An example of one of the most unusual Formula 1 cars in history is up for grabs. This 1977 Tyrrell P34 six-wheeler will be one of the featured lots at RM Sotheby's upcoming auction in Monaco.

The six-wheel Tyrrell P34 is one of the most iconic car designs in Formula One history. It had to have had some kind of engineering reasoning behind it, right? But what in the world can it even be?

If you find modern F1 racing boring because you can’t tell one F1 car from another, you need to jump in that time machine pronto and head back to the 1970s. Back then teams had more freedom to try new ...

People who picked up the sport after watching Drive to Survive may not realize this, but there was a brief period during the 1970s when six-wheeled F1 cars were a thing on grid. The first and most ...

The Tyrrell P34 was one of the most radical Formula One car designs to ever make it to the track… and then win a race. The idea behind the car’s bizarre quadruple front wheels is to maintain the same ...

Ben Collins built a career on being extremely good at driving as The Stig on BBC’s Top Gear. It’s no surprise, then, that people are willing to hand him (proverbial) keys to quite a few cars, ...

A 13-year-old kid from Ohio is responsible for building one of the coolest go-karts we’ever seen hit the track: a miniature replica of the Tyrrell P34 Formula 1 race car, which wowed fans with its ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. If you’re going to pick an unorthodox Formula One car from history to be the one you idolize and hold on high above all others, the Tyrrell P34 isn’t ...

Derek Gardner, the man who designed the famous six-wheel Tyrrell P34 Formula One car, died in Lutterworth, England, on Jan. 7 at the age of 79. A specialist in advanced transmission engineering, ...