Gordon Murray: An Automotive Legend

   Gordon Murray is one of the most well known individuals in the engineering world. He is most well-known for his ground breaking McLaren F1 design and also for his prestigious Formula 1 racing history as the man behind the McLaren's Formula 1 cars (Below to the left is an image of the famous Gordon Murray and to the right is his famous McLaren F1).

(Here is a link if you want to know more about the famous McLaren F1 http://www.carzi.com/2007/07/05/gordon-murray-the-automotive-rockstar/)

(Here is a link to more about Gordon Murray
http://www.gordonmurraydesign.com/pm-welcome.php)






    He is considered to most the father of modern super cars and personally to me he is someone that I look up to greatly and hope that one day i can be where he is in the discourse community of mechanical engineers. He is also one of the leading engineers in green energy in cars with his new T25 and T27 cars that he is in the process of Designing and creating ( link to article about those two concepts http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-m/gordon-murray/).

   He is a prime example of a full member of the mechanical engineering discourse community according to Gee because he exhibits every aspect that I have explained in the last five posts about Gee's discourse. He was born into the discourse thanks to his father being a motorcycle racer and mechanic and he is at the top of the mechanical engineering field thanks to his McLaren F1 design and he has followed the trend of hybrid engines and in addition his hybrid designs are of the most efficient so far. That all gives him the authority and influence that he has over others that are of less status than him in the discourse of mechanical engineers.