{"id":9958,"date":"2010-12-03T07:10:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T12:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9958"},"modified":"2010-12-03T07:10:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T12:10:40","slug":"lotus-to-start-2011-season-without-kers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lotus-to-start-2011-season-without-kers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus to start 2011 season without KERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus has not changed its mind about running a KERS system in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>In May this year, team boss Tony Fernandes said the Norfolk-based team had &#8220;good reasons&#8221; to build the 2010 car&#8217;s successor without the energy recovery technology.<\/p>\n<p>Another new feature of the technical rules for 2011 is an adjustable rear wing to help boost overtaking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will have the adjustable rear wing but not KERS for the start of the season &#8211; it&#8217;s in development &#8211; really because of engineering resource,&#8221; technical boss Mike Gascoyne told edp24.co.uk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over one lap, it&#8217;s still not a big plus for its effort, involvement and negatives.\u00a0 Strategically off the start and in races, then yes,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But at the start of the year, KERS is not going to be the thing that gives us the step up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s all the other things, and we&#8217;ve taken the choice to concentrate on all those because if we don&#8217;t get them right, KERS isn&#8217;t going to make a difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lotus&#8217; new engine supplier for 2011 is Renault, so Gascoyne confirmed that when the team is ready to run with KERS, it will be the French marque&#8217;s unit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Renault are very keen on green technologies and KERS, so it&#8217;s something we will be pushing,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus has not changed its mind about running a KERS system in 2011. In May this year, team boss Tony Fernandes said the Norfolk-based team had &#8220;good reasons&#8221; to build the 2010 car&#8217;s successor without the energy recovery technology. Another new feature of the technical rules for 2011 is an adjustable rear wing to help &#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":[5262,5340,702,60,305,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9958"}],"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=9958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9959,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9958\/revisions\/9959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}