoot! Also tunnels suck for hearing the true clear crisp sound of the car
I want to hear Auto Union Typ C16❤
Where is there a 30 sec clip so I can make it my Ringtone
Mark my words this video will be generational. This is probably the highest quality documentation of the most visceral engine ever created!
8:55 Top of 3rd at over 10k rpm, double clutch on the 3-4, full throttle letting her scream to the top of 4th, then that backfire on the overrun... no other engine can compare, fact.
True that.
What are you? A mangina?
The last good video was from a few decades back, visuals weren't great either. This is BRM goodness in 4k binaural audio. I could fall asleep listening to it.
Years ago I helped with the running of one of these for a private museum. Incredibly we were allowed to test the car in the lunch hour at a track day at Brands Hatch. When the car was pushed into the pitlane none of the TVR/ Caterham etc. drivers took much notice: - old car, yeah, yeah, back to the burgers and chips. -Then we fired it up! By the time it came round to cross the start line everyone was hanging over the pit wall going crazy!
oh thats super cool what was your position in the ''museum crew'' if you dont mind me asking?
Imagine if they get Mazda to let the 787B loose in there.
It's gotta be on the list
We're all going to be deaf... Happy, but deaf nonetheless!
TG, make this happen. I know there's still one out there.
@@benjaminmcintosh857 wouldnt be half as good as the BRM !
No doubt it's on the list. Has to be
This may be the best thing Top Gear came out with since the departure of the trio. O M G. tears rolling down my face.
Actually, Mister "Power! Power" (you know who I mean...) would just describe the driver of that car "having plums the size of coconuts" for piloting such a monster in that tunnel!
Yes there are cars that went much faster but had a bit more safety features built in...
Respect to the STIG!
100%
"..Mike Hawthorn, who drove the car at Folkingham but later complained: "It was no use - every time I came to a corner and went below the 8,000rpm mark, the power went right off. Then, suddenly, as you reached the 8,000 mark the full power would come in and you had a job to hold the car straight. At 8,000rpm it really did motor, but the steering was nothing to write home about"
"Vtec kicked in yo"
Stirling Moss said it's the worst car he'd ever driven...
@@jcgabriel1569 did he? Were those the words he actually said?
@@andieslandies he did!
@@jcgabriel1569 And Fangio said "I consider it to be, basically, the best Formula One car ever made. All it needs is improvement in certain details. No car has ever given me such a thrill to drive, or a greater sense of absolute mastery. I will stand by it.”
I have never been a car person. Not once in my life did I think I would be into cars... but I have been working with BRM on a project with work. I got to go to Blyton race day last year, and I was NOT expecting the V16 to sound like such a monster. It started up right behind me and my ears were ringing for two days! Huge fan now.
Yes it has that effect, Fantastic machine.
Mechanical enlightenment at its finest
Isn't it fun learning all kinds of new things and experiences that cars have to offer!?!?!
BRM still exists today??
@@JeffKopis Yes, the family who own BRM, decided to remake the same vehicle, I think superchargers are the only thing that has been improved, otherwise it is the very same thing. I am so glad the made it again.
This is an epic series! Credit to the production crew for the high quality content!! :)
When Sterling Moss tested it at Monza, Ferrari was there, clocked the lap times and immediately lodged an appeal for a rule change. The king of F1 engines for me.
What a load of nonsense.
"We had to wait a week for Fangio to arrive. He lapped at Folkingham 3 seconds faster than anyone before and then got lost, breaking an exhaust. We took the car to Silverstone. It was raining but he didn't seem to notice. The BRM was going sideways, at 45 degrees." Tony Rudd, BRM technical director
That's some rock and roll racing shizz. 🤘
Fangio papá!
Imagine what the Maestro could have achieved in the modern F1 cars... 🤔🤔 Sighhh!!! ☺️☺️☺️
I didn't know Juan actually drove this. Wasn't he on the Alfa team at that time?
