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A short reflection on Australia 2009
Yes I know I’m very, very late in writing my reflections on the opening race, I’ve been quite busy unfortunately. But as the first free practice for Malaysia starts in less than 6 hours (another early morning then!) I feel I’ve just about got time to write this before it’s officially silly to do a review. At least leaving it this late means I have a pretty good idea who finished where - but it seems in F1 these days you can never be 100% certain of the race results (more on that at a later date).
So as it’s quite a late reflection I won’t go into too much detail as you’ve all probably read more than enough reviews of Australia already.
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Updated: Who’s running KERS in 2009
Posted by Dave in 2009, KERS, Race Results on March 30th, 2009
Just a little FYI, I’ve updated my post on who’s running KERS in 2009 with up to date info on the teams and I’ve also added a table with the race results for each driver, along with their starting grid position and whether they were using KERS or not.
From watching the way Lewis used KERS in Australia (shame the KERS graphics weren’t as prevalent as we hoped, more on that in another post though) it did seem to have a good effect on overtaking but less impact on overall lap time. So maybe that is a trend we will see as the season goes on, hopefully this new race results table will help show that.
Who’s running KERS in 2009
Who’s running KERS in 2009?
Posted by Dave in 2009, KERS, Season Preview on March 23rd, 2009
So I thought that today I would try and put together a list of who’s planning on running KERS for the start of the 2009 season, and who’s not. I’ll also try to keep this up to date as the season goes forward until the point where everyone is using KERS.
KERS is a new system introduced for the 2009 season, and if you haven’t heard of it yet (you will do aplenty as soon as the season starts) is a Kinetic Energy Recovery System that takes energy that would be wasted during braking. The driver can then use this stored energy as a boost for up to around 6.5 seconds per lap (for example when trying to overtake another car) and is expected to give enough of a boost to gain a car 0.2s over that lap. I could explain it in more detail, but Grand Prix TV have got a great video and short text explaining it.
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