{"id":497697,"date":"2018-07-23T15:35:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T15:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=62325"},"modified":"2024-12-27T12:59:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T12:59:07","slug":"tyrrell-p34-six-wheele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/tyrrell-p34-six-wheele\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Racecar? Tyrrell P34 six-wheeler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p>The last time a <em>car <\/em>featured in my Heroes column was months back, when I wrote about the 1935 Alfa Romeo Bi-turbo, a fast if erratic machine with an Alfa P3 engine, front and rear. It was dreamt up by Enzo Ferrari and his designer Luigi Bazzi in a desperate search for a post-P3 Grand Prix winner \u2013 which it never was \u2013 but could, arguably, be called the first ever Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>Another oddball racing car layout is the six-wheeler, four at the front and two at the rear or vice-versa. There has been &#8211; and would still be &#8211; stabs at developing just such a wild card since 1939, according to my records. The first was the Mercedes-Benz 80, but that never saw the light of day because the Second World War got in its way and it died a death on the drawing board, with not even a prototype being built. And the idea was dropped by Stuttgart after the war, when Germany was eventually allowed to compete in Grands Prix again in 1951.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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