They sound like crap in person too. All the cars but ferrari engined cars made a sound best described as a wet farting sound when the drivers let up on the gas and the pressure went out the blow off valve. It was awful. The ferrari a sounded like a kid taking saxophone lessons with a multi note tooting noise. Fwiw, you could carry on a normal conversation when the cars drove by. The Porsche gt3 support race sounded more like real race cars than the f1. So, in a nutshell, it is as bad as you may have heard it is, and maybe worse. The complaints all over the web are justified. The racing was still good, so for me it wasn't an event killer.