{"id":19526,"date":"2013-10-09T07:10:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T11:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19526"},"modified":"2013-10-09T07:10:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T11:10:58","slug":"reports-red-bull-using-kers-for-traction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/reports-red-bull-using-kers-for-traction\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports &#8211; Red Bull using KERS for traction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another theory about Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s late-season dominance has emerged.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Adrian-Newey-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Adrian-Newey-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Rumours in Korea last weekend spoke of a clever but legal engine mapping system aboard his Red Bull that mimics the benefits of banned traction control.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Spain&#8217;s El Confidencial has reported burgeoning rumours that the Adrian Newey-penned RB9, which in Vettel&#8217;s hands has won the last four grands prix on the trot, is in fact somehow deploying its KERS system to enhance cornering traction.<\/p>\n<p>The rumours, which date back to Singapore last month, say Red Bull could have linked KERS to suspension sensors, with the engine being subsequently &#8216;dragged&#8217; through the process of energy harvesting.<\/p>\n<p>The report made a potential link between the system and the fact that Red Bull tends to have frequent reliability problems with its KERS units.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Webber said immediately after retiring in Korea that &#8220;there was a KERS fire&#8221;, but Red Bull later said it was caused by oil leaking onto the exhaust after the crash with Adrian Sutil.<\/p>\n<p>Newey, meanwhile, played down the link between Red Bull&#8217;s KERS system and its superior traction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I doubt the gain is from KERS,&#8221; he is quoted by Racecar Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We, like everyone, do work on how to best deploy it, but I think everyone is similar in how they use it,&#8221; added Newey.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another theory about Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s late-season dominance has emerged. Rumours in Korea last weekend spoke of a clever but legal engine mapping system aboard his Red Bull that mimics the benefits of banned traction control. Now, Spain&#8217;s El Confidencial has reported burgeoning rumours that the Adrian Newey-penned RB9, which in Vettel&#8217;s hands has won the &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[396,5262,5340,1450,165,407,129,4675,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19526"}],"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=19526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19527,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19526\/revisions\/19527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}