KERS

[roger44]

Thanks for the info guys, and the warm welcome, but I still dont understand how they are going to feed a sudden power surge into the drive train and not expect to releive the engine of load temporaily and then 6 seconds later reaplly the engine load. That will be interesting to see how the gearbox copes.

ALso the flywheel system reving at 64k, what are gyro forces at that speed and how wil they affect handling turning into corners. I remember when I was learning engineering being toaugh abour progression, the force we feel when we hold a bycycle wheel by the axle and its spinning, it tries to pull itself out of your hand, and thats only reving at 5 rpm, my god what is 64k going to do.

I cant wait, I hope they use in Oz
roger

[Scott]

I wonder if the gyro effect might in fact help stabilize the car?  But seriously, anything spinning at 64k is pretty frightening.  I don't think any number of layers of carbon fibre could protect the driver or any others around him if that thing explodes.