A weekend that did nothing to improve the image of the World Touring Car Championship has ended with race officials announcing that 15 cars failed post race checks.
The weekend had been beset by issues, which started when SEAT issued a strongly worded statement questioning its involvement in the series after changes made to the Leon TDi severely hampered its performance in qualifying.
Nine drivers then saw their times disallowed in qualifying after failing post-session checks while race day was overshadowed by the controversial collison between Franz Engstler and the Safety Car during the opening stages of race two.
Following the conclusion of race two, race stewards completed technical checks on the competing cars and 15 – more than half the grid – were found to not comply with the engine speed limit of the supercharged air pressure limits in place.
Rather than hand out a raft of penalties, officials - 'taking into account the exceptional circumstances and confusion' – elected to hand out reprimands to the teams involved who were 'reminded that their cars must comply with all technical regulations for the remaining events of the season.
The cars involved were as follows:
1.
Yvan Muller SEAT Sport
SEAT Leon TDi2.
Gabriele Tarquini SEAT Sport
SEAT Leon TDi3.
Rickard Rydell SEAT Sport
SEAT Leon TDi4.
Jordi Gene SEAT Sport
SEAT Leon TDi5.
Tiago Monteiro SEAT Sport
SEAT Leon TDi9.
Alex Zanardi BMW Team Italy-Spain
BMW 320si14.
Nicola Larini Chevrolet
Chevrolet Cruze18.
Jaap van Lagen LADA Sport
LADA 11019.
Kirill Ladygin LADA Sport
LADA 11020.
Viktor Shapovalov LADA Sport
LADA 11021.
Tom Coronel SUNRED Engineering
SEAT Leon TFSI23.
Felix Porteiro Proteam Motorsport
BMW 320si29.
Eric Cayrolle SUNRED Engineering
SEAT Leon TFSI30.
Mehdi Bennani Exagon Engineering
SEAT Leon TFSI33.
Laurent Cazenave Wiechers-Sport
BMW 320si
