In the event you comply with motorsport for lengthy sufficient, you may finally hear {that a} Components 1 automobile generates sufficient downforce above a sure velocity that it might theoretically drive the wrong way up. McMurtry Automotive turned this idea into actuality after having its Spéirling hypercar full the spectacular feat in a video revealed on Friday. Admittedly, the Spéirling’s success will be solely attributed to its proprietary ‘Downforce-on-Demand’ fan system that produces 4,400 kilos of downforce on the push of a button. It is a function that would not be misplaced on the following Batmobile.
McMurtry did not need to cope with the pesky logistics of discovering a tunnel lengthy sufficient to soundly full the run. The British producer constructed a rotating rig at its headquarters in England. The hypercar drove up a ramp onto a steel highway deck and got here to a cease. Thomas Yates, the motive force and firm co-founder, then switched on the followers. For these trying to do the mathematics, Spéirling weighs 2,200 kilos. With the stopped automobile’s fan whirling at 23,000 rpm, the rig was rotated to invert the highway deck. The rig was locked the wrong way up. Then, the hypercar rolled ahead a couple of ft earlier than stopping whereas inverted. The rig rotated the highway deck again down, and the Spéirling drove off like nothing occurred.
‘Downforce-on-Demand’ is not a advertising gimmick
The McMurtry Spéirling, as a 1,000-hp twin-motor electrical hypercar, did not need to clear the opposite hurdles that an F1 automobile would have clear to drive the wrong way up. Dry-sump combustion engines aren’t designed to run inverted and would finally fail catastrophically. Oil would not be capable of cycle by means of and maintain the engine lubricated. To oversimplify the system, the lubricant is pumped from an oil tank into the highest of the engine. Gravity pulls the oil all the way down to a sump on the backside, the place the oil is pumped again into the tank.
This is not the primary time that the Spéirling has completed the seemingly unattainable. The prototype hypercar shattered the Goodwood Hillclimb document in 2022 after former F1 driver Max Chilton accomplished the 1.16-mile run in 39.08 seconds. He surpassed the earlier mark by over two seconds. The ‘Downforce-On-Demand’ system is not a gimmick. It permits the Spéirling to have prodigious acceleration and cornering speeds. McMurtry is working in the direction of finalizing a manufacturing model of its hypercar, known as the Spéirling PURE. Solely 100 might be produced.