Acropolis Rally, Mugello MotoGP weekend
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MotoGP - Mugello: A worrying moment for Bradley Smith at Casanova, squirming around under brakes and running slightly off-track. But he continues to circulate in 10th which, given his dramas this weekend, is good going indeed.
MotoGP - Mugello: Pedrosa is really struggling now. Lorenzo was a full second quicker than him on that lap and Marquez is all over him as he misses apex after apex. Crutchlow was five seconds behind the two Hondas but on that last lap was 0.4s faster - could he haul himself on to the podium if Pedrosa's troubles continue?
MotoGP - Mugello: Lorenzo has put more than a second between himself and Pedrosa, and he is flying now, setting a personal best lap. Pedrosa is now under pressure from his Honda team-mate Marquez. Is he struggling with tyres?
Auto GP - Silverstone: An extra formation lap is required after Fabrizio Crestani is unable to pull away from the grid. The Ibiza car is being pushed into the pitlane.
DTM - Spielberg: Oh no. Glock's second stop is a bad one; 5.3 seconds in fact. That might just have ended his hopes of winning today. He's back to 10th, but the best of the two-stoppers. Werner, Rockenfeller and Farfus, however, are now on the option rubber and should, in theory, be faster. All must stop again within the next 10 laps.
Evgeny Novikov
Acropolis Rally: The final stage-win tally from the weekend shows four each for winner Jari-Matti Latvala and early leader Evgeny Novikov.
Novikov was over half a minute ahead on Saturday morning before damaging his car...
DTM - Spielberg: Wehrlein and Paffett have now pitted, meaning the 'real' order - with Molina yet to stop from fourth - is 1 Spengler; 2 Glock; 3 Wittmann; 4 Werner; 5 Rockenfeller; 6 Farfus.
Wehrlein, who ran 31 laps on a set of options, has managed to pass Paffett during the stops; Vietoris between the two now in ninth spot. Spengler ran 28 laps on options while Glock is now 29 laps into a stint on the softer tyres.
Wehrlein, who ran 31 laps on a set of options, has managed to pass Paffett during the stops; Vietoris between the two now in ninth spot. Spengler ran 28 laps on options while Glock is now 29 laps into a stint on the softer tyres.
MotoGP - Mugello: Pedrosa is being frustrated time and time again by Lorenzo at San Donato. The Honda pulls right up behind the Yamaha down the start-finish straight but hasn't quite got the legs to bring Pedrosa alongside. Three seconds back, Crutchlow has a four second advantage over Bradl and Dovizioso.
Special mention to Aleix Espargaro - the top CRT rider is doing a remarkable job in eighth. Meanwhile, the battered Bradley Smith is running well in 10th.
Special mention to Aleix Espargaro - the top CRT rider is doing a remarkable job in eighth. Meanwhile, the battered Bradley Smith is running well in 10th.
DTM - Spielberg: Spengler pits from the lead, his options being replaced with standards. He exits 1s ahead of the Molina/Glock battle for fifth. Spengler is now fourth, but is still the net leader as Paffett, Wehrlein etc are yet to pit.
Checkered flag
FR3.5 - Spa: Formula Renault Eurocup honours go to Luca Ghiotto today. Pierre Gasly is second again, while Bruno Bonifacio completes the podium.
MotoGP - Mugello: Crutchlow is riding bang in the middle of the three-bike battle for the lead and the three-bike battle for fifth. He's losing a tenth or two each lap to the leaders and the gap is just over two seconds.
MotoGP - Mugello: Close but no cigar as Pedrosa - yet again - tries to use the tow to pass Lorenzo into San Donato. The Yamaha has been mighty on the brakes so far but there was a sniff of an opportunity to pass there - and Pedrosa almost capitalised as Lorenzo ran slightly wide.
DTM - Spielberg: Order at half-distance is 1 Spengler; 2 Paffett; 3 Wehrlein; 4 Green; 5 Molina; 6 Glock; 7 Wittmann; 8 Werner; 9 Farfus; 10 Rockenfeller.
