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Gordon Murray T50 supercar gets track-only S version
Racing variant of innovative supercar promises to add lightness and boost power from the atmo V12
Gordon Murray Automotive (GMA) has confirmed it will produce a racing version of the recently revealed T50 supercar.
Just 25 examples of the track-only car, codenamed T50s, will be built, each with extensive revisions that promise to make it even lighter than the road-going version, at just 890kg.
Each example will cost £3.1 million before taxes - a substantial increase over the road car's £2.36 million plus taxes. Over half of the production run had already been accounted for before the car's existence was revealed to the public.
The Cosworth-developed, naturally aspirated V12 engine powering the T50 has been re-engineered with revised cylinder heads, a higher compression ratio and an all-new free-flow exhaust system to produce beyond 700bhp. According to Murray himself, this was only possible in a track car, which doesn't have to contend with noise or emission regulations. A bespoke new six-speed transmission has new drive ratios and replaces the road car's manual gearstick with paddle shifters.
Significant upgrades to the car's aerodynamics pair the road-going T50's signature rear-mounted fan with a new 1758mm-wide rear wing, new front splitter, underbody aerofoil and adjustable diffusers. Combined, the changes allow the T50s to generate more than 1500kg of downforce. A new roof-mounted aero fin also helps boost cornering stability, allowing the car to generate 2.5-3g under braking.
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Racing variant of innovative supercar promises to add lightness and boost power from the atmo V12
Gordon Murray Automotive (GMA) has confirmed it will produce a racing version of the recently revealed T50 supercar.
Just 25 examples of the track-only car, codenamed T50s, will be built, each with extensive revisions that promise to make it even lighter than the road-going version, at just 890kg.
Each example will cost £3.1 million before taxes - a substantial increase over the road car's £2.36 million plus taxes. Over half of the production run had already been accounted for before the car's existence was revealed to the public.
The Cosworth-developed, naturally aspirated V12 engine powering the T50 has been re-engineered with revised cylinder heads, a higher compression ratio and an all-new free-flow exhaust system to produce beyond 700bhp. According to Murray himself, this was only possible in a track car, which doesn't have to contend with noise or emission regulations. A bespoke new six-speed transmission has new drive ratios and replaces the road car's manual gearstick with paddle shifters.
Significant upgrades to the car's aerodynamics pair the road-going T50's signature rear-mounted fan with a new 1758mm-wide rear wing, new front splitter, underbody aerofoil and adjustable diffusers. Combined, the changes allow the T50s to generate more than 1500kg of downforce. A new roof-mounted aero fin also helps boost cornering stability, allowing the car to generate 2.5-3g under braking.
Gordon Murray T50 supercar gets track-only S version | Autocar
Racing variant of innovative supercar promises to add lightness and boost power from the atmo V12
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Gordon Murray’s next car will be more “conventional”
Murray tells TG what he’s planning on doing next
Gordon Murray’s next project will be ‘a little bit more conventional’.
Speaking to TopGear.com on the reveal of the T.50s racer – the track-only ‘version’ of the T.50 supercar – Murray revealed that whatever he does next will, naturally, be a little less hardcore.
“I’d like the next car to be a little bit more conventional in architecture, and even more usable,” he told us, “but still have the excitement. Whatever we do at GMA, we’re not going to do another monster T.50.
“That’s the halo car, and will remain the halo car,” he added. Yep, it’s nice to talk about the future and how Murray will deploy his considerable expertise, but whatever it is it’ll be a way off. There’s the small matter of a) building and delivering the astonishing T.50 for 2022, and b) building and delivering the even-more-astonishing T.50s racer for 2023.
Still. “The sort of goals we have at GMA, the next car will always be the best car to drive in its segment or price range. It’ll always be the lightest car, and it’ll always be the best engineered car. And, we hope, the prettiest car.”
As always – and indeed, as he’s proven with the T.50 – he’s not obsessed with performance metrics in a conventional sense. “I’m not chasing all the madness, ever. The problem with those targets is you’re going to get beaten. Doesn’t matter what you do.”
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Murray tells TG what he’s planning on doing next
Gordon Murray’s next project will be ‘a little bit more conventional’.
