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Bernie blames KERS for Williams fire

Williams F1 garage, 2012 Spanish GP

The official investigation into the cause of the fire that engulfed the Williams garage after the Spanish Grand Prix is still ongoing, but that hasn’t stopped the forthright F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone from speaking his mind.

“I think the fire was a lot to do with that kinetic energy thing which sparked,” Bernie said. “It should never have been introduced. It’s an expensive secret because nobody knows anything about it. The public don’t know and don’t care.”

So Bernie doesn’t like KERS, then. No, really, he doesn’t.

“You could get rid of KERS and it wouldn’t change the racing,” he told CityAM.

“Mercedes has got I think 22 trucks so if they reduced two of those you wouldn’t need to use electric motors in the pit lane. The trucks are bigger polluters than the cars.

“I’m happy that the teams want to preserve all of that for their sponsors and brand image but they shouldn’t talk rubbish.”

[Source: PlanetF1]

One reply on “Bernie blames KERS for Williams fire”

My thought on this latest of Bernie’s pearls of wisdom is pretty simple. It starts with ‘verbal’ and ends with ‘diarrhoea.’

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