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Cosworth is now two companies, Cosworth Racing and Cosworth Technology; they split in 1998.
The original company was founded as a British racing engine maker, founded in Northampton in 1958 by Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth .
Despite being an independent company Cosworth was supported by Ford and most of the Cosworth engines were branded Ford.
The company has been through a number of owners. United Engineering Industries (UEI) purchased the company in 1980; UEI were taken over by Carlton Communications in 1988. Vickers bought Cosworth in 1990. In 1998 Vickers sold the company to Volkswagen Group, who then signed a deal with Ford, which bought the racing division which had long always made racing engines for Ford. Cosworth Technology (also known as CT) offers powertrain development consultancy, and its patented aluminium casting process is used by several car makers including Audi and Aston Martin.
In September 2004, Ford announced that it was selling Cosworth Racing, along with its Jaguar Formula One team.
On Nov. 15, 2004, the sale of Cosworth was completed, to Champ Car World Series owners Gerald Forsythe and Kevin Kalkhoven.
Cosworth began manufacturing racing engine with a 1000cc Formula 3 engine based on a Ford block.
The V8 Ford Cosworth DFV is the most successful engine in Formula 1 history. It won on its first outing, at the Dutch Grand Prix in the hands of Jim ClarkJim Clark or Jimmy Clark ( March 4, 1936 April 7, 1968) was a Formula 1 race car driver, still regarded as one of the best drivers of all time. He was born James Clark Jr. into a farming family in Kilmany, Scotland, the only son of five children. Clark's, fitted to a Lotus 49.
Cosworth also developed a 72° V10A V10 is an engine in V configuration, having 10 cylinders. The V10 configuration is inherently imbalanced in the vertical plane and generates a rocking couple causing vibration from end to end of the engine. To contain this issue a balance shaft is requi for the Sauber Formula 1 team. It was rumored in the late 1990sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s Years: Events and trends Computers, technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other techn that a manufacturer ( Volvo CarsVolvo Cars or Volvo Personvagnar is an automobile maker that was founded in 1927 in the city of Gothenburg in Sweden, as a spin-off from roller ball bearing maker SKF. It was owned by Volvo until 1999, when it was acquired by the Ford Motor Company. Volvo was the prime candidate) intended to use a road-going version of this engine in a production car.
One of the most successful and longest-lived projects of Cosworth has been its CART/Champ Car engine program. Starting in the 1970s, Cosworth developed a derivative of their DFV Formula 1 engine to fit Champ Car's 2.65 litre turbocharged V8 formula. This engine, the DFX, quickly became the gold standard in Champ Car throughout the 1980s, until it was finally rendered obsolete by advancing technology. Cosworth subsequently designed a series of replacements, the X-series, beginning in 1992 with the XB. The XF, developed in 2000, was chosen as the spec engine for Champ Car in 2003, and will continue in that role at least through the 2005 season.