Tyrrell Racing

Tyrrell
Full nameTyrrell Racing Organisation
BaseOckham, Surrey, United Kingdom
Founder(s)Ken Tyrrell
Noted staffDerek Gardner
Mike Gascoyne
Tim Densham
Harvey Postlethwaite
Noted driversFrance Patrick Depailler
France Jean Alesi
France Didier Pironi
South Africa Jody Scheckter
United Kingdom Jackie Stewart
Italy Andrea de Cesaris
France François Cevert
Germany Stefan Bellof
Sweden Ronnie Peterson
Republic of Ireland Derek Daly
Netherlands Jos Verstappen
United Kingdom Martin Brundle
United Kingdom Jonathan Palmer
Italy Michele Alboreto
Finland Mika Salo
Next nameBritish American Racing
Formula One World Championship career
First entry1968 South African Grand Prix (as Matra International)
1970 South African Grand Prix (as Tyrrell Racing Organisation)
Races entered23 entries (23 starts) (as Matra International)
442 entries (440 starts) (as Tyrrell Racing Organisation)
ConstructorsMatra
March
Tyrrell
Constructors'
Championships
1 (1971) (as Tyrrell Racing Organisation)
Drivers'
Championships
3 (1969 as Matra International, 1971, 1973 as Tyrrell Racing Organisation)
Race victories9 (as Matra International)
24 (as Tyrrell Racing Organisation)
Pole positions2 (as Matra International)
17 (as Tyrrell Racing Organisation)
Fastest laps9 (as Matra International)
18 (as Tyrrell Racing Organisation)
Final entry1969 Mexican Grand Prix (as Matra International)
1998 Japanese Grand Prix (as Tyrrell Racing Organisation)
Tyrrell as a Formula One chassis constructor
Formula One World Championship career
EntrantsTyrrell Racing,
several minor teams and privateers
First entry1970 Canadian Grand Prix
Last entry1998 Japanese Grand Prix
Races entered432 entries (430 starts)
Race victories23
Constructors' Championships1 (1971)
Drivers'
Championships
2 (1971, 1973)
Pole positions14
Fastest laps20

The Tyrrell Racing Organisation was an auto racing team and Formula One constructor founded by Ken Tyrrell (1924–2001) which started racing in 1958 and started building its own cars in 1970. The team experienced its greatest success in the early 1970s, when it won three Drivers' Championships and one Constructors' Championship with Jackie Stewart. The team never reached such heights again, although it continued to win races through the 1970s and into the early 1980s, taking the final win for the Ford Cosworth DFV engine at the 1983 Detroit Grand Prix. The team was bought by British American Tobacco in 1997 and completed its final season as Tyrrell in the 1998 Formula One season. Tyrrell's legacy continues in Formula One as the Mercedes-AMG F1 team, who is Tyrrell's descendant through various sales and rebrandings via BAR, Honda, and Brawn GP.