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[Martin76]

Kers in the rear wheels only reduce cornering speeds of the cars.
Thanks for the 'replies.
Greetings.

[spankyham]

You'd have to be talking about KERS recovery phase if you' re talking rear wheels only, but I don't see how that would effect cornering. Although Seb did complain about KERS effecting his brake balance, but I think that's malfunction not feature

[stonemonkey]

KERS itself will be providing some of the braking which would mean some changes to the brake balance.

Could the fact that KERS is acting somewhere before the differential have an effect on how the brakes behave while braking going into a corner?

And as KERS is non-distributable weight that may have an effect on how well the car can be set up for the corners of a circuit with respect to movable ballast.

[Bubbie]

I am not sure how close the KERS this year is to the system used in 2009. But I remember that Fisichella went from a non-KERS Force India, to a KERS Ferrari and had a hell of a time learning the braking due to the difference in the way they acted.

[madbrad]

OP has 1 post. Odd first post. Sure it's a real person?

[Jabberwocky]

I thought that and the post was locked from editing yesterday.

however from my understanding of it, The KERS electicity generator/electric motor sits on the oppersite side of the engine to the gearbox, underneath where the fuel tank sits.

The KERS Generator/Motor, I think must be an AC unit, so there must also be an invertor to convert the battery (DC) into the AC (like mains power) that the motor is required. This is because DC electric motors can not be used to harvest energy. This is why on a normal road car the alternator and the starter motor are not the same unit.

[madbrad]

But AFAIK mild hybrids such as the one on full size GM trucks use a pancake alternator in the bellhousing (instead of a conventional exterior belt driven alternator) that is also the motor that makes the vehicle a hybrid. That makes the device both the generator and motor. And by mild I mean the electric motor merely assists the petrol engine so it uses less petrol under accelleration. Seems similar in purpose to that on an F1 car.