Overview
Not only has Cosworth designed and supplied many race car engines, which won F1, CART, and many other Championship races, but it has also produced many celebrated high-performance road-car engines. In more recent times, its growing expertise in developing electronic data capture components, and in providing ultra-high-tech engine manufacturing facilities, has made it a world leader. The expansion continues, and in this book the Cosworth story has been brought up-to-the-minute to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of the legendary DFV F1 engine.
Full Product Details
Author: Graham Robson
Publisher: David & Charles
Imprint: Veloce
Edition: 6th edition
Dimensions:
Width: 25.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 25.00cm
Weight: 1.518kg
ISBN: 9781845848958
ISBN 10: 1845848950
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 April 2017
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Even if you know the Bosworth story inside out, this is a great read. While it may look like a coffee table book with its fins illustrations, including a number of cutaway drawings, it is a very serious read indeed.- Historic Racing Technology; Thorough is too weak a word to describe Robson's research.- Motor Sport; It is written in a style which is easy to rad, and has lots of information interspersed with timely and illuminating anecdotes. For those with a more corporate interest, turnover figures are also given a year by year basis. It really does follow the company, rather than just the people.- www.silhouet.com. The book packs and enormous amount of meticulously assembled information into its 256 pages and the detailed appendices, particularly where dealing with the individual engines produced by the company, are an invaluable source of reference. - Speedscene.
Even if you know the Bosworth story inside out, this is a great read. While it may look like a coffee table book with its fins illustrations, including a number of cutaway drawings, it is a very serious read indeed.- Historic Racing Technology; ""Thorough"" is too weak a word to describe Robson's research.- Motor Sport; It is written in a style which is easy to rad, and has lots of information interspersed with timely and illuminating anecdotes. For those with a more corporate interest, turnover figures are also given a year by year basis. It really does follow the company, rather than just the people.- www.silhouet.com. The book packs and enormous amount of meticulously assembled information into its 256 pages and the detailed appendices, particularly where dealing with the individual engines produced by the company, are an invaluable source of reference. - Speedscene. This revised edition of Graham Robson's detailed work follows the Bosworth story from its humble beginnings up to the present day. With increased use of colour and input from the company's current American owners, the book is sure to appeal to those with an interest in this legendary engineering firm. - Classic & Sports Car. This book covers the entire history, life and times of the famous British high-performance engineering company, from its 1958 foundation by Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth, though its often-exciting and always fascinating evolution, to its expansion and worldwide success in both motorsport and high-performance road cars. Graham Robson is one of the UK's most celebrated motor historians. During an extensive career, he has had more than 160 books published about motoring subjects, including motorsport and classics. and some definitive make and model histories. In the past Graham has owned several Cosworth-engined road cars, and has also been involved in confidential projects that included Cosworth content. He has been well-known to, and well respected by, Cosworth for many years, and with the support, aid and enthusiasm of the company itself, Cosworth - The Search for Power is the only authentic book on this world-famous British automotive concern. - CarSport.
Even if you know the Bosworth story inside out, this is a great read. While it may look like a coffee table book with its fins illustrations, including a number of cutaway drawings, it is a very serious read indeed.- Historic Racing Technology; Thorough is too weak a word to describe Robson's research.- Motor Sport; It is written in a style which is easy to rad, and has lots of information interspersed with timely and illuminating anecdotes. For those with a more corporate interest, turnover figures are also given a year by year basis. It really does follow the company, rather than just the people.- www.silhouet.com.
Author Information
After a varied career in the automotive industry Graham Robson has gained a worldwide reputation as a motoring historian, and has more than 160 books to his credit. Born in 1936, and educated at Ermysteds Grammar School in Yorkshire, Graham then went on to study Engineering at Oxford University. He joined Jaguar Cars as a graduate trainee, becoming involved in design work on the Mk II, E-Type and Mark X. Beginning as a hobby, he became a rally co-driver, eventually joining the Sunbeam 'works' team in 1961, and took part in rallies up to International level (once with Roger Clark), but stopped rallying by 1968. During this time he joined Standard-Triumph in Coventry, in 1961, as a Development Engineer, mainly on sports car projects. He then ran the re-opened 'works' motorsport department from 1962 to 1965, this being the period of the birth of Spitfire Le Mans cars, TR4, Vitesse, Spitfire and 2000 rally car developments. Graham Robson’s writing began with rally reports for magazines which evolved into a job with Autocar from 1965-1969. He was recruited back to industry at Rootes to run the Product Proving department, then after a brief period in 1972 as technical director of a safety belt company, became an independent motoring writer. Graham has lived 'by the pen' and 'by the voice', not only writing but commentating, presenting and organising events of all types.
