Reports – Red Bull using KERS for traction?

The stories and rumors of Sebastian Vettel‘s success and dominance off lately just keep on emerging and now one more theory has emerged recently.

There were rumours some time back in Korea which indicated of a clever, though legal, engine mapping system aboard his Red Bull car that mimics the benefits of banned traction control. Now, Spain’s El Confidential has reported that there are increasing rumours doing rounds that the Adrian Newey-penned RB9, which in Vettel’s hands has won the last four grands prix, is in fact somehow deploying its KERS system to enhance cornering traction.

The rumours, which date back to Singapore last month, say Red Bull could have linked KERS to suspension sensors, with the engine being subsequently ‘dragged’ through the process of energy harvesting. The report has in fact made a potential link between the system and the fact that Red Bull tends to have frequent reliability problems with its KERS units.

Mark Webber said immediately after retiring in Korea that “there was a KERS fire”, but Red Bull later covered it stating that it was caused by oil leaking onto the exhaust after the crash with Adrian Sutil.

Well we hope that the rumors are not true else it may hurt car fans immensely.