While their rivals continue whistling to keep their spirits up, and take whatever they can from their performances last weekend in Malaysia, Red Bull go to China the firm favourites once more. However, it may not all be plain sailing for the current world champion constructors, who are still struggling to make their KERS work.

Shanghai is another track on which it will be crucial, especially at the start (where it let Mark Webber down so badly last weekend), but chief technical officer Adrian Newey admits: “Our system in still in its infancy. We are not a manufacturer team so we’re having to develop KERS ourselves, which has not been our area of expertise in

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