Why KERS is a good thing for the sport.

The sticker displaying the KERS system on Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari.

Formula One cars are hardly the greenest things on the planet. But however we can make these cars more environmentally friendly, I am all for it, especially if it enhances the racing.

The majority of the teams may not like it, but I have certainly enjoyed  watching the KERS being deployed and all the tactics that come with the KERS cars, and there have been wins from the KERS cars which prove it can work! I will also enjoy it being used in 2010 by whoever wishes to use it, and Williams look set to defy FOTA who agreed not to run KERS and are going to use the system, probably alongside the team which ran it consistenly throughout last season, Ferrari and McLaren.

Williams have been developing a flywheel based system rather than a battery one that all other KERS teams have used which is quite interesting. There is a little video on the Williams KERS system below:

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