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Skeeter said:
Ratios are fixed and the mounting points standardised, but its not a spec part. Teams are free to build their own gearboxes, and a lot will. Only a few teams currently buy gearboxes off someone else (Caterham have Red Bulls, and I think FI use McLarens?)

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Certainly true , plus a lot of other similar parts from what I understand (up until 2013 at least)

Skeeter said:
Nope. Customer chassis are not allowed, and the regulations have not been stable enough to allow this to happen between seasons for a while. I think the last time this happened was Super Aguri running the previous years Honda?
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Im pretty sure Torro Rosso "buy" a lot of RBR parts and have for ages.

I could have sworn Williams even sold their not so successful KERS design elsewhere on the grid too

When Im home I will have to look this up, I was convinced the monocoques where sold on to lower grid teams even now.
 
Toro Rosso are a fully independent constructor now. They did previously 'share' technology with RBR by using a separate branch of the company (called something like Red Bull Technology) to build major components. But the FIA put a stop to that a few years back.

Selling components isn't unusual. Caterham also use RBRs KERS. But chassis are built buy the teams themselves, as regulated by the FIA.

The legacy of when this was different (i.e. customer cars) still exists in the rules, as there is a legal differentiation between 'Teams' and 'Constructors', even though they are now tied in a 1:1 relationship.
 
Rosberg has just had to delete a tweet regarding the Pirelli testing going on in Bahrain.

Was along the lines of "Just spun at 200mph down the main straight due to a tyre exploding, now changing my underwear". :p
 
Or it could simply be just a normal puncture caused by anything, and would have happened to anyone using any of the previous spec F1 tyres...

But wheres the fun in that :p
 
Breaking news in France that Michael Schumacher has been taken to hospital with serious head injury after a skiing accident.

Nothing in English so far accept for a headline on the sky news ticker.
 
Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher has been injured in a skiing accident in Meribel, France.
The German, 44, who retired from Formula 1 for the second time at the end of the 2012 season, has been taken by helicopter to hospital in Moutiers.
Christophe Gernignon-Lecomte, director of the Meribel resort, told Radio Monte Carlo Sport: "He was shocked, a little shaken but conscious.
"It may be a head injury but it is not very serious."
He added: "He was wearing a helmet and banged [his head] against a rock."
Schumacher won seven world championships and secured 91 race victories during a 19-year career in Formula 1.
He won two titles with Benetton in 1994 and 1995 before switching to Ferrari in 1996 and going on to win five straight titles from 2000.
The German retired from the sport in 2006, but returned in 2010 with Mercedes. After three seasons which yielded just one podium, he quit the sport at the end of 2012.
 
The latest from RMC Sport comes from Christophe Gernignon-Lecomte.

He's the director of Meribel and has just told them that the injury is "not very serious," which sounds like good news.

"He crashed at 11:07, off-piste, in Meribel.

"He was wearing a helmet and crashed into a rock.

"The emergency services reacted quickly, at 11:15... He was heli-lifted to Moûtier hospital."

"He was shocked, a little worried, but conscious.

"It could possibly be a cranial injury but it is not very serious."
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Good news if correct :)
 
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