The ballast rules within the World Touring Car Championship are set to be revised during the 2008 campaign in an effort to make the entire system easier to follow.
Currently, each driver receives 10 kilos of ballast in the first event they compete in, with that ballast then going up or down depending on positions in the two events held on each race weekend. Extra ballast is also awarded for every ten points scored in the championship.
It had led to confusion amongst fans as to exactly which driver is carrying which ballast, although
FIA Touring Car Commission president Jonathan Ashman has revealed that that could all be about to change.
“What we have been looking at is simplifying the system a little bit as, at the moment, it is a bit difficult to understand,” he told
Crash.net Radio. “At the end of each race, it isn't something you can work out quickly in your mind and I have to sit and wait until someone has done the calculations before I know as there are so many variables. We wanted something simpler and also something where, if you have success, it will hit you for the next race but it won't carry on for too long.
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