Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8

Cosworth DFV

Wins: 134
Starts: 4269
Podiums: 403
Poles: 112
Fastest Laps: 118
Points: 3416.5

Manufacturer: Ford

Details

Manufacturer	Ford
Years active	1967–1984
Seasons	18
Capacity	3
Configuration	V8
Aspiration	Naturally aspirated

Season by Season

Column abbreviations (1)

Pos = Championship position

Year	Pos	Starts	Wins	Podiums	Poles	Points
1984	—	32	0	0	0	6
1983	—	253	3	10	2	101
1982	—	287	7	19	1	195
1981	—	303	8	27	7	233
1980	—	302	11	38	8	300
1979	—	305	8	28	7	229
1978	—	378	9	27	12	244
1977	—	377	12	29	14	266
1976	—	389	10	32	11	281
1975	—	324	8	31	5	235.5
1974	—	370	12	32	5	275
1973	—	293	15	45	14	347
1972	—	218	10	28	7	227
1971	—	163	7	18	6	154
1970	—	209	8	25	8	199
1969	—	28	1	5	0	49
1968	—	38	5	9	5	75

Constructors

Constructor	Starts	Wins ↓	Podiums
Lotus	483	41	82
McLaren	521	27	86
Tyrrell	408	23	72
Williams	175	17	52
Brabham	316	12	35
Ligier	88	5	18
March	466	3	18
Wolf	54	3	13
Shadow	240	1	7
Hesketh	97	1	7
Penske	46	1	3
Surtees	263	0	2
Arrows	209	0	4
Ensign	156	0	0
Fittipaldi	156	0	3
ATS	113	0	0
Osella	97	0	0
Theodore	64	0	0
Iso-Marlboro	58	0	0
Lola	36	0	0
Merzario	32	0	0
Wolf-Williams	28	0	0
Frank Williams Racing Cars	27	0	1
Hill	20	0	0
Parnelli	16	0	0
RAM	15	0	0
De Tomaso	11	0	0
Eifelland	8	0	0
Trojan	8	0	0
Maki	8	0	0
Boro	8	0	0
Martini	7	0	0
Bellasi	6	0	0
Amon	5	0	0
LEC	5	0	0
Token	4	0	0
Kojima	3	0	0
Rebaque	3	0	0
Connew	2	0	0
Lyncar	2	0	0
Kauhsen	2	0	0
Politoys	1	0	0
McGuire	1	0	0
Apollon	1	0	0

