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Weight changes for three cars at Oschersleben

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Three car models get changes in compensation ballast for the next round of the World Touring Car Championship at Oschersleben in Germany, with weight increases for SUNRED and Volvo and a decrease for BMW.

The Championship dominating Chevrolet team keeps its maximum 40kg of compensation weight, as does its independent sibling Bamboo Engineering.

BMW, which have always faired well at the circuit in the former East Germany, have dropped 20kg in ballast and are now running at a lighter base weight than the Chevrolet Cruzes at 1,170kg, thanks in part to the dropping of the lap times from Hungary for the calculation for this round.

SUNRED’s run of quick times in recent events, especially since the loss of their maximum compensation ballast for an in-season change to the 1.6 turbo, has seen them get their base weight increased to 1,150kg, as opposed to running 20kg lighter.

Volvo, though the slowest turbo car in qualifying at Donington Park due to a qualifying error, doesn’t gain from that faux pas as the FIA has decided not to use the session’s times due to the changeable weather conditions. The Polestar Racing team will now need to add another 10kg of ballast to the car for Oschersleben.

The two BMW 320sis will be the lightest cars on the grid. Those are Borusan Otomotiv entry of Ibrahim Okyay and the Proteam Racing car of Fabio Fabiani.

Entry list and weights for Oschersleben

No – Driver – Team – Car – Ballast – 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 – +0kg – 1150kg
4 – Aleksei Dudukalo* – Lukoil-SUNRED – SR León 1.6T – +0kg – 1150kg
5 – Norbert Michelisz* – Zengö Motorsport – BMW 320 TC – +0kg – 1170kg
7 – Fredy Barth* – SUNRED Engineering – SR León 1.6T – +0kg – 1150kg
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 – +0kg – 1170kg
12 – Franz Engstler* – Liqui-Moly Team Engstler – BMW 320 TC – +0kg – 1170kg
13 – Ibrahim Okyay*^ – Borusan Otomotiv – BMW 320si – -20kg – 1135kg
15 – Tom Coronel – ROAL Motorsport – BMW 320 TC – +0kg – 1170kg
17 – Michel Nykjaer* – SUNRED Engineering – SR León 1.6T – +0kg – 1150kg
18 – Tiago Monteiro – SUNRED Engineering – SR León 1.6T – +0kg – 1150kg
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
26 – Stefano D’Aste* – Wiechers-Sport – BMW 320 TC – +0kg – 1170kg
30 – Robert Dahlgren – Volvo Polestar Racing – Volvo C30 – -10kg – 1140kg
74 – Pepe Oriola* – SUNRED Engineering – SR León 1.6T – +0kg – 1150kg

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