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Chevrolet still heaviest going to Hungary

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There will be no changes to the compensation weights calculated for the next round of the World Touring Car Championship at the Hungaroring, which means the Chevrolet Cruze will again be the heaviest car on the circuit.

After a runaway run of five victories from six starts, the compensation weight penalty, based on the cars fastest lap times across the first three race meetings of the year, sees the Chevrolet Cruze given an additional 40kg on top of their base weight.

The SEAT León TDI and BMW 320 TC were deemed to be on an average 0.7s off the pace and so will run with no compensation weight.

The Volvo C30 of Robert Dahlgren was on average 2.0 seconds down on the Chevrolet, whilst the BMW 320si of Fabio Fabiani (with Ibrahim Okyay’s times included from Monza) was 6.9 down, so both can subtract 20kg from their base weight.

As before, if the Volvo Polestar Racing team or SUNRED Engineering bring their new 1.6 litre turbocharged engines to Hungary, they’ll have to run with an additional 40kg of ballast on their championship debut, which will be recalculated for the following round at Brno, Czech.

Entry List for Hungary including Ballast

No – Driver – Team – Car – Ballast – Total Weight
1 – Yvan Muller – Chevrolet – Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T – +40kg – 1190kg
2 – Robert Huff – Chevrolet – Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T – +40kg – 1190kg
3 – Gabriele Tarquini – Lukoil-SUNRED – SEAT León TDI – ±0kg – 1170kg
4 – Aleksei Dudukalo*^ – Lukoil-SUNRED – SEAT León TDI – ±0kg – 1170kg
5 – Norbert Michelisz* – Zengö Motorsport – BMW 320 TC – ±0kg – 1170kg
7 – Fredy Barth*^ – SUNRED Engineering – SEAT León TDI – ±0kg – 1170kg
8 – Alain Menu – Chevrolet – Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T – +40kg – 1190kg
9 – Darryl O’Young* – Bamboo Engineering – Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T – +40kg – 1190kg
10 – Yukinori Taniguchi* – Bamboo Engineering – Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T – +40kg – 1190kg
11 – Kristian Poulsen* – Liqui – BMW 320 TC – ±0kg – 1170kg
12 – Franz Engstler* – Liqui – BMW 320 TC – ±0kg – 1170kg
15 – Tom Coronel – ROAL Motorsport – BMW 320 TC – ±0kg – 1170kg
17 – Michel Nykjaer*^ – SUNRED Engineering – SEAT León TDI – ±0kg – 1170kg
18 – Tiago Monteiro – SUNRED Engineering – SEAT León TDI – ±0kg – 1170kg
20 – Javier Villa* – Proteam Racing – BMW 320 TC – ±0kg – 1170kg
21 – Fabio Fabiani*^ – Proteam Racing – BMW 320si – -20kg – 1135kg
25 – Mehdi Bennani* – Proteam Racing – BMW 320 TC – ±0kg – 1170kg
30 – Robert Dahlgren – Polestar Racing – Volvo C30 – -20kg – 1130kg
35 – Urs Sonderegger* – Wiechers-Sport – BMW 320 TC – ±0kg – 1170kg
65 – Marchy Lee* – DeTeam KK Motorsport – BMW 320 TC – ±0kg – 1170kg
74 – Pepe Oriola*^ – SUNRED Engineering – SEAT León TDI – ±0kg – 1170kg

* Eligible for the Yokohama Independents Trophy
^ Eligible for the Jay-Ten Trophy