There are few machines out there quite as absurd as the McMurtry Spéirling. This all-electric fan car has spent its entire existence ripping through records (not to mention entire race fields ...

McMurtry’s Spéirling can produce maximum downforce at 0 mph thanks to a fan system that “sucks” the car into the ground.

To put it to the test, the fellas over at McMurtry built a rotating rig. The Spéirling drives onto it, comes to a complete stop, and the rig rotates flipping the fan car upside down entirely as ...

dethroning a Renault F1 car at the top of the leaderboard. The McMurtry Spéirling’s fan-based tech gives it incredible grip in corners. It’s no slouch, either. Dual electric motors — one ...

And while other cars have allegedly generated enough downforce to drive upside down, no one had actually done it until a few weeks ago when McMurtry demonstrated that not only could the Spéirling ...

If you’re a regular of our website, chances are you already know what a McMurtry Spéirling ... as the batteries last on the fans’). The Spéirling is a car like no other: it has one seat ...

Huge congratulations and thanks to the entire McMurtry Automotive team, especially the engineers involved in the car and fan system’s design, they are the heroes of today.” Perhaps the most ...

But the name is very much worth remembering, because the McMurtry Spéirling Pure has become the first vehicle to prove it can drive upside-down. That's thanks to its gravity-defying fan technology, ...

For the stunt, the car was put onto a purpose-built platform, which was rotated. The Speirling uses McMurtry’s patented ‘Downforce-on-Demand’ system, which uses fans that spin at 23,000rpm.

A McMurtry Spéirling PURE Validation Prototype 1 (VP1) was driven on to a custom-built platform which then rotated 180 degrees to invert the stationary vehicle. Relying on the huge ‘Downforce on ...

And there’s one idea that can do this, which has gotten a little bit of play in the past, and that the McMurtry Speirling uses to great effect today: a “fan car.” The fan car concept has ...