FORD: A WINNING HERITAGE IN FORMULA ONE
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The statistics speak for themselves: 401 Grand Prix starts;
174 Grand Prix wins. That is Ford's record in the Formula
One World Championship. Put another way, Ford currently has
a 43.4 per cent win-to-start ratio in Grand Prix racing -
an amazing feat bearing in mind the vagaries of motor
racing generally and the intense competifiveness of Formula
One in particular.

Naturally enough, that sort of win rate also equates to
championship-winning performances. When Michael Schumacher
clinched the 1994 Formula One World Drivers' Championship
at the Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide last November, he
became the 13th driver in 26 years to win the world title
with Ford power behind him. In doing so, he also proved
that history can repeat itself.

In 1967, the legendary Jim Clark took Colin Chapman's Lotus
49, powered by the brand new Ford Cosworth DFV V8, to a
debut victory in the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.

In 1994, Ford's all-new, Cosworth-developed Formula One
engine, the Zetec-R, powered Schumacher's Benetton to an
historic win on its debut in the opening round of the World
Championship, the Brazilian Grand Prix. The combination
then went on to score a further seven wins in the course of
the 16-race season.

Since 1988, Ford's Grand Prix successes have been based on
3.5-litre, naturally aspirated (non-turbocharged) V8
engines. During that time, three distinct power units have
been used.

The DFR was a long-stroke development of the
ultra-successful DFV and appeared from 1988 until mid-1989,
at which time it was replaced by the HB VS. This compact,
highly reliable power unit went through a total of eight
"evolutions" before the new Zetec-R was unveiled at the
beginning of the 1994 season.

Despite the successes of both the Ford DFR and HB, though,
there can be no question that it is the Zetec-R which is
Formula One's "engine of the moment". The life of a Grand
Prix engine is never an easy one, though, and a measure of
the 3.5-1itre Zetec-R's inherent ruggedhess is clear when
the following points are considered:

· The engine's maximum rotational speed is 14,500 rpm, or
  242 revolutions per second, which means that one
  revolution takes 4 thousandths of a second

· Maximum piston acceleration is approximately 8,000g,
  which puts a load of over 3 tons on each connecting rod

· Maximum piston speed is 47.2 metres per second (154.9
  feet per second), with a Zetec-R accelerating from rest
  to that maximum speed in I thousandth of a second.

If a connecting rod let go of its piston at maximum engine
speed, the released piston would have sufficient energy to
travel vertically upwards for over 100 metres (329 feet).
Happily for Ford and Cosworth, that did not happen in 1994!

· If a water hose were to blow off, the complete cooling
  system would empty in just over a second

The most interesting statistic, though, is one which speaks
volumes for the sort of commitment required to succeed in
Formula One: to support a two-car "works" team, around
10,000 man-hours of time are invested by Ford, Cosworth and
their sub-contractors for every hour that a Zetec-R engine
runs in a Grand Prix.

"There's no doubt 1994 was an exceptional year in Formula
One for Ford and its partners," says Peter Gillitzer,
Ford's Director of Motorport Strategy and Formula One
Operations. "When it comes to motorsport, however, there
cannot be too much basking in the afterglow of past
accomplishments. Having arrived at this level of
competitiveness with the Ford Zetec-R engine, we must now
ensure that we retain that edge, and that is where the Ford
and Cosworth personnel involved with our Formula One
program are currently concentrating all their efforts.

"In 1995, we will be opening a new chapter in our Formula
One involvement in partnership with the Sauber team. We
will also be competing with a new, 3.0-1itre version of the
Zetec-R designed to comply with the latest Formula One
technical regulations. I am certain that with the
collective experience and expertise avilable to us, the new
Sauber-Ford parmership will be fully competitive from the
outset."

As Ford's officially supported "works" team in Formula One,
Sauber will be the sole recipient of the 3.0-1itre Zetec-R
engine. A number of other teams, however, are in need of a
reliable, competitive power unit for their cars.

To service that requirement in the coming season, Ford and
Cosworth will supply a new engine to these "customer"
teams: the Ford Cosworth ED. This power unit is a 3.0-litre
development of the HB-Series V8 and combines new technology
with proven features in a package which offers considerable
scope for future development. To date, the Larrousse,
Pacific and Forti Corse teams have signed up to use the new
V8 in 1995.


Ford's Formula One World Championship Role of Honour
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1968    Graham Hill               Lotus-Ford
1969    Jackie Stewart            Matra-Ford
1970    Jochen Rindt              Lotus-Ford
1971    Jackie Stewart            Tyrrell-Ford
1972    Emerson Fittipaldi        Lotus-Ford
1973    Jackie Stewart            Tyrrell-Ford
1974    Emerson Fittipaldi        McLaren-Ford
1976    James Hunt                McLaren-Ford
1978    Mario Andretti            Lotus-Ford
1980    Alan Jones                Williams-Ford
1981    Nelson Piquet             Brabham-Ford
1982    Keke Rosberg              Williams-Ford
1994    Michael Schumacher        Benetton-Ford


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Source: PP Sauber AG
Scan & ocr by Tero Virta
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