Everyone knows that electric cars can achieve blistering acceleration numbers, but the McMurtry Spéirling race car is on another level. 
The team at McMurtry recently joined car sales company Carwow and invited its YouTube presenter Mat Watson to Spéirling a few times. 
On a wet, treated track surface, Watson achieved a 0-60 mph time of 1.4 seconds, a 0-100 mph time of 2.63 seconds and a fractional fourth mile is 7.97 seconds. Unlike most other published EV acceleration figures, Spéirling’s times were measured without using an implementation. 
By comparison, the Pininfarina Battista supercar needs 1.79 seconds to hit 60 mph, which is the current record for a production car, although that figure was achieved on the road. Rimac’s Nevera supercar achieved a quarter-mile time of 8.5 seconds. Rollout allows timing the start of one leg after the initial starting position. 
However, the Spéirling is a pure track machine designed to accommodate one person in a very tight space and in this testing the car was run on special trailers. Peak power is 1,000 horsepower, all sent to the rear wheels in a vehicle that weighs less than 2,200 pounds. 
To aid traction, the vehicle has a fan-powered ground impact system that can generate more than 4,400 pounds of downforce on demand. 
McMurtry said the battery, said to be 60 kwh, could provide a range of more than 300 miles in normal driving and operate for 25 minutes at track speeds equivalent to a GT4 race car. The Spéirling is equally impressive entering corners as it is down the drag strip. In June, former Formula 1 driver and current Spéirling development driver Max Chilton set a record time of 39.08 seconds for the 1.16-mile Goodwood hill climb.
McMurtry is currently working on a street version of the Spéirling and has opened the order books. Production will be limited to just a handful of cars and costs will reach seven figures. McMurtry will then launch Spéirling’s next product, a car expected to be even smaller.
