Virtually all racing cars of today have six or seven (forward) gears. F1 cars used to have the latter number of gears for a quite a while, until the hybrid era where they started having eight
But why would they need so many? Wouldn’t seven gears suffice?
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They could use three gears if they had to.
Racing has always been a test-bed for technologies that manufacturers wanted to experiment with for production vehicles.
Using more and more gears is just a part of that progression.
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