Tyrrell Racing

Tyrrell Racing Full name Tyrrell Racing Organisation Base Ockham, Surrey, United Kingdom Founder(s) Ken Tyrrell Noted staff Derek Gardner Mike Gascoyne Craig Pollock Dr. Harvey Postlethwaite Noted drivers Jean Alesi Jody Scheckter Jackie Stewart Formula One World Championship career First entry 1968 South African Grand Prix Races entered 463 Constructors Matra-Ford March-Ford Tyrrell-Ford Tyrrell-Renault Tyrrell-Honda Tyrrell-Ilmor Tyrrell-Yamaha Drivers' Championships 3 (1969, 1971, 1973) Race victories 33 Pole positions 19 Fastest laps 27 Final entry 1998 Japanese Grand Prix

Tyrrell as a Formula One chassis constructor Formula One World Championship career Entrants Tyrrell Racing, several minor teams and privateers First entry 1970 Canadian Grand Prix Last entry 1998 Japanese Grand Prix Races entered 430 Race victories 23 Constructors' Championships 1 (1971) Drivers' Championships 2 (1971, 1973) Pole positions 14 Fastest laps 20

The Tyrrell Racing Organisation was an auto racing team and Formula One constructor founded by Ken Tyrrell and started racing in 1958, but started building its own cars in 1960. The team experienced its greatest success in the early 1970s, when it won three drivers' championships and one constructors' championship with Jackie Stewart. The team never reached such heights again, although it continued to win races through the 1970s and into the early 1980s, taking the final win for the Ford Cosworth DFV engine at Detroit in 1983. The team was bought by British American Tobacco in 1997 and completed its final season as Tyrrell in 1998, before forming the basis for the new B.A.R. team in 1999.

Lower Formulae (1958 - 1967)

Tyrrell Racing first came into being in 1958, running Formula Three cars for Ken Tyrrell and local stars. Realizing he was not racing driver material, Ken Tyrrell stood down as a driver in 1959, and began to run a Formula Junior operation using the woodshed owned by his family business, Tyrrell Brothers, as a workshop. Throughout the 1960s, Tyrrell moved through the lower formulas, variously giving single seater debuts to John Surtees and Jacky Ickx. But the team's most famous partnership was the one forged with Jackie Stewart, who first signed up in 1963.

Tyrrell ran the BRM Formula 2 operation throughout 1965, 1966 and 1967 whilst Stewart was signed to the Formula One team. Tyrrell then signed a deal to run Formula 2 cars made by French company Matra.

Formula One (1968 - 1998)

1960s

Jackie Stewart and Tyrrell won their first championship with the French Matra chassis.

With the help of Elf and Ford, Tyrrell then achieved his dream of moving to Formula One in 1968, as team principal for Matra International, a joint-venture established between Tyrrell's own team and the French auto manufacturer Matra. Stewart was a serious contender, winning several Grands Prix in the Tyrrell-run Matra MS10. The car's most innovative feature was the use of aviation-inspired structural fuel tanks. These allowed the chassis to be around 15kg lighter, while still being stronger than its competitors. The FIA considered the technology to be unsafe and decided to ban it for 1970, insisting on rubber bag-tanks.

For the 1969 championship the Matra works team decided not to compete in Formula One. Matra would instead focus its efforts on Ken Tyrrell's 'Matra International' team and build a new DFV powered car with structural fuel tanks, even though it would only be eligible for a single season. Stewart won the 1969 title easily driving the new Cosworth-powered Matra MS80, which corrected most of the weaknesses of the MS10. Stewart's title was the first won by a French chassis, and the only one won by a chassis built in France. It was a spectacular achievement from a team and a constructor that had only entered Formula One the previous year.

1970s

The Tyrrell 003 won both championships with Jackie Stewart in 1971.

Stewart also won the Drivers' Championship in 1973 with the 006.

The Tyrrell P34 six-wheeler - arguably the most radical F1 car ever to have raced.

For the 1970 season following Matra's merger with Simca, Tyrrell were asked by Matra to use their V12 rather than the Cosworth. Simca was a subsidiary of the American company Chrysler, a rival of Ford. Stewart tested the Matra V12 and found it inferior to the DFV. As a large part of the Tyrrell budget was provided by Ford, and another significant element came from French state-owned petroleum company Elf, which had an agreement with Renault that precluded supporting a Simca partner, Ken Tyrrell had little alternative but to buy a March 701 chassis as interim solution while developing his own car in secret.

