Building a Formula 1 car in your own shed? It’s a romantic notion, the stuff of daydreams for many of us. But for the late Ken Tyrrell, there was nothing whimsical about such a homegrown approach.
As one of the greatest and most fiercely independent team patrons, he oversaw the creation of grand prixand world championship-winning Formula 1 cars from just such a humble abode in his family-run timberyard in Ockham, Surrey, for years.
And why not? What more did one need back in the 1960s and 1970s? Today and just down the road sits the fantastical McLaren Technology Centre. The F1 that Tyrrell first knew and thrived in half a century ago might as well have existed in another world.