{"id":25495,"date":"2022-06-26T18:10:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T22:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=25495"},"modified":"2022-06-26T18:10:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T22:10:56","slug":"watch-electric-fan-car-record-goodwood-hill-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=25495","title":{"rendered":"Watch an electric &#8220;fan car&#8221; beat every car ever at Goodwood Hill Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fully electric car has beaten every car ever at the Goodwood Hillclimb track at the Festival of Speed, an annual gathering and demonstration of racing vehicles in England. The McMurtry Speirling fan car driven by Indycar and ex-F1 driver Max Chilton set a record of 39.08 seconds on the 1.86km (1.16 mile) course, almost a second better than the previous record.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2019\/07\/06\/romain-dumas-goodwood-record-electric-vw-id-r-39-9-seconds\/\">previous record<\/a> was 39.9 seconds set by Romain Dumas in 2019 driving VW\u2019s ID.R electric racecar, which in turn had beat a record held for 20 years by F1 driver Nick Heidfeld driving a V10 McLaren F1 car from the 1998 season.<\/p>\n<p>The full video shows an almost cartoonish amount of speed and cornering ability from the plucky new vehicle, looking more like a slot car than an actual vehicle on a real track.<\/p>\n<p>In the first few seconds the car launches as if from a slingshot (hitting 60mph in 1.5 seconds) and seems not to be bothered by any of the corners on the short uphill course. Have a look (it won\u2019t take long):<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe id=\"post-youtube-video\" title=\"39.08! McMurtry fan car breaks Goodwood Hill RECORD! | Festival of Speed 2022\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5JYp9eGC3Cc?feature=oembed&amp;rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>You may ask yourself: why is it so loud? Aren\u2019t EVs supposed to be quiet? And what\u2019s that exhaust coming out the back?<\/p>\n<p>McMurtry\u2019s new recordholder uses a fully electric powertrain just like VW\u2019s entry did, but adds an additional technology that motorsport hasn\u2019t seen for quite a while: it\u2019s a \u201cfan car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fan cars first appeared in motorsport in the 1970s with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chaparral_Cars#2J\">Chaparral 2J<\/a>, a boxy monstrosity (which also <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chaparral_Cars#\/media\/File:Chaparral_2J.jpg\">ran at Goodwood<\/a>) which competed in 1970 but was outlawed due to its obscene aerodynamic advantages. Later, Brabham <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brabham_BT46#Brabham_BT46B\">brought a fan car to F1<\/a> in 1978 and won its first race by a huge margin, but the concept was also immediately banned from competition there.<\/p>\n<p>Fan cars work by having low side skirts and a fan underneath the car which draws air up and pushes it out of the rear of the car, creating a vacuum underneath the car. This results in incredibly efficient downforce, without the downsides of drag that a large spoiler or other aerodynamic surface often creates. As a result, fan cars can go faster with less aerodynamic drag, and can take corners at higher speeds, than other vehicles that rely on traditional aerodynamic surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>The McMurtry Speirling produces more than 2,000kg of downforce (on a 1,000kg vehicle), and unlike traditional aerodynamic surfaces, this doesn\u2019t scale with speed \u2013 it\u2019s available at any speed due to the fan\u2019s operation. This means the McMurtry has more downforce at 0mph than an F1 car produces even at 150mph.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the only record held by an EV at Goodwood. The McMurtry Speirling is the fastest car of any type to conquer the hillclimb, but there was already one EV that beat every other car up the hill. That record was set by a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.nissannews.com\/en-GB\/releases\/release-94114-nissan-leaf-backs-into-the-future\">stock Nissan Leaf in 2012<\/a>, which did the fastest Goodwood run ever\u2026.in reverse gear. Because EV motors run just as well in reverse as forward gear, all Nissan had to do was remove the software speed limiter on the reverse gear and managed to run a 55mph average speed on their run up the course.\u00a0It was a goofy record but did display one benefit of EVs \u2013 not needing a complicated gearbox for most road applications.<\/p>\n<p>While this is McMurtry\u2019s first record, it may not be their last. VW took their ID.R on to set several records, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2019\/06\/03\/vw-id-r-electric-racecar-runs-fastest-emission-free-lap-of-all-time-on-the-nurburgring-nordschleife\/\">EV record at N\u00fcrburgring<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2018\/06\/24\/vw-all-electric-race-car-broke-more-records-pikes-peak-hill-climb\/\">overall record at the famously brutal Pike\u2019s Peak hillclimb<\/a>, and McMurtry may try to hunt some of those heads in the coming months and years.The Pike\u2019s Peak hillclimb is being held this weekend on the other side of the globe from England, so McMurtry couldn\u2019t be in two places at once, but we wonder if they might give it a try next year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"post-youtube-video\" title=\"FAN CAR targets victory at GOODWOOD Festival of Speed. 0-60mph under 1.5seconds, 2000kg downforce\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YzKK32SGzgU?feature=oembed&amp;rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"ad-disclaimer-container\" readability=\"6.3518518518519\">\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\"><em>FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/about\/#affiliate\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- post ad --><\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCcOIZzJgLCyMPILY7-1Vsdg?sub_confirmation=1\">Subscribe to Electrek on YouTube for exclusive videos<\/a> and subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrek.co\/guides\/electrek-podcast\">podcast<\/a>.<!-- youtube embed --><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Recent Videos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Le_HQA75xFs?playlist=L8YyS86LxWo,x9-kqC7raTA,3eUB-HpKGK8,BuY4XAcYbts,J0hQzIqAUoc,P2jnnqCEoss,_BoD7vAOwvY,wWFPF39xhzE,QMPV2eDyuzE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fully electric car has beaten every car ever at the Goodwood Hillclimb track at the Festival of Speed, an annual gathering and demonstration of racing vehicles in England. The McMurtry Speirling fan car driven by Indycar and ex-F1 driver Max Chilton set a record of 39.08 seconds on the 1.86km (1.16 mile) course, almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}