Tyrrell was still sponsored by French fuel company Elf, and Tyrrell would retain the traditional French blue racing colours for most of the rest of its existence. Tyrrell and Stewart ran the March-Fords throughout 1970 with mixed success, while Derek Gardner worked on the first in-house Tyrrell Grand Prix car at the woodshed in Ockham, Surrey.

Emerging at the end of 1970, the Tyrrell 001, which bore much resemblance to the MS80, won both drivers' and constructors' championships that year, with a driving strength of Jackie Stewart and François Cevert. Stewart's 1972 challenge was hamstrung by a stomach ulcer, but he returned to full fitness in 1973. He and Cevert finishing 1st and 2nd in the Championship. Tragedy struck on October 6, 1973, as Cevert was killed in practice for the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. Stewart, who was to retire at the end of the season, and Tyrrell immediately stood down, effectively handing the Constructor's title to Lotus. At the end of the season Stewart made public his decision to retire, a decision that was already made before the US Grand Prix. Without their star driver or his skilled French protégé aboard, Tyrrell were never serious World Championship contenders again.

Despite this, the team remained a force throughout the 1970s, winning races with Jody Scheckter and Patrick Depailler. Most notable of these was Scheckter's triumph at the 1976 Swedish Grand Prix, giving Tyrrell a 1-2 finish driving the distinctive Derek Gardner designed Tyrrell P34 car. The P34 was the first successful six-wheeler F1 car, which replaced the conventional front wheels with smaller wheels mounted in banks of two on either side of the car. The design was abandoned after Goodyear refused to develop the small tyres needed for the car as they were too busy fighting the other tyre manufacturers in Formula One.

1980s and 1990s

"Tora" Takagi driving the Tyrrell 026 at the 1998 Spanish Grand Prix.

In 1977, the Turbo era dawned in Grand Prix racing, which was, by the mid-1980s, to render normally aspirated engined cars obsolete. Without the proper funding, Tyrrell was the last resistant with the Cosworth DFV at a time all teams had switched to turbocharged engines. It was the beginning of two decades of struggle for Tyrrell, who was often underfunded through lack of sponsorship. It seemed appropriate, then, that the final win for the classic Cosworth Ford DFV engine was taken by a Tyrrell car, Michele Alboreto at the 1983 Detroit Grand Prix. It was also Tyrrell's last Grand Prix win. During the 1984 season, Tyrrell were disqualified from the year's standings after it was discovered they had been illegally putting lead in their fuel tank at the 1984 Detroit Grand Prix.

Tyrrell struggled on through the 1980s and 1990s - although their insubstantial on-track performances were not matched by the sway which Ken Tyrrell held behind the scenes in Grand Prix politics. There was a brief revival of fortunes in the early 1990s. The combination of Harvey Postlethwaite's revolutionary high-nose Tyrrell 019 and Jean Alesi's full debut season in 1990 brought the team two second places at Phoenix and Monaco - Alesi having led 30 laps of the Phoenix race. The French-Sicilian left the next year for Ferrari and, although Honda engines and Braun sponsorship in 1991 and 1992 went some way to making up for this, the team slowly dropped back from the middle of the pack. Eventually, in 1998 and in the face of dwindling form and ill health, Ken was forced to sell his team to British American Tobacco, the team becoming British American Racing. The final race for Tyrrell was the 1998 Japanese Grand Prix, where Ricardo Rosset failed to qualify and team-mate Toranosuke Takagi retired on lap 28 after a collision with a Esteban Tuero's Minardi.

Ken Tyrrell died of cancer on August 25, 2001.

