1971 Tyrrell 003: The £22k Car Built In a Shed By a Timber Merchant That Humiliated Ferrari

I still find it hard to believe this actually happened. In 1971 a timber merchant from a Surrey village called Ken Tyrrell built a Formula One car in a shed behind his wood yard, had it designed in secret by one man working in his own spare bedroom, and used it to bury Ferrari, the proudest name in the sport, across an entire season. In this one I take you through the whole story: how Tyrrell got tired of his champion wasting away in a bought car and decided to build his own, how Derek Gardner drew the thing at his kitchen table, and how Jackie Stewart then won six of the eleven races that year in a machine that cost about twenty two thousand pounds against Ferrari's foundry and its hundreds of craftsmen. By the end of the year the shed had scored seventy three points to Ferrari's thirty three, and the little green car became the most successful Tyrrell ever built. Tell me in the comments whether you think Ferrari should still be embarrassed by it. Subscribe for more stories about the underdogs who humbled the giants.