00:00Welcome to the Top Gear Test Track. This is Stiglabs.
00:07And that's the McMurtry Spearling.
00:15In this series, we're running the latest and greatest performance cars and placing them on the all-time leaderboard.
00:22But the challenge remains the same. Give Stig the keys to your car if you think you're faster now.
00:30And this is Stig's toy for today. It's called the McMurtry Spearling and it is a shoe-sized, 1,000 horsepower, 1,000 kilogram electric car with a unique superpower.
00:47Whereas most supercars and track cars produce their downforce from air rushing over the rear wing or underneath the diffuser,
00:53this thing has two fans underneath that spin up to 23,000 RPM and produce 2,000 kilograms of downforce at a standstill.
01:02As a result, the grip that this produces, the speed that it can carry through corners is frankly unreal.
01:09And the way that it scoots off the line, 0-60 in a casual 1.5 seconds, has to be seen to be believed.
01:17If you're unaware of what it's capable of, please head to YouTube and watch the full video of it smashing the Goodwood Hill Climb record in 39 seconds at the Festival of Speed in 2022.
01:28Incredibly, the car we have here should be even faster. It's called the Pure and the prototype of the one that customers can buy for one million pounds.
01:38It has wider slick tires and wider bodywork. Top speed is up from 150 to 190 miles an hour.
01:45And there's an upgraded 60 kilowatt hour battery so you can theoretically do 10 laps of Silverstone at record pace before needing to charge it back up.
01:56That's if your neck muscles can handle it.
01:58So here's a potential issue that could be unique to the Spearling with all that suction going on underneath.
02:07Surely it's just going to hoover up all these drain covers.
02:10Well, no, because we thought of that and welded them shut.
02:16You may have noticed this isn't exactly an F1 grade track.
02:19There are bumps out there, especially on the exit of Hammerhead,
02:23and fairly extreme surface changes like this one at second to last.
02:28And how is the skirting under the car going to cope?
02:31Is it going to lose suction and throw Stig into the next county?
02:35Or is it going to cling on like a limpet?
02:38There's only one way to find out.
02:41Right. Given that this isn't your run of the mill supercar and one with some quite unique handling traits,
02:47we decided that even the Stig needed a warm up lap.
02:51Think of it as a chance for all of us to get our eyes and brains up to Spearling speeds.
02:58Three, two, one.
03:0023,000 RPM and off he goes.
03:04That's like a jet fighter taking off and the rooster tail of dust.
03:08I wasn't expecting that. I didn't see any dust on the track, but it's finding some and kicking it up.
03:14It's probably the loudest electric car on the planet, that thing.
03:17100 decibels at the fan exits apparently, but the sound doesn't travel in the same way.
03:22So now it's on the opposite side of the track.
03:24I can hear a bit of whooshing, but I don't think we're going to be breaching any noise limits today.
03:28Oh, I'm still getting over the way that big accelerator.
03:31That was astonishing. I've just seen him go through Hammerhead.
03:35And that's the quickest I've ever seen a car change direction.
03:38Coming up to follow through now.
03:41Can this really beat?
03:4459 seconds set by an F1 car.
03:47A 600 kilogram F1 car.
03:49And this is a thousand kilograms.
03:52Here it comes, second to last.
03:54It's stuck.
03:58Whoa!
04:00And across the line.
04:03Whoever said electric cars are boring, you need to think again.
04:08Stig sufficiently warmed through, it was the moment we'd all been waiting for.
04:12Can the McMurtry dethrone the Renault R24 F1 car as the fastest thing to ever go around the Top Gear track?
04:21The time to beat?
04:2359 seconds set 21 years ago.
04:27Deep breath.
04:28Let's join the Stig in the cockpit and run the clock.
04:42Three.
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04:45Go.
05:02Yeah.
05:03Told you it wasn't exactly a smooth surface.
05:06Nice catch from Stig though.
05:07The good thing about the McMurtry though,
05:09is you still have 2,000 kilograms of downforce sticking you to the track,
05:14even if you do spin.
05:16Right.
05:17Should we try that again?
05:20Three.
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05:23Go.
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06:08can it beat the f1 car it's absolutely battered it over three seconds faster and at the serious
06:32end of the leaderboard that's a lifetime the way that thing clung on through chicago
06:37and hammerhead in particular is unlike anything we've ever seen it apexed follow through at 135
06:44miles an hour this isn't just raising the bar it's a quantum leap in performance 13.7 seconds quicker
06:53than the aston martin valkyrie the fastest road legal car we've ever lapped and almost 20 seconds
06:59quicker than the new gt3 rs some will call its trick aero doping but unless anyone fancies building
07:07something that uses the same fan assisted downforce tech that's a number that will sit atop the board
07:14for a long long time or perhaps renault now alpine of course fancies taking back its crown with some
07:21more modern f1 machinery either way the gauntlet has officially been thrown down
07:27right let's watch that again from as many different angles as possible
07:33so
07:40so
07:44Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
08:14Let's go.
08:44So that's it then for this batch of Stig laps, but we'll be back soon with more.
09:00Not entirely sure how we're going to top the McMurtry's heroics, but hey, we'll try.
09:06Let us know in the comments below what you'd most like to see Stig tearing up the Top Gear
