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Special Issue Cosworth Dfv Hits 50 SPECIAL ISSUE COSWORTH DFV HITS 50 FORMULA 1’s UGLY FUTURE Halo will change F1 forever, but will it save lives? PLUS ROEBUCK ON THE BEST F1 ENGINE EVER BUILT HOW THE DFV BECAME A LE MANS WINNER SPECIAL ISSUE COSWORTH DFV HITS 50 FORMULA 1’s UGLY FUTURE Halo will change F1 forever, but will it save lives? COVER IMAGE Dean and Emma Wright/ PLUS ROEBUCK ON THE BEST F1 EN GINE EVER BUILT JULY 27 2017 HOW THE DFV BECAME A LE MANS WINNER UK £3.90 motorsport.tv COVER STORY 14 Is the halo right for Formula 1? PIT+PADDOCK 4 Fi h Column: Nigel Roebuck 6 Cosworth closing on F1 comeback 8 What Joest Mazda deal means for IMSA 11 Hungarian Grand Prix preview 12 Dieter Rencken: political animal 13 Feedback: your letters COSWORTH DFV AT 50 Halo grabs attention 20 Roebuck on what made it special 26 Tech: inside F1’s greatest engine 28 Stories of the DFV but engines are key 32 Stats: all the F1 winners 36 How it finally conquered Le Mans JUDGING BY OUR INBOX, THE NEWS THAT THE 40 The DFV in UK motorsport halo cockpit safety feature will be introduced to Formula 1 next season is one of the least popular moves of recent years. FEATURE 44 Silverstone Classic preview There can be little argument about the halo’s appearance: it is ugly. But, as Ben Anderson and Edd Straw investigate in our cover feature RACE CENTRE (page 14), the FIA felt it had to act. The push for improved safety 46 DTM; Super GT; Formula Renault Eurocup; can never end – arguments that ‘the drivers know the risks’ are IMSA; ELMS; NASCAR Cup no longer enough and haven’t been for a long time – but there is still some doubt that the halo is the right step forward. CLUB AUTOSPORT Those who say this is the end of F1 and will now switch o are 61 Priaulx Jr gets his wins back 62 Rival Formula 5000 series unite overreacting – we’ll get used to it. This is not the fi rst time F1 has given 64 Former winners head to FVee celebration us aesthetically challenged cars. But there are other options and we can 65 Humble Pye: the voice of club racing only hope they are developed and introduced sooner rather than later. 66 National reports: Cro ; Pembrey; Arguably more important for F1’s future have been the discussions Cadwell Park; Donington Park over the next set of engine regulations (p6). The trick will be to keep 72 Formula Vee at 50 track test F1 relevant to the wider world, while at the same time making sure costs are controlled enough so that independent companies such FINISHING STRAIGHT as Ilmor and Cosworth can make a business case to re-enter F1. 78 What’s on this week And have a chance to be competitive if they do. 80 From the archive: 1957 Italian GP Have-a-go hero: Bobby Unser It’s a fi tting time to be talking of Cosworth’s return as we look back 82 at its iconic DFV. It’s 50 years since motorsport’s fi nest engine fi rst appeared and the many people who worked with it still hold it in high regard. One of the clear positives it brought was that it made reaching F1 possible for people such as Ken Tyrrell and Frank FIND US ON Williams, something modern F1 has struggled with in recent years. Some might think that ‘history is bunk’, but it can always tell autosport.com you something. Ignore its teachings at your peril. twitter.com/autosport Facebook “f” Logo CMYK / .eps Facebook “f” Logo CMYK / .eps facebook.com/autosport instagram.com/autosportdotcom/ youtube.com/AUTOSPORTdotcom digitalmagazine.autosport.com KEVIN TURNER EDITOR [email protected] Apple News @KRT917 JULY 27 2017 3 FIFTH COLUMN/OPINION NIGEL ROEBUCK A step too far in pursuit of safety IT WAS ANNOUNCED LAST WEEK THAT by fans, it was at least easier on the eye the Lausitzring will close as a race track at than the halo, so why could not a decision the end of this year, having been acquired have been postponed – as it was this year – by the vehicle inspection company DEKRA until further research had been conducted? as ‘a testing ground for automotive Instead, at a meeting last week of the F1 innovations’. Remembered chiefl y as the Strategy Group it was decided that the site of two dreadful accidents in 2001, one halo should be made mandatory in 2018. costing the life of Michele Alboreto, the Actually, when I say ‘F1 Strategy Group’, other causing disastrous injuries to Alex I mean sections of it. Although I’m told that Zanardi, the place will not be widely mourned. all but one of the F1 teams (said to dress in In future it is to be used as a simulation red) were against the halo, their views were