Tyrrell
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Overview
Former F1 team, run by enormously mouthed old man Ken Tyrrell, back when F1 was good.
History
Were famous back in the olden days (1970-ish) for winning a load of championships with Scottish sideburn model Jackie Stewart. This was back in the day when F1 cars looked absolutely ludicrous, like a distorted hall-of-mirrors image of what a racing car should look like. Sadly, after Stewart retired to fix F1's chronic lack of safety by moaning a lot, the team went slowly downhill.
Won the odd race throughout the 1980s, and employed Martin Brundle at one point, allowing him to smash his legs up in the process.
In the early 1990's, Jean Alesi gave them a bit of fame by racing with Ayrton Senna for a bit (though some historians claim this was actually a Minardi), but faded badly as F1 became halfway professional. Spent the twilight years battling Minardi for the crappest team award and employing such genius wheel-merchants as Mika Salo, Ricardo Rosset and Mark "Cor blimey, anyone fancy an ol' knees up?" Blundell before Ken did the decent thing and sold out to BAR in order to let Jacques Villeneuve have something to drive for the 1999 season.
Post-F1
The Tyrrell name returned to the public consciousness thanks to the crisp market, and are now the third most popular brand of pretentiously-flavoured crisps for buffets and BBQs alike.
Types of Tyrrell flavour:
- Pepper
- Salt
- Probably something vaguely involving salsa.
- Defeat
