McMurtry Spéirling fan car eyes Goodwood FoS hillclimb record | Evo

at its Brixworth F1 site, but he’d also worked on project management at AMG in Affalterbach in Germany. This is his first full EV.

‘What we’ve done is design a vehicle from first principles,’ says Yates. ‘As a company we are incredibly vertically integrated. There’s not a great deal on the car that we haven’t had a hand in developing and designing. We very strongly believe that to make a car enjoyable to drive the key attributes are, firstly, it’s got to be small, and secondly, it’s got to be light.

The McMurtry Automotive team now numbers around 30. The car here is the second running prototype, an evolution of the first, and was completed just a couple of days before it made its public debut at 2021’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. What the team started with three years ago was something akin to 1970s fan cars like the Brabham BT46 and Chaparral J2, but what they have now is something quite different. Instead of trying to create a skirted area from sill to sill the Spéirling has a skirted area about the size of a bodyboard beneath the driver.

Initially, McMurtry used prototype systems mounted in trailers to help development, but a lot of the proof-of-concept work was carried out using an old ambulance converted to electric. Yep, an old ambulance, lapping another local circuit, Thruxton, the country’s fastest racetrack.‘It gave the right loads, there was plenty of space to work and it provided valuable insights,’ explains Yates.

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