Gordon Murray: "As an F1 car designer I was always looking for an unfair advantage. I still am..."
This week\u2019s guest on Beyond The Grid is renowned as one of F1\u2019s great innovators and technical brains \u2013 perhaps the best. In a 20-year Grand Prix racing career this blue-sky thinker was responsible for introducing such things as tyre warmers, mid-race fuel stops and the ingenious Brabham fan car \u2013 not to mention a host of championship-winning machines and the acclaimed McLaren F1 road car. It\u2019s an amazing resume \u2013 especially given Gordon Murray arrived in the UK from his native South Africa in the late Sixties with not much more than a dream to work in motor racing. So sit back and enjoy hearing the back stories behind some of the best cars in F1 history, anecdotes about working with Bernie Ecclestone at Brabham, fascinating insight into the design process, and what it was like to engineer some of the quickest drivers ever\u2026