McMurtry Speirling - The Unusual Engineering EXPLAINED 

This car was visibly faster than anything I've seen before. Watching the speed gave me more of the sensation of watching a mach jet than a car. Just brutal.

One of the maddest facts about the speirling that max Chilton mentioned in an interview was that with the downforce and traction control off it'll spin the wheels up to 200mph in 0.3 seconds

This is the ONLY electric car which has caught my imagination and doesn’t seem like an exercise in marketing. Bravo !

They made so much progress from the last time. For me, this is the most impressive track performance car I have seen in years. I am keen to continue following their progress. Also thanks for the insight.

The car looks like a toy going around corners. So planted and stable even at extreme speeds! So excited to see this tech develop further

As a track focussed hyper car.. this thing is in a completely different league to the new AMG project one. This is aerodynamic engineering at its absolute best. Good video Martin. Thanks

Interesting to hear the Fans are variable too, you can match acceleration with Suction and /or have it off - similar to drag recover systems, great concept that shocked the motoring world

The Goodwood run was one of the most impressive things I've ever witnessed. I had no expectations of being mind-blown, but that I was.

Hands down the only car that excites me whenever I watch it's videos nowadays.

Conceptually, this is the same as the Chaparral 2J Can-Am car, of 1970 vintage. It had problems, but was eventually outlawed because it was so much faster than any other car. This has been the story of a great deal of true innovation in motorsports.

Watching this car for the first time when it broke the lap record at Goodwood reminded me of the day I walked into a shopping mall and saw my first ever flatscreen TV. I had to walk around it a few times and touch it to help me believe what I was seeing. This car isn't just the best of its kind, it's a new kind. It's the future. 👏

The acceleration from a stop was incredible to see. It was like seeing a bullet leaving the barrel of a gun.

Truly fascinating design .. Watching the race it was visibly tremendously quick .I won the Donnington GT championship in 1980 with a similar home built ground effects car . not a fan car .. but my design destroyed the opposition. so much so that the drivers in my class protested unsuccessfully my engine size. I keep telling the Mercedes team that they barely need any aero on their Ground Effects F1 cars. Silverstone cct would be the perfect high speed track to go for a low aero drag, high Ground Effects setup. I have a huge respect for your driver .. he must be super committed . The McMurtry Speirling is in a class of it's own .

What a brilliant and exciting piece of engineering! At first I thought it looked silly but that was my lack of imagination on display. Form follows function and all that.

I've never seen ANYTHING move like that car moved. It was faster in transitions and apex's than ANYTHING I've ever seen. It is a marvel of engineering.

The crazy thing about this car is that it runs a 7 second quarter mile when it's top speed is limited to 150mph

What a bit of kit! It was astounding to see it at Goodwood, well done to all the development team and the driver. love a pocket rocket, and this is the ultimate!

I hope they start a racing series based on this car.

What a great video! Straight forward explaining of many technical aspects. Thank you!

Instant dream car. It's shape caught my attention. When I clicked the thumbnail I thought it was a toy. And I guess it kind of is. But when it turned out to be real AND a fan car, I was in love. I can only hope to see this car put into a Gran Turismo or something similar so that I have a chance to experience it. Because I know I'll never get the chance in real life.

Yesterday i saw first time video with this machine ride, and i couldn´t believe my eyes how fast it is, it is surreal, it is really something whole new.

I've noticed this car pop up in some suggested feed and admit that I mistook it for some bat mobile knockoff. So I'm pleasantly rewarded of being kicked in the head with a brilliant designing innovation that proved it's concept with pure numbers and shocked faces.

I've fallen out of love with cars a while ago, but damn. This car is exciting!

An amazing technology vehicle. I remember seeing it on a TV program in 2021, and thinking "Thats a Batmobile, if ever I saw one" !! It also goes like one as well, without the need for speeding the video up. Ot of the box thinking at its best. We'll done to the design team 👏👏👏

A very very good explanation of this ground breaking car. Thank you.

Wow. Tremendous engineering... I am impressed. Thank you.

Truly the future of motor racing. That fan ripping around Goodwood sounded amazing!

this was incredibly informative, and very much appreciated

And this thing is road legal?!? Would love to see an F1 driver drive this around monaco, would suit that track aswell as it will be better in the low speed.

I was hoping you would do a video about it! Nicely done, Martin!

Can you imagine this at the pikes peak hill climb!!!! It would destroy anything. And also I would love if someone made a mod of this car for a sim racing game

This is my favorite car of all time. What a machine!

The redundant fan system is really impressive forethought. Really cannot imagine a non aircraft type guy thinking of that. Off the top of my head I can't think of many roadgoing cars that have redundant systems on really anything. Emergency systems maybe, but redundant? Are there any that I am not thinking of?

Awesome concept! It’s run at Goodwood was very impressive!

This is a marvel of EV track car engineering, first when I saw video of the record run at FOS I honestly was questioning if the clip has been fast forward, never seen anything go this fast around corners and coming out of corners. Using fans as downforce make perfect sense and the team at McMurtry really did a good job on the design. In Top Gear video the representative said they are interested in making road cars as well, excited for that. 🔥🔥

Brilliant piece of engineering, game changer

Extremely well engineered car! I love it!

That vehicle that changed the world! Great work.

Imagine the improvements that can be made with this sort of base.

