Corsa Motorsport given maximum weight
The two Chevrolet Lacettis of Corsa Motorsport have been given the maximum possible penalty weight of 40kg as the model returns to the Championship for the first time since Curitiba in March.
Bamboo Engineering competed with the outgoing Chevrolet model at the opening round in Brazil before switching to the Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T from the second race meeting in Belgium.
Macanese squad Corsa Motorsport have entered the Guia Race at Macau with the two Lacettis, and have been given an additional 40kg of ballast on top of the car’s minimum base weight of 1,140kg, meaning it’s just 10kg shy of running with the same weight as the Championship leading turbocharged Cruzes.
As the Lacettis are still running with RML’s normally aspirated 2.0 litre engine, the cars are running in the Jay-Ten category for older regulation cars, which this weekend has a bumper entry of five cars (following the exclusion of Lo Ka Chun’s Peugeot) against the three BMW 320sis of Jo Merszei, Mak Ka Lok and Philip Ma, run by Engstler, RPM Motorsport and Proteam respectively, all of which are running at 1,135kg this weekend.
Despite the weight difference, Felipe De Souza was the fastest of the Jay-Ten runners in this morning’s wet first free practice session, finishing 19th overall, 0.4 seconds ahead of Engstler Motorsport’s Jo Merszei.
