hmmm, well, I think I must have missed something because I always thought that seamless changing gear boxes were against the rules ?
I thought that the gear change had to take at least 200 milliseconds, anything quicker would be considered to be seamless and thus illegal.
There are reports about the gear box which Williams intend to use, also other teams would plan to use a similar "seamless" box.
Maybe someone could shed some light on it for me ?
Seamless gear changes ?
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I fully agree with you - that is also what I thought and I am just as interested in any explanations anybody could come up with 

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It's a way to change gear without the engine electronics having to blip the throttle, so it's an instantaneous gearchange. Very similar in effect to the CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission) gearboxes which were banned, but because this still uses gears (between 4-7 as per FIA regs) it's still a normal gearbox.


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