Cosworth's Bahrain GP Recap

Posted on Tuesday 16 Mar 2010

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Cosworth’s widely anticipated return to Formula One as an engine supplier was given the stamp of approval by all four of its customer teams after the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix in Sakhir on Sunday.

Working with AT&T Williams, HRT F1, Lotus Racing and Virgin Racing, Cosworth was able to verify the performance of its CA2010 V8 engine in race conditions after encouraging results in pre-season testing.

AT&T Williams driver Rubens Barrichello was the highest-placed of the eight Cosworth-powered runners, picking up a world championship point for tenth place, while team-mate Nico Hülkenberg finished 14th.  

Mark Gallagher – Cosworth General Manager F1 Business Unit

Q: How was the Bahrain Grand Prix from Cosworth’s point of view?

MG: After the many months of work developing and implementing our return as an engine supplier to Formula One it was good to finally get the racing underway. It was satisfying to see all four of our teams in action and to witness the three new teams enjoy their Formula One debuts. From an engine performance point of view, I think we can be very satisfied with the performance of the CA2010 in Bahrain with both AT&T Williams drivers finishing the race with Rubens picking up a championship point for tenth.

Q: Have you received positive feedback from the teams and drivers themselves?
MG: We have spoken with our technical counterparts in each of the teams on a regular basis to ensure that we are meeting our targets and objectives. I have also spoken to several of the drivers who have given us positive and constructive feedback on the CA2010 performance and driveability. We have accumulated a lot of track data from Bahrain, a circuit that is quite demanding on the engine, and this will be thoroughly examined and analysed by our team of engineers back in Northampton. Overall, it has been a solid start to Cosworth’s 2010 season, in terms of engine performance and reliability.

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The Cosworth’s engines have a long history with Formula 1, backing to the past when they used to be Ford Cosworth, I hope that now they can have more success, and competing equal conditions with Mercedes, Ferrari, and Renault.
I learnt to have a special admiration to AT&T Williams F1 team, and I want to see them shinning again like the heydays.

So, what are they going to do? I think the article should have said more, its a bit copy paste for me. I wanted to hear that Cosworth are going to do some remedial work and up the power etc etc etc.

once upon a time williams F1 won the constructor's title with cosworth; long time ago...I hope this to be a great motivation for the future not just a part of F1 history; Renault, Mercedes, even Ferrari, are producing engines for different market's niches; they are developing engines for all kind of cars; the ex partner, BMW, represents no exception; but cosworth's reason to exist is to race, to be in the middle of competition; they are not making icecream vans or family cars; so, they have not excuses; the problem is that in F1 you can not compete by yourself; there are other teams too and you must struggle, you must fight using all your skills; the FW 32 is not what it was built to be: a winner! and this problem belongs to Cosworth part of work rather than Williams; why am I writing this? ..because you must not be an expert in motorsport engineering to see the difference between cars in straight line acceleration; Williams is a part of F1 high performance heritage and deserves more than a fight for the second part of the tops; it was the first GP and we have the entire season in front of us; ...but this is available for the others teams too; I didn't like when Nico Rosberg left Williams because he wanted a car with real chances to reach victory; it is distressing for any pilot to feel like that and I'm afraid to hear this again

The 3 main engine subjects are Power, Fuel Consumption and Reliability and right now we already know that the reliability went very good indeed.
But I'd expect some comments regarding Power (and final speed) and fuel comsumption.
I'm looking forward to know better about these because these are the conditions that will allow Williams and Rubens to fight for the title. Or not!
In the past, low fuel consumption and low wheight were good Cosworth characteristics but at that time (I mean the last Cosworth appearance in the F1 scene) it lacked a lot of power also, so these advantages didn't count really.
Where are we today?
The final speed doesn't depends on the power alone of course. How about the aerodynamic?
I'm very much wanting to start to see wich are the real chances for 2010.
Thanks,
Eduardo

I think for now there is no synergy with Gear and Engine. I think Williams and Cosworth need work on making this car more harmonic. The laps from Rubens were much better when he was less heavy.
I do wish this car get ready to win until Australia. I hope and expect for the best. This team has a great History, the Engine has great History and Rubens is writing a great History.
RUBENS, PLEASE DO YOUR BEST EVERY CURVE EVERY MILLISECOND OF THIS CHAMPIONSHIP.
WILLIAMS, PLEASE MAKE THIS CAR THE BEST OF THE TRACK. MAKE THIS DREAM OF RUBENS HAPPENS!
I wish the best for "Rubens and The Hulk" on Australia!

GO WILLIAMS!

"I wanted to hear that Cosworth are going to do some remedial work and up the power etc etc etc."

They can't - the engine is frozen as of March 2010 iirc

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