Tyrrell's timberyard shed - where F1 legends were made - has been saved from demolition. We go inside
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. As one of the greatest and most fiercely independent team patrons, he oversaw the creation of grand prix- and world championship-winning Formula 1 cars from just such a humble abode in his family-run timberyard in Ockham, Surrey, for years.
It was also here a few years later that Gardner prepared to shock the world with surely the most outlandish F1 car of them all: the P34 six-wheeler in which Jody Scheckter won 1976’s Swedish GP. After that season, the F1 cars were constructed in a building next door, but the shed remained in use well into the 1980s as a fabrication shop and then for storage. When aerodynamicist Jean-Claude Migeot arrived in 1988, he immediately sought out the shed.
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