DREAM WORKS
As Gordon Murray’s T.50 edges ever closer to sign-off, with the Valkyrie and Project One also inching agonisingly towards the finish line, the dominant narrative says this will be one of the last great driver’s cars – pure of purpose, free of frippery and powered by what promises to be the apogee of naturally aspirated road car engines. It is hard to imagine a man better suited to the task of creating the petrol-powered sports car’s swansong than Gordon Murray. And it’s fitting that the honour, when it comes to building the engine for this car, should fall to Cosworth.
Murray and Cosworth go way back, having collaborated at Brabham to win the Formula One World Championship with Nelson Piquet in 1981. Both stalwarts of the sport for decades and both widely regarded as design and engineering pioneers par excellence, the relationship between Murray and Cosworth is one of mutual understanding and respect that has morphed into a sort of symbiosis with the T.50: Murray asks for something extraordinary, Cosworth delivers with a side order