Auto GP - Silverstone: The reversed-grid Auto GP race is next up on the Silverstone schedule. Rookie Meindert van Buuren is on pole.
After yesterday's sixth place, championship leader Kimiya Sato starts third. Sato's advantage in the drivers' standings has been reduced to three points over Vittorio Ghirelli, who picked up second in Saturday's race one.
Sergio Campana has dropped to third in the standings, four points adrift of Ghirelli. Campana lines up on the front row of this afternoon's race.
MotoGP - Mugello: Lorenzo leads from Pedrosa and Marquez while behind, Crutchlow passes Dovizioso into Arrabbiata. He was confident before the race - despite suffering all weekend with allergies - and needed to get past the Ducati quickly. But the front three have already made a decent gap.
DTM - Spielberg: Some interesting strategy scenarios are playing out now. Glock stopped early from 11th to switch from standards to options, and is now ahead of Wittmann, who has just pitted from second. Make no mistake, Glock could just find himself in the lead here!
Yellow flag
FR3.5 - Spa: Another massive shunt at Eau Rouge in the FR Eurocup, but this time only the safety car is required. Ignazio D'Agosto ends up in the barriers after Andrea Pizzitola decides they can go through one of the world's most notorious corners side-by-side. D'Agosto is fine, walking away and giving a thumbs-up.
Crash
MotoGP - Mugello: Early crash, and early disappointment for Valentino Rossi and his legion of fans at Mugello. He was tagged at Poggio Secco by Alvaro Bautista, who was on his way down.
Lights out
MotoGP - Mugello: Pedrosa shoots away from pole as Crutchlow tries to pass Dovizioso. Marquez straight up to third with a blinding start.
European F3 - Spielberg: Felix Rosenqvist has slashed Raffaele Marciello's lead to 27.5 points after becoming the first man to win three times in a single round. Lucas Auer has moved clear of Alex Lynn in third with the Brit now more than 100 points behind Marciello.
European F3 standings after 15 of 30 rounds:
1 Raffaele Marciello 239.5
2 Felix Rosenqvist 212
3 Lucas Auer 165
4 Alex Lynn 133.5
5 Harry Tincknell 130
Full season statistics on FORIX
MotoGP - Mugello: MotoGP time in Italy. Pedrosa on pole ahead of Lorenzo - who will lead into San Donato? It will probably matter very little. But we'll soon find out...
DTM - Spielberg: What is it about Tomczyk and BMWs? First it's Paffett and now Roberto Merhi - just as it was at Brands Hatch! Tomczyk gets by Jundacella and Merhi through Turn 2; the German and the latter Spaniard making contact under acceleration with Tomczk being turned around. He's continued, but Merhi is given a 10s penalty for his trouble.
Breaking news
Acropolis Rally news: Robert Kubica is delighted to have finally put together a clean rally. A dominant performance in Greece earned the Pole the WRC 2 win.
Robert Kubica secures first WRC 2 win
DTM - Spielberg: HWA chief Gerhard Ungar has just been visited by a DMSB official on the pitwall. Does the piece of paper he's been handed contain notice of a penalty for Paffett? It does. The Brit must stop in the pits for two seconds as punishment for the Tomczyk incident.
DTM - Spielberg: Tomczyk pits from 10th, having just been shoved off the track at Turn 3 by Paffett as the Brit grabbed eighth. He's now behind Vietoris, a massive net loss of probably about five spots for the BMW man during this opening round of stops.
DTM - Spielberg: Bad news for Joey Hand. Two corners out of the pits and the RBM BMW is minus its left-front wheel, which detached itself on the approach to Turn 2. Hand was already driving slowly, so he must have been aware of the problem immediatley.
Yellow flag
FR3.5 - Spa: The FR Eurocup race restarts behind the safety car. That was quite a long delay in the end, so it could affect the start time of the FR3.5 race.