Speaking to TopGear.com on the reveal of the T.50s racer – the track-only ‘version’ of the T.50 supercar – Murray revealed that whatever he does next will, naturally, be a little less hardcore.
“I’d like the next car to be a little bit more conventional in architecture, and even more usable,” he told us, “but still have the excitement. Whatever we do at GMA, we’re not going to do another monster T.50.
“That’s the halo car, and will remain the halo car,” he added. Yep, it’s nice to talk about the future and how Murray will deploy his considerable expertise, but whatever it is it’ll be a way off. There’s the small matter of a) building and delivering the astonishing T.50 for 2022, and b) building and delivering the even-more-astonishing T.50s racer for 2023.
Still. “The sort of goals we have at GMA, the next car will always be the best car to drive in its segment or price range. It’ll always be the lightest car, and it’ll always be the best engineered car. And, we hope, the prettiest car.”
As always – and indeed, as he’s proven with the T.50 – he’s not obsessed with performance metrics in a conventional sense. “I’m not chasing all the madness, ever. The problem with those targets is you’re going to get beaten. Doesn’t matter what you do.”
Gordon Murray’s next car will be more “conventional”
Murray tells TG what he’s planning on doing next
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The T.50s will get its own race series, but won’t go to Le Mans
Gordon Murray confirms that he wants a special series for his wild, racing T.50
“It wants to be driven,” explains Gordon Murray of his T.50s, “and people deserve to hear it going around the circuit, too.”
That circuit won’t be Le Mans, however. Speaking to TopGear.com, Murray said he got excited when he first heard about the FIA and ACO’s original plans for a ‘supercar GT’ championship a couple of years ago. “That goes right back to the beginning of the McLaren F1, with the BPR series. That was a brilliant series,” he said.
“However, both the ACO and FIA don’t seem to know what they want to do, and they seem to be leaning back towards prototypes again, rather than GTs, which is slightly disappointing,” he added.
So Murray spoke to the boss of SRO, Stephane Ratel – “I think he runs more than 90 per cent of the world’s GT championships” – in order to develop his own series for the T.50s, as long as it meets FIA safety standards. “I haven’t bothered too much with the FIA regs,” he said. “The problem I had was that most of the GT regs start at 1,200kg, which means we’d have to put 300kg of steel into the thing.
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Gordon Murray confirms that he wants a special series for his wild, racing T.50
“It wants to be driven,” explains Gordon Murray of his T.50s, “and people deserve to hear it going around the circuit, too.”
That circuit won’t be Le Mans, however. Speaking to TopGear.com, Murray said he got excited when he first heard about the FIA and ACO’s original plans for a ‘supercar GT’ championship a couple of years ago. “That goes right back to the beginning of the McLaren F1, with the BPR series. That was a brilliant series,” he said.
“However, both the ACO and FIA don’t seem to know what they want to do, and they seem to be leaning back towards prototypes again, rather than GTs, which is slightly disappointing,” he added.
So Murray spoke to the boss of SRO, Stephane Ratel – “I think he runs more than 90 per cent of the world’s GT championships” – in order to develop his own series for the T.50s, as long as it meets FIA safety standards. “I haven’t bothered too much with the FIA regs,” he said. “The problem I had was that most of the GT regs start at 1,200kg, which means we’d have to put 300kg of steel into the thing.
The T.50s will get its own race series, but won’t go to Le Mans
Gordon Murray confirms that he wants a special series for his wild, racing T.50
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Chris Harris on... Gordon Murray T.50 vs Aston Martin Valkyrie | Top Gear
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T.50's carbon monocoque arrives at Gordon Murray Design's prototype workshop
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Gordon Murray invests £50m in new global headquarters
Surrey site to house engineering, marketing, sales and servicing divisions; will produce secretive next model
The Gordon Murray Group is investing £50 million in setting up a new global headquarters in Windlesham, Surrey as it gears up to put its T50 hypercar into production in January 2022.
Based around a distinctive atom-shaped building once owned by gas giant BOC, the 130,000sq ft centre will house the firm's design, engineering, research and development, sales, marketing and heritage divisions. The original building will remain, as will the surrounding 54 acres of parkland.
