Citroën ballast-free for the first time at Macau
The five Citroën C-Elysée WTCCs of Rob Huff, Tom Chilton, Mehdi Bennani, John Filippi and Ma Qing Hua will run with no compensation weight at the forthcoming Guia Race of Macau, the first time Citroën have run with no weight in their WTCC history.
With the fastest race laps and qualifying laps from the last three events used to calculate the ballast, the below average performance of the Citroën teams in Argentina, China and Japan, has resulted in the cars permitted to run at the Super 2000 TC1 cars’ base weight of 1,100kg for the first time.
The reference car is the Polestar Cyan Racing-run Volvo S60, all three of which will run at 1,180kg, with the Honda Civics assessed to be just one-tenth from Volvo’s pace, and will run 10kg lighter at 1,170kg.
The Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1s of Tom Coronel and WTCC newcomers Clerebold Chan and Wong Po Wah will run with just 10kg of compensation weight onboard, while the RC Motorsport Ladas of Yann Ehrlacher, Mak Ka Lok and Kevin Gleason will be ballast-free along with the Citroëns.
Filipe de Souza vacates his seat at RC Lada, as he will be racing a TC2T-specification Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T in the supporting CTM Macau Touring Car Cup, with drivers only permitted to take part in one event during the Macau Grand Prix weekend.
Compensation weight
Car – Final weight – Ballast
Volvo S60 TC1 – 1,180kg – +80kg
Honda Civic WTCC – 1,170kg – +70kg
Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 – 1,110kg – +10kg
Citroën C-Elysée WTCC – 1,100kg – +0kg
Lada Vesta WTCC – 1,100kg – +0kg
