The Best Things Happen In An English Shed, Especially The Tyrrell Shed At Goodwood

They only just missed out on the championship in 1968, but Steward dominated the 1969 seasomn for Tyrrell using the Matra chassis and went on to win again in 1971 and 1973 using in house built Tyrell chassis built in the Shed. Tyrrell had a host of names winning Grand Prix races for them, Francois Cevert, Jody Scheckter, Patrick Depailler and Michele Alboreto and they launched the careers of Didier Pironi, Martin Brundle, Stefan Bellof and Jean Alesi. In 1970 the shad hid the first Tyrrell chassis, 001 and then in 1976 the legendary P34, the first six wheel Formula 1 car. The small team of engineers led by chief designer Derek Garnder and a handful of mechanics created the cars. They also managed to keep both of them a secret. The Shed stood in rural Surrey for more than 70 years, even though it was originally a temporary structure. The structure needed some restoration before it was dismantled and transported from the original Ockham Village location to the Hurricane Lawn at the Goodwood Motor Circuit. The Shed has been kept as original as possible, even down to the stickers on the walls allowing people to see as much as possible from its past. It’s funny to thing that as Ken sold the team in 1998 it became BAR, then Honda and lastly Mercedes-AMG. Each one of them can trace the roots back to the somewhat famous Shed.