The campus will be built in three phases. The first will result in the completion of the sales, manufacturing and heritage facilities, as well as a purpose-built test road for prototypes by the end of 2022. The second phase will take place in 2023, with the engineering centre being developed. And the final phase will bring new R&D and T50 servicing facilities to the site by the end of 2024.
It's anticipated that the new headquarters will create 100 new jobs across various sectors within the next three years. The buildings, said founder Gordon Murray, will be practical and energy-efficient but won't be "showy".
The Windlesham facility is just seven miles from the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, where the Murray-designed F1 supercar entered production in 1992.
www.autocar.co.uk
Surrey site to house engineering, marketing, sales and servicing divisions; will produce secretive next model
The Gordon Murray Group is investing £50 million in setting up a new global headquarters in Windlesham, Surrey as it gears up to put its T50 hypercar into production in January 2022.
Based around a distinctive atom-shaped building once owned by gas giant BOC, the 130,000sq ft centre will house the firm's design, engineering, research and development, sales, marketing and heritage divisions. The original building will remain, as will the surrounding 54 acres of parkland.
The campus will be built in three phases. The first will result in the completion of the sales, manufacturing and heritage facilities, as well as a purpose-built test road for prototypes by the end of 2022. The second phase will take place in 2023, with the engineering centre being developed. And the final phase will bring new R&D and T50 servicing facilities to the site by the end of 2024.
It's anticipated that the new headquarters will create 100 new jobs across various sectors within the next three years. The buildings, said founder Gordon Murray, will be practical and energy-efficient but won't be "showy".
The Windlesham facility is just seven miles from the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, where the Murray-designed F1 supercar entered production in 1992.
Gordon Murray invests £50m in new global headquarters | Autocar
Surrey site to house engineering, marketing, sales and servicing divisions; will produce secretive next model
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Gordon Murray announces new R1 billion global headquarters
The Gordon Murray Group has revealed plans for an all-new global headquarters that will be based in Windlesham, Surrey in the UK. The new technological campus will cover 218 530 square metres and provide state-of-the-art facilities for automotive design, engineering and development.
The campus will host three buildings and create 100 new skilled jobs over the next three years with the first phase aiming to house the vehicle manufacturing centre for the T.50 supercar as well as customer sales and a group heritage collection. The entire site is expected to be complete by the end of 2024 and will cost £50 million (approximately R1 billion).
“This new technology campus and global headquarters is a major investment and a huge step forward for the Gordon Murray Group, as we gather momentum for the next phase of our business and our brands, spearheaded by the all-new T.50 supercar,” says chairman of the group, Professor Gordon Murray.
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The Gordon Murray Group has revealed plans for an all-new global headquarters that will be based in Windlesham, Surrey in the UK. The new technological campus will cover 218 530 square metres and provide state-of-the-art facilities for automotive design, engineering and development.
The campus will host three buildings and create 100 new skilled jobs over the next three years with the first phase aiming to house the vehicle manufacturing centre for the T.50 supercar as well as customer sales and a group heritage collection. The entire site is expected to be complete by the end of 2024 and will cost £50 million (approximately R1 billion).
“This new technology campus and global headquarters is a major investment and a huge step forward for the Gordon Murray Group, as we gather momentum for the next phase of our business and our brands, spearheaded by the all-new T.50 supercar,” says chairman of the group, Professor Gordon Murray.
Gordon Murray announces new R1 billion global headquarters
The Gordon Murray Group has revealed an all-new global headquarters that will be based in Windlesham, Surrey in the UK.
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Gordon Murray guides me round his new T.50s Niki Lauda - Harry's garage
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Gordon Murray T.50s Niki Lauda
Gordon Murray Automotive has unveiled its T.50s Niki Lauda track-focused supercar for the first time. Developed in parallel with the T.50, the most driver-centric supercar ever built, the T.50s Niki Lauda has been conceived, designed and engineered to offer the ultimate on-track driving experience.
Like the T.50, the T.50s Niki Lauda has been designed and engineered without compromise, but with an even more extreme specification. It weighs just 852kg and will be powered by a substantially redesigned version of the T.50's Cosworth-engineered 3.9-litre V12, producing 725bhp, revving to 12,100rpm and going through a newly-designed Xtrac six-speed paddle-shift gearbox. Advanced aerodynamics, aided by a 400mm rear-mounted fan, will produce up to 1500kg of downforce for optimum track performance.
