video of Jackie Stewart driving the 6 wheel F1 car.
lots of neat camera shots, good watch
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/3...5c016bf9d3.htm

 

Cool video, but why does it have 6 wheels?

 

testing....

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrrell_P34

"The idea of the smaller front tyres was to increase air penetration and have a smaller 'frontal area' which would reduce drag.

However, smaller diameter tyres would have resulted in a loss of contact area between the rubber and the tarmac surface of the track and hence poorer mechanical grip for cornering. To remedy this, the P34 was given four 10-inch front wheels. Because of a complex suspension design, all four front wheels could be steered."

 

^Still seems funny to me.

 

i dont know what engineers of that time where thinking , they all must have been smoking some good **** , that thing looks wierd as **** , must be complex as hell too
Liked the chick in at the start of the video though

 

Anyone knows more wheels= more drag= more power needed to turn them. Yeah they were smoking alot of good **** back in those days.

 

jackie stewart one of the greatest F1 drives ever. good find.

 

/\ All I know is, get me some of that ****!

 

Jackie is awesome.

He took one of the sidekicks of the BBC's "Top Gear" and shaved-off two seconds off his best lap. Granted he isn't the best driver, but still impressive.

:-) neil

 

cool! i only seen pictures and always wanted to see it driving.

it must have worked, because F1 banned it. so it probably made unfair competition.

 

10 seconds

 

Thanks for the video notveryhappyjack!!

It's crazy how much the suspension travels on those classic F1 cars compared to todays F1. I love F1 racing, too bad no rotary.

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