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BMW to get Cosworth beating?

Cosworth's customer V8 engine may be 'a long way' superior to the BMW 2.4 litre, Williams' Patrick Head has said. The team's engineering director and co-owner told Reuters that he has seen the proposed specifications of both engines, because both offered to supply the Grove squad. "The Cosworth is quite a lot higher than the spec of the (BMW)," said Englishman Head.

The Briton fell out with motor sport director Mario Theissen in the same year that BMW decided to go it alone for 2006 and beyond by buying Peter Sauber's Swiss team. While the Cosworth option, to cost Williams several million dollars next year, might be a handy little unit, the problem will be developing it.

Patrick answered 'no' when he rhetorically asked himself if Cosworth could keep up with the development might of - for example - Japanese marque Honda.

But he ruled out returning to the role of technical director after last year putting Australian youngster Sam Michael in charge. Since then, the team Head co-owns with Sir Frank Williams has struggled. "From my early 20s to early to mid-50s I was used to doing seven days a week and 14-hour days and I don't have an interest in taking that approach," Patrick Head insisted.

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