System 1 legend Niki Lauda would have been seventy two a long time previous if he were being alive now. Although he died in 2019, we consider he would have heartily approved of the new Gordon Murray T.50s, which will also be named the Niki Lauda as an homage.
That’s for the reason that Lauda drove the Brabham BT46B “fan motor vehicle,” the System 1 motor vehicle that influenced the T.50’s technological centerpiece, to its only victory. The downforce-creating fan served Lauda get the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix to the dismay of rival groups. Murray also created that motor vehicle,