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STCC - Gothenburg: 10 minutes before the race start and the sun has burst through. The track is still very damp, but we might not have that first wet race of the new era after all.
ERC - Ypres: Meanwhile Breen's charge for second has restarted on SS12. He's come through with a time of 5m15.9s - a few seconds quicker than Paddon, who was stripped of third place by the Irishman earlier.
Breaking news
ERC - Ypres: While we wait for this to fire into life, some very good Kris Meeke-based news for you.
Meeke - who is driving Peugeot's R5 car in Belgium as a course car - has landed a plum WRC drive for Rally Finland - Khalid Al Qassimi's factory Citroen, to be precise.
Meeke secures factory Citroen seat for Rally Finland
Meeke - who is driving Peugeot's R5 car in Belgium as a course car - has landed a plum WRC drive for Rally Finland - Khalid Al Qassimi's factory Citroen, to be precise.
Meeke secures factory Citroen seat for Rally Finland
ERC - Ypres: SS12 is in its infancy, with one time on the board so far. If you're trying to keep on top of things using ERC radio, but turned it off when The Feeling came on - the music has stopped and commentary has recommenced.
MotoGP - Assen: With Moto2 now finished, next up at Assen (though not just yet) is the big one - which is dominated by that incredible Jorge Lorenzo story. The Spaniard completed 11 laps in warm-up despite his broken collarbone, though needed help dismounting his Yamaha (as captured here by SMARTFotos).
That's probably good news for Cal Crutchlow. The Brit - who claimed his first pole position in MotoGP in yesterday's session - will likely be under less scrutiny now, at least for the start anyway.
Checkered flag
ERC - Ypres: The ERC seemed to temporarily borrow the WRC's often sulky timing system on SS11, but results are now in.
SS11 results:
Stage: 1 Breen; 2 Loix +7.5s; 3 Bouffier +11.3s; 4 Solowow +12.6s; 5 Paddon +14.5s.
Overall: 1 Loix; 2 Bouffier +1m41.1s; 3 Breen +2m02.9s; 4 Paddon +2m28.5s; 5 Lefevere +4m46.4s.
SS11 results:
Stage: 1 Breen; 2 Loix +7.5s; 3 Bouffier +11.3s; 4 Solowow +12.6s; 5 Paddon +14.5s.
Overall: 1 Loix; 2 Bouffier +1m41.1s; 3 Breen +2m02.9s; 4 Paddon +2m28.5s; 5 Lefevere +4m46.4s.
Breaking news
WTCC - Porto: Out in Portugal, and having been edged out by Tom Coronel in the opening session, Yvan Muller blitzed the field in final practice. Gabriele Tarquini was second for Honda.
WTCC practice report
Checkered flag
Moto2 - Assen: A second win in a row for Espargaro, who really needs victories to make inroads in Redding's championship lead.
Results: 1 Espargaro; 2 Redding +0.117s; 3 Aegerter; 4 Kallio; 5 Rabat; 6 Zarco; 7 Simeon; 8 Luthi; 9 Torres; 10 West.
Results: 1 Espargaro; 2 Redding +0.117s; 3 Aegerter; 4 Kallio; 5 Rabat; 6 Zarco; 7 Simeon; 8 Luthi; 9 Torres; 10 West.
Checkered flag
Moto2 - Assen: Espargaro wins - Redding not quite close enough to force the issue into the final chicane. Aegerter steals third on the final lap.
Moto2 - Assen: Final lap and Espargaro takes the lead into Turn 1!
Moto2 - Assen: Espargaro is struggling under braking, while Aegerter has repassed Zarco for fourth and is right with Rabat for third.
Mike de Meglio, meanwhile, has crashed out.
Mike de Meglio, meanwhile, has crashed out.
ERC - Ypres: On reflection, Breen decides there wasn't a puncture. He was puzzled by officials or spectators indicating as if there were a problem with one of his front wheels.
Moto2 - Assen: If that was tactical for Espargaro, then Redding's making sure he lives to regret it. The Brit is pushing - hard - and has eked out a small advantage.
ERC - Ypres: Craig Breen picks up a puncture near the end of SS11. Not yet clear how much time he's lost with the faster drivers yet to come through.
Moto2 - Assen: Espargaro seems to back off and allow Redding into the lead.
Moto2 - Assen: Zarco now passes Aegerter who has been on a slide for the last few laps.
ERC - Ypres: The European Rally Championship field are into SS11 as this mega day of Ypres Rally starts its second of four chapters.
Craig Breen's stage wins have ticked one target off his list by helping him take third from Hayden Paddon this morning. Now he's after Bryan Bouffier's second place.
