Williams is still working on its KERS system and planning to debut the technology at some point, according to the team's Technical Director Sam Michael.
Only Ferrari and McLaren are still persevering with their respective Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems at Grand Prix this season. McLaren's Lewis Hamilton signed the first victory of a KERS-fitted car last month in Hungary, while the like-wise equipped Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen took second place.
However the FOTA alliance of eight current teams have agreed not to use the systems at all next year due to their development cost, weight factor and complicated nature. Most teams have already dropped the systems altogether.
Williams and Force India, however, were expelled from the teams association earlier this year during the FOTA-FIA conflict. A Williams spokesman recently said that, since they are no longer a FOTA member, the team is not strictly bound by the 2010 KERS ban.
Consequently the Grove-based operation has been constantly working on its unique flywheel-based approach to KERS, although it has yet to appear at races this season.
"We still have a team of people working on KERS, but I don't want to put a date on when we'll run it for the first time," said Michael.
If FOTA maintains its voluntary ban, and if Force India continues to run without such a system, Williams might therefore be the single KERS-equipped team next season
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Thanks very much - still pretty primative at the moment - should be expanding/improving next year.
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