Chevrolets to take grid penalties

Menu's 10-place grid drop was already anticipated, the Swiss driver being punished for a post-race incident with Dirk Muller in Valencia. Because Menu was competing under a suspended penalty after a collision in Istanbul, he will also have to drop 10 places in the race two starting order.

Larini's penalty is the consequence of an engine change. The engine in the Italian's Lacetti was damaged when he hit the barriers early in qualifying.

The Chevrolet duo had already suffered due to the rain and red flags in qualifying, and would only have started 21st and 24th even without the penalties.

Local ace Andre Couto has also received a grid demotion, having his best time deleted as a punishment for failing to stop at the weighbridge. He falls from 18th to 20th.

The sudden rain shower in Friday's qualifying session meant that 11 drivers officially failed to qualify under the series' 105% rule. Unsurprisingly, all have been given dispensation to start.

However, Duncan Huisman, Augusto Farfus, Gianni Morbidelli, Fabrizio Giovanardi, Stefano D'Aste, Luca Rangoni, Diego Romanini, Robert Huff, Menu, Couto and Peter Terting have all received 1000 euro fines for illegally lining up in the 'fast lane' of the pit lane before the green light was shown to resume qualifying following the two red flag stoppages.

Revised race one starting order:

Pos  Driver      Make
 1.  Priaulx     BMW
 2.  D Muller    BMW
 3.  Y Muller    SEAT
 4.  Huisman     BMW
 5.  J Muller    BMW
 6.  Coronel     SEAT
 7.  Farfus      Alfa Romeo
 8.  Giovanardi  Honda
 9.  Tarquini    SEAT
10.  Magnussen   BMW
11.  Terting     SEAT
12.  D'Aste      BMW
13.  Morbidelli  Alfa Romeo
14.  Rangoni     BMW
15.  Ceresoli    SEAT
16.  Zanardi     BMW
17.  Gene        SEAT
18.  Tavano      Alfa Romeo
19.  Huff        Chevrolet
20.  Couto       SEAT
21.  Rydell      SEAT
22.  Romanini    BMW
23.  Thompson    SEAT
24.  Ao          BMW
25.  Menu        Chevrolet
26.  Larini      Chevrolet