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Derek Gardner/Tyrell Six Wheeler

Designer Of Six-Wheeled Tyrrell F1 Race Car Dies

RIP to one of the great car designers in the golden era of F1.

(IIRC, the reason that Depallier was driving without the cowl at Monaco, it was because he couldn't see the front wheels - very important at a tight street circuit. If you look on Google images, you see an evolution of this car, the early ones had no cowl windows, the one shown here has huge ones, and there were a few iterations in between.)



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