Andy Priaulx admits he faces a tough weekend as the World Touring Car Championship goes to France for round four.

The Briton failed to score a point in two races at the new Marrakech street circuit in Morocco last time out and heads to the Pau street circuit this weekend facing the prospect of a similarly bleak outcome.

Nevertheless, the three-time WTCC champion, whose BMW 320si has so far struggled for outright pace relative to closest rivals SEAT and Chevrolet, is up for the challenge.

"I love that street track [Pau] and won there last year," he told his official website.

"I know it will be tough, but I am still looking forward to it."

Priaulx's failure to score last time out has left him down in seventh in the championship standings, 27 points behind SEAT's Yvan Muller, the reigning champion who has already opened up a commanding 12-lead over team-mate Gabriele Tarquini at this early stage of the season.

Muller and Tarquini have enjoyed a solid start to the season but the same cannot be said for fellow SEAT driver Tiago Monteiro, who was this week excluded from the results of the second race at Marrakech following a protest filed by BMW Team Germany.

The former F1 driver's car was found to have exceeded the allowable turbo boost pressure limits, leading the stewards to exclude the Portuguese from the classification, a decision which promoted independent drivers Franz Engstler and Tom Coronel to seventh and eighth respectively.

Elsewhere, Proteam Motorsport will run with just one BMW 320si this weekend after George Tanev and Vito Postiglione were ruled out of the event as a result of damage their cars sustained in Marrakech.

Both drivers were involved in accidents in the second race in Morocco but the team have been unable to repair the damage in the fortnight since.

Felix Porteiro will therefore be the team's lone representative this weekend.

While two cars will be missing from the grid, SUNRED Engineering have gone the other way by confirming they will run an extra car in France, with local driver Eric Cayrolle drafted in at the wheel of a third SEAT Leon TFSi alongside Coronel and Tom Boardman.