The Austrian event was thrown into chaos as the entire 12-strong Q2 field missed out on final flying laps while driving slowly to try and get slipstreams from each other.
Tom Chilton, heading the pack in his RML Chevrolet, had not needed to chase times as he and team-mate Yvan Muller occupied the provisional front row.
WTCC officials were unimpressed with both the end-of-Q2 scenes and traffic jams in Q1 as drivers tried to back each other up to get clear runs.
Stewards handed out fines and penalties to a total of 12 drivers in the qualifying aftermath.
They also subsequently ruled that all three Honda Civics did not conform to post-session technical checks, meaning that Gabriele Tarquini, Tiago Monteiro and Norbert Michelisz will all start from the back of the grid for race one.
Their penalties supersede the punishments handed out as a result of the qualifying fall-out.
All qualifying punishments, awarded as per the table below, apply to race one only.
Driver Grid* Penalty Fine(€)
Yvan Muller 1 -12 3000
Tom Chilton 2 -12 3000
Rob Huff 3 -10 1000
Alex McDowall 4 -8 3000
Michel Nykjaer 5
Gabriele Tarquini 6 -24 6000**
Tiago Monteiro 7 -12 3000
Pepe Oriola 8 -16 6000**
Norbert Michelisz 9 -12 3000
James Nash 10 NFA
Stefano D’Aste 11 -5 1000
Tom Coronel 12 -15 4000**
Mehdi Bennani 13
Mikhail Kozlovskiy 14 NFA
Fredy Barth 15
Franz Engstler 16
Marc Basseng 17
Hugo Valente 18 -5 3000
Darryl O’Young 19 -5 1000
James Thompson 20
Charles Ng 21
Rene Munnich 22
Fernando Monje 23*As determined by qualifying, before application of penalties
**Penalties and fines handed out based on transgressions in Q1 and Q2
One certainty is that Nykjaer ends up on race one pole as the four drivers who outqualified him all have substantial penalties and he was not penalised.
James Nash’s race two pole is unaffected.
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