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Legendary F1 designer Gordon Murray names latest fan car after Niki Lauda

To celebrate what would have been Niki Lauda's 72nd birthday, legendary Formula One designer Gordon Murray has named his latest car design after the three-time world champion.

Murray, who now runs Gordon Murray Automobiles (GMA), has set his sights on creating the ultimate driver's car and the result is two-fold: the remarkable road-going T.50 and utterly-mind-blowing, track-only T.50s Niki Lauda.

Murray's engineering genius was responsible for some of F1's most iconic cars, including the Brabham BT46B, which featured a fan at the rear of the car designed to extract air from underneath it and significantly enhance the car's ground-effect aerodynamics.