Gordon Murray to team up with Racing Point F1 for T.50

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Motorsport design legend Gordon Murray will use Racing Point’s windtunnel to hone ground-effect fan road car

Unveiling the first official picture of the already much-hyped British sports car, to be launched in May 2020, Gordon Murray Design also revealed that it will work with the Silverstone-based Racing Point Formula One team to further develop and test its aerodynamics.

Racing Point has a rolling road windtunnel at its headquarters, with which the GMD team will tweak the advanced airflow management on which the T.50 will depend.

During his career as a Formula One designer, Gordon Murray is perhaps best known for the BT46B ground effect fan car he developed for Brabham in 1978, which used a large fan underneath the car to generate additional downforce to keep it pressed onto the track. After its one race, the sport’s governing body declared that fan cars would no longer be allowed in Formula One.

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Despite this setback, Murray declared that he wanted to use the ground effect fan system in a road car, and the T.50 is the embodiment of that ambition.

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