The Briton did not say whether the system, trialled in an initially basic form, was tested at the recent Barcelona group test, or elsewhere. Brawn said the environmentally-friendly system, which stores braking energy that is then re-released under acceleration, was tested at "not a very high level, but we've got it functioning". The forthcoming introduction of KERS has been controversial, with some teams (unsuccessfully) pushing for a delay until 2010. "That's inevitable," Brawn continued, conceding that - in a climate of needing to reduce costs in F1 - the voluntary deployment of KERS is proving very expensive.
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