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**bataovady** · 01-14-2009, 11:11 PM

That's interesting. I can understand that it would be beneficial for Toyota (no KERS anyway) and to all Magneti Marelli teams (Fer, Ren, RBR, STR) to abandon KERS, but if BMW is mentioned as the only team, who is in favour of this system for 2009, then what about McLaren-Mercedes and Williams? Have they encountered problems? Williams seemed really upbeat about taking a gamble on a flywheel system with the hope of moving upwards in the standings. Isn't the system quite functioning as hoped? And is McLaren convinced that they would be competitive in any case (KERS or not), so they don't care about its potential postponing or are they afraid of BMW's possible challenge too much?

Anyway, maybe if BMW finally encounters serious problems too, we may indeed see a KERS-free 2009 season. A lot is unclear yet, a lot may happen. Long way to go until March.

01-14-2009, 11:11 PM	#40
bataovady Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 423 Senior Member	That's interesting. I can understand that it would be beneficial for Toyota (no KERS anyway) and to all Magneti Marelli teams (Fer, Ren, RBR, STR) to abandon KERS, but if BMW is mentioned as the only team, who is in favour of this system for 2009, then what about McLaren-Mercedes and Williams? Have they encountered problems? Williams seemed really upbeat about taking a gamble on a flywheel system with the hope of moving upwards in the standings. Isn't the system quite functioning as hoped? And is McLaren convinced that they would be competitive in any case (KERS or not), so they don't care about its potential postponing or are they afraid of BMW's possible challenge too much? Anyway, maybe if BMW finally encounters serious problems too, we may indeed see a KERS-free 2009 season. A lot is unclear yet, a lot may happen. Long way to go until March.
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