@@PuncakeLena he drove for BRM after Alfa Corse withdrew from Grand Prix racing after 1951. He drove for them in 1952, cut short by a massive accident at Monza that gave him a neck injury and prevented him from racing for about a year.
GOD BLESS THE TOP GEAR TEAM FOR PROPERLY DOING A SOUND RECORDING FOR THIS INCREDIBLE CAR, I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR MOMENT LIKE THIS 😭🙏🙏🙏
no stupid music playing to cover this😁 great sound
In addition to Fangio, another Argentine Jose Froilán "el Cabezon" González drove for BRM with the type 15 . I remember that in an interview he jokingly said "The only thing that accelerated faster than the BRM were the pieces of rubber that came off the tires."
Listen to Nick Mason’s “Into The Red” for his BRM doing 2 laps of Donnington driven by Mark Hales… the two passes of the pits are epic.
100% agree, its sonorous, like an almost other worldly wolf howl on “Into the red” - still the best engine noise I’ve ever heard
Was it not recorded at Goodwood?
Even the misfire in that recording is beautiful
This one appears to be in the ‘quieter’ configuration with the silencer. I think they really howl like a Vulcan with the shirt individual pipes
I’ll have a listen as the sound in this was cool, but sounded quite low rpm and no where near 600hp
@@ozholiday i dont think he got up to 12000 rpm but still magnificent
No offense, but you can't replace Clarkson. I really needed a quick, "some say he invented the color red, France still doesn't allow him to fly over their airspace, but we call him the Stig".
THIS is what Insta360 cameras were made for 🙌
That sound is eargasm 🔥
Becky whispering into Mike's ear was another sort of gasm 😅😅
The phrase "Are you freaked out yet" was HOT and it alone worth putting the headphones on :) The sound of the car is just astonishing!
I know there will always be people who will say the LFA or some V12 supercar out there sounds the best, but for me personally the BRM V16 has the greatest and most insane engine noise out there.
This thing sounds like it's perpetually at it's limit and also not straining itself at all. When you press on the gas it immedietly reminds of entire groups of V8 Stock cars rushing past your ears at 200mph, while the BRMs engine isn't even at it's limit even has some more noise packed in store above 9000RPM. The engine screams like it doesn't want to be inside the chassis and is ready to hop straight out of it any minute, but it also looks so resolutely built you'd be hard pressed to find a reason to fear the machine besides the noise.
The entire car is an enigma, a 2L V16, revving to 11k RPM, it's something you think up as a concept while daydreaming, not something you'd ever see in a car and I love it for that!
Agree, but it's an even tinier 1.5 litre !!
Surround sound headphones cranked up to 100 with hands on either side at nearly fifty years old and grinning like a goofy kid. 🤣 Thanks, can't wait for the LFA.
Hands down the best sounding engine ever made. Glad to hear in high quality sound.
Have a listen to this mate Yager Performance, XY-GTHO, Race 3 "no music
The proper term of the recording process with the “head” is know as binaural.
yep, better than stereo, incredibly realistic....
2:21 look at those teeny tiny pistons. Aren't they cute? That must be the half scale version.
I saw one of these at the very first Goodwood Festival of Speed. In an attempt to start it, the car was being towed up and down a sloping grassy field that was the paddock, by a brown MkIV Cortina estate. First, three or four cylinders caught, then a couple more, with each following cylinder adding to the symphony. Epically memorable, maybe because of the Cortina' assist....
Some years later, a book called Into The Red, by Nick Mason and Mark Hales, has an accompanying audio CD of the cars featured, one of which is the BRM V16. (I'm sure it'll turn up on a search here on YT.) It is recorded at Donington Park, commencing with a push start in the pitlane, where you can identify the same sequence described above, until with the full compliment of cylinders howling, it sets off for some glorious laps. A single microphone (on the pit wall, I believe) captures the engine in all its glory as it starts and sings around the laps, and if you know the circuit you can truly identify exactly where the car is from the rise and fall of the furious mechanical orchestra. The effect of the drive-by as it passes the pits each lap is properly shiver-inducing. Even now I can feel it typing this......
