Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast in an in-car audio special, reaching back to 2019,

the Vassar Sullivan Lexus team, the number 12 Lexus RCF GT3, driven by Townsend Bell, and the highly exceptional, frankly, Montecalvo, whipping around the Mid

Ohio sports car course for Insa's event there early in the 2019 season, put our ambient

audio recorder inside the car, and I tell you you captured some pretty interesting sounds I would say

as a 5.4 liter naturally aspirated V8 engine. If you have heard the Lexuses flying by at a

IMSA event, you'll know that they make use of some decently sized mufflers.

Keeps the car's audio without being too much of a assault on the ears might lend to the

impression that inside the car, Townsend and Frankie and all the other drivers, hear a similarly

muffled signature, but they don't. So getting to ride along

on the passenger side, you do indeed hear this is a normal howling V8, making a little over

500 horsepower in this production-based vehicle converted to GT3 specs. So if you are a fan of

the Lexus brand,

will indeed enjoy this in-car audio feature.

Get about 22-ish minutes from a practice session.

What I'd like about these,

as we hear the car drop, fire up, pull away,

and then you get to hear the drivers build lap after lap.

So there are little differences. So they go a little bit deeper in the braking zone. Get on the power a little bit earlier as the tire temperatures come up

and so on and so forth. So if you're familiar with mid Ohio, I might not need to tell you what you're

listening for. But if you don't have a committed to memory, you will hear this number 12 Lexus RCF Gt3 pull out of pit lane,

make that left fire down to the keyhole, then a long right hand or out of the keyhole,

down to the start finish line actually into turn for the longest straight at Mid Ohio,

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