The GMA T.50 supercar unveiled last summer has enough superlatives to make any enthusiast shut up and pay attention. Prof. Gordon Murray’s follow-up, however, is making us weak in the knees. Meet the GMA T.50s Niki Lauda, named after the late and legendary Formula One driver Niki Lauda, Prof. Murray’s former teammate at Brabham and dear friend.

During that time, Lauda was behind the wheel of the Brabham BT46B race car, a fan car that Gordon Murray built for the 1978 F1 season. The BT46B is the original fan car, and it won its first race at the Swedish Grand Prix, but it was also the last. Other teams swiftly filed a protest over the fan car’s legality, but we strongly feel that no one will dare oppose the magnificence of Prof. Murray’s latest track special.
“The T.50 is the ultimate road-going supercar, but I always dreamed of taking it one step further, to build a version that will deliver the on-track experience like no other car in history,” said Prof. Gordon Murray CBE, founder and CEO of Gordon Murray Automotive (GMA). “With the T.50, our target is to make the best driver’s car for the road. With the T.50s Niki Lauda, to make it the best driver’s car for the track.”

GMA T.50s Niki Lauda: Oodles of Power

The “regular” T.50 is an astonishing feat of engineering. It has a Cosworth-built naturally-aspirated 3.0-liter V12 pumping out 650 horsepower and 344 lb-ft. of torque, all while spinnin...