Top Gear seems to be inventing something new :D
Yes.The female..🙄
@@kingzalut9639OMG, The obligatory incel comment 🙄
stop being so judgemental ppl
This is good. More please.
Nothings screams "overcomplicated engineering" like a V16 with just 1.5 litres displacement using an overcomplicated supercharger and producing around 600 horsepower. But hey, Formula One always had the most crazy technology in racing. 😁🤟
600hp in those days is so much. Especially trying to put that power down on the track with those skinny wheels!
I would just be clenched so hard the entire time sitting in that car. There'd be a noticeable crease in the middle of that seat, I can promise you that. 😂😂😂
First time I heard of this car was in high school so over 12 years ago. I would listen to videos of it running cause it was so crazy. When Bugatti released the V16, this was the first and only car that came to mind.
The whine of that supercharger is sublime!
I don't think I've ever had a tear in my eye from listening to a car like I just did... Incredible
Love the inventiveness of new segments like this. Keep it up team 👏
Request list for the future, a pre ware ERA, Bugatti type 35, any mid 90s F1 car and a Jaguar XJR 9 ,Metro 6R4 and the Beast of Turin. Thanks in advance 😉
+1 for the 6R4!
👀
GT40 as well please!
90s V12 Formula 1, Audi 5 Cylinder, High RPM V8s, Inline 4 DTM inlet sound of doom...all fun, all great. But NOTHING beats this engine noise. I am beyond stoked that someone threw "a few bucks" towards rebuilding this beast with modern materials, it is awesome. THere is a soundfile here on youtube, originally from the book "into the Red" which had a sound cd included. It is this car driving a few laps at Donington, getting its teeth kicked in and NOTHING is better than that. Listened to that file 500+ times, at least. This is the upper echelon of engine noise, just unbelievable. The tunnel onboard was nuts! Goosebumbs all the way!
I cant wait to hear late 90s F1 car blasting down that tunnel at 19 000rpm.
Such a cool series, love the use of tech pioneered by quiet ASMR for blasting engine sounds at over 100db
Binaural recording goes back way before ASMR was a thing. It was in use back in the 1970's for classical and folk recordings, and the technology goes back to the 1950's...
I’ve been wanting a video like this for over 17 years.
Thank you Top Gear crew.
I put my headset on, did not dissapointed
You guys at Top Gear absolutely nailed the 3D Audio, it sounds amazing
This is just good use of stereo audio. Apples marketing has confused you.
Still sounds good 🤷♂️
Please please, get the Ferrari-Lancia D50 for this! That V8 will sound amazing in that tunnel too! If it is not too much asking, a Matra MS120 would be nice 😊
7:50 yes Becky
hee hee....
Now that's an engine sound, what a great series so far....loving the headphone tech.
Stig, double clutching, not granny shifting, as you should.
The stig lives his life a quarter at a time... he isn't worried about his shifts, dawg... he's only worried about one thing. Family.
@@FakingANerve he do be double clutching though. Almost like he cares about nothing more than the shift, not even his first born.
@@FakingANerve or did you not understand what I was trying to say? 😭 Clearly stig worries about his shifts you're a madman!
Oh my word! I'm covered in goosebumps after watching that (with headphones on)
absolutely amazing , i enjoyed every second of this video , the last onboard is a symphony , thanks a lot top gear for bringing this absolute experience
Many many years ago I had the unforgettable pleasure of hearing a BRM V16 being push started on the grass at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, between the parked visitors' cars, just as I was walking back to my own car to drive home again.
5:45 I thought it is just some evil music in the background, something a Bond movie would have. Then it kept going. And going. And then the car popped out. Oh. My. Gosh.
The video is awesome and so is the sound. But nothing will ever do that thing justice, seeing it and hearing it in real life, just a step away from the exhaust as it reverberates through your body, it’s truly one of the most beautiful sounds to the body.
