They met with widely differing success, but the man with the self-belief to build his own F1 car in a lock-up knows where Cosworth were coming from with this flawed Tour De Force – as today's Great Read explains
Motor racing fans measure success in terms of wins and that's not a bad thing. The Cosworth GP car never even entered a race, let alone won one. So why choose it? The truth is, I've never been a big fan of motor racing; it's the engineering that did it for me. I'd have loved to have worked with Robin Herd while he put this design together, at what must have been the most exciting place to be in the late 1960s: Cosworth Engineering. What a lucky chap he was.
The timing of the project, however, was very unlucky. Keith Duckworth's 1967 DFV engine meant Formula 1 chassis had more power than they could handle. Traction was at a premium, and four-wheel drive was reckoned to be the future...
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