Chris Harris has driven many very quick things. The McMurtry Spéirling still appears to have grabbed him by the driving boots and shaken loose several new noises.
In McMurtry’s new film, Harris follows the British electric hypercar maker for 12 months, then gets into a Spéirling prototype at Dunsfold, Thruxton and Brands Hatch.
It is not a calm documentary. It is part factory visit, part track test, part man discovering that physics has been doing secret overtime again.
His verdict arrives in spurts. “Ridiculous.” “Absurd.” “A new kind of driving.” Then the sort of delighted howl normally heard when a roller coaster changes its mind halfway through.
There is a local angle as well. Harris is a West Country man. McMurtry is based in Wotton-under-Edge, near Bristol. So this was almost a neighbour popping round, except the neighbour had built a tiny electric fan car that sticks itself to the track like a terrified limpet.
Harris also talks with McMurtry co-founder and managing director Thomas Yates about the Spéirling’s driving philosophy, before the pair head back to the circuit.
The production-spec car is due to be revealed in the coming weeks, with first customer deliveries planned rather loudly later in 2026.
