Force India won’t run KERS at opening race

The Force India team will not be using the Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) at this month's Australian Grand Prix, driver Adrian Sutil confirmed. The team completed its first laps with its 2009 contender in Jerez last week and will not be ready to use it in the first races without having even tested the device. No, we won't be using it for the first races, so we didn't test it in Jerez – we just concentrated on the main things," Sutil confirmed. "It's not a real disadvantage to do the first races without it as we can see some of the other teams have had issues. At least you know what you have and you just run without KERS. There could be some reliability issues if you run it without fully understanding it."

McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen, on the other hand, did no agree though with the German and does believe that KERS could bring extra speed on track. "It is certainly going to be an advantage to begin with, as it potentially gives you a big benefit from the start to the first corner, and then obviously for overtaking," the Finn said last week.