One of the most beneficial results of Ford’s Total Performance campaign of the early 1960s was its involvement as an engine supplier for the Formula One World Championship. That involvement took the form of the DFV V8 (Double-Four-Valve) that was created when Ford’s public affairs director Walter Hayes put his company together with Keith Duckworth and Mike Costin’s Cosworth Engineering and Colin Chapman’s Lotus Cars.
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