KERS now available to Brawn GP

The Kinetic Energy Recovery System is now available to the Brawn GP team, and as expected it is from their engine supplier, Mercedes. The new team will now benefit from the extra boost, but will also have to deal with the added weight, at a compromise of ballast.

“Mercedes have made it available to us. We’ve just got to find a way of fitting it to the car and not compromising the handling, because the car wasn’t designed for their system," said Brawn.

"The biggest issue that we have is overall weight, because in fitting the Mercedes engine we added a reasonable amount of weight to the car with all the modifications we had to make."

Adding, "Although theirs is a very light system, we’ve lost the capacity that we need to install their system and add the ballast that we need to get the right weight distribution."

The team has yet to announce when they will use it competitively, and whether it will significantly affect their current top level pace.