The magic button! *Spoilers!!*

As I said, Horner fooled the world once again. Turns out they didnt use KERS from Saturday!!

I assume the issue would have been cooling related going from what Horner suggested about Newey's package. So what about Malaysia? Possibly the hottest ambient temperatures of the year, will RedBull use KERS?

The things to consider are how much benefit will there be at Malaysia for laptime performance and startline performance? Its a longer run to turn 1 and a long run to turn 2. Not only that but Malaysia has two heavy braking zones, and two long straights. KERS should be pretty advantageous IMO.

Looking at the race start in Oz, Hamiltons poor start effected Button's start which was OK...Petrov had a good start, as did Alonso.

IMO, if a KERS starting car is alongside the likely RBR pole then there will be a much bigger risk at Malaysia than here.

I think its a very tough call for RedBull and I think if the grid is exactly the same as Oz, then IMO at Malaysia, both RBR's would lose out to both Mclarens, and certainly one would lose out to either Petrov or Alonso all by turn 2.

In 2009 both Button and Vettel were pretty vocal about the "magic button" and we saw how effective it was with Lewis against non equiped KERS cars at the start. IMO RBR need to sort the issue quick if only to defend against Lewis!!
What are your guys thoughts on this?

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

Pos No Driver Speed
1 16 Kamui Kobayashi 314.2
2 17 Sergio Perez 313.5
3 8 Nico Rosberg 313.4
4 4 Jenson Button 312.8
5 3 Lewis Hamilton 312.7
6 7 Michael Schumacher 312.6
7 14 Adrian Sutil 311.7
8 12 Pastor Maldonado 311.7
9 15 Paul di Resta 311.4
10 11 Rubens Barrichello 311.3
11 10 Vitaly Petrov 311.1
12 9 Nick Heidfeld 311.0
13 18 Sebastien Buemi 309.7
14 5 Fernando Alonso 309.7
15 6 Felipe Massa 309.5
16 19 Jaime Alguersuari 309.5
17 1 Sebastian Vettel 308.3
18 2 Mark Webber 308.3
19 22 Narain Karthikeyan 305.1
20 23 Vitantonio Liuzzi 304.3
21 20 Heikki Kovalainen 303.5
22 21 Jarno Trulli 303.4
23 25 Jerome d'Ambrosio 301.6
24 24 Timo Glock 301.1

Magic Button ahoy. These are the top speeds from Saturday - interesting that the RBR cars are the slowest (barring the bottom feeding back markers). I wonder if MW had a magic button if he'd been able to get past Alonso towards the end of the race. I caught a glimpse of an interview with MW after the race where when asked about a KERS system his response suggestion a clear desire for RBR to get one (of course he did not say as much, reading between the PR lines here).

I think Red Bull have decided there is greater inherit speed in the car (if you can unlock it) that is comprimised by having the weight of the KERS battery in it. Works great if you stick it on pole and can drive away into the distance, sucks balls if you're stuck behind someone as you don't have the straight line speed to effect a pass.