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F1 2018 - Can we switch gearboxes during practice sessions without penalty?

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So let me start by saying I've only been watching F1 since the beginning of this season.  I'm no expert, and don't claim to be.

But I know in F1 2017 on PS4, if I change my gearbox... even if only to use a different one in practice... I'm assessed a penalty.  I didn't think anything of it, expecting this is how it was in real life.

But then I'm watching F1 2018 British Grand Prix practice, and Max catches the edge of the track "poorly" on cooler tires, and he ends up in the wall.  Christian Horner is AWESOME with his contributions to the race announce team, and they ask him during the practice... "Was Max using a race gearbox in his car when the problem occurred?"  To which Christian replied... "Oh no, we save the race gearboxes for race day.  That was a different gearbox in the car during the incident."

So if the drivers use different gearboxes in the cars for Practice in real life, shouldn't we be able to?

My apologies if this is a stupid question, or is answered in a FAQ somewhere.

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It’s actually not stupid but very good! I’d like to know too... old gearboxes which have done their time should be freely available to use in FP’s 

just like we can swap out engine parts too

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I actually caught that on the broadcast too and I thought that that was an old practise from the 90’s or something, this would be really helpful as I find that I personally am very hard on my ICE and gearbox

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I actually caught that on the broadcast too and I thought that that was an old practise from the 90’s or something, this would be really helpful as I find that I personally am very hard on my ICE and gearbox

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Ok, now you have me intruiged. Max wouldn't have done 6 races on his current box, I think they Changed at Monaco as he received a penalty. It was 5 races he had done. This is round 10, Monaco was round 6. So Max has only done 4 races. He can't change the box

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Yes they said more races that this wasn’t his ‘race gearbox’ look it up.

apparently they have different gearboxes

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Good morning everyone!  And thanks for the reply thombrouwer90!  I had a stressful week, and totally forgot about this until this morning.  It's great to see nearly everything is being made "even more accurate" for the new game!  I just hope I don't have to rip everyone all the time with the new "interview" questions to be successful in the game.

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