LOVED driving this beast. What sort of racecar should I drive next? 👇

I love how absolutely miniscule these cares used to be. Today's F1 cars are aircraft carriers by comparison, and while I know that they are much, much safer than they were in the '70s partially because of their size (definitely a good thing) I do kind of wish that they would start shrinking again for more on-track action.

Being a kid in Sweden in the 70’s and thus having Ronnie Peterson as a favourite driver, the amazing P34 has a special place in my heart.

Loved watching Schecter in the Tyrrell and built the Tamiya 1/20 scale model of his P34. We are all living vicariously through you, Ben. 👍

SUCH an iconic car. Tyrell was always willing to go places in design that no other team ever did.

The difference in size between the Leyton House and the Tyrrell on track was extraordinary! I had no idea the Tyrrell was so small

3:08 "So I can get my legs underneath the roll bar so I can use the brakes and the throttle which is... an important part of using a Formula One car" - He set us up expertly, thinking we were going to hear some nugget of inside baseball, and hit us with the deadpan delivery. I'm so glad Ben has this channel, it's fantastic!

When Ben asked "What classic F1 car should I drive next" in a few videos back, I never imagined he would listen to my suggestion. Thank you so much 👍😀♥️

The crazy 1970s, when hippies ran wild, drugs were ubiquitous, fashion was sketchy, and music was psychodelic. Of course F1 couldn't be left out of this festivity. And then there was Lord Hesketh!

One thing that never gets mentioned, I read in an interview from Derek Gardner that the primary reason was the old crossply tires would “balloon” or grow significantly at high speeds, and by having tiny tires that don’t grow as much, you get much more stable aerodynamics at high speeds, but one set of 10” wheels wasn’t enough tire for lateral loads, so they put in two sets.

The DFV never gets tiring to listen to, that's a blast Ben, awesome mate.

The F1 cars of the 60s to the 90s were moving works of art, driven by Gods, never again will we see or hear such beauty grace the race track. RIP Depailler.

Back when F1 wasn't settled at qualification on Saturday and a race masquerading as a parade on Sunday...thank you so much for sharing this incredible car and your wonderfully spirited drive. I have loved this car since I was 7 years old and it made its debut.

This is such a treasured piece of F1 automotive history. Every time I saw a model of the Tyrell or it on TV I'd never take my eyes off of it! It's such a unique piece of engineering and a great example of someone thinking outside the box of rule makers. I loved the commentary, Ben. You really did it justice!

Such a privilege to drive that legendary F1 and such a privilege for us to see and enjoy this type of content. Thanks!🙌

That was great Ben & team : great script, camera angles, production quality. All first rate. Closing in on 100k subscribers. Fantastic achievement. Quality from start to finish. Come on sponsors, you know you want to !

WHAT A CAR! You guys did an amazing job with the production, wow what an opportunity to drive and get a really close view of this car and Ben at work. Thank you!

I`ve seen this thing up close and personal. The sound is just something else and watching it being muscled around a track is just a wonderful site.. Visceral experience. Great drive Ben... More please

What a legend! This is why I’ve subscribed to your channel! Not just because you used to be the STIG!

that minute and 40 seconds from 11:55 onward...I could watch that on loop for a long time. What a beast of a machine!

More of this please Mr Collins, great input and explanation of something many of us wont be able to experience.

Those front wheels would be a nightmare for a modern pit stop.

What a wonderful beast! Never tire of the DFV growl. Good stuff! 😀

Always been blown away that this car actually worked, Ben you’re crushing it with these videos keep it up!

Still a fantastic looking car after all these years. I remember as a kid how futuristic it looked. Sounds so good too, love hearing the manual shifting too.

So damn cool! That car has always been so entrancing for me. My favorite era of F1 is from the beginning, all the way up to the mid-80's. Some say he can't tell the difference between a squirrel and an antelope, and that he loves racing epic F1 cars while eating a pastie. All we know is, that he's called The Stig.

That’s what dreams are made of Ben! 😊. Phenomenal video. Loving your videos. Onwards and upwards. Well on your way to 100k subs 💪🏼

Always loved that car, it was so darn unique. I heard the tiny front wheels were a limitation because the tire manufacturers never invested a lot of development time into them.

I love the classic F1 cars. Don’t get me wrong my favourite is the V10 modern era. But man 60’s to 90’s has some awesome machines. Particularly 60’s and 70’s for me. Scary things but beautiful as well. Great footage.

What a brilliant exercise in engineering!! This was definitely the golden age of racing. Thanks for sharing your experience Ben!

