Cosworth DFV Artwork
Nicolas Cancelier commemorates the day when the Cosworth DFV won its first GP, on its first try.
One day in the spring of 1967, a new force arrived on the scene in Formula One, the Cosworth DFV V8 engine. Born of a partnership between Ford and Cosworth Engineering, it would go on to become the single most successful engine in F1 history. The first of these new power plants would debut as load-bearing members of the Lotus 49 chassis to be driven by Jim Clark and Graham Hill at that year’s Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort. Clark would take his to victory, registering the first of Cosworth’s many F1 successes.