area for self-driving vehicles, so its fate of no account, for they were outvoted by the is very much a metaphor for our times. FIA and the commercial rights holder, the Together with artifi cial intelligence F1 Group (Liberty Media). (already long prevalent in the political I was out of my o ce when the statement world), driverless cars are coming our was issued, and heard the news when a friend way, and some even speak morosely of called me. “Well,” he said, “Formula 1’s been a time when Formula 1 might be like that. looking at ways of cutting costs – and it’s Well, why not? With drivers a thing of certainly found a way to cut mine. After this the past, it would be way cheaper – and year I’m not going to a race again, and I’ll be also completely, totally, absolutely, safe. cancelling my Sky Sports subscription – At Silverstone Sebastian Vettel tested the don’t need that for MotoGP…” Shield – for now let’s keep the upper-case This is one who has attended at least going – but abandoned it after one lap, saying three grands prix a year for as long as I can it made him feel dizzy. While not in itself remember. The whispering hybrid engine something that would have been welcomed and domination by one team were bad enough, he said, but the introduction of the halo was the fi nal straw: “Romain Grosjean’s right – this is not Formula 1.” If the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association, as a body, is in favour of the move, its members appear to be split. It didn’t surprise me, though, that Niki Lauda – who knows rather more than most about the dangers of motor racing – wasted no time in making his feelings clear: more than once we have talked at length about it. “If we keep on inventing what are – for me – too many safety issues,” he said, “we’re slowly going to destroy the DNA of Formula 1. If you go too far with these things, it’s no wonder that fewer people are watching these days. “Because of improvements in the cars, including wheel-tethers, and because all these modern tracks have been designed The DNA of F1 risks so there is nothing you can hit because being destroyed, the runo s are so wide, generally speaking reckons Lauda Formula 1 has never been as safe as it is today, so now the question for me is how 4 JULY 27 2017 Halo is another barrier between fans and drivers far do we want to go? In the end the attraction of any sport – like Formula 1, “Of course safety matters, but so also like downhill skiing – is how far can we go on safety issues without losing the interest of the people? – to those who pay to watch – does “Given the speeds in Formula 1 of course there is still a danger involved, but I think the whole perception of Formula 1” – in a very respectful way – that its DNA should be maintained and this thing with haloes, started by the FIA, has gone too far. been greatly reduced. hate it. Of course safety matters, but so also “We need to keep a sense of proportion, “I stand by that,” said Niki. “The drivers – to those who pay to watch – does the whole and my worry is that we go over the top. know what risks they are taking – other perception of Formula 1. No-one ever put it The racing on its own is interesting, but people worry more about them than they do better than Ken Tyrrell: “Yes, we need to there is also the aspect of what these guys themselves! They have to decide, ‘Do I want pay attention to safety – but at the same time are really doing, in the end risking their to take the risk or not?’ But if someone says we have to be careful not to finish up with lives – and without that people are going he wants to make $40 million a year, with something no-one wants to watch anymore…” to lose interest. This halo… if you can’t see an easy car to drive, and no risk… I’m sorry, Some time ago, it was announced that the drivers’ helmets anymore, how do you but this is not reality. I understand why the unsightly T-wings are to be banned know who’s sitting in the bloody car! It’s some of them want this halo thing – but for 2018, and I was much heartened to ugly, and it’s another layer between the fans in the end it’s not only the drivers who learn – given that the look of the cars and their heroes, and we should leave it.” are involved with this sport.” has always been important to fans – that In a previous conversation Lauda had Lauda’s last point is unarguable, and if this had been decided entirely on aesthetic made the point that in his day Formula 1 the FIA and some drivers are in favour of the grounds.
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