Archive for category Season Preview
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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A tight Australia predicted
Posted by Dave in 2009, Season Preview on March 23rd, 2009
This post was going to be about my finishing order prediction for the opening race in Australia in a couple of days, however when I sat down to do this I found it incredibly hard to do so, having placed at least half of the grid as possible podium botherers in my head I decided I couldn’t separate them as clearly as I would like, so you have this post instead.
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Looking forward to 2009
Posted by Dave in 2009, Bets, Brawn GP, Jenson Button, Outer monologue, Points System, Season Preview on March 23rd, 2009
Okay, so I have a shiny new site with which to write my thoughts on F1 and I’m not sure where to start, so I guess I’ll start with some thoughts on the upcoming season (just over 4 days to go before the first wheel rolls in Albert Park).
Like everyone else I haven’t been this excited about a new season of F1 for as long as I can remember. I think that previous to this year I had been most excited was for the 2006 season, that was also the first season where I really started to pay attention to things during the off-season. That’s when I started read as much as I could — my first introduction to Autosport too, as my copy of F1 Racing would usually be read within days of it arriving.
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