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All-square as Honda takes weight hit for home WTCC race

Citroën and Honda will be level-pegging when it comes to the amount of compensation weight they will carry at FIA WTCC JVCKENWOOD Race of Japan next month.

The cars of both makes will carry the maximum permitted 80 kilograms under regulations designed to equalise performance in the World Touring Car Championship through a lap time difference in seconds calculation.

Although the Citroën C-Elysée WTCCs have run heavy all season, this is the first time the Honda Civic WTCCs have carried the full 80 kilograms of success ballast.

Meanwhile, the three LADA Vestas in action at Twin Ring Motegi will continue to carry 50 kilograms of additional weight, while the Volvo S60 Polestar TC1s remain at the 1100-kilogram minimum base weight.

However, the Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1s will run with 10 kilograms of compensation weight having been at zero in Argentina where Tom Coronel and Esteban Guerrieri were on rapid form.

WTCC Race of Japan takes place from 2-4 September.

Zdroj: fiawtcc.com