Last year, the pre-weekend top 10 in the championship carried success ballast on a sliding scale from 75kg down to 9kg for free practice, qualifying and race one.
The same levels of ballast were then given to the top 10 finishers from race one for the second race, and from race two for the third race.
The introduction of the Cosworth hybrid system, which boosts power by 10% and can be used for 15 seconds per lap when the car reaches a minimum speed of 120km/h, has done away with the largely unpopular ballast system.
Beginning at next week’s Donington Park season opener, the championship leader will not be allowed any hybrid deployment for qualifying, the runner-up will have 1.5 seconds available, and this increases in 1.5s increments up to the full 15s for those placed 11th and below.
In races under 17 laps, the championship leader will have to sacrifice 10 laps of hybrid usage, second place will lose nine laps, and so on.
In races over 17 laps, the scale is…
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