It seems most teams are going with an electric KERS system, but with regards to a kinetic system where a flywheel is used; How would the flywheel affect the inertia of the car through corners? and could this be exploited to improve handling or perhaps stability?
I thought of this whilst remembering a demo in my first year physics class where the lecturer had a wheel on a stick, spun the wheel, and was able to keep the stick pretty much horizontal by suspending the other end of the stick of a string. (I'm sure anyone who's done physics at uni level would know what I'm talking about).
I pretty much stopped doing physics after my first year so I'm totally ignorant to what this may imply, but perhaps someone here can explain how it works and how it could be useful, if at all?
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