"The ballast must be made from solid metallic piece/s, firmly, securely connected, either through an adapter or directly to the main frame or engine, with minimum 2 steel bolts (min. 8 mm diameter, 8.8 grade or over).
"Fuel in the fuel tank can be used as ballast. Nevertheless, the verified weight may never fall below the required minimum weight."
Air Restrictor adjustment
"The minimum air restrictor size is increased or decreased in 2 mm steps in diameter of equivalent circular area, according to following procedure:
"1. - If the minimum weight of the 1200cc 2 cylinders configuration has reached the lower limit of 162 kg and,
"- if the resulting gap in the average value of 'event averages' is more than 5 points in favour of the 1000 cc 4- cylinders and,
"- if a rider of a 1000cc 4 cylinder is leading the riders' Superbike World Championship standings at that time, then the initial air restrictor size of the 1200cc 2 cylinders will be increased by one size, to a Ø 52 mm (or the equivalent area 2123.7 mm2), or as a last step, without any air restrictor.
"2. - If the minimum weight for 1200cc 2 cylinder configuration has reached the upper limit of 171 kg and,
"- if the resulting gap of the average value of 'event averages' is more than 5 points in favour of the 1200 cc 2 cylinders and,
- if a rider of a 1200cc 2 cylinder is leading the riders' Superbike World Championship standings at that time, then the initial air restrictor size of the 1200cc 2 cylinders will be reduced by one size, to a Ø48 mm (or the equivalent area 1809,6 mm2), or, as last step, to a minimum of Ø46 mm (or the equivalent area 1661.9 mm2).
"If the air restrictor size is not updated, then the results of three more events will be considered, and a new average value of the 'event averages' will be calculated over six events and so on, over multiples of three events, until the points gap of the average value of the 'event averages' from the last air restrictor size update is higher than 5."
