At last, the 2025 Festival of Speed is underway, and with it we can fully reveal this year’s Central Feature. Celebrating ...

Tim Pitt visits Surrey-based Gordon Murray Automotive and asks CEO Phillip Lee about being the featured marque at Goodwood ...

Tim Pitt visits Surrey-based Gordon Murray Automotive and asks CEO Phillip Lee about being the featured marque at Goodwood ...

An interesting footnote from the first ground effect era: other creative concepts emerged, like Gordon Murray’s Brabham BT46B “fan car” in 1978. This Brabham used a rear-mounted fan to suck air from ...

It was a treat for fans— until a bizarre broadcasting glitch interrupted the viewing experience. Just past the halfway point of the first quarter, Thunder guard Lu Dort lined up for a three ...

Some innovations in Formula 1, like the ingenious Brabham BT46B fan car and the intriguing six-wheeled Tyrrell P34, demonstrated a spark of invention, only to face a future hindered by regulations.

Brabham BT46B - 'The Fan Car' From the front, Brabham’s BT46B looks almost like any other 1970s Formula 1 car: it’s got a low profile, wide stance and a rudimentary wing at each end. One aspect of the ...

In Sweden, however, it came up against Murray’s BT46B, which featured a large fan mounted vertically beneath the rear wing. Brabham argued that its primary function was to cool the car’s Alfa Romeo ...

Among them is the one-off Brabham-Alfa Romeo BT46B ‘fan car’, which raced only once, victoriously, to win the Swedish Grand Prix at Anderstorp in 1978 by more than half a minute.