Moto2 - Assen: Rabat moves into third place, sliding up the inside of Aegerter. But he's two seconds behind the lead duo of Espargaro and Redding who - much like the season as a whole so far - have just been a class above the rest.
Moto2 - Assen: 11 laps down, 14 laps to go. The front three have gapped Rabat. Further back, Simone Corsi crashed on lap eight, by the way - he's okay and the bike was cleared pretty sharpish.
Moto2 - Assen: All change once more, as Espargaro passes both Redding and Aegerter to lead. Championship leader Redding is up to second with Rabat, Zarco and - in touching distance - Kallio pressuring Aegerter.
Moto2 - Assen: Though as that's typed, a brilliantly inventive move from Aegerter sees him jump to the lead! Espargaro had passed Redding at Turn 1 but the pair rain slightly wide and Aegerter made the most of his opportunity. Redding's repassed Esparagaro for second.
Moto2 - Assen: It's still quite tight at the front, where the front four have broken away. Redding leads from Espargaro, Aegerter and Rabat.
1 Muller; 2 Tarquini; 3 Oriola; 4 Michelisz; 5 Monje; 6 Coronel; 7 MacDowall; 8 Chilton; 9 Boardman; 10 Valente.
Checkered flag
WTCC - Porto: Chequered flag, and it doesn't look like we'll see many late improvements.
Moto2 - Assen: Redding leads Espargaro who was quickly back up to second, while the charging Dominique Aegerter is up to third!
Crash
WTCC - Porto: He'd run on straight on at Turn 15 minutes ago, and now he's in the barrier - Nikolay Karamyshev has lost his SEAT in the tyres on the outside of the Turn 20 chicane.
The Russian is is out of his car, and we just have waved yellows for the incident.
The Russian is is out of his car, and we just have waved yellows for the incident.
Checkered flag
STCC - Gothenburg: I don't know how he did it in conditions best suited to boats, but Goransson managed to improve to take pole.
Results: 1 Goransson 54.178s; 2 Ohlsson +0.085s; 3 Bjork; 4 Haglof; 5 Larsson.
Results: 1 Goransson 54.178s; 2 Ohlsson +0.085s; 3 Bjork; 4 Haglof; 5 Larsson.
Stopwatch
WTCC - Porto: Muller hits the front, and in some style. His 2m06.864s puts him more than half a second clear of Tarquini, and a second clear of everyone else.
Lights out
Moto2 - Assen: Pol Espargaro leads the field away! But Scott Redding decides not for long, and leaps to the front of the field. Esteve Rabat has jumped Espargaro too with Johann Zarco keeping a watching brief.
Crash
Moto2 - Assen: Toni Elias has shunted on the warm-up lap...
Stopwatch
WTCC - Porto: Gabriele Tarquini lowers the benchmark to a 2m07.517s, more than three tenths clear of the field.
Green flag
STCC - Gothenburg: It's a 3-minute dash for pole.
Moto2 - Assen: There's plenty reason to keep following us here, though - including Moto2 at Assen, which is just about to kick off.
Stopwatch
WTCC - Porto: Plenty of purple on the timesheets now. SEAT's Fernando Monje briefly goes top, before Norbert Michelisz jumps back ahead with a 2m07.903s.
And speaking of big brothers, you can keep on top of qualifying for the British Grand Prix with Race Centre Live's own older sibling. That'll start about 15 minutes before qualifying, so you'll need another AUTOSPORT window open for our live commentary.
STCC - Gothenburg: Interesting fact: there's never been a wet race since the introduction of these DTM-esque racers. Odds are that will change today.
GP2 - Silverstone: Meanwhile, GP3's bigger brother had its own qualifying session yesterday afternoon. The feature race kicks off after F1 qualifying at 14.40 British time (13:40 GMT), with Marcus Ericsson and another strong-showing Brit - Sam Bird - leading the grid away.
You can see how they will line up in our qualifying report.
Stopwatch
WTCC - Porto: Bamboo didn't feature strongly in first practice, but Alex MacDowall has just put the squad top with a 2m08.296s.
Red flag
STCC - Gothenburg: With three minutes gone the session is stopped with Larsson's BMW in the wall. Ohlsson currently holds pole from Bjork. Conditions are getting worse so those positions might remain.
GP3 - Silverstone: The Supercup session is not the first qualifying we've had from the British GP support races today. Earlier this morning, Kevin Korjus claimed his first GP3 pole. He just edged out home favourite Jack Harvey by 0.055s.
Full qualifying report and results can be found here.
By: Matt Beer, Sam Tremayne, Charles Bradley, Scott Mitchell, Andrew van de Burgt
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