Tyrrell 001

**Tyrrell 001**
	Jackie Stewart in Tyrrell 001
Constructor:	Tyrrell
Designer:	Derek Gardner
Successor:	Tyrrell 002 ; Tyrrell 003 ; Tyrrell 004
Technical specifications
Chassis:	Aluminum monocoque
Engine:	Cosworth DFV V8
Wheelbase:	2388 mm
Weight:	545 kg
Tires:	Dunlop (1970) ; Goodyear (1971)
statistics
Driver:	Jackie Stewart Peter Revson;
First start:	1970 Canadian Grand Prix
Last start:	1971 USA Grand Prix
World Cup points:	6th
Podiums:	1
Leadership laps:	-
	Status: 1971 season end

The Tyrrell 001 is the first self-constructed racing car of the former British Formula 1 team Tyrrell . With him, Ken Tyrrell's racing team, who had only used customer vehicles from other manufacturers since 1968 , became an independent designer. In autumn 1970, the 001 replaced the March 701 with which the team had previously started. The one-off only remained in use until spring 1971; then it was replaced by the further developed models 002 , 003 and 004 .

History of origin

The Tyrrell Racing Organization had competed in Formula Junior , Formula 3 and Formula 2 since the 1950s . After Ken Tyrrell had temporarily headed the Formula 2 and Formula 1 works teams of Cooper in the 1960s , he brought his own racing team to Formula 1 in 1968. For the first two years, Tyrrell was a pure customer team. The chassis supplier was the French manufacturer Matra , who also had a factory team based in France. However, while Matra used its own twelve-cylinder engine, Tyrrell used the new Cosworth DFV eight-cylinder, which was more compact, lighter and more powerful than the French unit. The combination of Matra chassis and Cosworth engine was successful right from the start: In the first year, Tyrrell's driver Jackie Stewart won three Grand Prix, and in 1969 , after six victories, he became the driver's world champion with 63 points. In 1970 Tyrrell split from Matra. The French manufacturer, which had come under the control of the Chrysler group, no longer supported the connection of its chassis with a Cosworth engine financed by Ford . Matra made the further delivery of chassis conditional on Tyrrell using Matra's twelve-cylinder engine in the future. Ken Tyrrell, who was convinced of the qualities of the light and powerful Cosworth DFV motor, then turned away from Matra. After Tyrrell's attempts to take over customer vehicles from BRM , McLaren or Lotus had failed, he decided to build his own racing car, until three 701 chassis from March Engineering were temporarily used until its completion . Ken Tyrrell wasn't happy with the March cars. He referred to himself as a heap of rubbish within the team .

Tyrrell's first Formula 1 car was designed by Derek Gardner , who previously worked for Ferguson Research and was not well known in the motorsport industry. The car was built in the utmost secrecy. Gardner developed the car in his private home in Leamington Spa . He ordered many parts from suppliers in his own name without reference to Tyrrell. In the summer of 1970, the individual components were finally assembled in a workshop on the premises of the timber business that Ken Tyrrell ran with his brother in Ockham. The Tyrrell 001 cost a total of £ 22,500 to develop and build; a new March 701 cost less than half.

The 001 remained a one-off. The experience gained from his missions flowed into the design of the 002 and 003, which appeared in 1971 and are considered to be improved versions of the 001.

construction

Tyrrell 001 cockpit

Derek Gardner based his design in some details on the Matra MS80 , with which Tyrrell won the world championship in 1969. The car had an aluminum monocoque with a body that tapered in the middle of the car in the style of a waist. The structure of the Matra MS80 was very similar. There were also similarities in the wide front wing and the cooling air inlets in the vehicle nose. The hot cooler air was directed around the cockpit with blades positioned above the wheel suspension. The front suspension consisted of double wishbones; rear wishbones with push rods were installed above and below. The rear suspension was attached to the engine by means of a subframe. The car had four fuel tanks that were located centrally between the front and rear axles. Tyrrell used the now established Cosworth DFV engine with 3.0 liter displacement as drive; a five-speed transmission from Hewland (FG40) took over the power transmission .

The Tyrrell 001 weighed 545 kg. It was 15 kg above the minimum weight, but was significantly lighter than the March 701, which weighed 565 or 590 kg depending on the source.

Races

The Tyrrell 001 was launched in nine Formula 1 races; five of them were world championship races , four were races without world championship status . The car was reserved for Jackie Stewart, the top driver on the Tyrrell team. Stewart's team-mate François Cevert did not use the 001 at any world championship run. It only received the newly built 002 in 1971.

1970

In the 1970 season , the Tyrrell 001 did not finish. In the first few months, the 001 suffered from inadequate oil and fuel supplies, and there were also reliability problems.

The 001 made its debut in late August 1970 at the Oulton Park Gold Cup , a championship-free race in Cheshire . Stewart started from the back of the field due to technical problems. There were repeated problems during the race that forced Stewart to make several pit stops. On the other hand, he temporarily set the fastest lap twice during the race. Ultimately, it failed due to a defect in the oil supply.

