And he designed the T25, a car that seeks ultimate energy efficiency.
He did the McLaren F1, which was about the first road car with ground effect, and also used clever movable aero devices that haven't been equalled since. Gordon Murray has designed Formula One cars with clever aero, including the Brabham BT46B ‘fan car', which remains the only F1 car with a 100per cent winning record, having caused so much uproar among rival teams it was allowed just the one outing. But, over the past couple of decades, the science has found ways to reconcile what had been mutually exclusive aims. While maintaining practicalities like safety and space.įor most of the automobile's history, all this has behaved like a hostile, zero-sum matrix, where winning one characteristic meant losing another. They have to keep the glass and mirrors clean.
Designers have to think about the airflow that cools the powertrain, brakes and, increasingly, high-power electrical parts, too.
We mostly tend to think only of drag and lift - or even negative lift, aka downforce. And they can't even be directly translated from that other brain-scramblingly complicated matter, race-car aerodynamics. Road-car aerodynamics, then, are no simple matter.
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