The Red Bull Racing team are sure that they will have made another step forwards with their troublesome KERS device for the Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul this weekend, after a number of teething troubles with the device.
The newly-reintroduced KERS technology has proved to be something of an Achilles' heel for the reigning champions in the 2011 season so far.
Sebastian Vettel has largely dominated the on-track action so far, but both Red Bull drivers - particularly Vettel's team mate Mark Webber - have suffered setbacks due to their KERS units.
But the caffeinated squad now feel more confident of a trouble-free run at the Turkish Grand Prix this weekend, after working hard on improving their boost system during F1's three-week break since the Chinese GP.
"Our KERS system is fine, over the Easter break we have made some modifications," Red Bull motorsport boss Helmut Marko told the German Bild newspaper.
He resassurringly added: "It is much better now. It works."
Meanwhile, team principal Christian Horner has been less bullish about their chances of a trouble-free run in Istanbul, but has said that the Red Bull system is improving.
"Our main focus of attention [since China] has been to try to get on top of the KERS issues," he explained to the Reuters news agency on Wednesday.
"It's a relatively new technology to us but we are working hard to understand and get on top of it. We've got some updates coming which hopefully will address some of the niggly issues that we've had in the early races."
He added: "With every event we are learning more and more and I'm confident that we will have hopefully made a good step forward with the system again this weekend."
Meanwhile, Horner also side-stepped the slightly thorny issue of last season's Turkish GP 'Crashgate' fiasco between his drivers, when the duo collided while fighting for the lead.
The team, Marko in particular, had their impartiality called into question after appearing to side with Vettel in the aftermath of the crash, despite most observers blaming the German driver for causing it.
And Horner simply muttered that he was sure that the team had 'learned their lessons' from last year's debacle.
"Obviously last year what happened, happened," he shrugged, "Lessons were learned from it and we are looking forward to going back to Istanbul."
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