WRC Finland, Moscow DTM, Argentina WTCC

02:00 That's the end of AUTOSPORT Race Centre Live for this Rally Finland weekend.

Next weekend is a relatively quiet one for global motorsport, but Race Centre Live will be in action from late afternoon Sunday with updates from British Formula 3 at Brands Hatch, the NASCAR Sprint Cup turning left and right at Watkins Glen, and the American Le Mans Series at the USA's finest racetrack Road America.

See you then.

01:51 X Games - Los Angeles: Heikkinen dodges around Block and Sandell's damaged, limping cars and wins his second Gold of the X Games Rallycross season.

Foust is second, an overjoyed Isachsen is third and launching straight into celebratory donuts.

01:48 X Games - Los Angeles: Speed and Sandell tangle and litter the course with rearranged tyre barriers as Heikkinen pulls away again.

01:47 X Games - Los Angeles: A lock-up from Heikkinen lets Foust close in a little, as Isachsen retakes third from Pastrana.

01:46 X Games - Los Angeles: Heikkinen breaks away to lead from Foust, as Isachsen takes his penalty stop and bursts back out in fourth behind Pastrana.

01:45 X Games - Los Angeles: Isachsen jumps the start and leads, but there's a multi-car crash that wraps up Block, Doran and others.

01:44 X Games - Los Angeles: Front row is our heat winners: Isachsen, Heikkinen, Block and Doran.

Behind them, the heat runners-up: Deegan, Sandell, Foust and Pastrana.

And tagging along at the back, the LCQ survivors Speed and Millen.

01:37 X Games - Los Angeles: After 11 years in Los Angeles, this is X Games' farewell to the city. From 2014, its American centrepiece moves to Austin.

01:33 X Games - Los Angeles: That last chance race was a thriller. Scott Speed led away but Rhys Millen slid past him on the second lap.

Bryce Menzies then had a shot at passing Speed for second as he took the joker, only to clout the wall in the process.

So it's Millen and Speed into the final, along with Block, Deegan, Heikkinen, Sandell, Isachsen, Foust, Pastrana and Doran.

01:28 IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: As usual, we've been bombarded with post-race FACTS. (They're always issued in capital letters).

Some are interesting. For example, Charlie Kimball is the ninth different winner this year.

Some are not. Case in point:

'THIS IS THE FIRST CAUTION-FREE IZOD INDYCAR SERIES RACE SINCE MID-OHIO 2012'

Since last year, in other words.

01:25 IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Charlie Kimball makes winning sound easy:

"It’s nice when the team gives you such a great car. All I needed to do was to hit the lap times they needed me to. For a while they were saying 67.5s, and I threw down a couple 67.1s. They said OK, see if you can do a 66. We just kept pushing the limit.

"Simon [Pagenaud] was on a similar strategy. I caught traffic at just some of the wrong times, so that meant that he came out of pitlane ahead of us. But we had the momentum to take the lead and make the pass for what turned out to be the win."

01:22 X Games - Los Angeles: Slight delay to proceedings as the concrete barrier needs a little attention after Marklund's impact with it.

01:19 IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: As Charlie Kimball's win brings him up to eighth in the standings, another top-six finish keeps Helio Castroneves clearly on top.

Championship standings after 14 of 19 rounds:

1 Helio Castroneves 453
2 Scott Dixon 422
3 Ryan Hunter-Reay 388
4 Marco Andretti 377
5 Simon Pagenaud 350
6 Dario Franchitti 342

(50 points for a win)

01:15 X Games - Los Angeles: The LCQ doesn't get far. Rhys Millen stalls, and as Anton Marklund tries to dodge round him, he tangles with David Sterckx and ends up slamming head-on into the wall and nearly toppling the finish tower.

Marklund needs a bit of time to get himself out of his car and is checked over by medics.

Scott Speed had been leading. Timur Timerzyanov didn't make it onto the grid.

01:12

Charlie Kimball

IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Ganassi took a fourth straight win, but not with the driver you'd expect...

Mid-Ohio IndyCar race report

01:09 X Games - Los Angeles: Timur Timerzyanov is up against it to make the LCQ. His crew are working hard to get his VW back in shape following his bruising battles in heat three.

