Gordon Murray on Last Blast

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Cars, The Intercooler, Car, Motorsport, Supercar, Leisure, Automotive, Intercooler, Driving

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

This Christmas we have recorded a very special single episode of our acclaimed Last Blast podcast. To deliver this unique episode we needed a guest of international renown, made famous through achievements in both the road and racing car worlds.

Who better, then, than Professor Gordon Murray, designer of multiple World Championship-winning Formula 1 cars, creator of the McLaren F1 – the car which expanded the envelope of road car performance more than any other – and whose latest design, the T.50 seems likely to rewrite the rules all over again?

In an interview lasting over 90 minutes with The Intercooler's Andrew Frankel, Gordon takes us right through his career from his earliest days racing in South Africa, his decision to come penniless to the UK and the accidental interview that kicked off one of the most illustrious careers in race car design. Then he takes us through how the F1 came about, his struggle to reconcile his vision for the SLR with that of Mercedes-Benz and why he packed it all in to go and create his own automotive engineering and design consultancy.

With thanks to car insurance specialist Footman James for making this episode possible in the first place. Click the link below to find out more.

https://www.footmanjames.co.uk

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Last Blast podcast by The Intercooler.
0:03.5	Now before we get started, I just want to take a moment to thank
0:06.4	Footman James for sponsoring Last Blast.
0:09.9	As you know at the Intercooler, we only partner with like-minded organizations with companies
0:14.1	that we think really understand what it means to be a car enthusiast, footman James fit into that perfectly.
0:20.6	I know this, because when talking to them before making this
0:23.8	recording they said to me please don't talk about car insurance which I think says a lot
0:28.9	so instead I'm just going to give you a couple of reasons why Footman James is different to other car insurance companies.
0:35.2	Coffee and Chrome for one thing, that's Footman James regular car meat.
0:39.3	It's free to attend once you're registered, and's where hundreds if not a thousand car
0:43.9	enthusiasts get together with their classics to enjoy and share their passion for cars.
0:48.9	Film and James also publishes its indicator report. It's a thorough analysis and a detailed
0:54.9	report into the state of classic car ownership in this country. The point is to
0:59.8	promote and safeguard the future of classic cars in the UK.
1:04.5	So there you go, two good reasons
1:06.2	why Footman James is different to other car insurance companies.
1:09.4	So thank you, Footman James.
1:10.8	Go and visit footman James. Go and visit footman James. Go and visit footman James. Go and visit footman James. and Hi everybody welcome to this very special episode of the
1:35.9	podcast it's a last blast interview with Professor Gordon Murray
1:41.0	who really doesn't need any introduction does he. Let's just run
1:44.5	through it quickly though. One of the great Formula One designers, his cars have won
1:49.7	multiple world championships, many many races and he's built cars for the likes of
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