chrisc90 wrote: ↑21 Oct 2025, 19:26
Is there any update on the gearbox(s) they changed on the cars after the sprint in cota? Sure I heard Zak say they swapped them.
Could there be a penalty for the box or engine down the line.
Typically, we don’t know much about things like these in all other F1 teams but Ferrari and RedBull. For RedBull, I guess there’s many people from within the team who have connections with public outlets (like dr obs). They also seem a bit more “relaxed” with how much they allow to leak out. For Ferrari, the italian media literally busts open the factory to take notes for articles.
For the rest, McLaren included, you mostly rely on what they make public on whatever channel. And what is made public is usually not much (not to mention the obvious bias). Had some guys in the forum who had close contacts within McLaren too for a while (PhillipM). But this forum its not the same it used to be a couple of years ago. He (and others to be fair) was sort of driven away and rarely post nowadays.