New Frank Costin Designed Dozens Of Cars, Besides Every Mo Boats, Airplanes, Ultralight Aircraft, Bobsleighs Together With The Dipper Arm For A Jcb Digger. Together With He Is The Cos Inwards Marcos!

Costin was an engineer alongside the de Havilland Aircraft Company when, inward 1954, his blood brother Mike, a old de Havilland engineer thus working for Lotus Engineering Ltd., asked him to blueprint an aerodynamic trunk for a novel racing car. Intrigued past times the visit of applying aerodynamics to racing cars, Costin designed the trunk for the Lotus Mark VIII

 Unlike his brother, Costin was never a Lotus employee; his operate at that spot was either equally a paid consultant or equally a volunteer.

In 1956, Chapman was commissioned past times Tony Vandervell to blueprint a Grand Prix racing auto to challenge Maserati too Ferrari authorization of the formula, Chapman recommended Costin to Vandervell equally the trunk designer. Costin designed the trunk for the Vanwall that won the commencement Grand Prix Constructors' Championship.

Later, Costin was too involved inward a release of route auto projects for diverse manufacturers including Lister too Lotus, where he contributed to the early on aerodynamic designs; Marcos, which he co-founded alongside Jem Marsh (MARsh too COStin); too racecar chassis for Maserati, Lotus, too DTV.

He too created an ultra-light glider alongside Keith Duckworth, an old friend too his brother's describe organisation partner.

Chapman approached Lotus release eleven, determined that he too aerodynamicist Frank Costin — who had brought scientific discipline to the fine art of Lotus panel blueprint — would pencil the proposal on build clean sheets of paper.

Not but was the resulting auto smaller too lighter, it had the spectacular expect of a winner — too it was a formidable competitor, taking the checkered flag virtually 150 times inward 1956 alone, its commencement yr on campaign. This included a win at Le Mans inward the 1100cc flat too a 7th overall, but 27 laps behind a powerful D-Type Jaguar.

The Lotus Eleven is all the same the most successful rail auto inward Lotus history.

The human relationship alongside Chapman ended when Frank decided that existence paid was a proficient visit too became a freelance (his remuneration for 5 years' operate for Lotus was a Ford Anglia).

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/september-1984/35/cars-frank-costin

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