Renault abandon KERS for next seven races

Renault has abandoned KERS at least for the next seven races, the Spanish sports newspaper Diario AS claims. It was already known that the Anglo-French squad will not be fitting KERS to its R29 at the forthcoming Spanish and Monaco Grand Prix. But AS claims that, after investigations about the effect on performance of the increase in centre of gravity by four centimetres, Renault has for now put KERS aside.

The newspaper said Fernando Alonso wants to reconsider KERS only for the high speed circuits at Spa and Monza, to take place consecutively in late August and early September.