The Gordon Murray T.50s Can Drive Upside Down

The Track Only T.50s has more power, more downforce, and less weight.

The Gordon Murray Automotive T.50s is the track-only version of their latest supercar. It has a 4.0L naturally aspirated V12 engine producing 720 horsepower, it weighs less than 900 kg, and it creates over 1500 kg of downforce. That's enough downforce to even drive upside down. Murray: “Designing the racing car’s aerodynamics has been extremely rewarding. My love for motorsport really fueled the development of this car. The aerodynamics are so effective that the T.50s would be capable of driving upside down, and could do so at as little as 175mph.”

GMA Press Release:
"Gordon Murray Automotive has announced a racing-focused version of the T.50 supercar that will be even lighter, faster, and more powerful. With all of the road-going T.50 supercars selling out within 48 hours of the global premiere, customer demand has turned to the 25 super-exclusive and highly-individual racing models.

Priced at £3.1m (before taxes) the racing variant – codenamed T.50s – weighs just 890kg, while its Cosworth GMA V12 engine develops even more power. The new car also features a 1,758mm-wide delta wing mounted to the rear of the car, which works with the rear-mounted fan, a new front splitter, underbody aerofoil and adjustable diffusers to generate more than 1,500kg of downforce – 170% of the weight of the car.

The new car’s historically-significant official name will be announced later this year at its global reveal. More than half of the exclusive production run has already been sold – before any details were released. Murray now expects interest to soar as prospective owners hear of the boundary breaking performance potential of the T.50s.

Professor Gordon Murray: “With an unwavering focus on performance, and free from road-going legislation and maintenance considerations, the T.50s will achieve astonishing performance on track, demonstrating the full extent of the car’s capabilities. We’ve thrown everything at pushing this car beyond the levels of anything that’s been done before – it’s a celebration of British engineering and our team’s extensive motorsport experience.”

The extensively re-engineered T.50s features hundreds of significant revisions for race and track use over the road-going T.50. The stripped-back interior highlights the track focus and contributes to the new car’s 94kg weight loss. This enhanced lightweighting and the car’s phenomenal downforce ratio will ensure the car performs like nothing else on a racing circuit."

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[mugsygreene]

I go to bed every night I kneel and pray to God
hoping that Red Bull would go and confirm the theory that
an F1 Car going at a high level of speed can earn enough
down force to be able to drive upside down in a tunnel.

[larssonk]

Gordon Murray - I don't care about top speed or lap times
Also Gordon Murray - I'm just going to leave this here, oh it's the T50S, no biggy

[mavvh]

"My car can drive upside down!"- Car Manufacturers/engineers.

"Ok... so do it."- Me

[scotchbonnetfk]

Dodge Viper ACR "only has about 600 sumn' horsepower so there's nothing crazy"
- Jason 2020

[EvanzoZubinsky]

well that would be an impressive demonstration, we need mobius race-strip!

[naysaynever]

See if you can do an interview with Gordon Murray and talk about the t.50 with him, that would be great to watch, and I'm sure you would have a lot of fun

[justintubes]

OMG. You did NOT under-deliver on this. Awesome car, awesome engineering, awesome video!

[mihneacireasa]

My mom's honda accord can drive upside down too

Just not for long

[RadDadisRad]

The Men in Black were able to drive a Ford LTD upside in the tunnel to Queens. I can’t understand why nobody else has done it.

[nottherealjk]

Appears to be a rear tire 😂 I'm dead.

[ethan]

“So we’re going around this circle, so what’s happening is your car is turning” -EE 2020

[listenhereyoulittleshit]

I like that he's using the metric system.

[michaelharrison]

I appreciate the humor as you were looking at the drawing of the car

[trevorheywood]

Perfect video. Just enough whiteboard exposition, bonkers subject, satisfying learning. Superb!

[TheFriskyComiskey]

Well done. I thoroughly enjoy how relatable you explain the physics.

[creatureofrabbit]

You also need to make sure your grip allows you to put down enough power to maintain speed while upside down. Not huge but worth including. Your definitely right about needing a very smooth road surface. Would probably have to custom tune your suspension to avoid lifting the nose when hitting small bumps. And then there's the special turn signal to indicate that you'll be going upside down. That'll probably put the cost over the edge.

[voievod]

Just felt like saying I appreciate the metric conversion on all the vids 🙌🏻

[matt]

Now we wait for the T50 LM - the road version of the track version of the road version.

[kirara]

"Hello everyone and welcome"
"Hi guys!"



The holy trinity of I'm going to learn something that I'm never going to use

[RadDadisRad]

Lol, the sarcasm is thick at certain points