Tyrrell Racing
Sign in to saveAlso known as Tyrrell Racing Organization Ltd., Tyrrell F1 team, Tyrrell Formula One team
motor racing team
Key facts
- Base
- Ockham , Surrey , United Kingdom
- Founder s
- Ken Tyrrell
- Noted staff
- Derek Gardner , Mike Gascoyne , Tim Densham , Harvey Postlethwaite
- Noted drivers
- Patrick Depailler , Jean Alesi , Didier Pironi , Jody Scheckter , Jackie Stewart , Andrea de Cesaris , François Cevert , Stefan Bellof , Ronnie Peterson , Derek Daly , Jos Verstappen , Martin Brundle , Jonathan Palmer , Michele Alboreto , Mika Salo
- Next name
- British American Racing
- First entry
- 1968 South African Grand Prix (as Matra International ), 1970 South African Grand Prix (as Tyrrell Racing Organisation )
- Races entered
- 23 entries (23 starts) (as Matra International ), 442 entries (440 starts) (as Tyrrell Racing Organisation )
- Constructors
- Matra , March , Tyrrell
- Constructors championships
- 1 ( 1971 ) (as Tyrrell Racing Organisation )
- Drivers championships
- 3 ( 1969 as Matra International , 1971 , 1973 as Tyrrell Racing Organisation )
- Race victories
- 9 (as Matra International ), 24 (as Tyrrell Racing Organisation )
- Pole positions
- 2 (as Matra International ), 17 (as Tyrrell Racing Organisation )
- Fastest laps
- 9 (as Matra International ), 18 (as Tyrrell Racing Organisation )
- Final entry
- 1969 Mexican Grand Prix (as Matra International ), 1998 Japanese Grand Prix (as Tyrrell Racing Organisation )
- Full name
- Tyrrell Racing Organisation
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Tyrrell Racing Organisation was an auto racing team and Formula One constructor founded by Ken Tyrrell (1924–2001) which started racing in 1958 and started building its own cars in 1970. 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 the 1983 Detroit Grand Prix. The team was bought by British American Tobacco in 1997 and completed its final season as Tyrrell in the 1998 Formula One season. Tyrrell's legacy continues as the Mercedes-AMG F1 team, who is Tyrrell's descendant through various sales and rebrandings via BAR, Honda, and Brawn GP.
Lower formulas (1958–1967)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tyrrell Racing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.