Just 25 T.50s Niki Laudas will be made, costing £3.1m (before taxes). Production will start in January 2023 at Gordon Murray Automotive's manufacturing centre in Dunsfold, Surrey, UK, after the run of 100 T.50 supercars is completed.
Gordon Murray Automotive has unveiled its T.50s Niki Lauda track-focused supercar for the first time. Developed in parallel with the T.50, the most driver-centric supercar ever built, the T.50s Niki Lauda has been conceived, designed and engineered to offer the ultimate on-track driving experience.
Like the T.50, the T.50s Niki Lauda has been designed and engineered without compromise, but with an even more extreme specification. It weighs just 852kg and will be powered by a substantially redesigned version of the T.50's Cosworth-engineered 3.9-litre V12, producing 725bhp, revving to 12,100rpm and going through a newly-designed Xtrac six-speed paddle-shift gearbox. Advanced aerodynamics, aided by a 400mm rear-mounted fan, will produce up to 1500kg of downforce for optimum track performance.
Just 25 T.50s Niki Laudas will be made, costing £3.1m (before taxes). Production will start in January 2023 at Gordon Murray Automotive's manufacturing centre in Dunsfold, Surrey, UK, after the run of 100 T.50 supercars is completed.
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New Gordon Murray T50s Niki Lauda is 700bhp track weapon
McLaren F1's spiritual successor gets a £3.1m circuit variant with a kerb weight of just 852kg
Gordon Murray has chosen the birthday of three-time world champion Niki Lauda, and invoked the name of his former Brabham F1 colleague, to unveil the promised track-only version of his ultra-lightweight, V12-powered T50 supercar, just 25 of which will be built.
Officially dubbed the T50s Niki Lauda, the new car will be built entirely by Murray’s new low-volume specialist manufacturing company, on the same timetable as the road-going T50 — with production beginning at the end of the year for deliveries during 2022.
The size and design relationship with the road-going T50 is clear, but Murray stresses that it has been designed specifically for track duty from the beginning with “hundreds” of different, special components in all facets of the design.
The T50s, which will cost £3.1m before local taxes, weighs an incredible 852kg (128kg less than the regular model’s world-beating 980kg) while a specially engineered, higher revving version of its ultra-compact, bespoke 3.9-litre Cosworth V12 engine will have 700bhp on tap instead of the standard car’s 650bhp, an output that will grow to 725bhp at high speed due to ram-effect in the engine’s air intake.
www.autocar.co.uk
McLaren F1's spiritual successor gets a £3.1m circuit variant with a kerb weight of just 852kg
Gordon Murray has chosen the birthday of three-time world champion Niki Lauda, and invoked the name of his former Brabham F1 colleague, to unveil the promised track-only version of his ultra-lightweight, V12-powered T50 supercar, just 25 of which will be built.
Officially dubbed the T50s Niki Lauda, the new car will be built entirely by Murray’s new low-volume specialist manufacturing company, on the same timetable as the road-going T50 — with production beginning at the end of the year for deliveries during 2022.
The size and design relationship with the road-going T50 is clear, but Murray stresses that it has been designed specifically for track duty from the beginning with “hundreds” of different, special components in all facets of the design.
The T50s, which will cost £3.1m before local taxes, weighs an incredible 852kg (128kg less than the regular model’s world-beating 980kg) while a specially engineered, higher revving version of its ultra-compact, bespoke 3.9-litre Cosworth V12 engine will have 700bhp on tap instead of the standard car’s 650bhp, an output that will grow to 725bhp at high speed due to ram-effect in the engine’s air intake.
New Gordon Murray T50s Niki Lauda is 700bhp track weapon | Autocar
McLaren F1's spiritual successor gets a £3.1m circuit variant with a kerb weight of just 852kg
www.autocar.co.uk
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SA-born Murray unveils 541 kW (R64m!) T50s Niki Lauda track monster
Gordon Murray Automotive has unveiled the new T50s Niki Lauda, which arrives as a track-focused follow-up to the T50 revealed in August 2020.
Developed in parallel with that road-going supercar (and thus likewise featuring a lightweight carbon-fibre monocoque), the Surrey-based company says the T50s Niki Lauda has been engineered “without compromise” and an “even more extreme” specification.
