Yeah, but somebody showed a really nice totally mechanical system using a gyroscope. Harmless, unless somehow you bust the spinning gyro out of its housing. Then stand back while that sucker takes off!

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KERS is assinine!

It is an expensive folly in a too wanting to be green sport that is bankrupting itself with far-flung locations and an overly long season (sorry, Bernie; you are still my role model).

You want to cut costs? Freeze the engines and the rest of the rules for another 5 years. Let the sport once again be affordable to the privateers like Ken Tyrell and Frank Williams who once made it great. The sport now is far too deep in the hands of the manufacturers - as was CanAm. When the business turns down, they'll all leave and there will be left McLaren, Sir Frank and Ferrari...and then the privateers will be sorely missed.

You want to be green? By Max some green leather!

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F1 is all about developing performance devices that often translate to road car spin offs, i.e., paddle shifters, duel clutches and hydraulic valves. The management of F1 constantly does a balance act of challenging the teams to develop efficient cars with cleaner chassis and smaller engines; all the while limiting the speed and power so the cars will run fairly safely on the circuits.

The teams are now being challenged by the hybrid boost requirements and I'm sure they will develop the devices, come hell or arsenic.

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F1 is all about developing performance devices that often translate
to road car spin offs, i.e., paddle shifters, duel clutches and
hydraulic valves. The management of F1 constantly does a balance act
of challenging the teams to develop efficient cars with cleaner
chassis and smaller engines; all the while limiting the speed and
power so the cars will run fairly safely on the circuits.

The teams are now being challenged by the hybrid boost requirements
and I'm sure they will develop the devices, come hail or arsenic.

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Well said, F1 is NOT AN ECO AVENTURE or something, is pure technology, top of the class motor sport, it was since the Grand Prix era, and should remain this way, but personally I think what made the costs explode is the constant rule chaning, I mean, why they did not kept the rules and technicals just like they were until 2002 ? hy 5 or 6 changes in 5 seasons, I mean once again, teams could develop a car steadily, they are forced to constant and expensive changes, like the engine rule, which is absurd, was created to cut costs, but think, what they spent improving the reliability probably cost more than all engines that would eventually broke since 2003 (or 2004) it is pointless, same for points awarding, a second place erans only 2 less points than winner, why ?

If I was important and FIA asked me about a sugestion, my reply would be "bring the entire 2002 rules and packging back" simple and direct, no more drivers being punished for mechancal failures or mishaps that could lead to gearbox and egine swaps, no more "q1, q2 and q3" and so, the only change apart from 2002 ruling would be the slick tires, the rest could be mantained

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If I recall correctly, that would be everytime the FIA wants to "help" F1.

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Right... so like the author said: Cancel KERS, don't cancel the slicks.

He is referring to two separate elements of upcoming rule changes, and hoping that the rule changes are selectively cancelled, not entirely eliminated.

What's the problem here?

Don't be a reading comprehension noob.

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I *think* they meant "keep the slicks [for next year]" in that sentence - because Mosley threatened that they're not certainly going to be there next year...

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Vettel was fastest in testing due to the fact he was testing the full slick tire... They are coming for '09 unless the FIA is on crack.

The KERS systems... not so sure & I could deal with a 2010 or 2011 debut for the green tech.

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Azzo-
The FIA is on crack, remember? The reason they are going to full slicks is to make up for the 50% loss of downforce we will see next year. After that, they will complain about the cars going too fast on the straights, knowing the FIA. Christ, they are so insane.

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I edited my crack comment... I was going to say:

The slick tires are coming for '09 unless the FIA is on CRACK or five hookers, dressed in WW2 era garb are currently beating Max Mosley with treaded Bridgestones!

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THANK YOU!! I read this thinking, "WTF is KERS?"

"The mechanical KERS system utilises flywheel technology developed by Flybrid Systems to recover and store a moving vehicle’s kinetic energy which is otherwise wasted when the vehicle is decelerated. The energy is received from the driveline through the Torotrak CVT, engineered and supplied by Xtrac, as the vehicle decelerates, and is subsequently released back into the driveline, again through the CVT, as the vehicle accelerates. The FIA has defined the amount of energy recovery for the 2009 season as 400kJ per lap giving the driver an extra 80hp over a period of 6.67 seconds."

That was easy.

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They have... in the other two stories they have run on the subject. Besides was using Google that hard???

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It's writing etiquette that before you use an abbreviation you always use the full word(s) first. A journalist should hold himself to that, not require his readers to search Google.

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Bart... this is the net. Is a blogger a journalist?

I know what you are saying though.

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Damn Autoblog. Assuming we know something about previous articles and about those weird "cars." What is this arsenic? F1? Slicks? Accidents? Who is Max Mosley? What is the FIA?

Man, so many questions! If only Autoblog defined every single word in their article!

Imagine if there was something called the internet that someone could look stuff up on if he didn't know the definition to it..

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