There’s a special place in Professor Gordon Murray‘s heart for the numeral 47. It’s said to be his favorite; he used it as the race number for his first-ever design, the low-slung T.1 two-seater that he penned, engineered, and built in his bedroom—at age 17. Then, in June of 1995, his then-new McLaren F1 GTR race car won the 24 Hours of Le Mans outright, doing so on Murray’s 47th birthday.
Now, a 2024 Gordon Murray Automotive T.50 hypercar, one of the coveted 100…

