247K views · 3.1K reactions | What's Inside an F1 Gearbox (& How it Works) | F1 Engineering In this video, I open up an F1 gearbox to find out what's inside and explain a little about how it works. I used to work on race cars many years ago, but it's been a while since I worked on any part of any car, let alone a Formula One car gearbox - as you can probably see in this video. Anyway, it was a lot of fun to take this apart and see what's inside. | Driver 61 | Facebook

Note the unconventional ‘push to upshift’ sequential gearbox configuration in the early prototype McLaren F1 GTR, seen here testing ahead of the 1997 24H of Le Mans with Keiichi Tsuchiya behind the wheel. The early McLaren F1 GTR featured a 6-speed sequential gearbox with a push-to-upshift, pull-to-downshift configuration. Drivers frequently mis-shifted, especially when braking hard into corners, accidentally selecting a lower gear instead of a higher one—a costly mistake often referred to as “m