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McMurtry Spéirling may not be on your car radar and that’s just fine. It is a very strange name of an electric hypercar to begin with, and it also costs around / $ 1million / £ 1million if you want a private owner.
But the name is very worth remembering because McMurtry Spéirling Pure has become the first vehicle to prove it can drive upside down. It is thanks to its gravity-fighting fan technology that creates enough downforce to not only wipe out different racing circuit items, but also dance in the ceiling … Yes, run in the ceiling.
In a video released by the company, Badass co-founder and CEO of McMurtry Automotive, Thomas Yates, took to the steering wheel of a spérling clean, randomly ran it on a specially designed rich and then set the ‘downforce-on-demand’ system to its most violent setting.
In this state, the many fans mounted under the diminishing Batmobile-A-like spin at 23,000 rpm, creating a vacuum and equivalent to 2,000 kg of downforce, which effectively glues the vehicle to whatever surface it is on.
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The smart rich then slowly rotates 180 degrees, so the featherweight vehicle effortlessly hangs upside down before yates-pleasant shows a little driver forward a few feet at slow speed.
Although a smart party trick to spread the spéirling name viral around the world, this potent fan technology has the real world benefits of creating ridiculous amounts of downforce that keeps the vehicle positive glue to any circuit that is brave enough to host it.
So far, the 1,000 hp, 1.2 tonnes of electric racer has smashed the closed wheel track record at Hockenheim Circuit in Germany, a staggering 14.1 seconds faster than Mercedes-AMG, despite driving with 75% power and 75% crash.
It also set a record time up the famous hill in Goodwood in 2022, as well as beat the record set by Fernando AlonSOS Renault F1 car in 2004 around Top Gear’s Test Circuit – a record that stood for 21 years.
An impressive toy or a serious scientific lesson?
As you probably guessed, McMurtry-Spéirling is not currently legal Vejlegal, and most officially sanctioned racing bodies do not allow it to compete as it is more jet fighter at the earth-level than it is a racing car.
However, progress is about coming up with problems from a different angle, and this fan-based weather rocket makes precisely all modern supercars with its tireless downforce and even challenging the F1 technology that we consider to be the absolute groundbreaking in performance.
But perhaps more importantly, it is the ultimate Halo vehicle for electric progress, making an old-school brand-pitting petrol engine to see definite dinosaur age for comparison.
Pioneering cars like this, Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, showing synthesized hot-hatch stresses, as well as vehicles such as the upcoming Renault 5 Turbo 3e, are important for a collective stream of our brains and pushing the notion that EVs don’t have to be bored with even greater levels.