That engine tone is wicked..My god what a great sounding engine. I found myself holding my breath and gritting my teeth while listenng with the phones on........Aewsome !
This is the best I.C.E. noise ever made. Thank you TopGear for making a modern recording of this insane engine with the best audio tech available!
It doesn't matter who the stig is, what matters most is what th stig stands for, the fastest of anything, cap tipped stiggy. Bravo
At long last something worth watching
JO,,, NOW THAT is EPIC!!!!!
PLEASE MORE for our 'old' 'folks' to HAVE THE ear-GASMS' to remember when the expiree date REACHES us.... PLEASE!!!!! MORE!!!!
The best ever since the trio. Tears rolling down. No drama. Just pure sound! Top Gear Reinvented!!!!!!!!!!!
Why is it that now I like Top Gear again since the era of Clarkson, Hammond and May. But this one is really sick! The last time I watched the Audi Quattro S1 Group B Rally Car episode, it was sick!!! 🔥🔥🔥If I usually watch videos through speakers, in this Tunner Run, I always use headphones because of recommended by Becky Evans. WOOHOO. The sound of BRM P15 1.5 ltr V16!!! SUPERCHARGED!!! This is nuts. A sound it's make me happppyyyyyyyy and a smile on my face. So precise. Can't wait for the next one. Good job, Top Gear! Good job!
Since i was a child, this has and still is my favorite car of all time. Being raised listening to the sounds of old f1 cars like the Maserati 250f and the Mercedes W196 driven by Fangio. This experience is the closest i will probably get to the real thing. Im literally in tears. Thank you, Top Gear.
My father always described the sound as a babys wail, but good. 😂 Always had a spot for the noise these monsters produce! The sound of one coming down the straight from "Into The Red" is seared into memory! I've been a fan of the BRM V16 since I was a kid, this video has been an auditory sensation!
Good Lord, just that intro gave me goosebumps!
Amazing series, amazing sound. Good job to the sound engineer capturing some amazing audio without it blowing out!
Im so proud to be from the town where this was made
8'20 or so onwards with those special microphones is just an incredible sound! Could (have)! listen to that on repeat for quite some time!
Hi Phil,
Just fyi, if you put the time in this format 8:20 it turns it into a link that takes the video to that point.😊
This new sound you guys have going on here is absolutely awesomely amazing. My heart rate shot up as if I was driving that car and at one point I was expecting a bomb to go off.
Absolutely speechless! To be honest, this made me cry a little bit. Craziest sound ever, then flame's on the lift off 😱😱😱. Well done top gear for dedicating so much to the sound of combustion. Coolest video ever. I've saved it, so I can watch it now and again.
It's one of the best sounding engines, but these recordings sound pretty distorted. Part might be the echo/reverb in the tunnel, port might be limitations of the microphones because it's simply too loud to make all the audio details and frequencies audible.
I think the old audio clip (BRM V16 Engine Sound here on YT) from ~17 years ago still sounds better.
I certainly wasn't expecting this.
Ok, now if Top Gear is like this in the future, im all down for it. This. Was. Awesome!
Fantastic video! Loved the headphone segment at the end and great presenting! Best Top Gear content in a long time! 😀
Every time I hear that engine reve I get goose-bumps and chills!
This is how every car on the road should sound like!
the one with the 16 individual headers sounds even more wild
This thing sounds absolutely amazing. There's just no words to do it justice.
loving these tunnel run vids- keep em coming!
Shivers up my spine and goosebumps galore!
Find the audio of one of these howling around Goodwood - glorious!!
Visited the BRM museum in Bourne a few years ago - the pistons for this V16 are tiny!
The Stig AND Becky Evans? - NOW YOU’RE TALKING! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
My God! An ear-shattering exhaust note and a screaming supercharger, accompanied by cackling overruns, backfires and spitting out hellfire - all this from 1.5 ltrs. Hope to see it again at Goodwood and go the distance this time.
These episodes are a stroke of genius. Thank you. Aurally entranced.
