An upside-down McMurtry hypercar carries Driver61 through a week off

Scott Mansell drove the British startup's fan car himself, and the 22-day-old film has passed three million views.

Channel: Driver61Story of October 2, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

The Insane Engineering of the World's Fastest Car

Scott Mansell posted nothing new this week, and his channel hardly noticed. The video doing most of the work is "The Insane Engineering of the World's Fastest Car," his visit to McMurtry Automotive, the small British company whose fan car he got to drive.

The description sets out the case: nought to sixty in 1.4 seconds, a run up the Goodwood hill quicker than any Formula 1 car has managed, and enough downforce to drive upside down. Mansell notes that when the inverted clips first circulated, plenty of people assumed they were fake. His film is the engineer's answer to how a startup built something he calls genuinely faster than F1. At 22 days old it has passed three million views, and it is still drawing more each day than anything else on the channel.

Two older videos follow it. "Why This Genius Race Car Was Banned" is now six months old and close to six million views. It is a detective story that begins with onboard audio from 2019, a car with two motor frequencies, one of them running backwards, and a loophole a team had found two years earlier. Behind it is "0 to 345mph in 3.7 Seconds," a trip to a Top Fuel dragster with engineer Jamie Willis and NHRA announcer Brian Lohnes.

Daily views are right on the channel's usual level, a little over 180,000 a day. Among motorsport and off-road channels of a similar size, the busy ones are John Hicks, running well above his usual pace, and ThoughTaken, which draws millions of views a day. Quadrant is quieter than usual. Driver61 sits third by subscribers in that group, steady on the strength of a car that can drive on the ceiling.

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The videos drawing views on Driver61 right now

Why This Genius Race Car Was Banned5,911,391 views 0 to 345mph in 3.7 Seconds3,617,414 views

The numbers

Here is how Driver61's channel and its busiest videos stand this week.

subscribers

1,520,000

total views

374,283,874

views per day

181,646

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Harley Davidson People

1,980,000

John Hicks

1,970,000

Driver61

1,520,000

4WD 24-7

1,500,000

Kashius Alexander

1,500,000

ThoughTaken

1,320,000

CarsandCameras

1,310,000

Quadrant

1,180,000

6Foot4Honda

1,150,000

As of October 2, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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