week, when the 23-year-old British driver Jonathan Kennard made his formula one test debut with the Grove based team at the Kemble (UK) airfield.

The car featured not only the radical rear wing, but a 2009-specification front wing, which according to the regulations is bigger and wider.

The modified Williams will be tested properly and publicly at Barcelona next week.

Elsewhere, at Ferrari's private test circuit Fiorano, Luca Badoer got down to work in the Italian team's interim car F2008K.

The machine does not yet feature the 2009 wings, but it is equipped to carry extra ballast to simulate a KERS system, and at Fiorano it is reported by La Gazzetta dello Sport that some of the components for the energy-recovery technology are already aboard the F2008K.

Gazzetta said Ferrari's KERS system willbe located near the floor in the middle of the chassis.

Badoer's car has also been stripped of all the extra bodywork appendages, like flip-ups and winglets, which are not allowed in formula one from next year.

Teams look outside F1 paddock for KERS(GMM) Formula one teams are looking outside of the paddock for assistance with the looming KERS era.

It emerged this week that McLaren intends to collaborative with Freescale Simiconductor, a Motorola spinoff, from F1's second year of the energy-recovery technology in 2010.

At the same time, it was being reported in the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport that Bosch, a major German technology company, is working on an electronic KERS system for deployment in the world of motor racing.

A spokesman confirmed that discussions with teams from various racing