McLaren use their own bespoke unit.charliesmithhd wrote: ↑31 Jul 2018, 19:32Do McLaren have a unique gearbox, or is their gearbox used by other teams as well? Seems like a lot of their retirements were due to a failure of the gearbox
Possibly down to the limited time they had to adapt it to the Renault PU.charliesmithhd wrote: ↑31 Jul 2018, 19:32Do McLaren have a unique gearbox, or is their gearbox used by other teams as well? Seems like a lot of their retirements were due to a failure of the gearbox
Wouldn’t say so, they’ve had gearbox-related issues for the past few years now.adrianjordan wrote: ↑31 Jul 2018, 20:10Possibly down to the limited time they had to adapt it to the Renault PU.charliesmithhd wrote: ↑31 Jul 2018, 19:32Do McLaren have a unique gearbox, or is their gearbox used by other teams as well? Seems like a lot of their retirements were due to a failure of the gearbox
I'm pretty sure they said the gearbox was originally designed for the Honda engine, and retrofitted to the Renault PU. There's bound to be compromises and weaknesses from that.ScrewCaptain27 wrote: ↑31 Jul 2018, 20:23Wouldn’t say so, they’ve had gearbox-related issues for the past few years now.adrianjordan wrote: ↑31 Jul 2018, 20:10Possibly down to the limited time they had to adapt it to the Renault PU.charliesmithhd wrote: ↑31 Jul 2018, 19:32Do McLaren have a unique gearbox, or is their gearbox used by other teams as well? Seems like a lot of their retirements were due to a failure of the gearbox
when would they update it then? 2019?Xero wrote: ↑31 Jul 2018, 20:45I'm pretty sure they said the gearbox was originally designed for the Honda engine, and retrofitted to the Renault PU. There's bound to be compromises and weaknesses from that.ScrewCaptain27 wrote: ↑31 Jul 2018, 20:23Wouldn’t say so, they’ve had gearbox-related issues for the past few years now.adrianjordan wrote: ↑31 Jul 2018, 20:10
Possibly down to the limited time they had to adapt it to the Renault PU.
Yes, completely new box next year.
Absolutely agree with this. Am I correct in saying that if you retire from Race A before the chequered flag because of a gearbox issue and replace it before Race B there is no penalty whereas simply replacing a functional gearbox between two race weekends would incur a penalty due to the box not completing the allocated minimum race weekends? I remember Jenson parking up less than 100 yards before the finish line and giving up points for finishing in 6-7th place for this reason once.
He retired from 7th in Monaco with transmission problem.
I think they're the same.mclaren111 wrote: ↑01 Aug 2018, 08:42McLaren F1:
https://media-cdn.mclaren.com/media/ima ... 4I7774.jpg
New shaped mirror.