Acropolis Rally, Mugello MotoGP weekend
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DTM - Spielberg: Spengler pits for the final time and should be set for victory now. He stays ahead of Glock with Wittmann actually getting ahead of his MTEK team-mate at that round of stops due to spending 1.3s less stationary. All three are on standard tyres.
MotoGP - Mugello: Marquez is through! A beautiful pass into Savelli - and Pedrosa could be at the mercy of Crutchlow, just 2.7s back now. Meanwhile, Hayden passed Ducati team-mate Dovizioso for sixth - but the Italian claimed it back.
Crash
MotoGP - Mugello: Marc Marquez is out! He's crashed at Casanova. A fourth crash in four sessions. Crutchlow is on to the podium now.
DTM - Spielberg: Onto the last lap and Spengler, Wittmann and Glock look set for a BMW 1-2-3 with Rockenfeller and Ekstrom next up.
MotoGP - Mugello: Replays of the Marquez shunt show the young Spaniard lost the front into Casanova. Mighty frustrating for the Honda rider, who before this weekend had shown little sign of wilting under the pressure the incredible start to his rookie MotoGP season had heaped on him.
Checkered flag
DTM - Spielberg: Finishing order 1 Spengler; 2 Wittmann; 3 Glock; 4 Rockenfeller; 5 Ekstrom; 6 Farfus; 7 Vietoris; 8 Werner; 9 Paffett; 10 Wehrlein.
Checkered flag
MotoGP - Mugello: Lorenzo wins at Mugello! His third win in a row in Italy and a success he and Yamaha were eager to earn. Pedrosa hangs on to second just ahead of Crutchlow who bags another podium after a weekend in which - yet again - he bounced back from a crash.
Results: 1 Lorenzo; 2 Pedrosa; 3 Crutchlow; 4 Bradl; 5 Dovizioso; 6 Hayden; 7 Pirro; 8 Espargaro; 9 Smith; 10 Barbera.
Results: 1 Lorenzo; 2 Pedrosa; 3 Crutchlow; 4 Bradl; 5 Dovizioso; 6 Hayden; 7 Pirro; 8 Espargaro; 9 Smith; 10 Barbera.
FR3.5 - Spa: As the field sets off on the warm-up lap the signs of Nico Muller's repair job after yesterday's huge crash are clear. He's on the front row with a car running an unpainted nose section.
DTM - Spielberg: That's the first BMW 1-2-3 for nearly 21 years. The last time it happened, at Hockenheim on October 11, 1992, the drivers were Roberto Ravaglia, Johnny Cecotto and Jo Winkelhock.
MotoGP - Mugello: That result - Lorenzo's first win since the season opener in Qatar - means he closes up a touch on Pedrosa after his Le Mans woes. And for Crutchlow, there's little more he can do aboard his satellite Tech 3 Yamaha at the moment short of winning a race.
Full race report
Checkered flag
Auto GP - Silverstone: Kimiya Sato extends his championship lead with a fine win. The Euronova driver finished 0.899s ahead of Sergio Campana. Kevin Giovesi charged from 13th to third.
DTM - Spielberg: Championship positions: 1 Spengler, 53; 2 Rockenfeller, 41; 3 Farfus, 33; 4 Wittmann, 32; 5 Vietoris, 25; 6 Paffett, 22; 7 Werner, 22; 8 Hand, 16; 9 Ekstrom, 16; 10 Wickens, 15.
Crash
FR3.5 - Spa: It's an all-action start. Magnussen is slow off the line, losing out to Muller and Vandoorne. As Vandoorne takes the lead into Les Combes, a huge crash takes place in the pack at the top of Eau Rouge.
Four cars (Pic, Foresti, Negrao, Move) are out on the spot, and the safety car is called as marshals clean up what is quite a big mess.
The order at the front is Vandoorne, Muller, Magnussen, Stevens, Melker, Sainz, da Costa.
Four cars (Pic, Foresti, Negrao, Move) are out on the spot, and the safety car is called as marshals clean up what is quite a big mess.
The order at the front is Vandoorne, Muller, Magnussen, Stevens, Melker, Sainz, da Costa.
Green flag
FR3.5 - Spa: It's a clean restart, with Vandoorne holding his lead. The only change near the front comes as Sainz passes Melker for fifth into Les Combes.
Auto GP - Silverstone: AUTOSPORT editor-in-chief Andrew van de Burgt awarded the trophies to Auto GP's top three but managed to flee the podium before a champagne soaking. Spoilsport!
MotoGP - Mugello: The crowds scream for Valentino Rossi as Lorenzo, Pedrosa and Crutchlow receive their honours on the podium. Chants of "Vale! Vale! Vale!" mean the fans are unlikely to leave until they see their hero, whose race lasted two and a half corners.
FR3.5 - Spa: Magnussen kicks off the mandatory pitstops in hope of jumping Vandoorne and Muller. Melker, who was dropping like a stone, is also in, and more follow on the next lap as the top two stay out.
FR3.5 - Spa: Vandoorne pits and rejoins just in front of Magnussen. The Dane attacks on the exit of Eau Rouge but doesn't have the top speed to compete at Les Combes. Muller, who also came in, has dropped back.
FR3.5 - Spa: Magnussen felt his car was missing a bit of top speed yesterday, and that seems to be the case again today. Vandoorne has him under control at the moment, while Stevens and da Costa have both jumped Muller during the stops.
FR3.5 - Spa: Magnussen is slipping back, falling into the clutches of Stevens. Vandoorne now leads by more than three seconds.
MotoGP – Mugello: Scott Redding’s second victory in as many Moto 2 races has left him 43 points clear of Nicolas Terol at the top of the standings, while Maverick Vinales continues to lead Moto3, but his margin is nowhere near as large.
