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No one manufacturer is making enough F1 gearboxes to make it particularly cheap to make a few more, cut the supply in half and you get teams likely paying the same or more for the product as the R&D costs are doubled per unit. As soon as MB picks a unit and wins the WCC, the other guys are screwed and we're back to one builder. Save the time and have one build from the start.
And to bring it back to topic, hopefully that bid could get Williams the cash needed to develop their design. But I don't think the internals would be that big a contract. Aren't they on pace to only use a couple transmissions a season soon anyway? The contract would be to build what 50 units a year, plus spares as needed?
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