Sardinia WRC, Iowa IndyCar

01:40 That brings AUTOSPORT Race Centre Live to a close for the weekend. Thanks for your company.

We'll be back next weekend for MotoGP's classic Assen TT, GP2 and GP3 on the British Grand Prix support bill at Silverstone, more NASCAR at Kentucky Speedway, the historic Ypres Rally in the European Rally Championship, and Sebastien Loeb's shot at Pikes Peak glory.

01:37

Martin Truex Jr

NASCAR - Sonoma: Martin Truex Jr wins again, six years after his first. This is how he did it:

NASCAR Sprint Cup Sonoma race report

01:22 NASCAR Sprint Cup - Sonoma - race results:

1 Truex; 2 Gordon; 3 Edwards; 4 Kurt Busch; 5 Bowyer; 6 Kahne; 7 Ambrose; 8 Biffle; 9 Johnson; 10 Harvick.

01:21 NASCAR - Sonoma: Martin Truex Jr wins at Sonoma, six years after his only previous Cup victory at Dover!

01:20 NASCAR - Sonoma: Heartbreak for Montoya, he's out of fuel and slowing. Second place is lost.

Truex pitted on the same lap as Montoya...

01:20 NASCAR - Sonoma: Truex onto the final lap. As long as the car keeps rolling, it's in the bag.

01:19 NASCAR - Sonoma: Kenseth, third not too long ago, is tumbling down the order as his tyres wear and he has to save fuel. So far, no one has hit him. This will be a relief for Truex. Two laps to go.

01:15 NASCAR - Sonoma: While it's spread out at front, in the middle of the pack there are still plenty of cars banging wheels and doors. Truex would really, really, really like them all to behave and not cause a yellow.

Five laps to go and Montoya is 6s off the lead, Gordon is a further 3s back.

01:13 NASCAR - Sonoma: Kurt Busch is still flying and is up to fifth. Truex is keeping the gaps to Montoya and Gordon stable.

01:13

James Hinchcliffe

IndyCar - Iowa: James Hinchcliffe has now take more wins than anyone else this year, and was a class apart at Iowa. Here's how the race unfolded.

IndyCar Iowa race report

01:10 NASCAR - Sonoma: Nine laps left. Gordon passes Edwards for third. He's 4s behind Montoya and 9s behind Truex.

01:04 NASCAR - Sonoma: Edwards has taken third from Kenseth. Gordon has passed Ambrose and is now working on Kenseth for fourth.

There are 14 laps to go. If it stays green, Truex has got this covered and will finally take a second Cup win, six years after his first.

If we get a yellow, though... then anything could happen.

00:59 NASCAR - Sonoma: Gordon and the resurgent Kurt Busch both pass Johnson. They have four fresh tyres, Johnson only has two.

But up front, Truex is utterly in control and has pulled 4s clear of Montoya.

00:57 NASCAR - Sonoma: Stewart and Burton collide and spin at the hairpin, opening the door for Johnson to move up to eighth.

00:55 NASCAR - Sonoma: Montoya passes Kenseth for second with 20 laps to go.

00:53 NASCAR - Sonoma: A lap down after his hit from Edwards, Kyle Busch spins by himself.

Truex has a 1.9-second lead over Kenseth. Johnson is up to 10th on his fresh tyres and ample fuel load.

00:51 NASCAR - Sonoma: David Stremme gets spun by Josh Wise mid-pack and scatters the midfield. Lots of smoke, lots of dirt, no damage, no yellow.

00:49 IndyCar - Iowa: A 24 car field on a 7/8th mile oval is always going to cause some congestion, and Oriol Servia believes that some of his rivals raced more fairly than others:

'We had a top3 car today, some moves below the belt by a couple guys got the best out of me..'

00:48 NASCAR - Sonoma: Another surge for the pits, as most of the field comes in for enough fuel to comfortably reach the finish, and either two or four tyres.

Those who stay out clearly reckon they can make it to the end on fuel, but they'll still have to be fairly conservative and have older tyres.

Truex leads from Kenseth, Montoya, Biffle, Edwards and Ambrose.

Highest-placed of the drivers who just pitted is Johnson in 16th.

Twenty-five laps to go.

00:42 NASCAR - Sonoma: Kyle Busch is in the tyres after a tap from Carl Edwards, yellow is out.

It was quite an impact, but Busch gets back on track and heads for repairs.

00:40 NASCAR - Sonoma: Jeff Gordon has picked his way forward and now slips ahead of Joey Logano to lead.

Gordon's last pitstop was lap 64 out of 110. With his engineer urging him to charge, that suggests another stop is on the agenda.

00:39

Robert Kubica

WRC - Italy: All weekend we'd refrained from jinxing Robert Kubica by talking about his WRC 2 title chances until his second straight dominant win was secured. But now let's go Kubica-for-champion speculation crazy.

Kubica is now fourth in the standings. WRC 2 drivers contest seven rallies of their choice from the 13, and their best six scores count.

Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari leads and has done five rallies, scoring in each. He's 35 points ahead of Kubica, and doesn't intend to enter the next two rounds.

Kubica has done three rallies, but insists he doesn't plan to do enough events to challenge for the title. He says he can't afford to and is already funding some of his programme out of his own pocket.

Nicolas Fuchs and Yuri Protasov are between Al-Kuwari and Kubica in the points but have each done six rallies already.

