WTCR – Revised schedule and additional

Unusual races, unusual pleasure

The 2020 calendar aspects visits to two unusual venues – Spanish monitor MotorLand Aragón and South Korea’s Inje Speedium.

The Spanish venue will host the WTCR – FIA World Touring Automobile Cup no longer as soon as but twice in 2020. Besides staging the inaugural WTCR Scamper of Spain, the circuit located within the land of Aragón may perchance perchance well perchance be the surroundings of the marvelous pre-season test from 24-26 March.

The test, previously held the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, is traditionally the well-known level of the twelve months when the broad majority of the well-known contenders are on the excellent monitor on the the same time. Its proximity to the hole match in Morocco provides a chance for groups to total their final preparations for the upcoming advertising and marketing and marketing campaign.

Compensation weight calculations essentially essentially based on qualifying lap times handiest

As soon as the 2020 season is underway, bustle lap times will now no longer be regarded as for the compensation weight calculations, that stretch handiest qualifying lap times will depend. Furthermore, the calculations will doubtless be made without the pause of the ballast being taken into consideration. As an replacement, a correction to the lap times will doubtless be applied, in step with the ballast carried within the outdated occasions.

The changes to the Sporting Regulations were made to discourage groups – in tandem with customer racing stamp engineers – from instructing drivers to effectively situation slower bustle lap times to motivate restrict the quantity of additional weight added to their cars for the following bustle weekend. The supposed result’s better racing as drivers will push on each lap to rob a understand at to stamp net site, as a replacement of driving with a compensation weight approach in thoughts. The compensation weight calculations will doubtless be extra true, fluctuate less and be near the explicit efficiency of each vehicle in actuality.

Rookie classification to showcase unusual talent

Drivers 23 and below on 1 January 2020 who hang participated in no bigger than three WTCR occasions will doubtless be integrated within the unusual rookie classification, which has been presented to recognise the achievements of younger racers in WTCR.