Formula 1: Who’s Running KERS 2009 Races Update

March 26th, 2009 by James | This article was viewed 5,358 times.

F1: Who's Running KERS in Melbourne?

KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System), a system implemented this year (2009) that enables a Formula 1 cars to store energy whilst underbraking and can produce up to 80 horsepower for 6.6 seconds every lap in a press of a button.

The teams spend the 2008 winter building and testing their KERS system in their Formula 1 cars but how many teams will show up with KERS?

Here are the lists of Grand Prix Calenders and updates of who’s using KERS and who isn’t.

  1. Australia, Melbourne
  2. Malaysia, Sepang
  3. China, Shang Hai
  4. Bahrain, Sakhir
  5. Spain, Barcelona
  6. Monaco, Monte Carlo

Australia, Melbourne

Teams Starting with KERS

  1. Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
  2. Scuderia Ferrari
  3. ING Renault F1
  4. BMW Sauber F1 (Nick Heidfeld)

Teams Starting without KERS

  1. BMW Sauber F1 (Robert Kubica)
  2. Brawn GP
  3. Panasonic Toyota Racing
  4. Red Bull Racing
  5. Scuderia Toro Rosso
  6. AT&T Williams F1 Team
  7. Force India F1

BMW Sauber will have Nick Heidfeld drive with KERS in Melbourne because he’s an extremely light person (58kg) and is able to balance in the car even with the extra KERS weight. Robert Kubica will not benefit from the extra 80 horsepower (for 6.6 seconds) in Australia because of his gigantic size compared to Heidfeld.

Other teams think their not-enough-research KERS would only make very little difference to the time due to the extra weight of the system. They also claimed that KERS is expensive and unsafe and still need more testing to finalize it.

Malaysia, Sepang

Teams Starting with KERS

  1. Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
  2. Scuderia Ferrari
  3. ING Renault F1
  4. BMW Sauber F1 (Nick Heidfeld)

Teams Starting without KERS

  1. BMW Sauber F1 (Robert Kubica)
  2. Brawn GP
  3. Panasonic Toyota Racing
  4. Red Bull Racing
  5. Scuderia Toro Rosso
  6. AT&T Williams F1 Team
  7. Force India F1

China, Shang Hai

Teams Starting with KERS

  1. Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
  2. BMW Sauber F1 (Nick Heidfeld)

Teams Starting without KERS

  1. Scuderia Ferrari
  2. ING Renault F1
  3. BMW Sauber F1 (Robert Kubica)
  4. Brawn GP
  5. Panasonic Toyota Racing
  6. Red Bull Racing
  7. Scuderia Toro Rosso
  8. AT&T Williams F1 Team
  9. Force India F1

As you can see Ferrari dropped their KERS in China mainly because they wanted to play safe. In Malaysia, the team discovered problems regarding the KERS from Kimi Raikkonen’s car where the system melted.

Robert Kubica from BMW tested KERS on Friday practice. He wasn’t happy with KERS so he did not use it in qualifying.

Will update when there are any changes.

Bahrain, Sakhir

Teams Starting with KERS

  1. Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
  2. BMW Sauber F1
  3. Scuderia Ferrari
  4. ING Renault F1

Teams Starting without KERS

  1. Brawn GP
  2. Panasonic Toyota Racing
  3. Red Bull Racing
  4. Scuderia Toro Rosso
  5. AT&T Williams F1 Team
  6. Force India F1

In Bahrain, the teams with KERS will reuse their KERS again because of the long straights available in Bahrain. The KERS users all have improved in qualifying as you can see, except for BMW.

Spain, Barcelona

Teams Starting with KERS

  1. Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
  2. Scuderia Ferrari
  3. ING Renault F1

Teams Starting without KERS

  1. BMW Sauber F1
  2. Brawn GP
  3. Panasonic Toyota Racing
  4. Red Bull Racing
  5. Scuderia Toro Rosso
  6. AT&T Williams F1 Team
  7. Force India F1

Monaco, Monte Carlo

Teams Starting with KERS

  1. Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
  2. Scuderia Ferrari
  3. ING Renault F1
  4. BMW Sauber F1

Teams Starting without KERS

  1. Brawn GP
  2. Panasonic Toyota Racing
  3. Red Bull Racing
  4. Scuderia Toro Rosso
  5. AT&T Williams F1 Team
  6. Force India F1
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7 Responses to “Formula 1: Who’s Running KERS 2009 Races Update”

