BMW plan to run KERS again soon

Team principal Mario Theissen believes that their system, which is currently undergoing redesign work after a fundamental problem was discovered which led to a mechanic suffering an electric shock after touching the steering wheel and sidepod, will be ready to run in the next two months.

However, it will not run at the next test, which will be held at Monza on August 27-29.

"Certainly we will run it within one of the tests during the season," said Theissen. "But definitely not the coming Monza test because that will be totally dedicated to the Monza race package."

Theissen also believes that their findings, which will be presented to both the FIA and their rival teams, has implications not only for KERS in Formula One, but also to road car development.

"In our view the result is not just a step forward for KERS and F1, but also for future hybrid road cars," said Theiseen of the diagnosis of the problem. "It's installation and design related. In the course of the investigation we found not just the reasons for this specific incident, but also some other design principals you should respect when doing high-voltage systems.

"We ended up not just with a solution to the Jerez problem, but also a design guide to high-voltage systems which will be presented to the FIA and to the other teams in detail. We have offered to do a detailed presentation at the next Technical Working Group."