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Off Topic: Speed.com's writers filed a report where Vettel admited that his RB7 had to do without KERS most of the last half of the Chinese GP. There was only a few laps between his and Hamilton's tires, and Lewis was definently closing on Seb down the straights with the DRS wing and a fully functioning KERS system.
On Topic: This illustrates why the ACO wants KERS to be mainly for fuel saving, not as a push to pass, as that bares little relevance to why road cars use KERS, as well as why Audi and Peugeot don't want to run KERS in 2011--if Red Bull can't get their system to last a two hour or shorter GP, and if other teams destroy the batteries in theirs by the end of a GP weekend (though that's more down to how the teams use KERS as as power boost system than anything), why deal with something that if it fails on the cars will basically become numerous kilograms of dead weight?
Now, I think that this would be a good time to take up bets on when the new Audi paint schemes will be revealed. Tech inspection takes place the Friday and Saturday before the test day itself, and there's about 8 hours for the cars to practice on Sunday afternoon.
So what's most likely to happen: Audi releases photos before the test weekend, the cars show up painted for inspection days, or Audi does a reveal before the test proper?
Either way, some reveal during the upcoming week/weekend is guarenteed.
However, going back to the R18 itself and the roof intake that was seemingly inspired by the McLaren MP4-26. Is the MP4-26's intake behind the main engine intake for cooling the KERS system? And if so, could it bare any relevance to the R18's intake modifications, or is it to vent/acellerate air to funnel more air into the engine/cockpit intake at high speeds, enhancing the ram-air effect?
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