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“I like to think Motor Sport played apart in saving the Tyrrell Shed”

It’s not often you can get excited about some scaffolding going up around a shed and workmen stripping out an asbestos roof. But last month the team here at Motor Sport managed to.

The shed in question was the old premises of the Tyrrell Formula 1 team in rural Surrey. As we report in this month, the shed is to be re-homed at Goodwood where it will be open to the public during their motoring events – and good on the Duke of Richmond for rescuing it (it had been under threat from demolition had Goodwood not offered to step in

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