16 Facts About Tyrrell Racing

Tyrrell Racing Organisation was an auto racing team and Formula One constructor founded by Ken Tyrrell which started racing in 1958 and started building its own cars in 1970.

Tyrrell Racing's legacy continues in Formula One as the Mercedes-AMG F1 team, who is Tyrrell Racing's descendant through various sales and rebrandings via BAR, Honda and Brawn GP.

Tyrrell Racing first came into being in 1958, running Formula Three cars for Ken Tyrrell and local stars.

Tyrrell Racing ran the BRM Formula Two operation throughout 1965,1966 and 1967 whilst Stewart was signed to BRM's Formula One team.

Tyrrell Racing later entered the 1967 German Grand Prix with an F2 car for Ickx, this time the Matra MS7.

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Tyrrell Racing ran as high as 5th before retiring from the race with a broken suspension.

Tyrrell was still sponsored by French fuel company Elf, and Tyrrell would retain the traditional French blue racing colours for most of the rest of its existence.

The nearly identical Tyrrell Racing 003 won both Drivers' and Constructors' Championships in 1971, with strong driving from Jackie Stewart and Francois Cevert.

Stewart, who was to retire at the end of the season, and Tyrrell Racing immediately stood down, effectively handing the Constructors' title to Lotus.

Ken Tyrrell Racing had been spending a lot of his own money running his team, but in the summer of 1979 he finally found a sponsor: Italian appliance manufacturing group Candy put up the money to run the 009, fielded by Jarier and Pironi.

Additionally, Tyrrell Racing argued that the requirement was that the ballast had to be fixed so it required tools to remove – which they felt was the case with the shot as contained within the water tank.

Nonetheless, the international judging panel upheld the original decision; Tyrrell Racing were excluded from the championship – and was banned for last three races, and with them, further fines by FISA for their inability to appear in the races.

Tyrrell Racing's exclusion meant they lost all points from the 1984 season and, with them, subsidised travel benefits to the following year's championship, a huge additional cost on top of fines for no-showing races they were banned from competing.

Ban and exclusion was seen by some observers as tantamount to manipulation by the FIA who had been looking for a way to eliminate the remaining non-turbo cars from the grid to help attract more support and sponsorship from automotive manufacturers; Tyrrell Racing ultimately adopted a turbo Renault engine mid-way through the following season and turbocharged engines became mandatory for 1986, although naturally-aspirated engines were allowed again in 1987.

Tyrrell Racing struggled on through the 1980s and 1990s – the team consistently punching above their financial weight following the 1984 controversy, despite winning the Colin Chapman Trophy for naturally-aspirated constructors in 1987 following Renault's withdrawal that year.

When team boss Ross Brawn led a management buyout of the Honda F1 team to compete in the 2009 season, a revival of the Tyrrell Racing name was briefly considered when deciding what to call the new team.