Di Montezemolo not happy with introduction of KERS
Scuderia Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo is happy with the introduction of the Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) in 2009. According to di Montezemolo, the system is too expensive and it will not be very useful to improve road cars.
di Montezemolo declared to 'autosprint': "The future looks very complicated with these new regulations. We feel introducing KERS this year was already a mistake, even though we're supportive of F1 being a technology proving ground. However, the energy recovery systems for our race cars will be very different from road car systems.
"The costs are very high. We've studied proposals with FOTA to meet the FIA's fair requests regarding spending cuts and the engine costs should be halved next year compared with 2008."