There's also frantic work going on in Steve Arpin's awning. The Canadian shunted in the first heat.

01:06 WTCC - Rio Hondo: Yesterday when asked if he'd push for the power stage win, Sebastien Ogier said he didn't really need any more WRC points...

His countryman Yvan Muller probably feels much the same. Despite failing to score after a penalty in today's second race at Termas de Rio Hondo in Argentina, Muller's WTCC points lead is still growing.

Championship standings after 16 of 24 rounds:

1 Yvan Muller 312
2 Michel Nykjaer 180
3 Gabriele Tarquini 166
4 James Nash 146
5 Rob Huff 139
6 Tom Chilton 130

(25 points for a win)

01:00

Robert Kubica

WRC - Finland: Seeing Cronin get a WRC break would please a lot of people, but for many hoping a certain Polish superstar will revitalise rallying's public profile, it's the WRC2 standings that really matter.

Robert Kubica calmly produced a strong second place on his Rally Finland debut, while Jari Ketomaa dominated on his first appearance of the year.

With both Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari and Nicolas Fuchs choosing Finland as one to skip, Kubica is making rapid progress towards the head of the table.

Championship standings - drivers count best six scores from seven rallies:

1 Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari 93 (5 rallies)
2 Nicolas Fuchs 78 (6 rallies)
3 Robert Kubica 76 (4 rallies)
4 Yuri Protasov 65 (6 rallies)
5 Sepp Wiegand 55 (4 rallies)
6 Armin Kremer 40 (4 rallies)

(25 points for a win)

00:53 X Games - Los Angeles: Heat four is the best of the bunch.

Ken Block, Timur Timerzyanov and Tanner Foust go three-wide on lap one, with the Russian European Rallycross champion then pressuring Block for the first half.

As Block pulls away, Foust and Timerzyanov clatter into each other repeatedly in an outstanding battle for second.

They almost both end up buried in the wall on the penultimate lap, allowing Bryce Menzies to get between them and demote Timerzyanov to fourth.

So Block, Foust, Heikkinen, Pastrana, Doran, Sandell, Isachsen and Deegan in the final, Speed and Timerzyanov the biggest names counting on the Last Chance race.

00:46 WRC - Finland: While we're talking rallying (ish), Rally Finland ran from Thursday to Saturday this week, and featured an emotional win for Sebastien Ogier and an amazing second place for Thierry Neuville.

It also featured some significant movement for big names in the feeder series.

The Citroen Top Driver contest makes up the majority of the WRC3 field, and offers a 2014 campaign in a WRC2 Citroen R5 as its prize.

Sebastien Chardonnet - the man selected by the French federation to follow in namesakes Loeb and Ogier's footsteps - still leads that championship, but three-time British Rally champion Keith Cronin's Finland win brings him right into the hunt.

Championship standings - drivers count best five scores from six rallies:

1 Sebastien Chardonnet 73 (4 rallies)
2 Keith Cronin 53 (3 rallies)
3 Quentin Gilbert 40 (3 rallies)
4 Bryan Bouffier 29 (2 rallies)
5 Christian Riedemann 25 (3 rallies)

00:41 X Games - Los Angeles: Star names in heat four are Tanner Foust and Ken Block. They'll want to join Heikkinen, Pastrana, Doran, Sandell, Isachsen and Deegan in the grand final.

00:40 X Games - Los Angeles: Toomas Heikkinen breaks away to win heat three. Scott Speed muscled into the lead during an epic first-corner battle, only to run wide at the next turn.

Speed gave it everything to try to catch up, bouncing off Travis Pastrana in their battle for second and then sliding into the barriers on the last lap.

So Speed has to resort to the Last Chance race, while Heikkinen and Pastrana are straight through.

00:34 X Games - Los Angeles: Travis Pastrana is among the drivers in the next heat. He's raced over to Los Angeles after contesting last night's NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Iowa Speedway, where he only managed 27th after a puncture.

00:30 NASCAR - Pocono: Amazingly despite his puncture, crash and subsequent struggle to 13th, Jimmie Johnson still leaves Pocono with a bigger points lead than before after a quiet weekend for Clint Bowyer.

Kasey Kahne moves up to eighth thanks to his win.

Brad Keselowski is now 12th, but the second Chase wildcard spot still belongs to Martin Truex Jr, who is 14th but has won this year, unlike the reigning champion.