Been waiting for this, awesome!

Excellent video. I learned things here about the car which I find not previously know.

Very much worth to exist. Nice pioneership in tecnique. And fun and fast !

Nicely explained! 👍🏾

Fascinating machine. I did however wonder about the stability of the downforce subject to surface conditions, and I'm glad you brought up the kerb lift scenario as I was thinking the same. It seems like it could all of a sudden lose most of it's downforce from something as simple as uneven or poor ground surface. I'd love to learn more about how they've addressed this, and of course about the car overall. Thanks for the video!

FANtastic piece of kit 👌

They should take it around the nurburgring

Great video man! Very informative!

Awesome video thank you

High quality video, thanks buddy 💪

Hopefully well get a pikes peak run of this project

Having watched this at goodwood , one can only say "wowww" what a car and performance. Now of only my car could corner like that lol

Jim Hall (designer of the Chaparral 2J) must love this car.

Interesting video. Thanks.

Thanks for that!👍Very informative

Thanks for this video man. never knew they used a van. an ambulance even

Well done, B. What a machine!

Nice job 👌 thanx for sharing 👍

It's interesting that the concept is so different from Gordon Murray's concept for the T-50, which uses the fan to stop flow separation from its unique diffuser.

its such an amazing machine. that combination of 1. ultra light weight, 2. insane horsepower and 3. extreme downforce. make it the best i ever seen

Excellent video... The F1 Teams need to start this again..

Absolutely brilliant. A modern well designed and thought out car to rival any combustion engined car. I was down by the start line at goodwood when the car took off and it was genuinely crazy fast. What that thing is like to drive is beyond imagination. I can only imagine it was a massive adrenaline rush. But witnessing it in the flesh and seeing it fly past was unreal. I think this is one that's going to take some beating and like the original Murray F1 it will be a game changer. Definitely one to watch.

Great video buddy! 👏👏 just got my subscription!

They need to make a bunch of these and have a one make race series- would be AWESOME!!!!

Great explanation of the technology involved. Atb.

Actually the Brabham fan car did not shoot out dirt, it was a lie because that way it was easier to get it banned based on safety reasons... Other than that, great video.

Brilliant‼️

Great video and amazing car.

Amazing Machine!!!

That’s such neat concept, downforce not dependent on speed.

This car sparked some new ideas in my mind. If you had a vacuum sealed chamber for each wheel you could reduce the wheel when resistance but tire temperature management would be more challenging but not impossible using radiation heat transfer. The suspension could be made much softer this way with the load applied directly to the wheels.

visually stunning.

A race series with those cars would be dope 💟

More importantly, the ability to switch off DF on the straight allows the car to have lower ride height and/or a more compliant suspension without grounding out on the straights.

This car is bonkers. I absolutely love it.

Thanks for the informative video. I am really impressed with the Speirling, from a technological as well as a conceptual perspective. Also it looks just great. It proves they should embrace fan driven down force in racing again. Killing it back in the Chaparral time was very much anti-innovation and a big shame.

Next, the Nurburgring lap record please!

Wonderful car!

Thanks for the explanation of the technology. The application appears to be for racing at this point with little apparent use for road cars.

♥️👍Thank you for Sharing

First time I watched its Goodwood run, I thought the player was on fast forward, such a quick car.

Not the only twin fan car up the hill. The Chaparral had twin kenlow fans each powered with two stroke engine at over 10K rpm the car it's self was power by big V8. It sounded wonderful!!

I want one. looks like a small Batmobile and sounds awesome

EXTRemely IMPRESSIVE! Sir 🏁gF NM/FL USA ☮️☄️

Loved it, just loved it. I’ve been a huge fan of Gordon’s Brabham Fan Car. In fact in 1973 I ordered the last To Brabham BT40 Atlantic cars and racer in the John Players Atlantic series and the Yellow Pages Atlantic series in England from 1973-1976. The Brabham’s were useless. I had ordered Marches but talked into switching to Brabham’s by a friend who raced in the Atlantic in a March but they switched to Brabham after testing one. Good enough for him good enough for me. WRONG. To this day I’m still a fanatic for Grand Prix racing and still raced in the US UP UNTIL 20 years ago. I still own my Budweiser 96 Lola Indy car and it’s fully restored with the correct Ford Cosworth Engine. Again. I thing you did the most amazing job of designing this car, and Far more simple then Gorden’s new car. I’m a big fan of your FAN CAR. Ted

Just a brilliant piece of engineering what a machine😎😎😎😎

If all the stars align will this car run at Pikes Peak? We can only hope so but it seems an obvious thing to do.

Thanks!

Most exciting car since the IDR ❤️❤️

Very nice video. Vacuum huh, works darn well.

Amazing engineering

A very well done explaination of what is probably a great big mess of math.

I hope it finds its way to GT7 along with newer model cars from the manufacturers, in game!

It makes my mind RACE!

That is one beautiful car

I absolutely love the Speirling!

This car is the future of auto racing as well as daily motoring. It’s coming folks

This is one of those rare revolutionary evolutions at least it appears that way to me.

Please include the link to your T50 video in your description as well as in the middle of this video... Hard to go back and find it there 😊

This car is AMAZING!

If I recall correctly the Brabham BT46B fan car in fact didn't chuck stones and debris at other cars. Mario Andretti later admitted he'd lied about that to get it banned.