Complete World Championship Formula One Results

(key) (results in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Chassis	Engine(s)	Tyres	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Points	WCC
1968	Matra MS9 Matra MS10	Ford V8	D		RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX						45	2nd
				Jackie Stewart	Ret	Inj	Inj	4	1	3	6	1	Ret	6	1	7
				Jean-Pierre Beltoise		5
				Johnny Servoz-Gavin			Ret						2	Ret		Ret
1969	Matra MS10 Matra MS80 Matra MS84	Ford V8	D		RSA	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX							66	1st
				Jackie Stewart	1	1	Ret	1	1	1	2	1	Ret	Ret	4
				Jean-Pierre Beltoise	6	3	Ret	8	2	9	12	3	4	Ret	5
				Johnny Servoz-Gavin									6	NC	8
1970	March 701 Tyrrell 001	Ford V8	D		RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX					48*	3rd*
				Jackie Stewart	3	1	Ret	Ret	2	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	2	Ret	Ret	Ret
				Johnny Servoz-Gavin	Ret	5	DNQ
				François Cevert					Ret	11	7	7	Ret	6	9	Ret	Ret
1971	Tyrrell 001 Tyrrell 002 Tyrrell 003	Ford V8	G		RSA	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA							73	1st
				Jackie Stewart	2	1	1	11	1	1	1	Ret	Ret	1	5
				François Cevert	Ret	7	Ret	Ret	2	10	2	Ret	3	6	1
				Peter Revson											Ret
1972	Tyrrell 002 Tyrrell 003 Tyrrell 004 Tyrrell 005 Tyrrell 006	Ford V8	G		ARG	RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA						51	2nd
				Jackie Stewart	1	Ret	Ret	4	Inj	1	2	11	7	Ret	1	1
				François Cevert	Ret	9	Ret	NC	2	4	Ret	10	9	Ret	Ret	2
				Patrick Depailler						NC						7
1973	Tyrrell 005 Tyrrell 006	Ford V8	G		ARG	BRA	RSA	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE	FRA	GBR	NED	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA			82	2nd
				Jackie Stewart	3	2	1	Ret	1	1	5	4	10	1	1	2	4	5	WD/ DNS
				François Cevert	2	10	NC	2	2	4	3	2	5	2	2	Ret	5	Ret	DNS
				Chris Amon														10	WD/ DNS
1974	Tyrrell 005 Tyrrell 006 Tyrrell 007	Ford V8	G		ARG	BRA	RSA	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA			52	3rd
				Jody Scheckter	Ret	13	8	5	3	2	1	5	4	1	2	Ret	3	Ret	Ret
				Patrick Depailler	6	8	4	8	Ret	9	2	6	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	11	5	6
1975	Tyrrell 007	Ford V8	G		ARG	BRA	RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	SWE	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	USA				25	5th
				Jody Scheckter	11	Ret	1	Ret	7	2	7	16	9	3	Ret	8	8	6
				Patrick Depailler	5	Ret	3	Ret	5	4	12	9	6	9	9	11	7	Ret
				Jean-Pierre Jabouille									12
				Michel Leclère														Ret
1976	Tyrrell 007 Tyrrell P34	Ford V8	G		BRA	RSA	USW	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	CAN	USA	JPN		71	3rd
				Jody Scheckter	5	4	Ret	Ret	4	2	1	6	2	2	Ret	5	5	4	2	Ret
				Patrick Depailler	2	9	3	Ret	Ret	3	2	2	Ret	Ret	Ret	7	6	2	Ret	2
1977	Tyrrell P34	Ford V8	G		ARG	BRA	RSA	USW	ESP	MON	BEL	SWE	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	USA	CAN	JPN	27	5th
				Ronnie Peterson	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	Ret	3	Ret	12	Ret	9	5	Ret	6	16	Ret	Ret
				Patrick Depailler	Ret	Ret	3	4	Ret	Ret	8	4	Ret	Ret	Ret	13	Ret	Ret	14	2	3
1978	Tyrrell 008	Ford V8	G		ARG	BRA	RSA	USW	MON	BEL	ESP	SWE	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	USA	CAN		38	4th
				Patrick Depailler	3	Ret	2	3	1	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	Ret	2	Ret	11	Ret	5
				Didier Pironi	14	6	6	Ret	5	6	12	Ret	10	Ret	5	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	7