Championship standings after 21 of 36 rounds:

1 Jimmie Johnson 772
2 Clint Bowyer 695
3 Carl Edwards 688
4 Kevin Harvick 675
5 Dale Earnhardt Jr 656
6 Kyle Busch 646
7 Matt Kenseth 638
8 Kasey Kahne 612
9 Jeff Gordon 602
10 Greg Biffle 599
11 Tony Stewart 594
12 Brad Keselowski 592

(43 points for a win)

00:27 IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Well I don't think anyone expected this before the race. Charlie Kimball crosses the line to claim his first career IndyCar win, and Simon Pagenaud follows him a few seconds. Dario Franchitti was third ahead of Will Power and Ryan Hunter-Reay. Helio Castroneves managed to stay ahead of title rival Scott Dixon for sixth.

Rookie watch: James Davison and Luca Filippi finished 15th and 16th respectively.

00:24 X Games - Los Angeles: Liam Doran wins that one in the Mini, with Patrik Sandell right on his tail throughout.

Closest they got was when Sandell gave Doran a big nudge into the joker shortcut on the first lap.

00:21 IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: The best battle - and the one with the greatest championship implications - in these final stages are between sixth and tenth, with Castroneves, Dixon, Wilson, Andretti and Hinchcliffe all involved. Don't assume that's the order; it's changing constantly.

00:19 X Games - Los Angeles: Here comes heat two. Liam Doran's Mini needed rapid repairs after a practice crash. He's up against Patrik Sandell, Rhys Millen and Anton Marklund.

00:17 X Games - Los Angeles: Sverre Isachsen holds off Brian Deegan to win heat one as both go through to the final. Deegan lost ground getting squeezed at the start.

00:16 IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Nine laps left, and Kimball has a 4.9s gap - and a couple of lapped cars - between himself and Pagenaud.

00:13

Kasey Kahne

NASCAR - Pocono: Two late yellows and a thrilling battle between two Hendrick team-mates made this way more entertaining than the last Pocono Cup round.

Pocono NASCAR Sprint Cup race report

00:07 IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: It's all happening. Pagenaud pits from the lead and rejoins just ahead of Kimball. The Ganassi driver manages to get back ahead after a couple of corners, but they've both got to clear the lapped car of EJ Viso.

Third-placed Dario Franchitti is almost 27s back. The teams that tried to two-stop appear to have outsmarted themselves today.

00:07 X Games - Los Angeles: First heat red-flagged after Steve Arpin arrived into a dirt turn at wildly optimistic speed and took Brian Deegan into the wall with him. We'll try that again.

00:03 X Games - Los Angeles: Not long to go until the main Rallycross event. Intriguing course here at Irwindale Speedway: the first corner is the big wide oval turn, then it all gets narrower and dirty...

00:01 IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Top three are Pagenaud, Kimball and Franchitti, but both Pagenaud and Dario are due to stop again.

23:58 IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Kimball pits, and rejoins in second.

23:53 IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Ryan Hunter-Reay and Will Power make their final scheduled stop from third and fourth. Hunter-Reay's stop is delayed by problems with his fuel nozzle, which allows Power to exit ahead of him.

23:52 NASCAR - Pocono: Brad Keselowski's day didn't turn out as well as he hoped and that Chase place still isn't secure. But he's nothing if not bullish.

"We're not going to hold back any punches. There's five races left, and I tell you now, this is going to come down to the last lap at Richmond."

23:41

Jimmie Johnson

NASCAR - Pocono: Early leader Jimmie Johnson as professional as ever after getting back up to 13th following his tyre-induced shunt.

"I'm just really proud of the effort to work through this. I guess I hit so hard it knocked one of the spark plug wires off one of the cylinders as we were running on seven cylinders, but we figured that out.

"Unfortunately we had that flat when I was leading, but that's racing."

23:41 IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Seeing the progress that Charlie Kimball is making up at the front, Ganassi has changed its strategy and pitted both Dixon and Franchitti. They've rejoined ninth and tenth, with Franchitti now ahead of his team-mate. It's going to be interesting to see how this pans out.

With Dixon now back in the pack, James Hinchcliffe has moved up to fifth behind Power.