  1. cxlim Says:
    March 27th, 2009 at 10:31 pm

    lolx….although some teams r not running the KERS, but teams like BrawnGP, Williams and Toyota is like got some advantage from the diffuser, which probably will gain advantage of .5s each lap…..that what they argueing now…..
  2. Gopal Says:
    March 31st, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    What is KERS got to do with the person’s weight? .How do you define underbreak? It would be better if you could explain in more detail

    -Gopal (Penang)
  3. James Says:
    March 31st, 2009 at 8:24 pm

    Gopal,
    Thanks for telling me a spelling error. It is supposed to be underbraking. Sorry for the mistake. I’ve edited the typo.

    Anyways, “underbraking” means slowing down gradually like what we usually do when I want to slow down our car in front of traffic light. As opposed to “overbraking” which we do during an emergency brake.

    While F1 drivers with KERS brake their racing cars, KERS recovers some energy and store the energy in battery for the 80 horsepower every lap.

    Formula 1 cars have a weight limit of 605kg including the driver and almost every team can make a car much lighter than a minimum weight. So usually the minimum weight is matched by using ballasts that is used to balance up the cars.

    With KERS that weights 35kg introduced this season, teams have to sacrifice their ballasts (that gives the car balance) to fit in KERS. The only way to counter that (for a driver) is to go on a weight losing program.

    So basically if the drivers don’t lose weight, they lose car balance and would result in the lost of the championship. That’s why KERS have everything to do with the driver’s weight.

    Having said that, now the teams (especially Red Bull and BMW Sauber) are asking for a minimum weight increase of the cars so that their heavy drivers (Mark Webber and Robert Kubica) could enjoy both KERS and balance of the car.

    Does this long comment answer your question?
  4. Gopal Says:
    March 31st, 2009 at 11:09 pm

    Quote(James on March 31st, 2009 at 8:24 pm):
    Gopal,

    Thanks for telling me a spelling error. It is supposed to be underbraking. Sorry for the mistake. I’ve edited the typo.

    Anyways, “underbraking” means slowing down gradually like what we usually do when I want to slow down our car in front of traffic light. As opposed to “overbraking” which we do during an emergency brake.

    While F1 drivers with KERS brake their racing cars, KERS recovers some energy and store the energy in battery for the 80 horsepower every lap.

    Formula 1 cars have a weight limit of 605kg including the driver and almost every team can make a car much lighter than a minimum weight. So usually the minimum weight is matched by using ballasts that is used to balance up the cars.

    With KERS that weights 35kg introduced this season, teams have to sacrifice their ballasts (that gives the car balance) to fit in KERS. The only way to counter that (for a driver) is to go on a weight losing program.

    So basically if the drivers don’t lose weight, they lose car balance and would result in the lost of the championship. That’s why KERS have everything to do with the driver’s weight.

    Having said that, now the teams (especially Red Bull and BMW Sauber) are asking for a minimum weight increase of the cars so that their heavy drivers (Mark Webber and Robert Kubica) could enjoy both KERS and balance of the car.

    Does this long comment answer your question?

    Thats answers my question Thanks. If i’m interested to know more detail of F1 in terms of mechanics (ballasts) its location etc… Which website do you recommend?
  5. James Says:
    March 31st, 2009 at 11:21 pm

    I wish to say http://www.ahwee.com but unfortunately we are not that commercialized yet.

    But http://F1.com is a great start and http://f1racing.net isn’t bad at all.

    Nobody actually knows at what level the mechanics in Formula 1 is, mainly because these are team secrets and not shared to the press.
  6. Jason Says:
    May 3rd, 2009 at 11:25 am

    well it all goes deeper than that now unfortunately it appears, a you tube video & notes show that politics, eg Brawn/Branson have a huge influesce on the FIA & it could be there intention is to wipe out Ferrari altogether
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi4TigpyFGg
  7. gas card Says:
    June 23rd, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    Well I believe during the last race (Britain) Ferrari was the only team running the Kers, less and less teams are running the kers it seems, I have a feeling that Kers might not be around in formula One in 2010, unless there are some serious rule changes, especially considering all of the FIA/FOTA confusion that is going on right now.

    -Randy

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