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As far as the gearboxes go, VAG doesn't build their entire gearboxes in house. The Audi R8's gearbox internals were built by Ricardo. The Bentley Speed 8 and Audi R10's internals were by X Trac-who builds Pescarolo's trannies. And I think that the stock X trac casings for some reason are a problem, as the Pescas used their own gearbox casings in '06( but the same internals, and modified paddle shift system) that would've allowed them to do an R8 type rearend quick change if it were still legal.
And the Lola and Courage transmissions are horribly unreliable(especally the Courage gearboxes). Even Porsche have had some reliablity issues with their in house gearboxes. So, maybe teams building their own trannies themselves isn't such a good idea-in other words, build your own casing, and used someone else's internals. Seems to work for Audi and Bentley.
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