{"id":11661,"date":"2011-03-26T09:24:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T13:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11661"},"modified":"2011-03-26T09:24:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T13:24:36","slug":"red-bull-using-start-only-compact-kers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-using-start-only-compact-kers\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull using &#8216;start-only&#8217; compact KERS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull is using an innovative super-compact KERS system this year, according to the latest paddock rumour.<\/p>\n<p>After Sebastian Vettel powered to a dominant pole in Melbourne late on Saturday, FIA press conference moderator James Allen told the reigning world champion he had not noticed him pressing a KERS button during qualifing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t use it in qualifying, that&#8217;s correct,&#8221; answered the German.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why, Vettel said bluntly: &#8220;Not fully charged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But while Lewis Hamilton not using KERS during Q3 at Albert Park was due to a failure in his Mercedes unit, it emerged that Vettel&#8217;s teammate Mark Webber also not using KERS may have been for tactical reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t run it today for reasons we will keep in the team,&#8221; said the Australian.<\/p>\n<p>It is rumoured that Red Bull&#8217;s KERS may be solely for use at the start of a race, with the unit charged in the garage rather than under braking while the car is running.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;start-only&#8217; KERS could theoretically be smaller and lighter, while not affecting the handling on track because the battery is not charged while the car is braking.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull is using an innovative super-compact KERS system this year, according to the latest paddock rumour. After Sebastian Vettel powered to a dominant pole in Melbourne late on Saturday, FIA press conference moderator James Allen told the reigning world champion he had not noticed him pressing a KERS button during qualifing. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t use &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11662,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661\/revisions\/11662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}