1990 Tyrrell 019

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000 celebrated 50 years of the Formula One World Drivers' Championship that started with the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on 13 May 1950. There was a display of cars representing those 50 years in the paddock, some of which took part in track demonstration runs during the meeting.

This is one of the cars leaving the pit lane on one of the track demonstration runs, and it's Paul Osborn's 1990 Tyrrell 019. The Tyrrell 019 was designed by Harvey Postlethwaite and was powered by the 3,493cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFR engine, which was a derivation of the DFV engine. It was driven by Saturo Nakajima and Jean Alesi in the 1990 season, but suffered more retirements than finishes and only ending up in a points-scoring position in four races, the best of these being Jean Alesi's second place in the Monaco Grand Prix. It did, however, have the distinction of being the first car to have the higher nose cone, instead of the downward pointing ones that were then used, which improved the downforce produced by the car and which was eventually adopted by all the teams.