Hi, I'm Gordon Murray and you're listening to Beyond the Grid.

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of your favorite podcast.

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My guess this week is a man who in a 20 year F1 career work for only two teams,

Brabham and McLaren. His cars won 56 races and eight world championships and he's renowned as

one of F1's great innovators and technical brains, perhaps the best. I'm talking of course about

Gordon Murray. It's 50 years since Gordon came to the UK from his native South Africa.

He didn't think he could walk straight off the boat into a job with an F1 team,

yet that's what he did. And he went on to form an incredible partnership, his word not mine,

with Bernie Eccleston as the top dogs at Brabham. He worked with some brilliant drivers along

the way too, Reuterman, Louder, PK, Senna and Prost to name a few. And he was very much a blue

sky thinker, the ingenious Brabham fan car. That was him. The first man to introduce mid-race refueling.

Yep, that was Gordon. The low-line Brabham BT55 skateboard car that would be recycled as the

all-dominant McLaren MP44. Yep, that was Gordon again. So sit back and enjoy hearing for one

of F1's most inspirational designers on the day that he launches his new supercar, the T50,

perhaps the world's last great analogue road car. I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Gordon, welcome to Beyond the Grid. Absolute pleasure to have you on the show. Now,

it's been 50 years since you moved from South Africa to England to pursue what exactly? What

was the plan 50 years ago? Well, I grew up in Durban in a racing family and I was always

car racing and speed mad. And the only way I could go racing was to build my own car when I was

19 in 1967. Race that, this is the short version, by the way, race that for two seasons and then thought

if I wanted to further my career in racing. But also by then I was interested in design. I started

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