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Louder engines given the go ahead for 2016

Louder engines will make a comeback in 2016 after approval was given for alterations to the current exhaust system. The noise of the new smaller turbo engines has been heavily criticised since their introduction in 2014, leading to research into ways of boosting the volume, one of which included fitting a trumpet-like attachment to the single exhaust tailpipe. The solution, which has been ratified by the World Motor Sport Council, will see a second tailpipe added, but only "wastegate exhaust gases" may pass through it. "For 2016, all cars must have a separate exhaust wastegate tailpipe through which all and only wastegate exhaust gases must pass," read a WMSC statement....
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