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HOW TO BE AN ACE ENGINEER

After over 50 years of working with racing engines, there are few better qualified than Richard ‘Dick’ Langford when it comes to the art of extracting horsepower.

Langford began his career at Cosworth as the world-beating DFV was beginning to flex its muscles, and serviced much of the Formula 1 grid during the 1970s, before he and Alan Peck co-founded their own engine-building company Langford

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