The 6 Wheeled F1 car

Zip · 10 Sep 2006 at 11:10

Can you lot please post Pictures and Videos of that F1 car that used to have 6 wheels?

I have a friend that was shocked to hear that there was one and he wants to see pictures and videos of it

JRS · 10 Sep 2006 at 11:14

The Tyrell P34:

They finished 1-2 at the Swedish GP in '76, and had 16 (IIRC) points finishes that year.

dynabol · 10 Sep 2006 at 11:14

http://www.f1nutter.co.uk/tech/6wheels.php

First result on Google for "6 wheel F1 car"

icyshore · 10 Sep 2006 at 11:16

The car was the Tyrrell_P34, google isn't turning up many decent images though.

penski · 10 Sep 2006 at 11:20

Zip said:
Can you lot please post Pictures and Videos of that F1 car that used to have 6 wheels?

I have a friend that was shocked to hear that there was one and he wants to see pictures and videos of it

There was more than one.

Please, Zip, for my own sanity can you think twice and use google thoroughly before starting a thread?

*n

Zip · 10 Sep 2006 at 11:21

penski said:
There was more than one.

Please, Zip, for my own sanity can you think twice and use google thoroughly before starting a thread?

*n

Fine ill try next time

You only see the tip of the ice burg though, Im usually googling things

The ones that im not pleased with the results will be asked on here

SC04 · 10 Sep 2006 at 11:23

You can still buy a Tamiya RC model of this car, a repo from the 1980's release, good fun by all accounts.

example here

Sone · 10 Sep 2006 at 11:32

the only one missing from that page is the 6 wheeled ferrari, that was very wide

Vertigo · 10 Sep 2006 at 12:20

There was also one with "double" rear wheels IIRC, can't remember any more than that though.

A while back F1 magazine did a feature with the Williams techs to get them to design the ultimate F1 car, as if many of the current technical restrictions weren't in force. Interestingly their resulting car had "double" rear wheels.

One interesting thing they said about such a layout was that, in the wet, only the front of the double wheels would need to be treaded, the rear ones could still be slicks, as the front wheels would clear the standing water for the rears. Very interesting idea.

CaneyJ · 10 Sep 2006 at 17:33

You can see a Tyrrell P34 in the flesh at the Donnington Motor museum, here is a pic I got of it.

el_dazza · 10 Sep 2006 at 17:39

Looks like a hammerhead :/

SC04 · 10 Sep 2006 at 17:43

good pic, they've over done it with the Tarton LOL
do you have a pic of the one to the right ? that was one of my favs

CaneyJ · 10 Sep 2006 at 18:21

SC04 said:
good pic, they've over done it with the Tarton LOL
do you have a pic of the one to the right ? that was one of my favs

This one? Can't remember what model it was.

fuz · 10 Sep 2006 at 20:50

Patrick Depailler, Kyalami 1976, also has a little clip from monaco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GewFbY0zz8

Depailler talking about his car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ea4Nhvx4Wo

There is also a longer (2 laps) vid of Depailler around Monaco in 76, with half the nose removed on the car to show the pedal control / heel and toe, etc.. Can't seem to find it at the moment though. It is on the FIA onboard vids DVD though.

Best place to look is http://www.project34.co.uk , quite a few more videos and pictures on there.

Alibaba99 · 10 Sep 2006 at 21:41

There is also the 6 wheeled Williams which had 4 driven wheels.

Entai · 10 Sep 2006 at 21:56

Vertigo1 said:
There was also one with "double" rear wheels IIRC, can't remember any more than that though.

A while back F1 magazine did a feature with the Williams techs to get them to design the ultimate F1 car, as if many of the current technical restrictions weren't in force. Interestingly their resulting car had "double" rear wheels.

One interesting thing they said about such a layout was that, in the wet, only the front of the double wheels would need to be treaded, the rear ones could still be slicks, as the front wheels would clear the standing water for the rears. Very interesting idea.

And

Alibaba99 said:
There is also the 6 wheeled Williams which had 4 driven wheels.

You mean the Williams FW08-6W

A blown up picture of amodel is all I could find but it gives you the idea

Housey · 10 Sep 2006 at 22:52

There were actually a number of 6 wheel F1 cars, but only the Tyrell ever raced. March built one, similar to the Williams in having 4 wheels at the rear, and Ferrari also tried on with 4 wheels at the rear on a single axel!

Ferrari...

March

I saw the Williams with J Palmer at the Goodwood FOS a couple of times, and bloody quick it was too. There were also other 6 wheel single seaters, but I can't remember from who...

fuz · 12 Sep 2006 at 05:17

Pic of Jody Sheckter at the 76 British GP, Brands Hatch