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 ...

This week’s Goodwood Festival of Speed will celebrate the 60-year career of Gordon Murray CBE. From his early days at the Brabham F1 team to establishing his own car company, Murray is one of the ...

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.