Drivers

Driver	Starts	Wins ↓	Podiums	Points
Sir John Young Stewart	50	16	24	203
Emerson Fittipaldi	139	14	32	265
Alan Stanley Jones	97	12	24	202
Mario Gabriele Andretti	99	11	17	157
Bengt Ronnie Peterson	123	10	26	206
James Simon Wallis Hunt	93	10	23	179
Carlos Alberto Reutemann	112	7	32	220
Jody David Scheckter	84	7	27	193
Nelson Piquet Souto Maior	33	6	13	104
John Marshall Watson	120	5	16	135
Karl Jochen Rindt	10	5	5	45
Denis Clive Hulme	74	4	18	141
Norman Graham Hill	78	3	6	62
Jacques-Henri Marie Sabin Laffite	61	3	13	87
Patrick André Eugène Joseph Depailler	87	2	19	141
Keijo Erik Rosberg	80	2	9	77
Andreas Nikolaus Lauda	43	2	5	42
Michele Alboreto	43	2	3	35
Peter Jeffrey Revlon Revson	26	2	8	61
Jochen Richard Mass	114	1	8	71
Vittorio Brambilla	74	1	1	15.5
Elio de Angelis	73	1	2	55
José Carlos Pace	70	1	5	52
Gianclaudio Giuseppe Regazzoni	52	1	5	41
Albert François Cevert Goldenberg	47	1	13	89
Didier Joseph Louis Pironi	45	1	7	53
Gunnar Axel Arvid Nilsson	32	1	4	31
Joseph Siffert	24	1	1	12
Sir John Arthur Brabham	13	1	4	25
James Clark, Jr.	1	1	1	9
Jean-Pierre Jacques Jarier	140	0	3	31.5
Arturo Francesco Merzario	74	0	0	4
Marc Surer	71	0	0	12
Hans-Joachim Stuck	67	0	0	17
Riccardo Gabriele Patrese	67	0	4	31
Derek Patrick Daly	64	0	0	15
Rolf Johann Stommelen	63	0	1	14
Héctor Alonso Rebaque	58	0	0	13
Jacques Bernard Edmon Martin Henri Ickx	51	0	4	22
Patrick Daniel Tambay	46	0	0	14
Nigel Ernest James Mansell	45	0	3	25
Robert Brett Lunger	43	0	0	0
Thomas Maldwyn Pryce	42	0	2	19
Johannes Antonius Lammers	39	0	0	0
Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood	38	0	2	28
Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior	38	0	0	3
Rupert Keegan	37	0	0	0
Eliseo Salazar Valenzuela	37	0	0	3
Timothy Theodore Schenken	36	0	1	7
Andrea Lodovico de Adamich	35	0	0	6
Henri Jacques William Pescarolo	35	0	0	4
Francisco Adolpho Serra	33	0	0	1
Edward McKay Cheever Jr.	32	0	0	10
Christopher Arthur Amon	30	0	3	25
Raul de Mesquita Boesel	30	0	0	0
Michael Simon Brindley Bream Beuttler	29	0	0	0
Harald Ertl	29	0	0	0
Roberto José Guerrero Isaza	28	0	0	0
Keith Jack Oliver	27	0	2	10
Thierry Marc Alain Boutsen	26	0	0	5
Brian Henton	25	0	0	0
John Norman Surtees	24	0	0	6
Ian Scheckter	20	0	0	0
Alex Dias Ribeiro	20	0	0	0
James Howden Ganley	19	0	0	1
Maria Grazia Lombardi	17	0	0	0.5
Giuseppe Gabbiani	17	0	0	0
Manfred Winkelhock	17	0	0	2
Piercarlo Ghinzani	17	0	0	0
Mark Neary Donohue Jr.	16	0	1	8
Guy Richard Goronwy Edwards	16	0	0	0
Peter Kenneth Gethin	15	0	0	1
Giovanni Giuseppe Gilberto Galli	15	0	0	0
Hans Binder	15	0	0	0
Andrea de Cesaris	15	0	0	1
Karl Edvard Tommy Borgudd	15	0	0	1
Mauro Giuseppe Baldi	15	0	0	2
Daniel John Sullivan III	15	0	0	2
Corrado Fabi	15	0	0	0
Bruce Leslie McLaren	14	0	4	32
Frederick von Opel	14	0	0	0
Emilio de Villota Ruíz	14	0	0	0
Patrick Marie Ghislain Pierre Simon Stanislas Nève de Mévergnies	14	0	0	0
George Richard Follmer	13	0	1	5
Larry Clifton Perkins	13	0	0	0
Alain Marie Pascal Prost	13	0	0	5
Siegfried Stohr	13	0	0	0
Alberto Cecotto	13	0	0	1
Vernon John Schuppan	12	0	0	0
Geoffrey Lees	12	0	0	0
David Charles Purley	11	0	0	0
John Jeremy Miles	10	0	0	2
Brian Herman Thomas Redman	10	0	0	4
Gijsbert van Lennep	10	0	0	2
David Walker	10	0	0	0
Ian Hugh Gordon Ashley	10	0	0	0
Anthony William Brise	10	0	0	1
Derek Reginald Bell	9	0	0	1
David William Charlton	9	0	0	0
René Alexandre Arnoux	9	0	0	0