What a cool piece of history! The fact that they took the time to replicate the BRM-16 in it's entirety is just crazy! I'm sure with modern steel alloys and such, it's a lot more reliable than the original.. and sounds just as wicked! I'll bet if they put that engine in a relatively modern F1 frame and did a few mods, it would be a pretty tough contender!😉👍👍
Then the Bugatti Tourbillon showed up. It’s not alone today as the only V16 of the 2020s
im going to headcannon this is what a straight piped tourbillon/"bolide" tourbillon would sound like
They manufactured the BRM's back in the 1960's in Bourne, Lincolnshire in a factory which is now the auction house, the team owner, Raymond Mays, used to live in the house next door to the factory. The team behind this V16 revival are located 2 minutes around the corner at the Hall & Hall garage down the appropriately named "Graham Hill Way" who won the F1 Championship in a BRM. Damon Hill & Jackie Stewart drove BRM's alongside other cars of the era through Bourne back in 2012, videos are on RUclips if you are interested under "BRM day 2012". That is still one of the best days of my life! Excited to see BRM living on and putting our small town of Bourne on the map.
@@KCNJDMSTI Oh really, wow that must have been interesting, quite exciting I bet. Yes, the Delaine bus station is right next door and has been there for over 100 years now! Wonder what pub they went to, the closest one on the same street was hit when an American WW2 plane crashed into it during the war.
Nothing will beat this
Brilliant move with the audio. Beautiful sounding car. Listening to this and seeing the video brought tears to my eyes.
Now this is Top Gear, awesome editing and amazing work with the audio.
Do the Lexus LFA pretty please.
1.5-litre supercharged V16
Power: 600 bhp! Rev limit: 12000 RPM. Same power is produced by a modern day Nismo GT-R.
I've heard of double-clutching on upshifts but this is the first I've seen it in action
I wonder if it's due to the box not being synchromeshed, or just allowing for faster shifts due to older synchro technology. Would be interested to get more info from the driver or someone more knowledgable as there isn't anything about why this is done on 50s race cars online.
V16, the ultimate automotive engine. 1931 & '32 Marmon, 1929 ton 1934 Cadillac [OHV] as well as the 1937 to '40 Cadillac [side valve]. There may have been others, but the smooooothness is a feeling to behold.
Whenever people say ‘no F1 ever sounded better than the V10s’ I always think ‘you’ve never heard the BRM v16, eh?’
Nothing compares to the absolute fury of that engine at full song.
That has to be the best sounding engine to have ever graced my ear holes. It's like bacon for my ears!
oh that overrun.... beautiful!
This was in the early 1950's . 1500 cc ,centrifugal supercharged V16 . Insane amount of power available instantly at 8000 rpm . Power through hard ,narrow tires .
This might just be the best car series ever
I thought TopGear would never amaze me again, but I´m happy that I was wrong! This is proper!!
Sounds great.
The way Stig sits in the car is great
That v16 Soundtrack from "Into the red". Shivers. Always.
Best car series in a long time
One of the best series Top Gear has come out with in a while! This is absolute awesomeness!
That was amazing. I'm literally speechless right now.
Hats off and well done to the men who bought this back to life, Amazing, fripping well amazing, thank you so much
Was those little blips between shifts him double clutching? If so, that is very quick! Also, loved the whine of the supercharger when engine braking!!
Since the car is a faithful replica then i think it was double clutching.
She wasn't kidding: headphones (preferably the full sized ones that actually covers your ears and not airpods) really needed for the tunnel run. Incredible stuff. Thanks for this. Almost as intense as listening to Metallica.
This is a wonderful education for the DTS aged kiddos.
Well done Top Gear !
Calling it now, this is one of my favorite series on RUclips, keep it up!
Now THAT is a race car sound!
Imagine going through the Sanfrancisco tunnel?!. Glorious
Tg Just became good again
At last! (Top Gear have finally made the right decision on presenters! Becky Evans is awesome and very knowledgeable!) 👍