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No time to explain! Climb on the inverted McMurtry Spéirling (thelemmy.club)
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[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

explain plz

[-] Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Batman, and his car, sleep upside down

[-] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Using a special rotating rig, the McMurtry Speirling was able to drive a small distance while fully inverted.

To add to the pressure, the demonstration took place at McMurty’s Gloucestershire headquarters, in front of an audience of employees and independent adjudicators.

A bespoke ‘downforce-on-demand’ system allows the Speirling to drive upside down. This uses high-powered fans to create a vacuum beneath the floor of the electric hypercar, essentially sucking it to the ground.

Using a fan system allows the McMurtry to generate downforce at any speed – unlike most supercars, which rely on aerodynamics to create downward pressure as they go faster.

Most importantly, the McMurtry Speirling produces more downforce when stationary than the car itself actually weighs.

This allowed Thomas Yates, co-founder and managing director of McMurtry Automotive, to drive it onto a rotating platform, then be flipped over 180 degrees. While upside down, Yates then carefully crept forward.

From Motoring Research

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Ah that's the thing they banned from f1, super cool

[-] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

And back in the 70s. Between all the cool shit they were doing in F1 and how feral Group B cars got, we should have admitted we got to peak car and just gone back to public transport instead of banning everything and having a pissy watered down version of all motorsport

[-] FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There is a big ass fan going, and the down force created by the cars aerodynamics is holding it to the platform. It even drove a foot or two upside down.

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