Running at 80% power with a 155mph speed limit, Max Chilton still set a lap time of 54.559s at the UK’s Castle Combe Circuit in a validation prototype of the McMurtry Spéirling Pure fan car.
This record lap of the 1.85mile circuit, driven as a part of routine testing, is 4.037s faster than the outright fastest race lap record set by an F3 car in 2021, and 9.796s faster than the GT3 lap record set by a Lamborghini Huracán GT3 in 2022.
And there’s more to come, as further record attempts will be made throughout the world in 2024 and 2025, as the test programme moves towards 100% power and 100% downforce settings of the 1,000bhp electric track car.
