After BMW confirmed that they would be scrapping any further use of KERS this season, McLaren’s Martin Whitmarsh has revealed that they are more than willing to drop the controversial system as well. In fact, Ferrari drivers were the only two on the grid to actually use it at the recent British Grand Prix while other teams concentrate on their aero developments instead.

According to Whitmarsh, they are more than willing to continue with it, as development on the system has cost a small fortune, however, in hindsight, had they not invested so much into it, they may not be as far behind the leaders as they now find themselves.

With KERS now set to be dropped from the 2010 regulations, Whitmarsh has agreed that had it not been for all the other new rules in force this season, the system may have worked...

 “The regulations are incredibly wide, and they are challenging in that to develop a KERS system within the weight and packaging constraints of F1, with the power and energy limitations and still have performance is difficult. And if you look back on it now with hindsight, this industry has undoubtedly wasted a lot of money in that area, particularly if we are not going to be running with KERS next year,” he told Autosport.

"McLaren and Mercedes' position is that we believe we have come this far and should continue with KERS, but the spirit of cooperation that exists within F1 now with FOTA, we accept not using vetoes to block these things. A majority of teams want to block it and it has been unfortunate for us because we have put a tremendous amount of effort, with the added potential distraction in our engineering programme and concept of this car. Like all of these things you get the perfect storm of issues.”

“Putting it as kindly as possible, we were not as adventurous in our diffuser interpretation, and that gave us limitations in how you respond to it. We were behind on the development of the overall aero concept, and we have put a lot of effort into KERS because F1 was committing to it. Looking back we could have made some different decisions, but that is how hindsight works."