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Aragon MotoGP, Zandvoort DTM, Ricard FR3.5

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MotoGP - Aragon - Free Practice 4:

1 Pedrosa; 2 Marquez; 3 Crutchlow; 4 Bradl; 5 Lorenzo; 6 Rossi; 7 Bautista; 8 Dovizioso; 9 Smith; 10 Hayden.
Checkered flag
MotoGP - Aragon: Chequered flag, and Pedrosa tops the pile from team-mate Marquez. Will the Spaniard be able to claim his third pole of this season in qualifying later?
Checkered flag
BTCC - Silverstone The flag falls on the second free practice session, with only Tordoff making a late move up the field to third in his MG, as Neal and Fuller went quicker but didn't improve their positions. The order was:

1 Newsham; 2 Wrathall; 3 Tordoff; 4 Morgan; 5 Plato; 6 Scott; 7 Neal; 8 Fuller; 9 Goff; 10 Welch.
MotoGP - Aragon: CRT honours belong to Espargaro at the moment, who is in 11th position.
MotoGP - Aragon: Hayden's made an improvement to enter the top 10 for the first time in this final practice session. He's 1.643s behind Pedrosa's Honda, however.
MotoGP - Aragon: Bradl's notched up 11 laps this afternoon and just posted his fastest of all - 1m49.125s. He still sits in fourth, 0.387s behind the ultimate pace set by Pedrosa.
FIA GT - Navarra: Chequered Flag for FP2 and the #11 WRT Audi R8 ultra of Laurens Vanthoor and Stephane Ortelli remains quickest from the #9 Loeb McLaren of Loeb and Parante.

Duncan Tappy stays P3 overall and P1 in PRO AM for Von Ryan McLaren.

Qualifying starts at 5pm CET, that is in three hours.
MotoGP - Aragon: De Puniet posts his quickest time to go from 22nd to 18th and then forgets to brake for the first turn and runs wide.
FR3.5 - Paul Ricard: Magnussen and da Costa are trading fastest laps at the front. The Dane leads by 1.2s, with Vandoorne a further second back from da Costa.
BTCC - Silverstone An airgun failure has hindered Matt Neal's final run at Silverstone, as free practice nears its end. His tyre-crossing stop took far longer than it should have.
MotoGP - Aragon: Lorenzo is currently putting some laps in as the majority of the frontrunners have returned to the pits. He currently sits in fifth position and hasn't been able to better his 1m49.221s yet.
FR3.5 - Paul Ricard: Magnussen has edged his gap out to one second by lap four. Da Costa leads the chase, with Vandoorne and Negrao close behind. Sorensen completes the top five.
MotoGP - Aragon: Halfway point of the session and the order at the moment looks like this:

1 Pedrosa; 2 Marquez; 3 Crutchlow; 4 Bradl; 5 Lorenzo; 6 Rossi; 7 Bautista; 8 Dovizioso; 9 Smith; 10 Espargaro.
Stopwatch
MotoGP - Aragon: Pedrosa is beginning to find his form as he posts the quickest time of the session with a 1m48.796s.
Lights out
FR3.5 - Paul Ricard:Magnussen holds onto the lead at the start while da Costa jumps ahead of Vandoorne. Vandoorne then loses out to a fast-starting Negrao, but the Belgian crucially gets him back at Turn 3.

Later on the opening lap Magnussen fiercely defends from da Costa down the backstraight to hold onto the lead.
MotoGP - Aragon: Marquez's team-mate Pedrosa makes it a Honda 1-2 at the moment. The Spaniard's time is 0.112s slower than the current championship leader.
BTCC - Silverstone Newsham sets the fastest lap of the session so far, a 58.694s. Wrathall is second and Adam Morgan is up to third - so that's an-all Toyota top three!
FIA GT - Navarra: Another improvement for Duncan Tappy as he goes P3 overall on a 1m39.614s. Impressive stuff from the rapid Brit.
Imola - Superstars: Full report from the practice sessions is now here.
Stopwatch
MotoGP - Aragon: And normal service is resumed as Marquez posts the fastest lap of the weekend - 1m48.918s. As a guide, Stoner's record around here is 1m48.451s, which he set back in 2011.
BTCC - Silverstone So far, it looks like the Honda fears for this round aren't as nightmarish as predicted. Neal is fifth, Shedden is 11th - and just got a black/white flag - and Jordan is between them in seventh with Pirtek team-mate Jeff Smith just behind him.

