Ferrari Not Running KERS In China

Ferrari has come up against it. After a reshuffle of pit personnel and Michael Schumacher suddenly not turning up at China to advise (after his decision to put Kimi Raikkonen on wets at Malaysia he’s probably worried about Kimi thumping him). Stefano Domenicali, team principal reveals further changes for this weekend.

“We found a problem with the KERS on Kimi’s car in Sepang and we have therefore decided not to run KERS this weekend in Shanghai. We need to understand what happened to the system from the point of view of safety and reliability. It has delivered a performance benefit, but if it is not running safely and reliably, we can no longer take the risk of running it."

Also Ferrari’s new aero package, including a newly designed rear end to the car with all new double decker diffuser will not be making an appearance until Spain in two races time. So Ferrari are just going to have to do the best they can with what they have and hope they don’t drop too many points. However it seems hard to see them doing any better than a 3rd or 4th and Kimi and Felipe Massa being in the region of 20 points behind everyone by race 5. So unless the new Ferrari bits and bobs transform it into an awesome car of dominance it seems hard to see Kimi or Massa going for the championship this year. However stranger things have happened. Remember Williams in 1991?