Gordon Murray T.50s Niki Lauda to Lead V12 Supercar Debuts at Goodwood 2026

Gordon Murray will return to the Goodwood Festival of Speed with a four-car showcase led by the first customer T.50s Niki Lauda, marking the track-only supercar’s global public dynamic debut. The 2026 Festival of Speed is scheduled from July 9 to 12 at Goodwood House, with the British specialist brand set to run three V12-powered models on the hillclimb. 

The line-up brings together the T.50s Niki Lauda production car, the S1 LM design model, the Le Mans GTR XP1 prototype and the T.33 Spider VP12 validation prototype. For Gordon Murray, the programme is less a conventional product display and more a statement of brand direction: ultra-low-volume, lightweight, naturally aspirated supercars built around engineering purity rather than electrified performance metrics.

The first customer T.50s, chassis 1, wears a South African flag-inspired livery over a white body, with a gloss black race number ‘7’ referencing the Brabham BT44 driven by Carlos Reutemann at Kyalami in 1974, Murray’s first Formula One victory as a designer. Each of the 25 T.50s Niki Lauda cars commemorates a date linked to Murray’s Grand Prix wins or a special endurance race victory. The T.50s itself is a track-optimised derivative of the T.50, with Gordon Murray Automotive describing it as extensively re-engineered over the road car for circuit use. 

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Professor Gordon Murray CBE, executive chairman, said the company had designed, developed, manufactured and delivered 100 T.50 customer cars in less than six years since unveiling the model. He added that T.50s production had started, while T.33 and T.33 Spider were “well through development” ahead of production.

The S1 LM design model will make its European debut after its global unveiling in California and a $20.63 million auction sale in Las Vegas. Gordon Murray Special Vehicles earlier said that sale set a benchmark as the highest auction price achieved for a new car, excluding charitable sales. 

The Le Mans GTR XP1 will also run at Goodwood as an experimental prototype for a planned 24-car production run. Its design draws from Murray’s longtail Le Mans racers, combining road usability with a sharper track brief. Completing the quartet is the T.33 Spider VP12, one of the final validation prototypes, powered by the company’s naturally aspirated 3.9-litre V12.