User:Ayrforever/Brian dickie cosworth racing

Brian Dickie joined Cosworth Racing in 1996 as Managing Director from sister Vickers company Rolls Royce and Bentley Motors. Brian replaced Dick Scammell MBE who had a successful career with the company and was noted for being Jim Clark,s mechanic at Lotus. During his time at Cosworth Brian worked in Formula One with Stewart Racing, Minardi, Tyrell and the ill fated Lola teams. In Champ/indy car Brian worked with Newman-Haas, Patrick Racing, Rahal, Dellapenna, Payton-Coyne (jointly owned by the legendary Chicago Bears running back, Walter "Sweetness" Paton and Project Indy. Cosworth also supplied engines for touring cars by Ford in the British Touring Championship and the winning KF v6 engine for the Opel Calibra in the World Touring Championship in 1996. Brian was instrumental in 1998 in persuading Vickers to sell the company in view of potential new legislation which, in his opinion, would have a potentially serious effect on the company,s mid term finances. Brian duly worked with Vision Capital, who were appointed by Vickers to sell the company, with the sales process.The business was eventually sold for £117m to Audi who immediately sold the Racing Division to Ford. The Ford purchase price was not known although the Racing business was the largest and most profitable part of the group. It was also the part of the group most likely to be affected by FI legislative changes.