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The electric fan car that just rocketed around the Goodwood Hill Climb in a record 39.08 seconds will be legalized for road use in the near future. Goodwood Record-Setting McMurtry Spéirling to ...
The Goodwood Festival of Speed was founded in 1993 by Lord March in order to bring motor racing back to the Goodwood estate – a location steeped in British motor racing history. Shortly after taking over the estate in the early 1990s, Lord March (who later became Duke of Richmond) wanted to bring back motor racing to Goodwood Circuit , but ...
The McMurtry Spéirling is an electric single-seat prototype sports car which was first presented at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2021. The car is developed by McMurtry Automotive, a British registered startup founded on 2 June 2016 by Sir David McMurtry (co-founder and executive chairman of Renishaw plc).
Goodwood Circuit is a historic venue for both two- and four-wheeled motorsport in the United Kingdom.The 2.367-mile (3.809 km) [2] circuit is situated near Chichester, West Sussex, close to the south coast of England, on the estate of Goodwood House, and completely encircles Chichester/Goodwood Airport.
Campbell demonstrated his Bluebird CN7 Land Speed Record car at Goodwood Circuit in July 1960, at its initial public launch and again in July 1962. The laps of Goodwood were effectively at 'tick-over' speed, because the car had only 4 degrees of steering lock, with a maximum of 100 mph on the straight on one lap.
In 2019, Dumas set a new lap record for an electric vehicle at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, completing the circuit in 6:05.336 driving the Volkswagen ID R. The same year, he set a lap record at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, completing the hill climb in 0:39.90 driving the Volkswagen I.D. R, beating Nick Heidfeld in the McLaren MP4/13 ...
Mercedes-AMG later tested this claim and, in September 2024, set another laptime in optimal track conditions with a time of 6:29.09 minutes, beating its own record by another 6 seconds. This makes the AMG ONE the first road-legal production car to set a sub-6:30 minute lap time around the Nürburgring Nordschleife 12.944 mile (20.832 km) course ...
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