LADA ALLOWED TO RACE BUT NOT TO SCORE

The two LADA 110 cars of Jaap van Lagen and Viktor Shapovalov will be considered transparent during the FIA WTCC races in Valencia.

The Stewards, having received a report from the FIA Technical Delegate, decided to allow the two Russian Bears Motorsport's cars to take part in the event further to the agreement of all the other competitors, however the Russian cars will not be eligible to score points for both the championship and the Independents Trophy.

The reason for this decision was that the intake and the outlet ports of the cylinder head were not conform to the homologation form.

The team, that was visited in Valencia by LADA Motorsport director Vladimir Guba, is due to make the needed adjustments in time for the next championship event, that will take place in two weeks at Pau.

ALAIN MENU'S TIMES DISALLOWED

After the end of the qualifying session the Stewards of the meeting disallowed all the times set by Alain Menu because his Chevrolet Lacetti did not comply with the 70-millimiter ground clearance.

This demoted the Swiss from third to the back of the grid and promoted Robert Huff to third and Jordi Gené to fourth.