World Rallycross Championship a.k.a RALLYX

[OHL]

So he was at fault at the joker merge, just like I said earlier. But taking shortcuts that's no problem?

It looks like there was some penalty for that. Here is list of all penalties issued:


Niclas Gronholm #68, loss of 10 Championship points for use of a seventh turbocharger in the season.

Mattias Ekstrom #1, five-second penalty in Q2 for causing an incident with car #44, pushing and overtaking.

Janis Baumanis #6, reprimand in Q2 for pushing.

Ken Block #43, disqualified from semi-final two after car was found to be underweight.

Mattias Ekstrom #1, relegated from second to third place in semi-final one for not respecting the priority of the driver on the standard lap at the Joker merge.

Timo Schedier #44, reprimand in semi final two for pushing.



There must be more to the story with Block. Highly unusual for the scrutineers and stewards to not take the bodywork weight into account.
I could not find the relevant section of the regulations for WRX so have borrowed from F1: "The relevant car may be excluded should its weight be less than that specified in Article 4.1 of the Technical Regulations when weighed under a) or b) above, save where the deficiency in weight results from the accidental loss of a component of the car." So, the scrutineer at their discretion can allow the weight of the missing component to be factored in, at least in F1. Again, there has to be more to this story.