Tyrrell 003

Tyrrell 003

Tyrrell 003
Constructor:	Tyrrell
Designer:	Derek Gardner
Predecessor:	Tyrrell 001
Successor:	Tyrrell 005 Tyrrell 006
Technical specifications
Chassis:	Aluminum monocoque
Engine:	Cosworth DFR V8
Wheelbase:	2536 mm
Weight:	560 kg
Tires:	Goodyear
statistics
Driver:	Jackie Stewart
First start:	1971 Spanish Grand Prix
Last start:	1972 German Grand Prix
Starts Victories Poles SR 16 8th - -
World Cup points:	-
Podiums:	9
Leadership laps:	-
Status: end of season 1972

The Tyrrell 003 is a racing car from the former British Formula 1 team Tyrrell . Together with the largely identical Tyrrell 002 and Tyrrell 004 , it formed a model family that followed in 1971 on the Tyrrell 001 prototype presented the previous year . The 002/003/004 family established Tyrrell's reputation as one of the leading racing car designers of its time. Like its sister models, the 003 was a one-off. It was driven exclusively by Jackie Stewart . The 003 was the most successful car of the 002/003/004 model family: it won half of all world championship races in which it was used. With him, Jackie Stewart won the drivers' championship in 1971. That year, Tyrrell also became a design master.

The model family 002/003/004

Tyrrell regularly identified its racing cars with a consecutive three-digit number code. Until 005, the name was not linked to a series, but to individual chassis. The 002, 003 and 004 were therefore each unique pieces. From a technical point of view, however, they were almost identical. In the course of regular development, Tyrrell sometimes only equipped one of the cars with a new technical solution; The other vehicles then regularly followed suit within a few weeks.

History of origin

The Tyrrell Racing Organization had competed in Formula Junior , Formula 3 and Formula 2 since the 1950s . After team founder 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. In the first two years, Tyrrell was a pure customer team, the chassis from Matra combined with engines from Cosworth . When Matra made the further chassis delivery to Tyrrell dependent on the use of French engines for the 1970 season, Ken Tyrrell ended the relationship with Matra. Since no other competitive customer chassis were available, he decided to build his own racing car. After a short transition period with chassis from March , the first prototype, the Tyrrell 001, was ready for use in August 1970. The car, designed by Derek Gardner in great secrecy, was fast, but had numerous teething problems, including insufficient oil and fuel supply, as well as reliability problems in the mechanical area. The 001 competed in five world championship races in 1970 and 1971, but only crossed the finish line once: Stewart finished second in the opening race of the 1971 season in South Africa . In addition, there were the only finishes in Formula 1 races that did not have world championship status .

Based on the 001, Gardner constructed the model family 002/003/004. They were further developed and improved versions of the 001, to which they were still very similar in essence.

construction

The Tyrrell 003 had an aluminum monocoque that was formed from thicker aluminum sheets than its predecessor. The monocoque was 10 cm longer than that of the 001 and offered more elbow room. in this respect it corresponded to the Tyrrell 002. The only difference between Stewart's 003 and Cevert's 002 was the length of the vehicle: Stewart's car was lengthened in 1971 with additional spacers in individual races. The roll bar behind the driver had been reinforced. Gardner had also redesigned the front suspension. Instead of a two-part wishbone, a one-part construction was now used. The braking system was revised during the 1971 season; Girling had double disc brakes in some races. Eventually, in some races, Tyrrell experimented with coolers built into the rear wings. Usually, however, it stayed with the front coolers, which were located in the vehicle nose. Tyrrell continued to use the established Cosworth DFV engine with 3.0 liter displacement as the drive; a five-speed transmission from Hewland (FG40) took over the power transmission . Tyrrell, however, was one of Cosworth's preferred customers. While most DFV engines made around 435 hp, Tyrrell drivers had specially redesigned versions that delivered 10 to 15 hp more.

Initially, the body largely corresponded to that of the 001. In the course of 1971, however, some add-on parts changed. At the Dutch Grand Prix , Gardner introduced a plastic air scoop that was installed over the engine. It was mostly painted black; in some races it was also given a blue paint job. In France , the 003 received a new front spoiler, which extended over the entire width of the vehicle and was supposed to direct the air over the front wheels. Ceverts 002 was adjusted at the following race in Great Britain .

Races

The Tyrrell 003 was Jackie Stewart's car. Stewart drove it from the Spanish Grand Prix in April 1971 to the German Grand Prix in July 1972. During this time, the 003 was registered for 16 world championship races (10 in the 1971 season and 6 in the 1972 season), plus three races without World Championship status.

1971

Jackie Stewart's Tyrrell 003 was the dominant car of the 1971 season. Stewart won six of the year’s 11 world championship races, including the first 003 race in Spain. Apart from that, there were only two failures ( Austria and Italy ); there were also a fifth and an eleventh place. Given the superiority of the 003, Ken Tyrrell's team came under suspicion of using a non-compliant car. In France, the inspectors took fuel samples but did not find any irregularities. After the race in Great Britain the engine of the 003 was sealed and examined by experts; it has been suggested that Tyrrell would use Cosworth engines with increased displacement. Here, too, there were no complaints.

At the end of the year, Stewart won the drivers' championship by superiority. He had scored 62 world championship points, 56 of them in 10 races with 003. Ronnie Peterson , the championship runner-up , had 30 points less than Stewart.

1972

In the 1972 season, Stewart had two more wins in 003, at the opening race in Argentina and the penultimate race of the car in Great Britain . From the summer of 1972 Stewart started in the newly designed Tyrrell 005 , the sister model of Ceverts 006. Like the 002, the 003 also remained in the factory. It was not sold to private drivers.

Results

driver	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	Points	rank
1971 Formula 1 season													56 (62)	1
J. Stewart		1	1	11	1	1	1	DNF	DNF	1	5
1972 Formula 1 season													24 (45)	2
J. Stewart	1	DNF	DNF			1	2	11

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)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	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 003  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Racing history of the Tyrrell 003 on the website www.oldracingcars.com

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ Adriano Cimarosti: The century of racing , S. 233rd
2. ↑ ^{a b} The Tyrrell 001 on the website www.research-racing.de (accessed on November 1, 2017).
3. ↑ 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.
4. ↑ Adriano Cimarosti: The century of racing , S. 226th
5. ^ Rob Widdows: The best kept secrets ... , Motorsport Magazine, Issue 9/2008, p. 73.
6. ↑ ^{a b} David Hodges: Rennwagen from A – Z after 1945 , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 253.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Doug Nye: The great book of Formula 1 racing cars. The three-liter formula from 1966 . Verlagsgesellschaft Rudolf Müller, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-481-29851-X , p. 56.
8. ↑ Adriano Cimarosti: The century of racing , S. 236th
9. ↑ 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.
10. ↑ Jackie Stewart scored a total of 62 points in the 1971 season, 56 of them with the 003.
11. ↑ Tyrrell scored a total of 73 points in the 1971 season with the 002 and 003. The team thus took first place in the constructors' championship.
12. ↑ Stewart scored a total of 45 world championship points in the 1972 season, 24 of them with the 003 and two more with the 004. He scored the remaining points at the end of the season with the Tyrrell 005.
13. ↑ Tyrrell scored a total of 51 points in the Constructors' Championship in 1972 with the 002, 003 and 004. This put the team in second place overall