Volvo gets slight weight increase for Valencia

The only change in the compensation weights from Oschersleben for next weekend’s round of the FIA World Touring Car Championship is a 10kg increase for the Volvo Polestar Racing team, which brings them into line with SUNRED and BMW.

With the quickest car all season, the Chevrolet Cruze will continue to carry 40kg of compensation ballast for the final round of the European leg of this year’s championship. This additional weight will be carried by by Rob Huff, Yvan Muller and Alain Menu in the works RML-run Cruzes as well as the independent Bamboo Engineering’s driver pairing of Darryl O’Young and Yukinori Taniguchi.

The average lap time difference to the Chevrolet of the trio of the SR León 1.6T, the BMW 320 TC and the Volvo C30 in qualifying and the races over the last three rounds at Porto, Donington Park and Oschersleben has been 0.7 seconds. As a result, all three of these models will run at neutral weight (0kg of ballast added) in Spain, which is 10kg higher than the Volvo ran with in Germany when Robert Dahlgren qualified on the front row.

The BMW 320si, which will be represented by just Fabio Fabiani for Proteam Racing, will continue to carry the minimum amount of ballast on account of being 5.1 seconds off the pace in the only normally aspirated car in the field.

Entry list and weights for Valencia

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
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 Garcia* – 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 – +0kg – 1150kg
64 – David Sigacev* – DeTeam KK Motorsport – BMW 320 TC – +0k – 1170kg
74 – Pepe Oriola* – SUNRED Engineering – SR León 1.6T – +0kg – 1150kg

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