He’s built one out of aluminium. In his shed. Easily qualifying for ‘mad rare old-timer’ is the Tyrrell P34 six wheeler Formula One car, an oddity so bizarre it only raced for two years. “The Tyrrell ...

Building a Formula 1 car in your own shed? It’s a romantic notion, the stuff of daydreams for many of us. But for the late Ken Tyrrell, there was nothing whimsical about such a homegrown approach.

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