The Tyrrell 010 was a

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that was designed by

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for

Tyrrell Racing The Tyrrell Racing Organisation was an auto racing team and Formula One constructor founded by Ken Tyrrell (1924–2001) which started racing in 1958 and started building its own cars in 1970. The team experienced its greatest success in the ...

for the season. The 010, like all Tyrrells before it was powered by the

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and made its competition debut in the third race of the season in

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. The 010s were driven by Frenchman

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and Irishman

Derek Daly Derek Patrick Daly (born 11 March 1953) is an Irish former racing driver. He won the 1977 British Formula 3 Championship, and competed as a professional racing driver for 17 years participating in 64 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix ...

, with New Zealander

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driving a third car at the last two races of the season. The team continued using the 010 in . Americans

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and

Kevin Cogan John Kevin Cogan (born in Culver City, California on March 31, 1956) is a former race car driver who drove in Formula One from to . Driving a RAM Williams in the 1980 Canadian Grand Prix, he failed to qualify, suffering the same result driving f ...

drove in the season-opening U.S. West Grand Prix, but Cogan was replaced for the next two races by Argentinian

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, who himself was replaced from Round 4 at

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by Italian

Michele Alboreto Michele Alboreto (; 23 December 1956 – 25 April 2001) was an Italian racing driver. He was runner up to Alain Prost in the 1985 Formula One World Championship, as well as winning the 1997 24 Hours of Le Mans and 2001 12 Hours of Sebring spo ...

. Alboreto who was making his F1 debut and the first of an eventual 194 starts from 215 attempts in Formula One in a career which would see 5 wins, 2 pole positions, 23 podium finishes and runner up in the World Drivers' Championship while driving for Ferrari. The 010 was replaced in the middle of the 1981 season by the new

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. The last race for the 010 was the 1981 Austrian Grand Prix where Alboreto qualified 22nd and retired after 40 laps with gearbox failure. The best placings for the 010 were two 4th places: one for Daly in the 1980 British Grand Prix, and another for Cheever at the

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, his last race in the 010 before switching to the 011 in

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. Tyrrell scored 9 of their 12 points in 1980 and 8 of their 10 points in 1981 with the 010. This car would be the first Tyrrell since the 004 (which was only raced three times by the main team in 1972 and twice more by South African Eddie Keizan in a non-works effort for the 1973 and 1974 South African Grand Prix races) which failed to get a single podium finish and since neither the 009 at the beginning of 1980 (after having obtained a few third place finishes during 1979) nor the 011 at the end of 1981 (which would go on to get a victory with Michele Alboreto in the 1982 Caesers Palace Grand Prix at Las Vegas) allowed Tyrrell a top-three finish during the seasons in question, 1980 and 1981 would be the first and second full seasons from a Tyrrell-built Tyrrell entry without a podium (Tyrrell cars were podiumless in 1970 but were only raced in the last three events while Jackie Stewart won earlier in that season in a Tyrrell-entered March at Jarama, Spain).

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