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KERS to feature on symposium circuit
26th October 2007
Presentations on Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) technology, which is due to be introduced in Formula One in 2009, are set to feature at a number of number of motorsport and automotive symposia over the next few months.
At the Global Motorsports Congress being held in Cologne, Germany November 5-6 Martin Halley, chief engineer with Xtrac and Jon Hilton, managing partner of Flybrid Systems, will describe their groundbreaking mechanical flywheel KERS - which also incorporates advanced traction drive technology from Torotrak.
At the World Motorsport Symposium that takes place at the UK’s Oxford Brookes University’s engineering centre on November 29-30 Adrian Moore, the technical director of Xtrac, will present a technical paper describing the technology behind the KERS system.
At the CTi Transmission Symposium to be held in Berlin on December 4-5 Chris Brockbank, the business development manager with Torotrak, will present a paper describing the company’s variator traction drive technology used in the mechanical KERS system.
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