Sepp Wiegand is three points behind Kubica and has done four rallies - and is a very quick VW protege.

Then there's Esapekka Lappi, 33 points behind Kubica and 68 off Al-Kuwari, but he's only appeared twice, and he's a mega talent with a factory Skoda.

Fascinating or confusing or both?

00:29 NASCAR - Sonoma: Back to green with 36 laps left. Logano stays in the lead.

McMurray has had an incident and is limping over the grass with a flat tyre.

Truex, Johnson and Montoya are sixth, seventh and eighth, and all worth keeping an eye on.

Ambrose is now only 19th.

00:26

Sebastien Ogier

WRC - Italy: Sebastien Ogier hadn't won for a whole two rallies. He put that right in emphatic fashion in Sardinia.

Team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala recovered from an SS1 puncture to third, while Thierry Neuville took a career-best second and surged up the championship.

WRC Italy full report

WRC standings after seven of 13 rounds:

1 Sebastien Ogier 154
2 Jari-Matti Latvala 90
3 Thierry Neuville 70
4 Sebastien Loeb 68
5 Mikko Hirvonen 61
6 Dani Sordo 59

(25 points for a win)

Full season statistics on FORIX

00:23 NASCAR - Sonoma: Green, then straight back to yellow as the midfield gets entangled on the start/finish straight and Victor Gonzalez Jr (gosh, he was still running) finds himself facing the wrong way in a battered car.

00:20 NASCAR - Sonoma: The majority of the field pits for a fuel top-up. Truex loses ground by stalling. Ambrose is one of the few to take fresh tyres too.

Forty one laps left, so those with a full tank now have a pretty good chance of making it to the finish without another pitstop.

Joey Logano and Dale Earnhardt Jr among those who stayed out. They lead.

00:18 NASCAR - Sonoma: Hamlin asks his crew who he needs to exact revenge on, while Stewart argues his innocence over the radio, saying Hamlin turned across him.

00:17 NASCAR - Sonoma: Another yellow as Tony Stewart taps Denny Hamlin off the road on the approach to Turn 11.

Hamlin rejoins, but he set fire to the grass along the way.

00:14 NASCAR - Sonoma: McMurray now leads Truex, Edwards and Burton.

Truex pitted just before that yellow, the other three have only made one stop so far, a long while ago.

Truex is straight back into the lead at the restart.

00:09 NASCAR - Sonoma: Most of the field pits. Every drop of fuel is squeezed into the cars as there are 46 laps to go and 42 is about as much as you can do on a tank without getting creative.

That's going to mean either extreme fuel-saving, gambling on a lot of yellow laps, or last-gasp splash-and-go stops.

00:06 NASCAR - Sonoma: And just as the pitstops begin, Danica Patrick crashes and we have a yellow.

She drags her car out of the tyres and heads for the pits for repairs.

Looks like Patrick might've had a puncture to cause that shunt.

00:04 NASCAR - Sonoma: Leader Martin Truex Jr pits with 49 laps to go. He'll need one more stop.

Kasey Kahne pits from third.

00:02 While the weekend's final race goes into its deciding half at Sonoma, we'll be recapping the rest of the weekend's action and the effects it had on the racing world's title chases.

00:00 NASCAR - Sonoma: Johnson passes Biffle for fourth as Montoya gains on both. They're 16s off the lead, with Truex leading Vickers by 8s and Kahne by 12s.

50 laps to go.

23:58 IndyCar - Iowa - race results:

1 Hinchcliffe; 2 Hunter-Reay; 3 Kanaan; 4 Carpenter; 5 Rahal; 6 Pagenaud; 7 Servia; 8 Castroneves; 9 Andretti; 10 Viso.

Dixon, Power and Franchitti...? 16th, 17th and 20th.

23:56 NASCAR - Sonoma: Truex's lead over team-mate Vickers is now 5s.

Montoya is up to seventh. And if you're wondering why we're mentioning him so much, it's not ex-F1 man bias, but that he's the highest runner on the two-stop strategy that might prove to be the winning choice.

Speaking of former F1 stars, Jacques Villeneuve is officially a retirement. His race never got going thanks to myriad mechanical problems.

23:53 NASCAR - Sonoma: Truex has caught Kurt Busch again and re-lapped him with a smooth slip down the inside into Turn 11.

23:53 IndyCar- Iowa: Great news for victor James Hinchcliffe from the Twitter feed of 2005 Indy Pro Series (now Lights) champion and sometime IndyCar driver Wade Cunningham.

@WadeCunningham: "I can't wait to give @Hinchtown a celebratory mouth kiss, on the mouth"

23:48 NASCAR - Sonoma: Truex leads by 1.8s. Kurt Busch has assertively unlapped himself and is now trying to catch the tail of the field.

The man on the move, again, is Juan Pablo Montoya, who has charged up to 10th.

That's brought him ahead of Marcos Ambrose, whose car's handling has gone off. He is 14th.

23:45

Danish flag at Le Mans

Le Mans 24 Hours: This weekend's biggest race was of course Le Mans.

It will go down in history as a tragic event following Allan Simonsen's fatal crash in the opening laps.

The Aston Martin driver's Danish compatriot Tom Kristensen went on to take a ninth win, and dedicated it to Simonsen.

Le Mans 24 Hours full report

Le Mans as it happened

Allan Simonsen: 1978-2013