DTM - Spielberg: Wittmann has passed Mortara for second while Scheider has used DRS to overtake Tomczyk into Turn 2 on the sixth lap. That's fifth spot for the former champion. Wickens also tries to pass Tomczyk in the process, but runs wide and loses seventh to Albuquerque.
Acropolis Rally: Robert Kubica claims WRC 2 victory, that's the biggest success of his rallying career so far.
Breaking news
Acropolis Rally: Jari-Matti Latvala takes his first WRC win with Volkswagen, breaking the men-called-Sebastien stranglehold on this year's championship.
Full rally report
Crash
DTM - Spielberg: Juncadella and Green collide near the back of the pack on lap two between Turns 4 and 5. The Spaniard spins and Priaulx picks up two places.
Checkered flag
Acropolis Rally results:
Powerstage: 1 Ogier; 2 Novikov + 9.9s; 3 Mikkelsen + 11.6s; 4 Latvala + 13.2s; 5 Hirvonen + 13.4s.
Overall: 1 Latvala; 2 Sordo + 1m50.0s; 3 Neuville + 2m14.1s; 4 Mikkelsen + 3m55.1s; 5 Al-Attiyah + 4m12.6s.
Powerstage: 1 Ogier; 2 Novikov + 9.9s; 3 Mikkelsen + 11.6s; 4 Latvala + 13.2s; 5 Hirvonen + 13.4s.
Overall: 1 Latvala; 2 Sordo + 1m50.0s; 3 Neuville + 2m14.1s; 4 Mikkelsen + 3m55.1s; 5 Al-Attiyah + 4m12.6s.
Lights out
DTM - Spielberg: Spengler makes a good start to lead, with Mortara going around the outside of Wittmann for second at Turn 1. Paffett climbs from ninth to sixth, but loses out in a three-wide fight with Tomczyk and Wickens at Turn 3 and drops to ninth as Scheider and Albuquerque also go by.
Breaking news
Acropolis Rally: Jari-Matti Latvala secures victory. Powerstage points go to Sebastien Ogier.
Acropolis Rally: Thierry Neuville seals his second WRC podium with third.
Acropolis Rally: Mikkelsen is still comfortably faster than Al-Attiyah, so that seals the Norwegian's fourth place.
That's double Intercontinental Rally Challenge champion Mikkelsen's best ever WRC result.
His previous best of fifth came way back in February 2008, when as an 18-year-old in a private Ramsport Ford, he got into the top five in Sweden.
As the AUTOSPORT report from back then shows, it was also a record-breaking maiden win for this weekend's near-certain victor Jari-Matti Latvala, and Mads Ostberg starred too.
That's double Intercontinental Rally Challenge champion Mikkelsen's best ever WRC result.
His previous best of fifth came way back in February 2008, when as an 18-year-old in a private Ramsport Ford, he got into the top five in Sweden.
As the AUTOSPORT report from back then shows, it was also a record-breaking maiden win for this weekend's near-certain victor Jari-Matti Latvala, and Mads Ostberg starred too.
DTM - Spielberg: The rain was just a passing sprinkling. The track is almost bone dry and all cars appear to be on slicks; Dirk Werner the highest-placed driver starting on standards in 10th as the warm-up lap begins.
DTM -Spielberg: Crucially, this wet-tyre allowance means that there is no stipulation to use both opton and standard slicks during the race.
Acropolis Rally: Andreas Mikkelsen stalls near the end of the stage, might he lose fourth to Nasser Al-Attiyah...?
Red flag
FR3.5 - Spa: Stoppage in the Formula Renault Eurocup race after a huge shunt at Eau Rouge where two cars went into the tyre wall together. The drivers involved were Stefan Wackerbauer and Gregor Ramsay.
The latter stayed in his car for a few minutes after the crash, but eventually climbed out under his own power and walked away.
The latter stayed in his car for a few minutes after the crash, but eventually climbed out under his own power and walked away.
By: Matt Beer, David Evans, Peter Mills, Mark Glendenning, Jamie O'Leary, Glenn Freeman, Scott Mitchell, Gary Watkins, Charles Bradley
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