Location: Covilhã, Portugal (and sometimes in Évora)
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Gearbox regs limit the number of gears inside the gearbox....a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 7....there also has to be a reverse gear in proper working condition. Another thing conserning the transmission system is that the driver has to be able to select neutral with a stalled engine (without hydaulics). Continuous variation transmissions are banned and totally auto are also.
In terms of ratios, these are not limited, the teams are free to vary the ratio of a gear.
I would guess so yes, but I cannot know of any way to realise that.
Eventually you could maybe do so with a twin clutch box, which could lead to a continiously variable gearbox, but that is banned, and for this reason are also the twin clutches
Location: Covilhã, Portugal (and sometimes in Évora)
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Sounds like something close to CVT....and don't think truck gearboxs would be allowed, these gearboxs have half gear sequencialy it goes, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5....dont know how the mechanism is but i would suspect it's considered 2 gears (going from 0 - 0.5 - 1). So it's illegal! Sorry....like you I've had some revolutionary inventions......but when looking carfully at the regs I always find out that......you can't go that way, it's illegal.
