Rally Germany, Belgian GP supports

10:52 WRC - France: Ogier had a half-spin early in the stage. He got the car moving again, but crawled through at around 20mph. He stopped again, got out of the car briefly, but then continued.

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14:15 BTCC - Knockhill: Neal keeps his soft tyres together to score his first win of 2014, his first victory in the Civic Tourer estate.

Austin takes second, with Shedden third and Mat Jackson fourth.

14:11 BTCC - Knockhill: Tordoff pulls off behind the safety car, so Neal leads Austin at the restart.

14:10 BTCC - Knockhill: Safety car out to retrieve Turkington's BMW.

At the front, Neal on the soft tyre, leads from Tordoff and Austin (also on softs).

14:06 BTCC - Knockhill: And it's happened. Turkington gets ahead into the first corner, but is tapped from behind as Plato and Jackson battle behind. The BMW has been deposited into the gravel.

Neal has now overtaken Tordoff into Clark to take the lead.

14:04 BTCC - Knockhill: As Tordoff leads, Plato has a huge line of cars behind him, led by Turkington. Is he trying to back the BMW into the pack?

14:02 BTCC - Knockhill: Jordan passes Shedden, only for Sheds to spin and hit Jordan. The Eurotech Honda is out with broken suspension.

14:01 BTCC - Knockhill: Austin and Shedden touch so the Audi falls to fifth. Tordoff now has a lead of a second.

13:59 WRC - Germany: And, the final rally standings:

1) Neuville 3h07m20.2s
2) Sordo +40.7s
3) Mikkelsen +58.0s
4) Evans +1m03.6s
5) Hirvonen +1m10.5s
6) Ostberg +1m22.7s
7) Prokop +4m52.8s
8) Kuipers +9m18.1s

13:58 WRC - Germany: Here are the quickest times from the final stage of Rally Germany:

1) Evans 11m45.7s (3pts)
2) Neuville +0.9s (2pts)
3) Hirvonen +2.0s (1pt)
4) Ostberg +2.4s
5) Mikkelsen +4.3s
6) Sordo +4.6s
7) Prokop +17.0s
8) Kuipers +37.7s

13:57 BTCC - Knockhill: Austin is closing on leader Tordoff, with Shedden close behind too.

Turkington is really pressing Mat Jackson now.

13:56 Mikkelsen tweets: "I'm so, so happy for my mate @thierryneuville taking his first WRC win!!"

Nice to see a driver taking so much pleasure from a seminal moment in his rival's career.

13:54 WRC - Germany: "A nice feeling, it's been an unbelievable job by the team. We put the pressure on and it paid off," says the victorious Neuville.

Who'd have guessed he could recover from rolling his Hyundai in shakedown on Thursday to take the win?

13:54 BTCC - Knockhill: Shedden dives by Jordan into the hairpin to snatch third as Turkington sets a new fastest lap and closes on Mat Jackson.

13:53 BTCC - Knockhill: Tordoff leads Austin by 1.2s after three laps, with Jordan, Shedden and Neal making it a Honda 3-4-5. Turkington is now 8th.

13:52 WRC - Germany: "The Belgian fans are going bonkers!", bellows Colin Clark.

And so well they might - they've had nearly a decade to wait since Duval's Australian triumph.

13:51 WRC - Germany: Thierry Neuville crosses the finish line to win Rally Germany, his first victory in the WRC!

13:49 BTCC - Knockhill: Race one is go and Tordoff makes a good start to lead Austin.

13:48 WRC - Germany: Sordo goes fifth fastest, understandably taking it easy on the last stage with so much at stake for Hyundai.

Now for Neuville to come through and seal the deal.

13:46 WRC - Germany: Mikkelsen becomes the only VW driver to reach the finish, going fourth quickest in the stage.

The fact he's failed to take maximum points in the power stage, going 4.3s slower than Evans, means only Ogier or Latvala can now officially win the WRC title.

Mikkelsen seals third place however, behind a likely Hyundai 1-2.

13:46 BTCC - Knockhill: Things about to kick off for race one. Quite a lot of interest in this one, with several cars - most notably points leader Colin Turkington - out of position.

Top 10 on grid:
1. Tordoff
2. Austin
3. Jordan
4. Shedden
5. Neal
6. Plato
7. M Jackson
8. Foster
9. Turkington
10. Geddie

13:43 WRC - Germany: Evans cements fourth place, beating Hirvonen's time by two seconds to boot.