Just 25 units will be built, each starting at £3,1-million (around R64-million) before taxes, with production scheduled to start in January 2023. The new vehicle is, of course, named in honour of legendary three-time Formula One world champion, Niki Lauda.
The T50s tips the scales at a mere 852 kg and is powered by what Gordon Murray Automotive terms a “substantially redesigned” version of the T50’s Cosworth-engineered, naturally aspirated, 3,9-litre V12. In this latest application, it develops 541 kW and 485 N.m, revving to 12 100 r/min and mated to an Xtrac six-speed paddle-shift gearbox. The twelve-cylinder engine is fed by a roof-mounted, high-performance RAM induction airbox and breathes out via a straight-through exhaust system.
www.carmag.co.za
Gordon Murray Automotive has unveiled the new T50s Niki Lauda, which arrives as a track-focused follow-up to the T50 revealed in August 2020.
Developed in parallel with that road-going supercar (and thus likewise featuring a lightweight carbon-fibre monocoque), the Surrey-based company says the T50s Niki Lauda has been engineered “without compromise” and an “even more extreme” specification.
Just 25 units will be built, each starting at £3,1-million (around R64-million) before taxes, with production scheduled to start in January 2023. The new vehicle is, of course, named in honour of legendary three-time Formula One world champion, Niki Lauda.
The T50s tips the scales at a mere 852 kg and is powered by what Gordon Murray Automotive terms a “substantially redesigned” version of the T50’s Cosworth-engineered, naturally aspirated, 3,9-litre V12. In this latest application, it develops 541 kW and 485 N.m, revving to 12 100 r/min and mated to an Xtrac six-speed paddle-shift gearbox. The twelve-cylinder engine is fed by a roof-mounted, high-performance RAM induction airbox and breathes out via a straight-through exhaust system.
SA-born Murray unveils 541 kW (R64m!) T50s Niki Lauda track monster - CAR Magazine
Gordon Murray Automotive has unveiled the new T50s Niki Lauda, which arrives as a track-focused follow-up to the T50 revealed in August 2020. Developed in […]
www.carmag.co.za
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NEW Gordon Murray T50s - The Ultimate £3.2m V12 Supercar!? - Mr JWW
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Gordon Murray: 25 questions on the 725bhp T50S Niki Lauda
Is THAT name a McLaren Senna diss? Will it burp flames and smash track day noise limits?
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Is THAT name a McLaren Senna diss? Will it burp flames and smash track day noise limits?
Gordon Murray: 25 questions on the 725bhp T50S Niki Lauda
Is THAT name a McLaren Senna diss? Will it burp flames and smash track day noise limits?
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This new supercar originally created TOO MUCH downforce – Gordon Murray's T.50S - DriveTribe
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Gordon Murray's T50S Niki Lauda track-only hypercar doesn't focus on top speed figures
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Gordon Murray's T50S Niki Lauda track-only hypercar doesn't focus on top speed figures | Life
Just 25 of the T50S Niki Lauda will be built by Gordon Murray Automotive as a celebration of the late driver's victory at the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix with the Brabham BT46B fan car.
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Gordon Murray T50: V12 supercar makes track debut in video
“Purest, lightest supercar ever built” has a 650bhp atmospheric V12 and a three-seat carbonfibre cabinGordon Murray’s new V12-engined T50 supercar, the “logical successor” to his seminal McLaren F1 of 1992, has been tested at Surrey's Dunsfold Aerodrome, close to the workshop where it will enter production next year.
Murray himself took to the wheel for the first development drive, and said: “The XP2 prototype is currently running at considerably less revs than its 12,100rpm limit, yet the T.50 felt fantastic on my first drive. The car was responsive, agile and rewarding to drive.
"It was a fantastic experience to be sitting in the centre of the car once again with great all-round visibility and I can see how much the owners will enjoy this experience. Obviously, there’s still a lot of development miles to be completed and many more prototypes to build. But the trajectory of the T.50 development is where we want it to be.”
Gordon Murray Automotive T50: V12 supercar enters production | Autocar
“Purest, lightest supercar ever built” has a 650bhp atmospheric V12 and a three-seat carbonfibre cabin
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