Moto2 standings after 5 of 17 rounds:
1 Scott Redding 101
2 Nicolas Terol 58
3 Mika Kallio 58
4 Esteve Rabat 55
5 Pol Espargaro 54
Moto3 standings after 5 of 17 rounds:
1 Maverick Vinales 106
2 Luis Salom 102
3 Alex Rins 81
4 Jonas Folger 63
5 Alex Marquez 35
Green flag
IndyCar - Detroit: The track is green for this morning's warm-up session. It seems like only yesterday that we were racing here. Boom, tish.
FR3.5 - Spa: Inside the final five minutes of the race and Magnussen is fighting to keep Stevens at bay, while Muller is giving da Costa a hard time too. Vandoorne leads all that action by more than four seconds.
Crash
FR3.5 - Spa: A busy penultimate lap - Magnussen goes off at Les Combes trying to defend from Stevens, who took to the grass on the straight to make the pass.
Then a fierce fight between Sainz and Jaafar over seventh ends with both in the wall.
Then a fierce fight between Sainz and Jaafar over seventh ends with both in the wall.
IndyCar - Detroit: AJ Allmendinger is in his back-up car today after his opening lap accident yesterday. AUTOSPORT shared a golf cart with a Penske team member for the ride from the car park to the paddock this morning, and the word is that Allmendinger is nursing a sore hand, but is otherwise in OK shape for the race.
Checkered flag
FR3.5 - Spa: Vandoorne wins on home soil! 1 Vandoorne; 2 Stevens; 3 Magnussen; 4 da Costa; 5 Muller; 6 Melker; 7 Martsenko; 8 Sirotkin; 9 Webb; 10 Sorensen.
European F3 - Spielberg: Antonio Giovinazzi will take a five-place grid penalty for the first race at the Norisring in July after being found guilty of causing the collision with Eddie Cheever at Turn 5 in race three.
Auto GP - Silverstone: The barriers on the Wellington Straight have been in the wars and needed some repairing. AUTOSPORT Editor Charles Bradley spotted these concrete blocks being used to strengthen the crumpled barrier.
Lights out
Blancpain - Silverstone: Ordonez gets the jump on pole man Turner at the start, so Nissan leads Aston. Skryabin up to third in SMP Ferrari.
Crash
IndyCar - Detroit: Kanaan's in the wall. It's not a big hit, and shouldn't result in too long a delay.
Auto GP - Silverstone: Kimiya Sato extended his Auto GP championship lead by taking his third win of the season at Silverstone.
Full race report
Breaking news
Auto GP - Silverstone: Fourth-place finisher Narain Karthikeyan has received a 25-second penalty for passing under yellow flags.
Blancpain - Silverstone: Ordonez and Turner have teamed up into a bit of disappearing act. Four laps in and they are five seconds up the road from third-placed Skryabin. The Russian has a queue of cars behind him, led by the WRT Audi of Mies.
Auto GP - Silverstone: Romanian Robert Visoiu has been awarded a five-place grid penalty for the forthcoming race at Mugello, after being judged to have caused avoidable contact with Vittorio Ghirelli on the opening lap of today's race.
IndyCar - Detroit: Warm-up ends with Dario Franchitti on top. Sebastien Bourdais and yesterday's race winner Mike Conway are second and third.
FR3.5 - Spa: Stoffel Vandoorne's difficult home weekend ends on a high with victory. The Belgian saw off Kevin Magnussen to win the second race.
Full race report
Auto GP - Silverstone: Virtuosi UK team owner Declan Lohan explained Andrea Roda's distant finish in Sunday's Auto GP race. Roda had briefly held fourth in Saturday's race one, but was hit by a clutch failure.
"The clutch problems returned, even though we changed the whole clutch housing," said Lohan. "He was last on the [reversed] grid because of yesterday's early retirement, so we thought: 'What have we got to lose? Let's try a push start from the pitlane.'
"Unfortunately, instead of stalling it, Andrea switched the engine off, which meant the car was fuel starved and took some time to get going. It is a pity as he has been driving so well this weekend."
"The clutch problems returned, even though we changed the whole clutch housing," said Lohan. "He was last on the [reversed] grid because of yesterday's early retirement, so we thought: 'What have we got to lose? Let's try a push start from the pitlane.'
"Unfortunately, instead of stalling it, Andrea switched the engine off, which meant the car was fuel starved and took some time to get going. It is a pity as he has been driving so well this weekend."
Blancpain - Silverstone: Spotted in the paddock: sportscar team owner, ex-British F3 racer and sometime Market Harborough resident Antonio Simoes. The Portuguese's eponymous team is dormant this year, but he's looking to return in 2014 with the McLaren MP4-12C he ran at the Spa 24 Hours last year.
IndyCar - Detroit: Cinema-loving race fans are counting down to the release of 'Rush', but there's another motorsport-related film hitting the screens in a few weeks: the IndyCar-themed Dreamworks animated feature 'Turbo', which tells the story of a snail who wants to race at the Indy 500.
AUTOSPORT caught an extended preview at Indianapolis last week and was seriously impressed. Spoiler alert - even with a snail in the field, the racing scenes are more realistic than the ones in 'Driven'.
Breaking news
FR3.5 - Spa: Championship leader Kevin Magnussen is under investigation for putting Will Stevens on the grass when Stevens passed him before Les Combes.
The drivers are heading to the stewards' room now.
The drivers are heading to the stewards' room now.
By: Matt Beer, David Evans, Peter Mills, Mark Glendenning, Jamie O'Leary, Glenn Freeman, Scott Mitchell, Gary Watkins, Charles Bradley
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