Cosworth

Cosworth is an engine design and manufacture company founded in 1958, specialising in engines for automobile racing. It currently (2005) supplies engines to the Red Bull Racing and Minardi Formula One racing teams. In 2006, the Williams team will use Cosworth engines, transmissions and associated electronics.

Cosworth F1 car

Cosworth made an attempt at designing a full GP car in 1969. The car designed by Robin Herd used an original 4WD transmission (different from the Ferguson used by all other 4WD cars of the sixties) and powered by a magnesium version of the DFV unit. The car was planned to drive at the 1969 British GP but it was silently withdrawn. When Herd left to form March Engineering the project was cancelled. The car is remembered by some as one of the ugliest F1 cars ever built.

Related Topics:
Robin Herd - 4WD - Ferguson - March Engineering

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