Acropolis Rally, Mugello MotoGP weekend
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MotoGP - Mugello Moto3: Six bikes nose-to-tail once again and now the train is headed by Oliveira! He's just slip-streamed from the back of the group to the front while Vinales and Marquez have tumbled to fourth and fifth.
European F3 - Spielberg: There are some pretty big championship implications if the order stays as it is. From 77.5 points behind Marciello this time yesterday, Rosenqvist would be just 27.5 adrift of his rival with half the season completed. That's the equivalent of a win and an eighth place (almost).
MotoGP - Mugello Moto3: Vinales leads again but it's anybody's guess who will be in front once they turn into the first corner. Folger, from pole, has just slipped back in sixth but the front group is still intact - though Rins has just relegated to Marquez to third.
Crash
European F3 - Spielberg: Another shunt, this time as eight cars squabble over ninth spot at Turn 3 - yes. Eight, in two banks of four-wide racing. Serralles is forced wide in the confusion while Giovinazzi and Cheever come out best - only to collide at the next corner as one Italian clips the front of the other and each spear into the barrier.
European F3 - Spielberg: Safety car in after five laps on-track and a great restart by Rosenqvist and Kvyat. Bad news for Marciello though. Prema team-mate Auer passes him for third at Turn 3 and the presence of Latifi forces him wide and onto the kerbs. He drops to eighth in one move.
MotoGP - Mugello Moto3: Marquez takes the lead from Vinales to complete an impressive progression through the lead group. Meanwhile, 12 riders are fighting over eighth place. Incredibly close racing but the group has not come to blows - yet.
MotoGP - Mugello Moto3: Miguel Oliveira has passed Salom for fourth and Alex Marquez makes it six bikes in the lead group. Vinales still leads but Oliveira is the man on the move.
Disappointment for Danny Webb, who has run off track and dropped outside the top 20 - he was on the fringes of the top 10 battling with John McPhee.
Disappointment for Danny Webb, who has run off track and dropped outside the top 20 - he was on the fringes of the top 10 battling with John McPhee.
Blancpain - Silverstone:Strange to see AMR team principal John Gaw sitting next to star winter signing Mako in a press conference. Strange 'cos he's wearing Nomex - he's put it on pole in the Gentlemen Trophy class in his Aston.
European F3 - Spielberg: Comical scenes here as the recovery vehicle towing Grenhagen's car to safety slams on the brakes as it reaches a point adjacent to a crane and a flatbed. Grenhagen - still in his car - runs straight into the rear of the 4x4, causing the rear of his car to be launched into the air.
Blancpain - Silverstone: Alex Buncombe fastest in Q3 aboard his RJN Nissan, but Makowiecki's time of 2m01.140s from Q2 stands as pole. Rest of the top six comes from Q3 - when cars at their lightest (no refuelling allowed through the three sessions). Christopher Mies third in WRT Audi, Alessandro Pier Guidi fourth for SMP Ferrari squad, then Peter Dumbreck (JRM Nissan) and Franck Perera (Almeras Porsche).
Yellow flag
European F3 - Spielberg: Unsurprisingly, the safety car is out while the damaged cars are removed.
MotoGP - Mugello: The Motoe lead changes. Championship leader Vinales passes Folger and heads a three-bike battle for first. Rins is the third; a bad start had temporarily dropped him behind Salom.
Crash
European F3 - Spielberg: Massive shunt on the second lap. Mardenborough spins out of 11th on his own and the pack scatters to try and avoid the stationary Carlin machine. Blomqvist clips him, breaks his rear suspension and retires against a barrier while the unsighted Grenhagen ploughs into Mardenborough.
Van de Laar then runs into the back of Grenhagen and is launched skywards over his team-mate's Van Amersfoort Racing machine.
Van de Laar then runs into the back of Grenhagen and is launched skywards over his team-mate's Van Amersfoort Racing machine.
European F3 - Spielberg: Rosenqvist pulls off the move of the season. He, Marciello, Latifi and Kvyat go four-wide down towards Turn 4. Kvyat grabs the lead only for Rosenqvist to brave it out around the outside of the Carlin machine for the two high-speed turns that follow and hits the front himself. Sensational!
Lights out
European F3 - Spielberg: Marciello out-drags Kvyat to take the lead at the first corner, and resists an attempt by the Russian to retake him at the next corner. Rosenqvist is third and under attack from Latifi.
