The DAY a 6 Wheeler WON a F1 Race

My favourite F1 car.. a smashing innovation and while everyone bangs on about 1976, Hunt vs Lauda, this car came second 9 times, bumping each of the title rivals into 3rd place in the last 2 races, with the Swedish 1-2 dropping the big names to 3rd and 5th places! Simply put, in a Championship decided by one single point, the P34 by denying points here and there was a deciding factor to the ultimate Champion. Jody and Patrick finishing 3rd & 4th, behind Hunt/Lauda, proved it's worth, and I hear that it regularly does (or did) well in F1 Historic races. :D

Bring all these fantastic historic cars back and race them on the Nurburgring every 10th year. We can all arrive on Carrot Fueled Hover cars.

The 70's were a wild ride in F1. All these different concepts that were developed when F1 was pretty much like the Wild West back in the day. The P34 is an icon of this era and it's almost a shame that the brake and tire issues kept the car from being a bigger success because the general concept worked quite nicely. Ken Tyrell later often spoke about his love for the car, stating "It was the car that performed best". Great video bringing back great memories.

I saw these cars race at the British grand Prix's of 76 & 77.

This car's what attracted me to formula one as a young teen. I had an AFX slot car of this car,which made me go out and get a tamaya Model of the P34. Which I still have till this day 47 years later.

I was in my mid-teens when the P34 raced. In the US it was hard to get F1 news, though I did hear about the six wheeled car. When I found out that Tyrrel had built the car I was not surprised. I thought Tyrrel was a great team at the time and could and should win more world championships. Too bad but their hay-day was behind them. I saw 5 USGP-West at Long Beach between 1979 & 1983. I saw a lot of changes to F1 in those years, too bad that you can't be inventive in today's F1. If you try something new it gets banned after all of the complaining by the other teams.

To the script writer/narrator - traction and grip are different things altogether, so 6 wheels do not provide more traction unless more than two of them are drive wheels. I think you meant grip due to increased overall contact patch. Also, Patrick Depailler's name is pronounced "Da-pie-yay", not "De-pile-uhh"!

I own one of these magnificent cars. Granted, it says Hot Wheels on it, but I own it all the same. Hot Wheels also had to produce smaller wheels for their version. It sits on my desk near my laptop and I go "Vroom! Vroom!" to make it run ever so sweet. The Tyrrell P34 is one of my all time favorite cars, along with the Chaparral 2J and Babs the land speed car. Too cool.

I had the AFX slot car version

An amazing car. 70's innovation like the "skirts" on the JPS Lotus. F1 seemed a lot more free back then.

If they can get it to run efficiently through the entire race then, yeah why not? Without breaking any of the new rules that have been put in place since the 70s that is. I can imagine that would be difficult to do.

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There was a 2 front wheel and 4 rear wheel F1 car as well. I think fewer relegations forcing the racing teams to innovate for their competitive edge. Look at what happened during the team's that switched to turbo engines during the Cosworth DFV era.

I did see these P34 cars run at the Long Beach F1 race. Fantastic. There is one in Canepa’s collection upstairs above his shop in Scotts Valley. Fantastic engineering1

Imagine the pit stop

I got to see Jody Scheckter race his 6 wheeled wonder at the 1976 Gran Prix of Monaco. I was in the Army at the time but took some leave and did an American Express tour to the race. One of the highlights of my younger years for sure!!

March had also a 6 wheeler with 4 wheels on the back, Rothmans livery with Ian Scheckter behind the wheel, i am not sure if they ever raced with this car or if it was a proto type.

There were articles about the P34 while it was racing that said Gardner and the team thought the six-wheel design would give more front grip. But in fact, its real advantage was that it produced less aerodynamic drag. One study in that era said that 80% of the drag produced by a Grand Prix car was caused by its tires/wheels. Reducing the size of the front tires seems to have been very beneficial to the car's top speed.

great vid!

Go Tyrell back when F1 had their feet on the ground