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Many penalties after Imola

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Colciago will lose ten grid position for the next race due to his incident with Gené in Race 1; Plato received a similar penalty due to his collision with Thompson in Race 2; as for the incident between Farfus and Zanardi in Race 2, the Brazilian youngster will also lose ten positions on the grid of the next race.

But furthermore if he is involved in a similar incident during one of the two following events, he will also be excluded from that race. Those are the decisions resulted from the races at Imola.

Alessandro Balzan has been excluded from Round 8 of the FIA WTCC that took place at Imola today. Post-race scrutineering discovered his car was underweight. The decision means that he loses the 10 points he gained by winning the independent category and drops from a would-have-been third, to sixth position in the title bid. The result means that runner-up Stefano D’Aste of Proteam Motorsport claims the maximum points and he now sits in ninth place.

Marc Hennerici still holds the lead of the Independent’s competition despite having a disappointing weekend. He has 54 points, 19 ahead of second placed Carl Rosenblad while Tom Coronel, Valle Mäkelä and Salvatore Tavano all have 27 points a piece.