Conversely, the BMWs are struggling: Rob Collard is 17th, Colin Turkington 19th and Nick Foster 22nd.
Stopwatch
MotoGP - Aragon: Crutchlow goes top with a 1m49.125s. The Brit was complaining his Tech 3 Yamaha was around 4mph slower than the works machines down the long straight yesterday...
Green flag
FR3.5 - Paul Ricard:Fourth place starter Nico Muller fails to get away for the formation lap. His Draco team gets him going, but he's now at the back.
Stopwatch
MotoGP - Aragon: Lorenzo sets the early pace with a 1m49.557s.
BTCC - Silverstone Warren Scott, sixth quickest in his VW Passat, plus Liam Griffin and Rob Austin all get the black & white flag for track limits. Hope the observer at Copse has got lots of ink in his pen!
FR3.5 - Paul Ricard: Less than five minutes until race one kicks off here. Title rivals Magnussen and Vandoorne share the front row, with Magnussen needing to extend his 36-point lead to 51 by the end of play tomorrow to seal the title this weekend.
BTCC - Silverstone Wrathall goes back to the top of the times, a 58.801s, which is still four-tenths off what Plato managed this morning.
Green flag
MotoGP - Aragon: Green flag, and away we go.

Expect a lot of activity in this 30-minute session after this morning's was a largely uneventful affair.
BTCC - Silverstone Andrew Jordan, the championship leader, is the first driver to be warned for exceeding track limits at Copse in this session. A pile of white tyres has been placed on the apex of the corner to dissuade drivers from clipping the corner and dragging dirt on to the track.
MotoGP - Aragon: Fourth and final practice in Spain is about to begin. Times of course do not count towards qualifying, unlike the previous three sessions.
BTCC - Silverstone The top three - Plato, Newsham and Wrathall - are covered by 0.075s.
BTCC - Silverstone It's now Plato and Newsham at the top of the times, just as it was this morning. Nobody yet to crack the 59s barrier this time. Wrathall stays third, ahead of Tordoff.
FIA GT - Navarra: Duncan Tappy sets a superb 1m39.701s to go P1 in Pro Am and P4 overall with Von Ryan McLaren MP4-12C
BTCC - Silverstone Wrathall goes to the top of the times. Told you he was quick today!
BTCC - Silverstone An MG one-two now, with Tordoff up to second. He is then deposed by Wrathall, who was quick this morning too.
BTCC - Silverstone Collard now to the top in his BMW. Plato topples him on his first flying lap.
BTCC - Silverstone The front-wheel drive brigade has been in the pits to cross tyres after their install laps, now the serious stuff can begin. Will Bratt currently fastest in his Audi, as he doesn't have to.
Rain
FR3.5 - Paul Ricard: It's cloudy but dry (and pretty warm) here as the FR3.5 cars head out of the pitlane ahead of race one.

However, most teams are convinced that it will be wet tomorrow.
Moto3 - Aragon - Qualifying:

1 Rins; 2 Vinales; 3 Marquez; 4 Oettl; 5 Vazquez; 6 Folger; 7 Oliveira; 8 Salom; 9 Sissis; 10 Kornfeil.
Checkered flag
Moto3 - Aragon: Chequered flag, and Rins grabs pole ahead of Vinales and Marquez. Oettl, Vazquez and a recovering Folger are on the second row of the grid.

Current championship leader Salom improved towards the end of the session, but trailed Rins by 1.704s and starts tomorrow's race from eighth.

By: Matt Beer, Glenn Freeman, Dan Cross, Jamie O'Leary, Andrew van Leeuwen, Gary Watkins, Charles Bradley, Pablo Elizalde, Marcus Simmons, Andrew van de Burgt

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