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Mercedes ready to pump up the F1 engine volume

Mercedes may have the answer for Formula 1  fans longing for more engine noise in the new V6 turbo era and they are ready to sound off about it. The season's dominant team, runaway winners of all five races so far, will try a new ‘megaphone' type exhaust at a test in Barcelona this week as the sport seeks a solution to a problem of its own making. 'I'm sure everybody is looking forward to hearing what the ‘megaphone' is going to be like,' Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff told reporters at the Spanish Grand Prix won by Lewis Hamilton – his fourth successive victory. 'We're pretty clear – if the fans want to have more noise, and if it's making the car not only...
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