The first world championship run by the Tyrrell 001 was the Canadian Grand Prix , held a month later in Mont-Tremblant . Stewart qualified for pole position with a lead of a tenth of a second over Jacky Ickx ( Ferrari ). He led the race for a few laps, but then retired after an axle damage on lap 32. In the subsequent race in the USA , Stewart started from second behind Ickx. Here, too, Stewart temporarily took the lead. After two thirds he had to give up because of oil loss. At the last race of the season in Mexico , Stewart qualified again for second starting position. He couldn't finish this race either. On lap 27 he was eliminated after a collision with a dog that ran out onto the track because its suspension was damaged.

1971

In the 1971 season , Stewart only competed with the 001 at the opening race in South Africa . Before the race, Stewart had carried out extensive tire tests for Goodyear in Kyalami in 001 . The knowledge gained from this helped the team to use the tires optimally over the course of the season. In qualifying for the South African Grand Prix , Stewart set the fastest time in 001; his lap time was half a second less than Chris Amon's time in the works Matra. In the race, however, Stewart fell behind due to poor engine performance. He finished second behind Mario Andretti (Ferrari). That was the only finish of the 001 at a world championship run.

In the following three months, the 001 appeared in three British races that did not have world championship status. The Race of Champions and the Questor Grand Prix in California's Ontario ended in Stewart 001 each in second, the Oulton Park Spring Trophy in April 1971 as a third party.

After that, Tyrrell initially shut down the 001. Stewart received the rebuilt Tyrrell 003, which largely corresponded to the 002 used by François Cevert since the beginning of the season. The 001 was last used in October 1971 at the 1971 US Grand Prix , when Tyrrell announced a third car for Peter Revson alongside Stewart (Tyrrell 003) and Cevert (002) . It was Revson's first Formula 1 race in seven years. He qualified the 001 for 19th place on the grid. In the race, he retired on the first lap after a clutch damage.

Results

driver	1	11	12	13	Points	rank
Automobile World Championship 1970					-	-
United Kingdom J. Stewart		DNF	DNF	DNF	-	-
Automobile World Championship 1971					6th	1
United Kingdom J. Stewart	2
United States P. Revson		DNF

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
violet	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
red	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
White	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
Light Blue	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	^P / bold	Pole position
	_SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

literature

Adriano Cimarosti: The Century of Racing . 1st edition. Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 .
David Hodges: A – Z of Grand Prix Cars 1906–2001 , 2001 (Crowood Press), ISBN 1-86126-339-2 (English)
David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945 , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7
Mike Lawrence: March, The Rise and Fall of a Motor Racing Legend . MRP, Orpington 2001, ISBN 1-899870-54-7 .
Pierre Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1 , 2nd edition, St. Sulpice, 2000, ISBN 2-940125-45-7 (French)
Doug Nye: The Big Book of Formula 1 Racing Cars. The three-liter formula from 1966 . Publishing house Rudolf Müller, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-481-29851-X .
Ken Stewart, Norman Reich: Sun on the Grid. Grand Prix and Endurance Racing in Southern Africa . London 1967. ISBN 1-870519-49-3

Web links

Commons : Tyrrell 001 - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

↑ ^a ^b ^c The Tyrrell 001 on the website www.research-racing.de (accessed on October 31, 2017).
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Doug Nye: The big book of Formula 1 racing cars. The three-liter formula from 1966 . Verlagsgesellschaft Rudolf Müller, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-481-29851-X , p. 53.
↑ Cimarosti: The Century of Racing , p. 226.
^ ^A ^b Rob Widdows: The best kept secrets ... , Motorsport Magazine, Issue 9/2008, p. 73.
↑ ^a ^b David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945 , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 252.
↑ ^a ^b David Hodges: Rennwagen from A – Z after 1945 , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 253.
↑ Doug Nye: The Big Book of Formula 1 Racing Cars. The three-liter formula from 1966 . Verlagsgesellschaft Rudolf Müller, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-481-29851-X , p. 55.
↑ In the 1971 season, Tyrrell scored a total of 73 championship points as a designer, 6 of them with the 001. In the overall ranking of the constructors' championship, the team took first place.

[Research-1] The Tyrrell 001 on the website www.research-racing.de (accessed on October 31, 2017).

[Nye_53-2] A ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Doug Nye: The big book of Formula 1 racing cars. The three-liter formula from 1966 . Verlagsgesellschaft Rudolf Müller, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-481-29851-X , p. 53.

[3] Cimarosti: The Century of Racing , p. 226.

[Widdows-4] A ^b Rob Widdows: The best kept secrets ... , Motorsport Magazine, Issue 9/2008, p. 73.

[Hodges_252-5] David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945 , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 252.

[Hodges_253-6] David Hodges: Rennwagen from A – Z after 1945 , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 253.

[Nye_55-7] Doug Nye: The Big Book of Formula 1 Racing Cars. The three-liter formula from 1966 . Verlagsgesellschaft Rudolf Müller, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-481-29851-X , p. 55.

[8] In the 1971 season, Tyrrell scored a total of 73 championship points as a designer, 6 of them with the 001. In the overall ranking of the constructors' championship, the team took first place.