Looks like a miniature Batmobile, sounds like a TIE fighter from Star Wars, goes like the absolute clappers. The McMurtry Spéirling – last seen kicking up dust and shredding hillclimb records at the Goodwood Festival of Speed – is now available to buy.
Yes, no longer the preserve of former F1 and IndyCar pilot Max Chilton, McMurtry will build a production version of the record-breaking and frankly ludicrously fast Spéirling for public consumption. Not just a facsimile, but an ‘improved’ car. How you better a lightweight teleportation device capable of ripping up Lord March’s driveway in 39.08s is anyone’s guess.
In any case, the production car – which McMurtry is calling the Spéirling ‘PURE’ (their caps lock, not ours) – comes with all the goodies Chilton deployed at Goodwood. That means a twin-electric-motor setup powered by a 60kWh battery system detonating 745kW of electrons (or a nice, round 1,000bhp) on the rear axle.
Together with a “patented downforce on demand system” and a scarcely believable kerbweight of under 1,000kg, this thing is capable of serious numbers. Not just 305kph flat out, but also the fact it’ll pull 3G through the corners and be able to lap Silverstone 10 times at proper flat-out pace, then recharge in 20 minutes to do it all over again. What’s more, there’s potential for it to go even faster using a ‘qualifying’ simulation.
About those upgrades over the ‘Goodwood car’. The rear fan setup is 15 per cent more efficient and 14 per cent lighter, the skirts are 15 per cent lighter, there’s better gearbox efficiency, better battery tech, a revised chassis that saves four per cent in mass, revised wheel arch and underbody aero, new electric architecture 35 per cent lighter than before, and fatter tyres all round for better grip.
These comprehensive tweaks mean the production car will be even faster than the Goodwood car, and should you wish to go racing – which is kinda the point of it – it’ll be eligible for the GT1 Sports Club hypercar series. Naturally such pace and technology costs – McMurtry will only build 100 units of the Spéirling PURE, with each one costing R23 million.
“The Spéirling PURE will herald a new era on the track,” said McMurtry founding director Thomas Yates. “The sound, grip, acceleration, aesthetics and technology of this car are distinct. Witnessing the car as a spectator or from the cockpit offers a rare and exhilarating experience.
“I can’t wait for fan cars at the racetrack to become a new normality,” he added.
Max Chilton said: “Proving the Spéirling’s advantage via the outright hillclimb record at Goodwood was a proud life achievement. Since then, it’s been rewarding to see what customers can achieve in the driving seat too.”
There’ll be a validation prototype at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed – where else? – which will test throughout the UK and Europe for the rest of this year. Pre-production prototypes will arrive next year and it’ll be delivered in 2025.
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