Ricardo Héctor Zunino	9	0	0	0
Alex Soler-Roig	8	0	0	0
Michel Leclère	8	0	0	0
Riccardo Paletti	8	0	0	0
Joakim Bonnier	7	0	0	0
Reine Tore Leif Wisell	7	0	1	4
Renzo Zorzi	7	0	0	1
Johan Hayje	7	0	0	0
David Paul Kennedy	7	0	0	0
Kenneth Henry Acheson	7	0	0	0
Silvio Moser	6	0	0	0
John Barber III	6	0	0	0
Leo Juhani Kinnunen	6	0	0	0
William Michael Wilds	6	0	0	0
Roelof Wunderink	6	0	0	0
Anthony Hugh Leigh Trimmer	6	0	0	0
Ingo Ott Hoffmann	6	0	0	0
Loris Kessel	6	0	0	0
Bruno Giacomelli	6	0	0	0
Ezekiel Ongais	6	0	0	0
Piers Raymond Courage	5	0	0	0
François Marie Edouard Migault	5	0	0	0
Tom Belsø	5	0	0	0
Michael Bleekemolen	5	0	0	0
Lamberto Leoni	5	0	0	0
Patrick Gaillard	5	0	0	0
Thomas Byrne	5	0	0	0
Victor Henry Elford	4	0	0	3
Gerard Carlton Lovely	4	0	0	0
Richard Robarts	4	0	0	0
Alessandro Pesenti-Rossi	4	0	0	0
Miguel Ángel Guerra	4	0	0	0
John Maxwell Lineham Love	3	0	0	0
Georges-Francis Servoz-Gavin	3	0	0	2
Daniel Sexton Gurney	3	0	0	1
David Wishart Hobbs	3	0	0	0
Eddie Keizan	3	0	0	0
Jean-Pierre Alain Jabouille	3	0	0	0
Louis José Lucien Dolhem	3	0	0	0
Helmuth Koinigg	3	0	0	0
Robert Neville Anthony Evans	3	0	0	0
Divina Mary Galica	3	0	0	0
Otto Leopold Stuppacher	3	0	0	0
Alberto Colombo	3	0	0	0
Gianfranco Gaetano Brancatelli	3	0	0	0
Michael Christopher Thackwell	3	0	0	0
Jacques-Joseph Villeneuve	3	0	0	0
Jacobus Pretorius	2	0	0	0
Christopher Adrian Craft	2	0	0	0
Samuel Felton Posey	2	0	0	0
Roger Williamson	2	0	0	0
Gérard Gilles Marie Armand Larrousse	2	0	0	0
John Barry Nicholson	2	0	0	0
Torsten Palm	2	0	0	0
Damien Magee	2	0	0	0
Hiroshi Fushida	2	0	0	0
James Alan Crawford	2	0	0	0
Noritake Takahara	2	0	0	0
Kazuyoshi Hoshino	2	0	0	0
Bernard de Dryver	2	0	0	0
Michael Kozarowitzky	2	0	0	0
Robert Woodward Rahal	2	0	0	0
Stefan Nils Edwin Johansson	2	0	0	0
Timothy Richard Needell	2	0	0	0
John Kevin Cogan	2	0	0	0
William Brack	1	0	0	0
Moisés Solana Arciniega	1	0	0	0
Basil van Rooyen	1	0	0	0
Peter David de Klerk	1	0	0	0
Hubert Hahne	1	0	0	0
Augustus Hutchison	1	0	0	0
François Mazet	1	0	0	0
Max Jean	1	0	0	0
Helmut Marko	1	0	0	0
William Ferguson	1	0	0	0
Luiz Pereira Bueno	1	0	0	0
Graham Peter McRae	1	0	0	0
Ernest Gould Driver	1	0	0	0
Theodore Pilette	1	0	0	0
Bertil Ingemar Roos	1	0	0	0
Dietrich Erwin Quester	1	0	0	0
Carlo Giovanni Facetti	1	0	0	0
Egbert Wietzes	1	0	0	0
Percival Guy Tunmer	1	0	0	0
David Rowland John Morgan	1	0	0	0
Joseph Vonlanthen	1	0	0	0
Emilio Rodríguez Zapico	1	0	0	0
Jacob Nellemann	1	0	0	0
Conny Andersson	1	0	0	0
Warwick Brown	1	0	0	0
Masahiro Hasemi	1	0	0	0
Masami Kuwashima	1	0	0	0
Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve	1	0	0	0
Andy Sutcliffe	1	0	0	0
Brian McGuire	1	0	0	0
Johann Josef Heyer	1	0	0	0
Kunimitsu Takahashi	1	0	0	0
Carlo Franchi	1	0	0	0
Stephen South	1	0	0	0
Desiré Randall Wilson	1	0	0	0
Ricardo Londoño-Bridge	1	0	0	0
Giorgio Francia	1	0	0	0
Roberto Pupo Moreno	1	0	0	0
Jean-Louis Schlesser	1	0	0	0
Jonathan Charles Palmer	1	0	0	0

Frequently asked questions

How many Formula 1 races has the Cosworth DFV engine started?

The Cosworth DFV has 4269 Formula 1 race starts and 134 wins.

Who manufactured the Cosworth DFV Formula 1 engine?

Ford manufactured the Cosworth DFV (V8).

When was the Cosworth DFV used in Formula 1?

The Cosworth DFV was used in Formula 1 from 1968–1984.

Which team used the Cosworth DFV engine the most?

McLaren used the Cosworth DFV for 521 starts and 27 wins.