Cupras hit with immediate 20kg weight adjustment in Sweden

The five Cupra TCRs racing at the Ring Knutstorp in the STCC are required to add 20kg of compensation weight ahead of qualifying after a last-minute minimum weight adjustment.

The four Cupras of PWR Racing, and the Cupra of LMS Racing’s Olli Kangas will run an additional 20kg of STCC applied compensation weight during this afternoon’s qualifying session, after a tweak following the performance seen from the PWR team in practice.

Philip Morin led a 1-2 for the team in the first test, with Daniel Haglöf then leading a 1-2-3 lockout for the team in the second test, with their closest threat coming from KMS’s Johan Kristoffersson, four-tenths of a second off the leading pace around the short 2.0km circuit.

The Cupras were already running 10kg lighter as part of the series’ own adjustment, before TCR confirmed a 10kg weight break as part of BoP for the Cupras this morning for all TCR series across the world, which further increased the weight difference between the Cupras and their rivals on track at Knutstorp, four Audi RS 3 LMSs, one Honda Civic FK2 TCR and 11 Volkswagen Golf GTI TCRs.

The STCC’s adjustment will mean the Cupras will now be just 10kg lighter than Volkswagen in qualifying, 20kg heavier than they were in the first two tests of the day.