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.............................. Cosworth Racing
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Cosworth is an automotive engineering company founded in London in 1958 specialising in engines for automobile racing. It supplies a wide range of motorsport series, including the World Rally Championship and until the end of 2006 Formula One. Cosworth is based in Northampton, England, with a North American facility in Torrance, California.
In 2006 two Formula One teams were supplied with Cosworth engines: the Williams team using Cosworth V8 engines, transmissions and associated electronics, and the Scuderia Toro Rosso team using rev-limited Cosworth V10s based on 2005 spec engines. The end of the 2006 F1 season marked the end of Cosworth's remarkable 39 year association with the series as no team is running with Cosworth power in 2007. It leaves the sport as the second most successful engine manufacturer ever to race in F1, with only Ferrari having scored more race victories.
Cosworth was initially an independent company, then part of UEI and subsequently Vickers. Despite its long association with the company, it was only a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company for a very short time. The company was split into Technology and Racing divisions; the Racing division that retains the Cosworth name is now owned by Gerald Forsythe and Kevin Kalkhoven.
Since leaving F1, Cosworth is now committed to its Ford Inline-4 Duratec program. They have also started to supply complete EJ25 Subaru Impreza High performance engines, as well as components for Subaru Impreza, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and Nissan Vehicles with the VQ35 engine.
The original company was founded as a British racing engine maker in 1958 by Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth (1933-2005 COStin and duckWORTH). Despite being an independent company Cosworth was supported by Ford for many years and most of the Cosworth engines were branded Ford.
The company has been through a number of changes of ownership. After Keith Duckworth decided he didn't want to be involved with the day-to-day business of running a growing company he sold out to United Engineering Industries (UEI) in 1980, retaining his life presidency and day-to-day technical involvement with Cosworth and becoming a UEI board director; UEI was a group of small to medium-sized technology companies which was taken over by Carlton Communications in 1988 - Carlton was primarily interested in some of the audio-visual companies in the UEI portfolio and Cosworth was a poor fit with these; a new buyer for the company in the engineering/automotive sector was sought and the traditional engineering company Vickers plc bought Cosworth in 1990. In 1998 Vickers sold the company to Volkswagen Group, who remodelled Cosworth into two separate companies, Cosworth Racing and Cosworth Technology. VW then then signed a deal with Ford, selling them the racing division which had long 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. Volkswagen sold CT to the Mahle Group in December 2004.
In September 2004, Ford announced that it was selling Cosworth Racing, along with its Jaguar Formula One team. On November 15, 2004, the sale of Cosworth was completed, to Champ Car World Series owners Gerald Forsythe and Kevin Kalkhoven, who renamed Cosworth Racing to Cosworth.
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