Very recently, Breaz and Cˆımpean introduced and examined in Bull. Korean Math. Soc. (2018) the class of so-called weakly tripotent rings as those rings R whose elements satisfy at leat one of the equations x³ = x or (1 − x)³ = 1 − x. These rings are generally non-commutative. We here obtain a criterion when the commutative group ring RG is weakly tripotent in terms only of a ring R and of a group G plus their sections. Actually, we also show that these weakly tripotent rings are strongly invo-clean rings in the sense of Danchev in Commun. Korean Math. Soc. (2017). Thereby, our established criterion somewhat strengthens previous results on commutative strongly invo-clean group rings, proved by the present author in Univ. J. Math. & Math. Sci. (2018). Moreover, this criterion helps us to construct a commutative strongly invo-clean ring of characteristic 2 which is not weakly tripotent, thus showing that these two ring classes are different.