Gordon Murray New S1 LM
It’s 2025, not 1995 — though you’d be forgiven for double-checking the calendar. Thirty years after Gordon Murray’s McLaren F1 GTR shocked the racing world at Le Mans, another chapter has been written: the S1 LM. Built from the bones of the GMA T.50 and its track-only sibling, the T.50s, it’s Murray’s personal tribute to that once-in-a-lifetime victory, created for a single, very lucky customer.
Why does this matter? Because the F1 was never meant to be a race car. Murray designed it as the purest driver’s machine for the road. But a handful of determined owners — and McLaren’s then-boss Ron Dennis — persuaded him to take it racing. With barely any changes, the car stormed Le Mans in 1995, claiming 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th. Suddenly, an icon was born.
McLaren celebrated that achievement with five ultra-rare F1 LMs — road cars wearing race-inspired bodywork and carrying a version of the V12 more ferocious than either the GTR or standard F1. Over the years, a few other road cars were dressed in similar high-downforce kits, and some even ran unrestricted engines from the track program. Those cars became unicorns.
Now, three decades later, the S1 LM channels that same spirit. It isn’t nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake — it’s a modern reimagining of one of the greatest endurance racers ever, wrapped up in Murray’s latest engineering masterpiece.
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