The six-wheeled Tyrrell P34 took its only F1 win on this day at the 1976 Swedish GP. It was not only one of F1's most radical innovations, it still sharply divides opinion. Was it a technical leap or a blind alley? Andrew Frankel decides in today's Great Read
"I actually had the idea back in 1968 but for a completely different application." The words belong to Derek Gardner, designer of the Tyrrell Project 34, one of the most memorable and innovative Formula 1 cars of all time, which carried the unique distinction of being the only six-wheeled car to start a grand prix. And the limited nature of its success, says Gardner, had little to do with the idea in itself and rather more to do with mid-70s technology proving unable to keep up with it.
Even as it was, the Project 34 was a winner, not perhaps in early '70s Tyrrell terms but certainly by any other objective measure. It won only the fourth grand prix it contested and finished its 1976 maiden season having put one or other of its drivers on the podium 10 times in the 13 races it contested that year.
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