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Should KERS come back to F1 next year?
Posted on April 10, 2010


I’ve been interested by the discussions about bringing back KERS this past week, following the FOTA meeting in Malaysia at which it was on the agenda. KERS, for anyone not familiar with the term, is Kinetic Energy Recovery System, which harvests energy from braking, stores it as electrical energy and then reintroduces it to the system as a power boost. Under last year’s rules it was worth about 80hp for around 7 seconds per lap. I always thought it was a good idea for F1 to have something like this to keep it in step with the road car industry’s More…

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