Cosworth is a British automotive engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in high-performance internal combustion engines, powertrain, and electronics; for automobile racing and mainstream automotive industries.
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Cosworth is based in Northampton, England, with American facilities in Indianapolis and Mooresville, North Carolina.
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Cosworth has collected 176 wins in Formula One as engine supplier, ranking third with most wins, behind Ferrari and Mercedes.
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From this time on, Cosworth was supported by Ford for many years, and many of the Cosworth designs were owned by Ford and named as Ford engines under similar contracts.
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Cosworth Technology was then renamed as MAHLE Powertrain on 1 July 2005.
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On 15 November 2004 Ford sold Cosworth Racing to Champ Car World Series owners Gerald Forsythe and Kevin Kalkhoven.
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Since 2006, Cosworth has diversified to provide engineering consultancy, high performance electronics, and component manufacture services outside of its classic motorsport customer base.
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Cosworth supplied its last premier class racing engines to one F1 team in 2013, the Marussia F1 Team.
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The DFZ was produced as an interim model, but in 1988 Cosworth created the DFV's final evolution, the DFR, which soldiered on in F1 with smaller teams until 1991, scoring its last points – including a pair of second places by Jean Alesi – with Tyrrell in 1990.
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Ford backed Cosworth with creating a new interim design for IndyCar racing in the late 1980s, the DFS, which merged DFR technology into the ageing DFX design, but it was eventually rendered obsolete by advancing technology.
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Cosworth solidified its association with Ford in 1969, by developing a double overhead camshaft 16-valve inline four-cylinder engine for road use in the Ford Escort.
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The development of the GBA engine at Cosworth became the subject of a British TV documentary in Channel Four's Equinox series, broadcast in 1986.
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Cosworth instead worked on the DFR V8 that was introduced with Benetton in 1988.
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In Max Mosley's letter following the withdrawal of Honda from Formula One in December 2008, it was announced that Cosworth had won the tender to provide a standard engine to any interested participants.
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The new engine would become the standard design and manufacturers could opt to use whole units, construct their own from designs provided by Cosworth, or produce their own engine with the caveat that it be limited to the same power as the new "standard" engine.
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In 2010 Cosworth returned as the engine supplier for Williams and three new teams; Hispania Racing, Lotus Racing and Virgin Racing.
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Cosworth designed a series of replacements for the DFS to be used in IndyCar and Champ Car racing: the X-series, beginning in 1992 with the XB.
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Cosworth's EA racing version was not successful due to engine block structural failures.
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Cosworth made an attempt at designing a full Formula One Grand Prix car in 1969.
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