What impresses me the most is that car has always been big for me due to all those front wheels, but then seeing it next to the March shows how tiny it is. It's impressive how F1 cars dimensions changed over the years.

I wasn't an F1 fan back during this era of racing, but I saw this car, and have always wondered how it handled with the four fronts. Thanks for for posting this, and also giving the history of why it was designed this way. Enjoyed this immensely. 👍

With the babby four wheels at the front it looks like a go-kart next to the later cars. What an insane machine

Awesome video. I heard that one of Tyrell's drivers hated the car because at tracks with a lot of elevation changes, the wheelbase would effectively change, because some wheels wouldn't be touching the ground at the tops and bottoms of hills. I would say it's a shame you didn't get to experience that quirk of a 6 wheeler, but it's probably for the best lol.

My second favorite F1 car, just behind the FW15!

Fantastic vid- thanks Ben! I remember these cars. Love your dialogue as you're experiencing these beasts.

Come on Ben this came out really well! Felt like we were with you in the car. Raw AF! ❤

seeing the front end turn in with/without heat was great! seeing it working, the theory is a very interesting one.

I feel very lucky to have been a tech inspector for HMSA here in the states being able to pull back the veil of most of the vintage F1 cars was an honor I will never forget.

Fantastic! I watched this race at Long Beach in '76. Back when F1 really separated the men from the boys.

Hi Ben, so great to see you enjoy this machine. I really love and admire the radical thinking that went into designing this model. As I understood it made a few people very nervous with one of them being Mr Ferrari.

Who makes tires for that anymore?

I had an RC 6 wheeler Tyrrell car as a kid in the late ‘70s.. Great memories. What a car..

Talking about all the tech specs and history while driving a twitchy, uncomfortable, dinosaur and never missing a shift, or corner. Ben, you’re the best. 😄

Balls of steel driving that on the limit. Respect to you Sir.

Outstanding video. Exhilarating just to view. And the exquisite sound of that Ford beast behind you! And finally the explanation of the engineering of the 76” 6 wheel Tyrrell. A strange but beautiful masterpiece of race car art.

The P34 was the car that got me hooked with F1 as a youngster. It was something never seen before on TV,a vehicle with 6 wheels was eye opening

Loved how you explain the feeling driving this beast. Its like sitting next to you and driving with you. Thanks for letting us be a part of this experience.

Thank you so much for taking us (virtually) along for the drive!

I was at Watkins Glen when these cars raced. That was a fun time to watch F1. The garage was open 24 hours a day and we could just wander through and chat with drivers and various team members. I have some great pictures. It was a very casual time compared to today. The Cosworth DFV and especially the Ferrari and Matra 12 cylinders sounded great! Wonderful memories!

I'd guess what sharpens the mind when driving 1970's F1 cars is component failure, Depailler suffered a fatal accident in testing at Hockenheim ten days prior to the 1980 German Grand Prix, his suspension failure pitched his car into the Armco barrier at the high-speed Ostkurve then overturned before jumping the barrier inflicting fatal head injuries...........very sad but a reminder how dangerous the 70s were!

One of the strange F1 cars of my youth (along with the racing vacuum cleaners). Man, was that fun to watch, thanks!

Although much smaller than I remember them, one of my favourite aspects of the P34 was those side windows, because they allowed just a glimpse of how hard the driver was working at the wheel. This was completely hidden until the arrival of the miniature cameras used today.

Loved this car. Built so many models of it back in the days. Very nostalgic

Wow! Watching the Sting in my all time favorite F1 car is so cool. I wish that I was old enough to have watched this car race in period. I had no idea that the Stig was not much older than I am. Thank you.

F1 drivers back in those days were crazy people. I loved that

Superb production. Camera, music, script, onboards... Loving it

Love the sound of that V8. Thanks for this video, it was a blast from the past. RIP all those drivers that we've lost.

Best P34 vid so far! Born in 1970, so this era of cars is what I first learned about as exotic race cars, in magazines, picture books, and the sporadic TV coverage of the time....Lotus 72, McLaren M23, Porsche 917, Porsche 935, McLaren M8 Can-Am, etc.....but this...this was the ultimate, craziest, most exotic of all....6 freaking wheels!

This was awesome! I had an AFX version of this car in the 1970's - the cool thing is that vis video games many of us are. Used to donnington park so we were able to anticipate the turns etc! Keep these comming!

Wow, what a great ride, glad the cameras all held on, fantastic video thanks

When I was a little kid back in the 70s I was obseced with this car... I used to draw it in my notebooks dreaming I was driving it.... to me is the most beatiful..unique and iconic car in the sport.... and an important part of my childhood... I will always like this car over all others.