Lights out
MotoGP - Mugello: The Moto3 race is underway. Poleman Jonas Folger gets a storming start and already has a decent lead. Maverick Vinales is second while Luis Salom has passed Alex Rins for third.
European F3 - Spielberg: The formation lap is underway for race three. The grid order is... 1 Kvyat; 2 Marciello; 3 Rosenqvist; 4 King; 5 Latifi; 6 Wolf; 7 Mardenborough; 8 Tincknell; 9 Auer; 10 Giovinazzi.
DTM - Spielberg: AUTOSPORT briefly chatted to former DTM racer David Coulthard on the way up to the media centre; the Scot at Spielberg to fulfil some of his Red Bull ambassadorial duties.
MotoGP - Mugello: As if things weren't bad enough for Smith right now, he suffered a fall in this morning's warm-up session. Here's his worse-for-wear Tech 3 bike.
Blancpain - Silverstone: Frederic Makowiecki on top in Q2 in the factory Aston, three tenths up on Daniel Zampieri in the Kessel Ferrari. Laurens Vanthoor third after taking over the Ortelli Audi. Good showing from Joe Osborne in the Barwell Aston to be fourth.
MotoGP - Mugello: Bradley Smith is having a difficult time in Italy. He's been struggling with a hurt wrist and wrapped-up fingers after a Friday fall. This snap from SMARTFotos shows how much discomfort it's causing the Briton. And that's just putting on his gloves...
Breaking news
Acropolis Rally:
Jari-Matti Latvala's march to a first WRC win for Volkswagen continues. Just two stages stand between him and Acropolis glory.
Full Sunday morning report
Jari-Matti Latvala's march to a first WRC win for Volkswagen continues. Just two stages stand between him and Acropolis glory.
Full Sunday morning report
Breaking news
FR3.5 - Spa: Magnussen will look to extend that lead after bagging another pole position.
Full qualifying report
Full qualifying report
FR3.5 - Spa: Magnussen remains in unstoppable form. His 39-point lead is already massive for so early in the season, and now he has a golden chance to do even more damage.
Talking of damage, Muller's Draco team did well to repair his car after a massive shunt yesterday, and the Monaco winner has rewarded it with a front row start.
Behind them, Vandoorne will be relieved to be up the sharp end on home soil, Melker proves his race one podium was no fluke, and Stevens bounces back from a day to forget with a top five.
And if Antonio Felix da Costa was fed up with being second yesterday, imagine how he's feeling about starting sixth.
Talking of damage, Muller's Draco team did well to repair his car after a massive shunt yesterday, and the Monaco winner has rewarded it with a front row start.
Behind them, Vandoorne will be relieved to be up the sharp end on home soil, Melker proves his race one podium was no fluke, and Stevens bounces back from a day to forget with a top five.
And if Antonio Felix da Costa was fed up with being second yesterday, imagine how he's feeling about starting sixth.
Checkered flag
FR3.5 - Spa qualifying: 1 Magnussen; 2 Muller; 3 Vandoorne; 4 Melker; 5 Stevens; 6 da Costa; 7 Foresti; 8 Sainz; 9 Huertas; 10 Aleshin.
Blancpain - Silverstone: Stephane Ortelli fastest for WRT Audi squad in Q1, four tenths up on team-mate Frank Stippler. Former Le Mans winner Ortelli tells us he loves Silverstone - don't forget his Le Mans Endurance Series win with Allan McNish back in 2005. Weather was quite different that time. Says he's surprised he hasn't seen any rain in his three days in Northamptonshire.
Acropolis Rally - SS12 results:
Stage: 1 Mikkelsen; 2 Ogier + 0.7s; 3 Ostberg + 2.6s; 4 Latvala + 5.5s; 5 Novikov + 6.6s.
Overall: 1 Latvala; 2 Sordo + 1m19.7s; 3 Neuville + 1m57.1s; 4 Mikkelsen + 4m02.4s; 5 Al-Attiyah + 4m04.3s.
Stage: 1 Mikkelsen; 2 Ogier + 0.7s; 3 Ostberg + 2.6s; 4 Latvala + 5.5s; 5 Novikov + 6.6s.
Overall: 1 Latvala; 2 Sordo + 1m19.7s; 3 Neuville + 1m57.1s; 4 Mikkelsen + 4m02.4s; 5 Al-Attiyah + 4m04.3s.
