Red Bull considering KERS for Spa?

[christophulus]

Red Bull Racing is considering introducing KERS from the Belgian Grand Prix in a bid to boost its world championship ambitions, AUTOSPORT can reveal.


With the Milton Keynes-based outfit locked in a close fight with Brawn GP for the title, the team is now undergoing a detailed investigation into whether fast-tracking KERS onto the car for next weekend's race at Spa-Francorchamps will give it an advantage.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77865

That will be some risk - Renault dumped their system because they couldn't make it worthwhile and it probably hasn't been developed to the same extent the McLaren one has. But if Brawn are truly back on form they may have no choice!

[Sonic]

Bit of a knee jerk IMO.

Spa is hardly going to baking hot and its all aero so the RBR team should kick Brawn's dayglow backsides without needing to resort to KERS which as you rightly say won't have been developed and its taken McLaren 10 races to get the system properly intergrated to what might be described as an advantage.

[ioan]

I don't think they will bother doing it.
It's just a move to try to intimidate Brawn.

[ShiftingGears]

Going to be a gamble if they do.

[Sonic]

I don't think they will bother doing it.
It's just a move to try to intimidate Brawn.

How so?

[ioan]

How so?

Brawn might consider it too if that is the case, which means they will have to divert some of their resources in that direction.

Anyway I doubt any of Brawn and RedBull will go as far as trying to implement KERS with a only handful of races remaining and no testing allowed.

[Sonic]

Brawn might consider it too if that is the case, which means they will have to divert some of their resources in that direction.

Anyway I doubt any of Brawn and RedBull will go as far as trying to implement KERS with a only handful of races remaining and no testing allowed.

I was under the impression that Brawn could not fit a KERS system even if they wanted too. Whilst they could run the Mercedes/McLaren system, the car was not designed with KERS in mind AFAIK.

[ioan]

I was under the impression that Brawn could not fit a KERS system even if they wanted too. Whilst they could run the Mercedes/McLaren system, the car was not designed with KERS in mind AFAIK.

The Brawn car was designed with the Honda KERS in mind.
However if they are to run KERS they would need another than the Mercedes one as that one is very different from other concepts in it's positioning and cooling requirements.

[Sonic]

Understood. So its doubtful that they would run it at any point, even if Red Bull were trying to intimidate the Brawn team.

[ioan]

Understood. So its doubtful that they would run it at any point, even if Red Bull were trying to intimidate the Brawn team.

I see what you are trying to say there. Maybe 'intimidate' was a poor choice of word.