"It's been a fantastic weekend, my best in a very long time. The team have given me a faultless car," says Evans at the end of the stage.

"What a boy!" exclaims WRC reporter Colin Clark at the end of the stage, failing to contain his excitement over a bright prospect for British rallying.

13:40 WRC - Germany: Sordo and Hyundai are away as Hirvonen reaches the finish with a time 0.4s quicker than Ostberg.

13:38 WRC - Germany: Evans has gone two seconds up on Hirvonen at the third split, so it looks as if the Welshman will be equaling his best ever result with fourth.

13:37 WRC - Germany: Ostberg does his utmost to sound positive as he crosses the finish 14 seconds faster than Prokop, but he must know he's been well and truly shown up by Citroen stable-mate Meeke this weekend.

Mikkelsen hits the stage, leaving just the top two of Sordo and Neuville.

13:35 WRC - Germany: Prokop lops 21 seconds off Kuipers' effort as he reaches the end, but further back, Evans has responded to Hirvonen by going 0.4s faster through the second split.

13:34 WRC - Germany: Kuipers reaches the finish, lowering the benchmark by 3.6s.

Evans is through the first split, but 1.5s down on team-mate Hirvonen. The battle for fourth place is on.

13:31 WRC - Germany: Protasov makes the finish on his WRC debut, 1.2s slower than Melicharek through the last stage.

Hirvonen meanwhile has started the stage, 3.3s faster than Ostberg in the first split.

13:29 Looks like you could cut the atmosphere in the Hyundai camp with a knife at the moment, as Chris Atkinson reveals in a picture in this tweet.

13:26 WRC - Germany: Prokop and Ostberg on the stage now, as Melicharek arrives at the finish with a time of 12m27.1s.

Credit where it's due - the 36-year-old has made it to the end of one of the toughest rallies anywhere on the planet, while many more illustrious names have failed to...

13:19 WRC - Germany: Melicharek will now be the first man to complete the stage, with Protasov and Kuipers hot on the Slovakian's heels before we move on to the manufacturer runners.

13:15 WRC - Germany: Not only did Bouffier not even make the first split, it seems he didn't even make the first corner!

It's been a bruising rally for the Frenchman, who tangled with one of Germany's infamous hinkelsteins earlier in the event with dire consequences for his Hyundai i20 WRC.

13:11 WRC - Germany: Bouffier has started the stage, but he's in the vines even before reaching the first split.

Nervous times in the Hyundai camp.

13:08 WRC - Germany: It's nearly time for the final stage of the rally, with Bryan Bouffier once more charged with setting things in motion.

Can Neuville hang on to be the first Belgian WRC winner since Francois Duval in Australia 2005?

13:05 "Great to win today! Extremely hard with the conditions, and huge pressure from behind, but a much needed victory today," tweets an exuberant Alex Lynn fresh from his hard-earned GP3 triumph.

12:58 BTCC - Knockhill: Favourite for the first race is probably Rob Austin, who will start his rear-wheel-drive Audi A4 from the front row. He is also one of six drivers to have decided to run the soft tyres in the opener.

The other drivers on the soft Dunlop rubber will be Matt Neal, Jack Goff, Adam Morgan, Hunter Abbott and Marc Hynes.

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12:57 BTCC - Knockhill: Opinion in the BTCC paddock is split on what impact the new profile and wide entry at the hairpin will have.

Jason Plato said: “It might present a bigger opportunity to overtake, both in and out.”

But Aron Smith told AUTOSPORT: “It’s kind of the same. Even though you can go on the outside there’s no traction so it’s difficult to get a run.”

While Glynn Geddie believes it could create some drama: “I think it’s going to be carnage – five cars fighting for it instead of three."

12:53 WRC - Germany: Just 15 minutes to go now until the first cars hit the 19km power stage finale, where bonus points will be on offer for the three quickest drivers.

With both of the main title protagonists out of the reckoning, the championship table is unlikely to change dramatically.

Neuville will move ahead of Meeke into sixth place barring disaster, but the only other notable move would be if Hirvonen can jump Ostberg for fourth.

To do so, he'll have to outscore Ostberg by five points - which would involve jumping Evans for fourth in the rally and taking the maximum three bonus points in the power stage.