The BT46B—also known as the Fan Car—was a cunning Gordon Murray racer, designed to one-up the dominant Lotus 79 in the 1978 Formula One season. After a year of experimenting with the idea, Colin ...

One relatively short but engrossing chapter in the late Niki Lauda’s celebrated Formula 1 career is the Brabham BT46B, the infamous, rules-skirting “fan car.” It dominated the sole race in which it ...

The man who designed some of the wildest and most successful Formula One cars of all time, as well as the McLaren F1, is indeed something of a prophet of clever aerodynamics. But when this picture was ...

In 1978, the Brabham Formula 1 team made history with its legendary “fan car.” Then-Chief Designer Gordon Murray (the father of the McLaren F1) designed the BT46B F1 race car, which featured a large ...

If you’ve designed some of the world’s best supercars and F1 race winners over the past 50 years, why not bring examples of each together? That’s what British car designer Gordon Murray will do for a ...