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Designer of the legendary McLaren F1 confesses that he really likes it is the...Renault Alpine 

Gordon Murray is a South African automobile that designed some of the best-and fastest – Formula One cars in the world. It was he who conceived the first Formula with a fan behind, to vacuum the air under the chassis and create a brutal solo effect, in the case of Brabham BT46B, having also conceived BT49 and BT52, the first world champion in 1981 with Nelson Piquet, to the second to reach the scepter in 1983, always with the Brazilian driver. In 1987, Murray signed for McLaren, as technical director, so that the following year his formula would become champion with Ayrton Senna behind the wheel, which would add three more drivers 'or constructors' titles, divided between Brazilian and French Alain Prost.
In 1991, Murray took over the leadership of McLaren Cars, when the F1 constructor decided to join the road supersupport and asked Gordon Murray to design the F1. Now, South Africa decided to celebrate its 50 years of competition-conceived the Brabham BT42 in 1969-with a new Super Sport, appropriately named T. 50. In an interview with Car Throttle, Murray admitted that he used the McLaren F1's 48,000-mile drive to help develop the T 50, but when he was given his new Alpine A110, the designer quickly chose French sports as the best comfort/behavior compromise on the market, thus dethroning Murray, the Lotus Evora. 


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And it is curious for a coach of this size to use a sportsman of less than 300 hp, offered for a price of less than EUR 70 000, to decide how a super-sport of EUR 2.37 million should be used before tax.
This is not the first time that Gordon Murray has relied on a more affordable and cheaper sport to " tune” a substantially more powerful and expensive Super Sport. When he conceived the McLaren F1 in 1992, his inspiration came from the Honda NSX, which at the time was driving because Honda was McLaren's F1 partner.

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