Tyrrell Built An F1 Car With SIX Wheels — And Won With It #Shorts

Hinzugefügt: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]1976 Tyrrell rolls out the P34, a Formula 1 car with six wheels, four small ones at the front, two normal ones at the back.

[00:00:10]The idea was to reduce frontal area and lock more rubber to the tarmac.

[00:00:15]It looked like a bicycle accident.

[00:00:17]Then Jody Scheckter and Patrick Depailler drove it to a 1-2 finish at the Swedish Grand Prix.

[00:00:23]The development cost, never publicly disclosed, but Goodyear had to build custom front tires just to support the car. Tyrrell finished third in the championship that year. By 1977, the design was outpaced. Goodyear stopped developing the small front tire.

[00:00:39]The P34 became uncompetitive overnight.

[00:00:42]In 1983, the FIA banned all cars with more than four wheels.

[00:00:47]Tyrrell's design wasn't outlawed for being slow, it was outlawed for being too clever to allow.