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F1 teams vote against KERS for 2010

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FOTA argues that KERS technology is contradictory to F1’s current drive to reduce team spending

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FOTA, the formula one teams association, will push to have controversial KERS (kinetic energy recovery system) technology banned ahead of the 2010 race season. The team association’s argument surrounds the issue that the KERS system flies in the face of the sport's current drive to reduce expenditure. What’s not known is if the decision, voted for by the majority of the eight remaining member teams on Sunday, will be part of FOTA's demands as per their conditional entry to next year's world championship.

Earlier, it would have been possible for FOTA to simply vote against KERS and not seek an accompanying rule for 2010, as using the energy recovery systems is voluntary. However, because Williams and Force India have been expelled from the body, it’s now more difficult for FOTA to implement a unanimous agreement to keep the legal technology off all F1 cars in 2010.

Only McLaren and Ferrari used KERS in Istanbul over the weekend, but even so BMW's Mario Theissen did not vote to ban the systems.

"We have voted in favour of KERS but, as in all the FOTA decisions before, we will go with the majority," the German said.

The KERS system is essentially a CVT connected to a flywheel that engages on deceleration, recuperating some of the energy that would otherwise be converted to heat in the brakes. This spins the flywheel up, which continues spinning until called upon to boost acceleration, offering an additional 80hp (60kW) boost for about seven seconds.

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cheap r4i Posted: 2/2/2010 9:38pm PST

Well as of next year refueling is going to be banned so cars are going to have to start the race with enough fuel to get them to the end. This is going to encourage pushing fuel efficiency as the weight savings of having to carry less fuel would add up to some nice lap time gains. Thats probably going to drive more interesting and piratical in the real world technologies than KERS ever did

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