Acropolis Rally, Mugello MotoGP weekend
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DTM - Spielberg: The drama came right at the end as improvements after the chequered flag for Ekstrom and Tomczyk brought both out of the drop zone and into the top 10. Green and Tambay were the unlucky men eliminated as a result.
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Out of luck on-road victor Kevin Giovesi slips to 13th in the race one classification after the impostion of his one minute post-race penalty.
Acropolis Rally: Mikko Hirvonen breaks a wheel on the day's last stage, losing another half-minute. That could drop him to ninth behind Evgeny Novikov.
Breaking news
DTM - Spielberg: AUTOSPORT has just been handed two sheets of paper announcing that both Priaulx and championship Rockenfeller will take five-place penalties for the race due to yellow-flag infringements during practice. That could be very significant for Rockenfeller.
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DTM - Spielberg: Q2 is now underway and Albuquerque is straight away quickest. Only a 10-minute session this time.
Acropolis Rally: Thierry Neuville completes the day looking on course to keep third.
"We've shown we can use our brains," says a man whose promising rallies have often being interrupted by incidents.
"We've shown we can use our brains," says a man whose promising rallies have often being interrupted by incidents.
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DTM - Spielberg: Halfway through Q2 and in the drop zone are Juncadella, Rockenfeller, Vietoris, Wittmann, Wickens and Ekstrom. Ten go into Q3, six go out. Spengler is fastest currently.
Acropolis Rally: Andreas Mikkelsen's deficit to fourth-placed Nasser Al-Attiyah increases to 25s as the VW gets a puncture.
Acropolis Rally: Leader Jari-Matti Latvala completes the day with no dramas.
DTM - Spielberg: Wittmann and Paffett get themselves out of the drop zone with less than a minute left in fourth and ninth. Paffett may need to improve on his final lap to guarantee a Q3 spot.
DTM Spielberg: Terrific last-ditch efforts from Rockenfeller and Scheider get them out of the drop zone and into eighth and ninth spots respectively. Those laps have pushed Werner and Wehrlein out of the reckoning; Werner missing out by only three thousandths of a second.
DTM - Spielberg: Eliminated from Q2 are 11 Werner; 12 Wehrlein; 13 Glock; 14 Juncadella; 15 Ekstrom and 16 Vietoris. Spengler fastest from Farfus.
Acropolis Rally - SS10 results:
Stage: 1 Ogier; 2 Ostberg + 7.8s; 3 Latvala + 11.4s; 4 Neiville + 15.5s; 5 Novikov + 18.6s.
Overall: 1 Latvala; 2 Sordo + 1m04.1s; 3 Neuville + 1m43.1s; 4 Al=Attiyah + 3m46.1s; 5 Mikkelsen + 4m11.8s.
Stage: 1 Ogier; 2 Ostberg + 7.8s; 3 Latvala + 11.4s; 4 Neiville + 15.5s; 5 Novikov + 18.6s.
Overall: 1 Latvala; 2 Sordo + 1m04.1s; 3 Neuville + 1m43.1s; 4 Al=Attiyah + 3m46.1s; 5 Mikkelsen + 4m11.8s.
DTM - Spielberg: With nobody on track, it's a good moment to mention that the afternoon's VW Scirocco R-Cup race was won by Kelvin van der Linde from Michelle Gatting and the wonderfully-named Jordan Lee Pepper. Brit Ross Wylie was an excellent fifth - 1.5s off the podium - while Hans-Joachim Stuck and Christian Danner were 12th and 19th.
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British Rally Championship - Jim Clark Rally: Finn Jukka Korhonen triumphed over a predominantly British and Irish field to win the second round of the British Rally Championship. Korhonen beat Tom Cave by two seconds to win the 16-stage event.
Results: 1 Korhonen; 2 Cave + 2s; 3 Osian Pryce + 13.8s; 4 Alastair Fisher + 27.2s; 5 Jonathan Greer + 51.9s.
Results: 1 Korhonen; 2 Cave + 2s; 3 Osian Pryce + 13.8s; 4 Alastair Fisher + 27.2s; 5 Jonathan Greer + 51.9s.
DTM - Spielberg: A minute left in Q3 and it's Spengler, Mortara, Farfus - who has just climbed up from sixth to third - and Albuquerque in the progression zone.
DTM - Spielberg: Eliminated in Q3 are 5 Scheider; 6 Albuquerque; 7 Wickens; 8 Rockenfeller; 9 Tomczyk; 10 Paffett.
DTM - Spielberg: So progressing to Q4 are Spengler, Wittmann, Mortara and Wittmann. Three BMWs and one Audi.
Auto GP - Silverstone: Formula 2 champion Luciano Bacheta has said his Zele Racing team discovered a broken rear wishbone, as a result of a collapsed rose-joint, as the cause of his qualifying difficulties.
"It is reassuring that we found it, and we were back up to around fourth fastest in today's race," said Bacheta.
"I thought the car was unstable in practice! Unfortunately, because of some reliability issues, we didn't get in many laps to try and pinpoint the problem before qualifying."
DTM - Spielberg: Gary Paffett did not complete a flying lap in Q3, the Brit reporting that his Mercedes lost power on his out lap, leading him to abort the run and save tyres for tomorrow. That puts him 10th, which becomes ninth as Rockenfeller takes his grid drop.
AUTOSPORT wonders whether repairs to the engine will mean the car has to be taken out of Parc Ferme... The penalty would be a grid drop for Paffett if that happened.
