Keith Duckworth and Mike Costin are the founders of Cosworth, one of the longest surviving and most famous names in motorsport. Our Ed McDonough was able to sit down with both of them as they made plans for the 45th anniversary of Cosworth Engineering.
VRJ: How did it all start?
Duckworth: I met Mike presumably around 1954 when I went to Lotus to negotiate to buy a Lotus 6 kit. Possibly, I met him on that occasion. If it wasn’t, then it was when I worked, during my second vacation from university, at Lotus in the summer of ’55. The first summer that I went to Lotus I was in the general building shop where the cars were built. And I was filing and hacking and making bits for Lotus 6’s, I suppose. I was filing bits and cutting bits and doing anything that needed to be done.
