Theissen re-confirms KERS only for Heidfeld in Aus

By BMWF1Talk
March 26 2009

As we had revealed yesterday only Heidfeld will use BMW's KERS during the Australia race. In an interview today with the official F1.com website, Theissen confirmed it again.

 An extract from the interview

Question: Half of the teams said that they will not run it at the first fly-away races because of either technical problems or because they think that they are faster without it. What will BMW Sauber do in Melbourne?

Mario Theissen: It is a really tricky situation. Our KERS is ready to race but we have to look at the performance of the entire package. Due to the regulations, which require a minimum weight, a big driver is penalized, which is not a KERS issue. We have seen many drivers trying to lose weight over the winter, which is something that we don’t really like. We’d rather support the increase of the minimum car weight. In our team it has led to the situation that here in Melbourne Nick will drive with KERS and Robert will not. In the future we will decide on a race-by-race basis based on the track characteristics.

To read the full interview go to LINK