1979	Tyrrell 009	Ford V8	G		ARG	BRA	RSA	USW	ESP	BEL	MON	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	CAN	USA			28	5th
				Didier Pironi	Ret	4	Ret	DSQ	6	3	Ret	Ret	10	9	7	Ret	10	5	3
				Jean-Pierre Jarier	Ret	Ret	3	6	5	11	Ret	5	3	Inj	Inj	Ret	6	Ret	Ret
				Geoff Lees										7
				Derek Daly											8
1980	Tyrrell 009 Tyrrell 010	Ford V8	G		ARG	BRA	RSA	USW	BEL	MON	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	CAN	USA				12	6th
				Derek Daly	4	14	Ret	8	9	Ret	11	4	10	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret
				Jean-Pierre Jarier	Ret	12	7	Ret	5	Ret	14	5	15	Ret	5	13	7	NC
				Mike Thackwell													Ret	DNQ
1981	Tyrrell 010 Tyrrell 011	Ford V8	M A		USW	BRA	ARG	SMR	BEL	MON	ESP	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	CAN	LVS			10	8th
				Eddie Cheever	5	NC	Ret	Ret	6	5	NC	13	4	5	DNQ	Ret	Ret	12	Ret
				Kevin Cogan	DNQ
				Ricardo Zuniño		13	13
				Michele Alboreto				Ret	12	Ret	DNQ	16	Ret	DNQ	Ret	9	Ret	11	13
1982	Tyrrell 011	Ford V8	G		RSA	BRA	USW	SMR	BEL	MON	USE	CAN	NED	GBR	FRA	GER	AUT	SUI	ITA	LVS		25	7th
				Slim Borgudd	16	7	10
				Brian Henton				Ret	Ret	8	9	NC	Ret	8	10	7	Ret	11	Ret	8
				Michele Alboreto	7	4	4	3	Ret	10	Ret	Ret	7	Ret	6	4	Ret	7	5	1
1983	Tyrrell 011 Tyrrell 012	Ford V8	G		BRA	USW	FRA	SMR	MON	BEL	USE	CAN	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	EUR	RSA			12	7th
				Danny Sullivan	11	8	Ret	Ret	5	12	Ret	10	14	12	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	7
				Michele Alboreto	Ret	9	8	Ret	Ret	14	1	8	13	Ret	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	Ret
1984	Tyrrell 012	Ford V8	G		BRA	RSA	BEL	SMR	FRA	MON	CAN	USE	USA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	EUR	POR		0	DSQ
				Martin Brundle	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DNQ	DSQ	DSQ	DNQ	Inj	Inj	Inj	Inj	Inj	Inj	Inj
				Stefan Johansson										DSQ	DSQ	DNQ	DSQ	EX	EX	EX
				Stefan Bellof	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ		DSQ	DSQ	EX	EX	EX
				Mike Thackwell											DNQ
1985	Tyrrell 012 Tyrrell 014	Ford V8 Renault V6 (t/c)	G		BRA	POR	SMR	MON	CAN	USE	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	BEL	EUR	RSA	AUS		7	9th
				Martin Brundle	8	Ret	9	10	12	Ret	Ret	7	10	DNQ	7	8	13	Ret	7	NC
				Stefan Johansson	7
				Stefan Bellof		6	Ret	DNQ	11	4	13	11	8	7	Ret
				Ivan Capelli														Ret		4
				Philippe Streiff															Ret
1986	Tyrrell 014 Tyrrell 015	Renault V6 (t/c)	G		BRA	ESP	SMR	MON	BEL	CAN	USE	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	AUT	ITA	POR	MEX	AUS		11	7th
				Martin Brundle	5	Ret	8	Ret	Ret	9	Ret	10	5	Ret	6	Ret	10	Ret	11	4
				Philippe Streiff	7	Ret	Ret	11	12	11	9	Ret	6	Ret	8	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	5
1987	Tyrrell DG016	Ford V8	G		BRA	SMR	BEL	MON	USA	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	AUT	ITA	POR	ESP	MEX	JPN	AUS		11**	6th**
				Jonathan Palmer	10	Ret	Ret	5	11	7	8	5	7	14	14	10	Ret	7	8	4
				Philippe Streiff	11	8	9	Ret	Ret	6	Ret	4	9	Ret	12	12	7	8	12	Ret
1988	Tyrrell 017	Ford V8	G		BRA	SMR	MON	MEX	CAN	USA	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN	AUS		5	8th
				Jonathan Palmer	Ret	14	5	DNQ	6	5	Ret	Ret	11	Ret	12	DNQ	Ret	Ret	12	Ret
				Julian Bailey	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	Ret	9	DNQ	16	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	12	DNQ	DNQ	14	DNQ
1989	Tyrrell 017B Tyrrell 018	Ford V8	G		BRA	SMR	MON	MEX	USA	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN	AUS		16	5th
