Car · Tyrrell · 1976–1977
Tyrrell P34
It worked. Scheckter and Depailler finished first and second at Anderstorp in 1976 and Tyrrell was third in the championship. It stopped working because Goodyear had no reason to keep developing a tyre size only one team used, so the front tyres fell behind while everyone else's improved. The 1977 car was heavier and slower, the idea was dropped, and the rules were later changed to require exactly four wheels.
- Seasons
- 1976–1977
- Entries
- 34
- Wins
- 0
- Poles
- 0
- Fastest laps
- 1
Why it mattered
The idea. Four small front wheels hide inside the body: less frontal area, more braking and cornering rubber
New on this car. Six wheels, with four 10-inch front tyres
What it did. 30 races, 1 win, 1 pole, 14 podiums - the only six-wheeled car ever to win a World Championship race.
- Designers
- Derek Gardner
- Supersedes
- —
- Design life
- 1976–1977
- Confidence
- high
Specification
- Chassis
- Aluminium monocoque
- Front suspension
- Double wishbone, coil springs over dampers, anti-roll bar
- Rear suspension
- Double wishbone, radius arms, coil springs over dampers, anti-roll bar
- Brakes
- disc
- Gearbox
- Hewland FG400
- Gears
- 1976: 5-speed; 1977: 6-speed
- Tyres
- Goodyear
- Fuel
- Elf
- Engine
- Ford-Cosworth DFV
- Configuration
- 90° V8
- Capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Aspiration
- naturally aspirated
- Power
- 465 bhp
- Power note
- —
- Weight
- 595 kg
- Wheelbase
- 2,453 mm
- Track, front
- 1,234 mm
- Track, rear
- 1,473 mm
A blank is a figure nobody published for this car. Where several teams quote the same number in a season it is usually the rule they were all built to rather than a measurement, so it is kept with the regulation limits instead of here.
Every entry 34 entries
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Where this comes from
- Constructor
- Tyrrell
- Predecessor
- 007
- Successor
- 008
- Races (published)
- 30
- Wins (published)
- 1
- Poles (published)
- 1
- Confidence
- reference
- Specification source
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrrell_P34
- Register source
- https://github.com/f1db/f1db