FUTURE CARS
A supercar that truly sucks
Gordon Murray's T.50 revives long-banned F1 'fan car' technology to produce incredible downforce
13 June 2019 - 05:05
In 1978 South African Gordon Murray designed the innovative Brabham BT46 Formula One car with a unique trick: a fan that sucked the car to the road.
The incredible downforce it produced was so effective that the Brabham comfortably won its first race in the hands of the late Niki Lauda, but the resultant uproar from rival teams over the unfair advantage saw the fan car withdrawn from the very next Grand Prix. It never raced again...
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