{"id":12740,"date":"2011-06-12T10:05:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T14:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12740"},"modified":"2011-06-12T10:05:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T14:05:40","slug":"webber-not-confident-of-having-kers-for-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/webber-not-confident-of-having-kers-for-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Webber not confident of having KERS for race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Sebastian Vettel soared to yet another pole position, Mark Webber experienced yet more problems with his KERS unit aboard the sister Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard knowing you&#8217;re losing time on every straight,&#8221; said the Australian, four tenths down in qualifying after missing the entire third practice session with the failure.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, it emerged in Montreal that Red Bull&#8217;s KERS in 2011 is deliberately designed to be smaller and therefore less powerful than the leading systems, in order not to compromise Adrian Newey&#8217;s aerodynamic design requirements.<\/p>\n<p>But it has caused problems, and Australian Webber is expecting more of them on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if his mechanics will be able to fix the unit before the Canadian grand prix, he told Auto Motor und Sport: &#8220;It will be tight.\u00a0 The boys will do whatever they can.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s totally unpredictable.\u00a0 Sometimes it&#8217;s very good and we have it under control, then we don&#8217;t.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a big challenge for us and costs us a lot of (lap) time when there are problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Sebastian Vettel soared to yet another pole position, Mark Webber experienced yet more problems with his KERS unit aboard the sister Red Bull. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard knowing you&#8217;re losing time on every straight,&#8221; said the Australian, four tenths down in qualifying after missing the entire third practice session with the failure. Earlier, it emerged in &#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":[1317,5262,5340,702,165,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740"}],"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=12740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12741,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740\/revisions\/12741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}