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Maximum weight for Chevrolet, BMW and SUNRED

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The bulk of the field will carry 40 kilograms of ballast next weekend after the FIA’s latest calculation of compensation weights for Rounds 9 & 10 in the Czech Republic.

The FIA has confirmed (as predicted earlier) that the times from race two at Hungary won’t be used due to the changing conditions.

The pace of the BMWs over the last three meetings however has been close enough to see them allocated with an increase in ballast since Hungary. With the average lap time of the top BMWs just 0.3 seconds down on the top Chevrolet Cruzes, all BMW 320 TCs will now run with 40kg on top of their base weight, an increase on the 10kg they carried at the Hungaroring.

The SEAT León TDI’s times were within 0.5 of a second of the Cruze, and so will now run with an additional 20kg instead of no ballast. This will only affect Aleksei Dudukalo, as Gabriele Tarquini and Tiago Monteiro will also switch to the SUNRED 1.6T engine from Brno.

All drivers in the SUNRED León 1.6T will have to run with maximum ballast as a new model entry until the weights are recalculated for Porto.

The Polestar Racing Volvo C30 of Robert Dahlgren and the Proteam Racing BMW 320si of Fabio Fabiani will run at the minimum possible of -20kg at Brno.

Entry List for Brno including compensation weight

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 – SR León 1.6T – +40kg – 1190kg
4 – Aleksei Dudukalo*^ – Lukoil-SUNRED – SEAT León TDI – +20kg – 1190kg
5 – Norbert Michelisz* – Zengö Motorsport – BMW 320 TC – +40kg – 1210kg
7 – Fredy Barth* – SUNRED Engineering – SR León 1.6T – +40kg – 1190kg
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-Moly Team Engstler – BMW 320 TC – +40kg – 1210kg
12 – Franz Engstler* – Liqui-Moly Team Engstler – BMW 320 TC – +40kg – 1210kg
15 – Tom Coronel – ROAL Motorsport – BMW 320 TC – +40kg – 1210kg
17 – Michel Nykjaer* – SUNRED Engineering – SR León 1.6T – +40kg – 1190kg
18 – Tiago Monteiro – SUNRED Engineering – SR León 1.6T – +40kg – 1190kg
20 – Javier Villa* – Proteam Racing – BMW 320 TC – +40kg – 1210kg
21 – Fabio Fabiani*^ – Proteam Racing – BMW 320si – -20kg – 1135kg
25 – Mehdi Bennani* – Proteam Racing – BMW 320 TC – +40kg – 1210kg
30 – Robert Dahlgren – Polestar Racing – Volvo C30 – -20kg – 1130kg
35 – Urs Sonderegger* – Wiechers-Sport – BMW 320 TC – +40kg – 1210kg
65 – Marchy Lee* – DeTeam KK Motorsport – BMW 320 TC – +40kg – 1210kg
74 – Pepe Oriola* – SUNRED Engineering – SR León 1.6T – +40kg – 1190kg

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