First Principles: The Official Biography of Keith Duckworth - Softcover

Burr, Norman

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ISBN 10: 1787111032 ISBN 13: 9781787111035

Publisher: Veloce, 2017

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The names "Keith Duckworth" and "DFV" are practically synonymous, such is the reputation of the famous F1 racing engine which he designed.

There are books that cover the technical aspects of the DFV engine, and other designs from Cosworth, the company which he founded with Mike Costin, but there are many gaps in the story of Duckworth's career, before and after Cosworth.

First Principles comprehensively fills those gaps, taking the reader into the...

About the Author

Trained as an engineer at Rolls Royce Aero Engines and Bath University, lifelong petrolhead Norman Burr has been a technical journalist practically all his working life. Initially with professional and industrial magazines, then as a freelance, and subsequently through Pagefast Ltd, a small printing and publishing company that he helped found, he later returned to freelance journalism in 2006. It was Keith Duckworth's enthusiasm for aviation, rather...

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"The complete life of a motor sport great, interspersed with his wit and wisdom; it certainly invoked plenty of belly laughs. Definitive." - "Classic Cars"

"there is much, much more within the covers that the book's compact dimensions imply ... Worthwhile, in a word." - "Motor Sport"

"offers an insight into the real life and times of one of the greatest automotive engineers of the post-war era ... The many pages...

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