Professor Gordon Murray will use the 2026 Goodwood Festival of Speed to present four of his company GMA’s current and forthcoming models, including the first completed customer example of the track-only T.50s Niki Lauda.
The car, chassis 1, will make its public debut on the Goodwood Hill. It will be joined in action by development prototypes of the Le Mans GTR and T.33 Spider, while the S1 LM design model will also appear.
The first customer T.50s carries a livery linked to Murray’s first Formula 1 victory. Brabham won the 1974 South African Grand Prix at Kyalami with Carlos Reutemann driving the BT44, which carried race number seven. That number appears in gloss black on the T.50s, which has a white base colour and graphics influenced by the South African flag.
The car is one of 25 planned examples of the circuit-only model. Each T.50s has been assigned a name connected with a date from Gordon’s competition career. The series refers to his first 24 Formula 1 Grand Prix victories and one endurance-racing win.
The T.50s was developed as a more specialised counterpart to the road-going T.50, with its chassis, aerodynamics and naturally aspirated V12 configured for circuit use. Its appearance at Goodwood follows the completion of the 100-car T.50 production run. Gordon Murray Automotive says all 100 road cars have now been manufactured and delivered since the model was first shown in August 2020. The company has since moved into T.50s production, while development work continues on the T.33 coupé and T.33 Spider.
Murray said the company had progressed from the T.50 programme into a broader range of road- and track-focused vehicles. “In just six years since we unveiled the T.50, the team has designed, developed, manufactured and delivered 100 customer cars to owners around the world,” he explained. “We’ve also started building T.50s, while the T.33 and T.33 Spider are well through development ahead of production.”
The Gordon Murray Automotive S1 LM will be represented by the design model first displayed in California. It subsequently sold at auction in Las Vegas for $20.63 million. According to Murray, that result was the highest auction price paid for a newly built car outside a charitable sale.
Although the S1 LM will remain static at Goodwood, the Le Mans GTR XP1 (pictured above) will take part in the hillclimb. The prototype is being used in the development of a planned 24-car production series. The Le Mans GTR adopts elements associated with longtail endurance racers, combining an extended aerodynamic profile with the underlying requirements of a road-legal car. Gordon Murray Automotive has positioned the model between its road-going supercars and more focused track machinery, with greater emphasis on aerodynamic performance and circuit ability.
The T.33 Spider validation prototype will complete the group. Finished in green and identified as VP12, the car will make its first appearance in public at Goodwood. It is one of the final validation cars being tested during the T.33 Spider development programme. The model uses the company’s naturally aspirated 3.9-litre V12 and is the open-top derivative of the T.33 coupé.
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