The McMurtry Speirling still looks as bonkers as it did last year
This is McMurtry’s second-generation car, the first never having made a public appearance. “Car one was a huge learning exercise for us,” Yates tells us. “We made such strides forward having to deliver a complete car from a clean sheet. Today’s car is evolved from the first but has a slightly different design focus.” With its gullwing door lifted, I’m invited to sit in the Spéirling.
“Our focus from the beginning was to keep the car compact,” Yates says. “With an electric car, you pay a huge amount for any inefficiency, especially in terms of overall weight and the weight of the battery. So from the start, the car had to be low-drag and as light as we could make it – and that included making it a single seater.”
There’s then the question about the technology’s application in an existing electric motorsport championship, such as Formula E. Yates makes clear that McMurtry wants ultimately to deliver both cars and technologies and says that he would “love to have the conversation and find out”. For the time being, though, the focus is very much on continued development of the Spéirling.
And then a revelation. “It feels great,” says Summers. “But we ran it with little to no downforce: I forgot to turn the fans on! What that has proved is how good the base tune is.”
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