McMurtry took its single-seat electric track car, the Speirling, to Denmark for the first time, and the brand's own video says the trip produced two unplanned lap records in two days. Neither was set by a professional. At Padborg Park, a 2.07 km circuit the video says hosts the Danish Touring Car Championship among other series, a visiting Swedish motoring journalist set what McMurtry calls a new outright lap record while running the car at roughly half its potential on conservative power and fan settings. The company frames the result as proof of how approachable the Speirling is to drive. A day later, a private owner repeated the feat at a second Danish circuit, setting the venue record while passing slower cars mid-session. The clip is built around that two-driver, two-day structure.
Some context the celebratory clip skims over: these runs happened during private track days hosted by McMurtry's Scandinavian dealer, not at a sanctioned timing event, so the phrase lap record is the brand's own framing rather than an officially homologated time. That does not make the laps less impressive, but it is the right lens for reading them. What is genuinely notable is the driver profile. The Speirling is an extreme machine, a fan car the maker has said generates downforce even at a standstill, yet the people setting these times were a journalist on his first laps and an enthusiast owner. The story the video is really telling is about access: performance that, in most exotic track cars, demands a professional to extract, here delivered by amateurs running settings the company calls deliberately sensible. As electric performance cars increasingly chase lap times, that ease of access is its own kind of selling point, and arguably a more interesting one than another headline number. McMurtry also presents the Denmark visit as a precursor to selling cars in the market, so the record-setting doubles as a sales pitch aimed at local enthusiasts who could soon be on the order book.
The video moves between the two venues. At Padborg, which it describes as having a long back straight before hard braking into a hairpin, the company stresses the car's stopping power, citing 4G braking, and quotes the journalist's record lap at 54.3 seconds. At the second circuit, which the video calls the country's only FIA-approved track at 2.3 km and 16 corners, the record run came from an owner who asked to stay anonymous. McMurtry relays that this owner, who had driven the car before, said it finally gave him a sensation he had been chasing, comparing the experience to driving a Formula 1 car. The company is careful to stress that the journalist at Padborg, named in the video as Marcus, does not race regularly and was driving the Speirling for the first time, which is part of why it leans on the result as evidence of approachability rather than raw pace. Between the track sessions the team stopped at the dealer's headquarters, which the narrator calls a cave of desirable cars, for a photo shoot it could mostly not show on camera. The brand closes by saying customer deliveries in Denmark are not far off.
Bottom line: Read this for what it is, a manufacturer's highlight reel rather than independent testing, and the interesting claim is not the raw lap times but who set them. If a journalist on his first laps and an owner on a track day can both reset a venue record in a car dialed back to half effort, McMurtry's pitch about approachable extreme performance carries some weight. The caveat stands: these are dealer track day runs on the brand's own clock, not homologated records. Worth revisiting when independent outlets get their own laps in.
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