Veteran NASCAR personality and ex-racer, Michael Waltrip, has recently urged NASCAR to reduce the 'deafening' sound of the engines. Waltrip has been an advocate of the cause for quite some time now.

That’s why NASCAR engines sound like grizzly bears and F1 engines, which run at higher speeds, sound more like angry mosquitoes. Maximum horsepower requires getting the spent gases out of the cylinder ...

V-8 engines can produce great sound as well, but the exact tune depends on their configuration. The stereotypical rumble of muscle cars and NASCAR stock cars is produced by a cross-plane crankshaft.

Budweiser may be "the official beer of NASCAR," and Coors Light, Miller Lite, Jack Daniel's and Jim Beam sponsor cars, yet wine is slowly weaving its way through traffic and into NASCAR.