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Honda and Lada gets ballast break for Moscow

Honda and Lada will both benefit from the latest calculations of compensation weight by the FIA for the next round of the World Touring Car Championship in Russia.

Rob Huff, Honda Racing Team JAS, Honda Civic WTCC

Rob Huff, Honda Racing Team JAS, Honda Civic WTCC

FIA WTCC

Start Race 2: José María López, Citroën World Touring Car Team, Citroën C-Elysée WTCC leads
Nicky Catsburg, LADA Sport Rosneft, Lada Vesta
Hugo Valente, LADA Sport Rosneft, Lada Vesta
Thed Björk, Polestar Cyan Racing, Volvo S60 Polestar TC1
Norbert Michelisz, Honda Racing Team JAS, Honda Civic WTCC
Yvan Muller, Citroën World Touring Car Team, Citroën C-Elysée WTCC

While the championship leading Citroens will all carry 80kg for the sixth time this year, the Hondas will drop to their lowest weight since Slovakia.

This re-calculation was based on the Japanese manufacturer's performances in the last three events in Hungary, Morocco and Germany, with the average laptime of the best two Civics calculated as being half a second off the pace of the best two Citroens.

The Civics of the three factory drivers Rob Huff, Tiago Monteiro and Norbert Michelisz will therefore carry just 30kg of compensation weight, bringing the minimum weight of their cars down to 1,130kg, from 1,140kg during the last two events.

The three factory Lada Vesta WTCCs of Gabriele Tarquini, Hugo Valente and Nicky Catsburg will also benefit from the FIA's latest calculations and drop to 20kg of compensation weight at the manufacturer's home race.

The two Polestar Cyan Racing Volvo S60s and the privateer Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1s will all carry no ballast, with the cars all judged to be more than a second from the leading pace of the Citroen C-Elysees.

Moscow compensation weights:

Car Gap Ballast
Citroen C-Elysee WTCC   80kg
Honda Civic WTCC +0.5s 30kg
Lada Vesta WTCC +0.6s 20kg
Volvo S60 WTCC +1.1s 0kg
Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 +1.1s 0kg

Neil Hudson / TouringCarTimes

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