"Those things OWN all sound waves around you for miles." - that is the best way to describe it.  It can take your breath away - as in make oxygen unavailable.  I have also seen pre 2014 F1 many times, the sound is no comparison.  They sound like electric cars by comparison now.  I highly recommend anyone coming to the US to watch this type of racing - even stock cars can be fun actually.

If you stand downwind from the burnout in a white t-shirt ut will be black in an hour from the bits of melted rubber suspended in the white tire smoke and fused to your shirt.