Very cool, 70's was probably the most interesting era for F1, such an experimental era.

Some say he has four wheels in the front and two in the back! Looks like quite a riot!!

I was 7 in 1976 and for my birthday I raced as model this blue 6 wheels F1, still got it in good shape, technical fascination.

I saw the P34 at the last F1 race held at Mosport in Ontario in 1977. It was a crowd favourite and the crowd roared every time. Loved the concept, still do.

Lovely content ❤. You simply have to admire the designers/ engineers / drivers of this era and give them 100% respect. Little or zero computing just a good old drawing board, inspirational engineering based on aerospace alloy and rivets . Sometimes FAG PACKET designs and ideas dreamt up in the local drinking hole and quite often put together in a shed . Makes one very proud to be British. 3.5lt DFV @500BHP GLORIOUS!!!! I have the original DFV that was used in the 1982 Belgium GP and won . Used in practice by Nikki Lauda In practice in various races and eventually expired with a throw rod at Monaco practice in 1982 . Makes a lovely coffee table. 😁🇬🇧

Great video I could sort of feel the power from that sweet sounding Cosworth, nice!

Brilliant!! Super episode thank you

There is something about how you capture the drive. I can really feel it. Brilliant driving, surprising and quirky car. Fantastic video!

Been watching F-1 since mid 1996, and have book on older F-1 cars but never had any idea why 4 front wheels, what a treat seeing this video

This video is better than watching any actual F1 race during the last few decades. It has what F1 lacks now ....... EXCITEMENT!!! I think F1 should consider relaxing rules that stifle radical design, so we end up with cars that look differently. Bring back Fan Cars and 6 wheelers.

Definitely an F1 'Dragster' and what started my F1 interest back in the 70's.

This was the iconic car that got me into watching F1. Such an amazing piece of engineering!

Loved it, great stuff!!👍👏👏👏

I had the same Scalextric too and it was such an amazing toy. Thank you for the video I lived the dream vicariously through you.

F1 will never be as interesting as this car either. The 70's & 80's, while lawless at times, were certainly some of the best time for fans of the sport.

Absolutely incredible. Thanks for sharing

What a legend, absolute blast to watch this video and can't wait what else you have in store for us! So happy i found your channel and subscribed :)

That engine, what a sinphony!

thanks for sharing this... it was extraordinary just to see this on track again.

4:06 - Ah, man. I love synthwave so much.

Brilliant 🇬🇧✌️👍👍 A video I keep watching, many times. I witnessed this car at the US Grand Prix Watkins Glen back when it was new. It was, and still is a star 🏆🏁

That must've been the craziest experience ever, and what an awesome car!

Being 6 years old in 1976 and living in Woking and watching this car now is amazing

My ALL TIME favorite F1 race car. I've built the model, got the die cast, race the slot cars. Thanks for the ride!!!!!!

Ben, what a great video! I too had that Scalelectric. Had the later model of Stewart’s car also. Keep up the great work. Regards Andy

I’ve always loved the look of this car, it always looked so unique but even more it stood as a symbol for a period in F1 when teams could DREAM! And do whatever they wanted, this car represents one of the best F1 periods.

Amazing, one of the best & powerful racing engines ever designed, DFV Cosworth in basically a larger go cart. Even terrifying to drive today let alone back then.

great era with drivers that were very brave with very little protection...thanks !

I can't believe how this car can hug the corners when Ben stamps on the throttle before he's even on the strait. It's like it's on rails! I'm a model builder and I have Tamiyas 1/12 scale Tyrell P34 full plastic assembly kit measuring out about a foot long with over 350 parts! I'm going to start it very soon!🇨🇦✌️

as soon as i learned that this channel exists, i subbed :) cheers Ben

I can't stop smiling looking on this car , i love it , it is brilliant , thanks !

Absolutely MEGA design I was a fan then and its still an icon of Formula One. what a privilege for you. Back in the day a Road and Track magazine PS page in the back had a full page photo of Denis Jenkinson kneeling over the 4 front wheels saying to Ken, "ok Ken now show me your real new car"🤣.✌️👍🏆🇬🇧 🇺🇲

Brilliant Ben, like Tiff so informative & obviously skilled driving.

I had the same Scelextric set too, and loved that car as a kid. I thought very simplistically as a kid: "Six wheels! Must be better than four!" 😂

From the weirdest and boldest designs in F1 history, this is the most beautiful one.

Great video, my first racing car toy as a kid, still has a special place in my heart.

i love watching you do stuff mate. when theres race cars about you love it. :D i Get mad max vibes from that car for some reason

Now thats an engine😊