RBR and KERS

elmuzzy66. · 19 Apr 2011 at 16:46

They need kers to work. Mclaren aren't that far behind so they need it. We all know how good Mclaren are updating there car so who knows if mid way down the season both are cars equal.

Alibaba99 · 19 Apr 2011 at 17:38

rypt said:
You don't need exact spec tyres to test test KERS

And are you forgetting Schumi pounding around in an old Ferrari running GP2 tyres?

You do need the correct ECU as well. Plus, more importantly, what ever you test in needs the correct aero and cooling behaviour and the exact same vibration frequencies and energies.

Memphis said:
Like Vettel did in Australia? Oh wait...

Webber has potentially lost two 2nd places due to not having KERs, and we don't know if Vettels was functioning at the start of China either, so that could be another win gone as well (it certainly wasn't working later in the race)

Shimmy · 19 Apr 2011 at 17:52

Alibaba99 said:
we don't know if Vettels was functioning at the start of China either, so that could be another win gone as well (it certainly wasn't working later in the race)

It was working at the start and Vettel used it, he just had a poor start more than anything. Vettel was told to stop using it midway through the race presumably as it was potentially going to cause a retirement.

ZG002 · 19 Apr 2011 at 18:52

Pretty sure the system is getting too hot, Sure we saw Webber jumping out of the car in practice with it smoking away slightly?

aspirins · 19 Apr 2011 at 23:36

Maybe next year they'll ask Newey to design the car with everything in it...

gord · 20 Apr 2011 at 00:07

aspirins said:
Maybe next year they'll ask Newey to design the car with everything in it...

Oh, people have suggested it to him.

They're all dead.

MikeHunt79 · 20 Apr 2011 at 01:29

AcidHell2 said:
Christian Horner has already said that Newey would not compromise the car for Kers so I expect it is having to be packaged in all sort of odd places and as such overheating. They need it to defend against DRS/kers and they need it at the start. So unless they can get 1/2 at qauli yin and make it to first corner first without kers then they need it.

From that link:

"Red Bull Racing's KERS problems are believed to be related to cooling issues of its in-house battery system – which has been packaged extremely tightly so as not to compromise the car's aerodynamics."

I'm not really sure what battery chemistry they are using for KERS, but if it's Li-ion then the cells are pretty useless once they get about 60 degrees...