Stopwatch
FR3.5 - Spa: Nearly everyone is improving as the sun shines and the track continues to improve. With three minutes to go Vandoorne has just taken pole, but there are likely to be many more twists in this session. As we say that, Magnussen goes fastest.
Andreas Mikkelsen
Acropolis Rally: A change for fourth as what looks like it will be a second straight stage win for Andreas Mikkelsen takes him past Nasser Al-Attiyah.
"We'll try to stay behind him and hope he does a mistake because I cannot do more, it's too risky," says the sanguine Al-Attiyah.
Acropolis Rally: Mads Ostberg has had spins on both this morning's stages so far.
"We did a set-up change and I've been taken by surprise in a few places," he admits.
No major dramas, though.
"We did a set-up change and I've been taken by surprise in a few places," he admits.
No major dramas, though.
DTM - Spielberg: On track now is the second Porsche Carrera Cup Germany race of the weekend. Championship leader Kevin Estre won yesterday for Attempto Racing, ahead of Norbert Siedler and Supercup leader Sean Edwards. Significant spray is limited to the run up to Turn 2; very different to what we saw in the earlier KTM X-Bow Battle.
DTM - Spielberg: Briton Ross Wylie, whose crash late in yesterday's VW Scirocco R-Cup race caused a red flag, is driving a different car today following extensive work overnight. He was classified fifth in race one, the result being declared on the last complete lap before the accident,.
Acropolis Rally - SS11 results:
Stage: 1 Mikkelsen; 2 Novikov + 2.2s; 3 Ogier + 2.4s; 4 Hirvonen + 3.6s; 5 Latvala + 3.9s.
Overall: 1 Latvala; 2 Sordo + 1m07.5s; 3 Neuville + 1m47.7s; 4 Al-Attiyah + 3m52.1s; 5 Mikkelsen + 4m07.9s.
Stage: 1 Mikkelsen; 2 Novikov + 2.2s; 3 Ogier + 2.4s; 4 Hirvonen + 3.6s; 5 Latvala + 3.9s.
Overall: 1 Latvala; 2 Sordo + 1m07.5s; 3 Neuville + 1m47.7s; 4 Al-Attiyah + 3m52.1s; 5 Mikkelsen + 4m07.9s.
FR3.5 - Spa: As the first cars head back out of the pits, here's the current top 10 with 12 minutes remaining in qualifying: 1 Magnussen; 2 Stevens; 3 Sorensen; 4 Sainz; 5 Sirotkin; 6 da Costa; 7 Foresti; 8 Melker; 9 Muller; 10 Vandoorne.
Blancpain — Silverstone: Sun is shining for qualifying — only slightly gimmicky here. Three 15-minute periods, but the fastest man around the track in any of the sessions takes pole. That's refreshing these days.
DTM - Spielberg: This is the scene in Austria, the cloud hanging low over what used to be the fearsome Hella Licht bend on the Osterreichring, and is now Turn 1 on the current track. The rain has stopped in the past 30 minutes, but the track is still wet.
Stopwatch
FR3.5 - Spa: As the first cars start returning to the pits for their second set of tyres, there's little surprise that championship leader and race one winner Kevin Magnussen is out front in qualifying. Will Stevens, Marco Sorensen and Carlos Sainz Jr lead the chase at the moment.
JRM Nissan
Blancpain - Silverstone: The Blancpain Endurance Series joins AUTOSPORT Race Centre Live's line-up for Sunday.
Qualifying gets going shortly, with the three-hour race this afternoon.
Peter Dumbreck was fastest in the JRM Nissan in practice yesterday, while Daniel Zampieri, Davide Rigon and Cesar Ramos lead the standings having won the Monza opener in their Kessel Ferrari.
DTM - Spielberg: AUTOSPORT has braved bad traffic and worse weather this morning to arrive safe and sound.
Acropolis Rally: Leaders all through SS11 smoothly.
Big pressure to avoid mistakes on Thierry Neuville and leader Jari-Matti Latvala. Third and first for this sometimes accident prone pair would be huge boosts.
A WRC 2 win would be much the same for Robert Kubica, whose serene progress continues.
Big pressure to avoid mistakes on Thierry Neuville and leader Jari-Matti Latvala. Third and first for this sometimes accident prone pair would be huge boosts.
A WRC 2 win would be much the same for Robert Kubica, whose serene progress continues.
By: Matt Beer, David Evans, Peter Mills, Mark Glendenning, Jamie O'Leary, Glenn Freeman, Scott Mitchell, Gary Watkins, Charles Bradley
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