				Jonathan Palmer	7	6	9	Ret	9	Ret	10	Ret	Ret	13	14	Ret	6	10	Ret	DNQ
				Michele Alboreto	10	DNQ	5	3	Ret	Ret
				Jean Alesi							4	Ret	10	9		5		4	Ret	Ret
				Johnny Herbert											Ret		DNQ
1990	Tyrrell 018 Tyrrell 019	Ford V8	P		USA	BRA	SMR	MON	CAN	MEX	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN	AUS		16	5th
				Satoru Nakajima	6	8	Ret	Ret	11	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	6	DNS	Ret	6	Ret
				Jean Alesi	2	7	6	2	Ret	7	Ret	8	11	Ret	8	Ret	8	Ret	DNS	8
1991	Tyrrell 020	Honda V10	P		USA	BRA	SMR	MON	CAN	MEX	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN	AUS		12	6th
				Satoru Nakajima	5	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	12	Ret	8	Ret	15	Ret	Ret	13	17	Ret	Ret
				Stefano Modena	4	Ret	Ret	Ret	2	11	Ret	7	13	12	Ret	Ret	Ret	16	6	10
1992	Tyrrell 020B	Ilmor V10	G		RSA	MEX	BRA	ESP	SMR	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	JPN	AUS		8	6th
				Olivier Grouillard	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	Ret	12	11	11	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret
				Andrea de Cesaris	Ret	5	Ret	Ret	14	Ret	5	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	8	6	9	4	Ret
1993	Tyrrell 020C Tyrrell 021	Yamaha V12	G		RSA	BRA	EUR	SMR	ESP	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	JPN	AUS		0	NC
				Ukyo Katayama	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	17	Ret	13	Ret	10	15	14	Ret	Ret	Ret
				Andrea de Cesaris	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	15	NC	Ret	11	Ret	13	12	Ret	13
1994	Tyrrell 022	Yamaha V10	G		BRA	PAC	SMR	MON	ESP	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	EUR	JPN	AUS		13	7th
				Ukyo Katayama	5	Ret	5	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	7	Ret	Ret
				Mark Blundell	Ret	Ret	9	Ret	3	10	10	Ret	Ret	5	5	Ret	Ret	13	Ret	Ret
1995	Tyrrell 023	Yamaha V10	G		BRA	ARG	SMR	ESP	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	EUR	PAC	JPN	AUS	5	8th
				Ukyo Katayama	Ret	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	7	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	Inj	14	Ret	Ret
				Gabriele Tarquini														14
				Mika Salo	7	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	7	15	8	Ret	Ret	8	5	13	10	12	6	5
1996	Tyrrell 024	Yamaha V10	G		AUS	BRA	ARG	EUR	SMR	MON	ESP	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	JPN		5	8th
				Ukyo Katayama	11	9	Ret	DSQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	7	8	10	12	Ret
				Mika Salo	6	5	Ret	DSQ	Ret	5	DSQ	Ret	10	7	9	Ret	7	Ret	11	Ret
1997	Tyrrell 025	Ford V8	G		AUS	BRA	ARG	SMR	MON	ESP	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	AUT	LUX	JPN	EUR	2	10th
				Jos Verstappen	Ret	15	Ret	10	8	11	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	Ret	Ret	12	Ret	13	16
				Mika Salo	Ret	13	8	9	5	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	13	11	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	12
1998	Tyrrell 026	Ford V8	G		AUS	BRA	ARG	SMR	ESP	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	AUT	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	LUX	JPN		0	NC
				Ricardo Rosset	Ret	Ret	14	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	8	Ret	Ret	12	DNQ	DNQ	DNS	12	Ret	DNQ
				Toranosuke Takagi	Ret	Ret	12	Ret	13	11	Ret	Ret	9	Ret	13	14	Ret	9	16	Ret

*Points total for all March cars.
**Winners of the Colin Chapman Trophy, with 169 points.

External links

• TeamTyrrell.Com