It seems that a lot of the reliability problems experienced by the new teams of Formula One are linked with their transmission. As many of you know by now, Newbury based Xtrac company is currently supplying some of the new teams with the gearbox units for the 2010 F1 season, but their experience in the series is not that vast.
Xtrac hasn’t produced F1 transmissions since more than a decade – 1996 to be more exact – meaning their reliability is questionable to say the least. The teams that are… (read more)