I'd still have the Gordon Murray T50 which also has a fan for downforce, but has a proper V12 engine!

I'd still have the Gordon Murray T50 which also has a fan for downforce, but has a proper V12 engine!

No doubt the T50 is better looking and certainly more practical, but fan apart, they aren't really comparable (and lets face it, if you can afford one, you can afford both).

The (also single seat) Caparo T1 is probably the closest, but is huge by comparison!. I am a sucker for a small car and the Speirling is tiny which, with just the one seat, seems appropriate and all the more appealing. Like a LM car that has been shrunk in the wash!.

>>Keen to know what happens when, say, horse excrement is encountered
The stuff hits the fan.

3G cornering is impressive of course but don't F1 cars reach 4 or 5? I suppose that's at high speed with massive aerodynamic downforce, whereas a hill climb is very much slower in the corners.

The thing about F1 cars is that they need speed to generate that cornering g because it relies on the air flowing over the wings to push the car into the ground. The fan on the Speirling generates 1000kg of downforce all the time, so it could (in theory) generate 3g on every corner on every Grand Prix circuit. F1 cars can only generate more g on fast corners, so round Monaco for example, an F1 car wouldn't see where the Speirling went!.