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The three leading model cars in the 2009 World Touring Car Championship will race with the same compensation weight for the next event of the season in Brno.

The BMW 320si, SEAT Leon Tdi and Chevrolet Cruze LT will all carry the same amount of ballast.

According to the calculations, which took into account the lap-times set in the three previous events at Marrakech, Pau and Valencia, the BMW remains the fastest model.

It will therefore again receive the maximum 40kg ballast for the races in the Czech Republic; however the Chevrolet and the SEAT Tdi are within the 0.3-second threshold - 0.1s and 0.2s respectively - so will also carry 40kg.

As for the other cars, Alessandro Zanardi's BMW 320si - the only one equipped with a sequential gearbox - has no compensation weight, while the SEAT Leon TFSI and the LADA 110 have 10kg and 20kg deducted from the minimum weight respectively.

Brno compensation weights:

+40 kg BMW 320si, Chevrolet Cruze LT, SEAT Leon TDI

±0 kg BMW 320si (Zanardi)

-10 kg SEAT Leon TFSI

-20 kg LADA 110

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