AUTOSPORT wonders whether repairs to the engine will mean the car has to be taken out of Parc Ferme... The penalty would be a grid drop for Paffett if that happened.
Auto GP - Silverstone: Super Nova International boss David Sears is looking forward to his evening meal in Northampton this evening, after Narain Karthikeyan picked up victory on his maiden Auto GP outing for the team this afternoon.
"Narain said to me, 'I suppose I'm getting in the curries tonight?'" said Sears. "I told him, 'I think you are!'"
"Narain said to me, 'I suppose I'm getting in the curries tonight?'" said Sears. "I told him, 'I think you are!'"
Stopwatch
DTM - Spielberg: Two drivers have completed their single-lap runs in Q4 with Mortara on provisional pole, 0.147s ahead of Farfus. Just Wittmann and Spengler to come.
Stopwatch
DTM - Spielberg: Wittmann goes fastest, 0.089s faster than Mortara. That guarantees the German and the MTEK team a front-row start for only their third DTM race. Only champion Spengler can deny him now.
DTM - Spielberg: Spengler is three hundredths up on Wittmann in sector 1, nine hundredths down in sector two.. It's all or nothing...
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DTM - Spielberg: Pole for Spengler by 0.11s after a sensational final sector. Wittmann a career-best second with Mortara and Farfus filling the second row.
Checkered flag
DTM - Spielberg: Qualifying 1 Spengler; 2 Wittmann; 3 Mortara; 4 Farfus; 5 Scheider; 6 Albuquerque; 7 Wickens; 8 Rockenfeller; 9 Tomczyk; 10 Paffett (grid penalties not included).
Auto GP - Silverstone: Championship challenger Sergio Campana was not too upset to lose reversed-grid pole after being promoted to seventh in today's race following on-the-road victor Kevin Giovesi's post-race penalty.
"The minimum goal was an eighth today, so seventh, and still on the front row tomorrow, is even better," said Campana.
"The minimum goal was an eighth today, so seventh, and still on the front row tomorrow, is even better," said Campana.
Auto GP - Silverstone: Campana started the weekend on the back foot; an engine problem in free practice resulted in him missing FP2 and qualifying 12th.
"I think I was right to change the engine in FP2, as I was 4km/h down on the straights," said Campana. "I think I would have struggled even more in qualifying had I not changed it."
"I think I was right to change the engine in FP2, as I was 4km/h down on the straights," said Campana. "I think I would have struggled even more in qualifying had I not changed it."
Breaking news
DTM - Spielberg: More news just in. Jamie Green has also been given a five-place grid penalty for a yellow-flag violation. He had qualified 17th.
Quote
DTM - Spielberg: Mercedes motorsport chief Toto Wolff: "Our qualifying performance was unsatisfactory today. We are in a dip since Brands Hatch, but we are racers. We will be back."
Checkered flag
NASCAR - Dover: Kurt Busch and Furniture Row have been edging ever closer to a big Sprint Cup upset in recent weeks, and the 2004 champion was fastest in final practice ahead of Sunday's race.
Practice three results: 1 Kurt Busch; 2 Matt Kenseth; 3 Juan Pablo Montoya; 4 Jimmie Johnson; 5 Jeff Gordon; 6 Jamie McMurray; 7 Ricky Stenhouse Jr; 8 Martin Truex Jr; 9 Kasey Kahne; 10 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Practice three results: 1 Kurt Busch; 2 Matt Kenseth; 3 Juan Pablo Montoya; 4 Jimmie Johnson; 5 Jeff Gordon; 6 Jamie McMurray; 7 Ricky Stenhouse Jr; 8 Martin Truex Jr; 9 Kasey Kahne; 10 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Austin Dillon
NASCAR - Dover: Saturday's main attraction is the Nationwide race.
Austin Dillon is on pole for Richard Childress Racing, and is also contesting this weekend's Cup round with Phoenix.
Other Cup drivers in the second-tier field include Kyle Busch (aiming for another win after his Friday Truck triumph) in third place, Kasey Kahne starting fifth, Joey Logano in sixth and Matt Kenseth in ninth.
Blancpain - Silverstone: Dumbreck fastest in JRM Nissan in FP2 (for some dumb reason called pre-qualifying here). He's nearly half a second up on Alex Buncombe in another Nissan, the fastest of the RJN cars. Franck Perera best of the rest in the Almeras Porsche.
IndyCar - Detroit: The first of this weekend's two IndyCar races is still an hour or so away, and in the meantime the Grand-Am field is racking up an impressive spares bill.
Worst of the accidents came at the start when Memo Rojas was tipped into the wall by Gustavo Yacaman, and then sideswiped by John Pew. All drivers are fine, but the Ganassi BMW was trashed.
The field is under yellows for another incident at the moment, with Max Angelelli leading and 22 minutes to go.
Worst of the accidents came at the start when Memo Rojas was tipped into the wall by Gustavo Yacaman, and then sideswiped by John Pew. All drivers are fine, but the Ganassi BMW was trashed.
The field is under yellows for another incident at the moment, with Max Angelelli leading and 22 minutes to go.
IndyCar - Detroit: Pre-race national anthem is a family affair for champion Ryan Hunter-Reay.
IndyCar - Detroit: The start to the first of this weekend's two IndyCar races at Detroit is a couple of minutes away.
IndyCar - Detroit: Command given to start engines.
By: Matt Beer, David Evans, Peter Mills, Mark Glendenning, Jamie O'Leary, Glenn Freeman, Scott Mitchell, Gary Watkins, Charles Bradley
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