Dihedral doors, and a rear fan that sucks the car to the road. Picture: SUPPLIED
The carbon-fibre car features the world’s highest-revving engine, rear-wheel drive, a six-speed manual gearbox, forged aluminium double wishbone suspension, and the most advanced aerodynamics yet seen on a road car — aided by a 400mm rear-mounted fan. Murray’s design for T.50 was the 50th in a line of race and road cars he’s penned over an illustrious 50-year career — both reasons combining to name the car T.50.normally-aspirated V12 Cosworth engine. Fed by a roof-mounted cold-air ram induction inlet, it has maximum outputs of 487kW and 467Nm.
In 1978 Murray designed the innovative Brabham BT46 Formula One car with a unique trick: a fan that sucked the car to the road. The incredible downforce it produced was so effective that the Brabham comfortably won its first race in the hands of the late Niki Lauda, but the resultant uproar from rival teams over the unfair advantage saw the fan car withdrawn from the very next Grand Prix and it never raced again.
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