Comeback for Kers?
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Apparently Kers could be making a comeback in a cheaper and more powerful guise in 2011. In principle it is a good idea but it didn't seem to work in practice. Intial thoughts?
Posted 2 years ago # -
Everything in life comes with teething problems and the teams seemed very hasty to drop it once their first ever models of it didn't perform up to scratch. It could easily work in F1 - I think it's GP2 and the old A1GP where drivers are limited to a certain number of presses on it per race. Compared with what we had last season with an infinite amount of use and it took away any advantage a KERS car following a KERS car could have.
If you gave drivers only 5 or 6 uses of it per race (with it being disabled off the start-line) then it'd be much more interesting - say someone like Algersuari has a good start up to 8th, then he's gotta decide who he realistically thinks he can stay in front of and save his KERS for those cars, whilst whoever he's overtaken has a fairer shot of getting past instead of being stuck in the dirty air zone for 50 laps.
Posted 2 years ago # -
I liked the KERS idea, but I don't think it would work if everyone had it. Everyone would know the best areas to use it, and it wouldn't make anyone faster than a rival.
Last year only a couple of teams had it and it made for exciting viewing. McLaren's were slower than the Reb Bulls and the Brawns, but a burst from KERS at the start and they could nip ahead, and use the KERS to help defend.
It may be slightly unfair to let some teams have it and not others, but letting slower teams use it would make for more exciting racing, in my opinion, with the faster cars having to work harder to pass the slower ones.
Someone like Jamie Alguersuari could then, in theory, overtake Vettel at one point on the track, using KERS, and then have to defend for the rest of the lap without it against a faster car. It's worth another go.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Craig
MemberKERS will only work if the whole grid has it, and the regs last year dictated that only the teams with giant budgets could develop it (McLaren, Ferrari, Renault, BMW Sauber).
Most teams are supplied by McLaren with electronics, why not KERS? Or, better still, why not eliminate the top teams from having it totally and give smaller teams the chance to compete?
But, then again, only the manufacturers had the most to gain from implementing it, as the technology would eventually filter down into road cars. Williams developed a system, and have sold it to Porsche. Why not just get one independant company to develop the system and hand it out to all teams?
Posted 2 years ago #
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