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Assen MotoGP, London Formula E and more

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Formula E - Battersea: Piquet Jr very emotional to win the title, huge smile on his face as he poses for pictures.
BTCC - Croft: We're approaching the final race of the day. The top six from race two has been reversed, giving us a front row of Rob Collard and Gordon Shedden.

Can Collard cap a stellar day for WSR and make it three wins for the BMW team?
Formula E - Battersea: Sam Bird is now the race winner, as Sarrazin gets a 40 second penalty for using too much energy.

A home race winner!
Formula E - Battersea: Piquet Jr is provisionally the first Formula E champion!
Formula E - Battersea: Sarrazin has 0 percent energy, this could be a big problem.

Senna and Buemi go side by side and Senna holds on!

Sarrazin goes across the line to win with no power left ahead of Bird.
USC - Watkins Glen: Plenty of driver changes going on as the Prototype teams take advantage of the yellow flag.

Barbosa is in for Fittipaldi at Action Express Racing, John Pew takes over from Negri in the Ligier Honda LMP2 car and Max Angelelli is given the reins of the Corvette for Wayne Taylor Racing.

Scott Pruett now leads for Ganassi Racing, from Angelelli and Barbosa.
Formula E - Battersea: For the third time Buemi clips Senna.

Piquet will owe Senna a lot if it stays this way. Big effort from the Brazilian Mahindra driver.
Formula E - Battersea: Bird tries to go through and hits Sarrazin!

Somehow they both stay intact and continue in the same order.

One lap to go, as Buemi continues to hound Senna.
Formula E - Battersea: Two laps to go, Piquet Jr dropping back to find some clear track to grab the fastest lap.
Formula E - Battersea: Buemi looking to the inside of Senna, nudges him again.

Could end in tears, could be superb. Anything really, but fascinating to watch.
Formula E - Battersea: Bird is making strong exits on the chicane, helping him close in.
Formula E - Battersea: Piquet confirms on the radio he's going for the fastest lap of the race.

Sam Bird is trying to find a way past Sarrazin.
USC - Watkins Glen: In Prototype, Fittipaldi's 5s lead over Ricky Taylor has been eradicated by our third yellow of the day. Tom Long in the #7 Starworks Motorsport Mazda, has stopped on the track at the final corner. Ganassi Racing's Joey Hand lets Scott Pruett take the wheel

In GTLM, Edwards leads from Pilet, while Bill Auberlen has worked his way up to third after that early spin. Not bad.

We're an hour and 35 minutes into the race so far.
Formula E - Battersea: Buemi needs to get past Senna so he uses his fanboost and clips Senna!

It's going to be a proper challenge to get the title advantage again.
Formula E - Battersea: Sam Bird sets the fastest lap and he's closing in on Sarrazin, he also has a 4 percent energy advantage.

Late race battle on the cards.
Formula E - Battersea: Piquet passes Duran! He's now leading the championship again by one point!

The top three of the championship are next to each other.

Buemi is sixth, di Grassi seventh and Piquet Jr eighth. Wow.

Six laps to go.
Formula E - Battersea: Seven laps to go, Piquet moves past Turvey as his team-mate lets him through.

He's now ninth and closing on Salvador Duran.
Formula E - Battersea: Excellent move by Jerome D'Ambrosio to take third as Sam Bird takes second in his home race.
Formula E - Battersea: Sarrazin makes an excellent restart to continue leading.

Buemi sixth, di Grassi seventh.

Piquet uses his fan boost but remains in 10th.
Formula E - Battersea: Safety car in this lap, there will be nine left.

Piquet wants Heidfeld out the way, asks the team to speak to Venturi.
Formula E - Battersea: Ten laps to go and the safety car is out. Piquet will be rubbing his hands.

Metaphorically, obviously.
Formula E - Battersea: Leimer has gone into the wall and that should bring out a safety car.

Heart-rates will be rising here.
USC - Watkins Glen: John Edwards takes a dive down the inside of Patrick Pilet and takes the lead in GTLM. He gets a decent slip stream along the back straight and sweeps past into the inner loop. With the pace he's had over the last 30 minutes, expect the BMW RLL car to pull away now.
Formula E - Battersea: Oliver Turvey sets the fastest lap, now the gap between Buemi and Piquet is just two points!
Formula E - Battersea: As it stands, Piquet is four points behind Buemi...
Formula E - Battersea: Piquet Jr is now out of the pits and back on track in tenth.

Not sure that's done him any favours as Nico Prost nearly passes him.

He then slides on the following corner and Prost is edging ever closer.
Formula E - Battersea: Sam Bird is side by side for second with Duval but just missed out.

Buemi has spun! He loses places and ends up just ahead of di Grassi. Huge drama!

di Grassi then almost spins!
Formula E - Battersea: Piquet Jr is now leading on his final lap before pitting.

D'Ambrosio, Bird, Buemi, Senna, Prost, de Silvestro, Leimer and Abt pit.
Formula E - Battersea: Piquet Jr is flying around the track now and might be able to get two laps before pitting. He'll need to be very quick for it to work for him.

Chandhok, Vergne and Fontana have also pitted.
Formula E - Battersea: Piquet is now in the top ten, he's six points off Buemi as it stands.

A fastest lap would certainly bring it close. He would take two off Buemi and take two for himself.

If he stays out a lap longer, he'd have the prime opportunity to do so...

Speaking of which, Sarrazin and Duval have both pitted. The first to do so ahead of Duran, di Grassi and Turvey.
USC - Watkins Glen: In GTLM, John Edwards of BMW RLL is starting to pressure Pilet in the Porsche for the lead. He's darting left and right to fill the mirrors of the leading car in class. Pilet is having none of it and is firm in his defence.

In Prototype, the Michael Shank Racing Ligier Honda is quietly going about business. Oswaldo Negri is up to fourth and is now just 0.5s behind Joey Hand's Ganassi racing Ford Ecoboost. Keep a close eye on the number 60 Prototype.
Formula E - Battersea: Loic Duval's turn to set the fastest lap, but Buemi beats him with a 1m27.839s.

That would be two extra points, it probably wouldn't be critical to a title win, but more points are always welcome.

He's still in pole position to win the championship as we approach the halfway mark.
Formula E - Battersea: There are few circuits as bumpy as Battersea.

Can't imagine it's too comfortable.

Buemi powers on with fanboost to try and close on Sam Bird, but he's some way off the British driver.
Formula E - Battersea: Vergne has a drive through penalty for using too much power.
Formula E - Battersea: On board footage shows that Piquet is definitely lifting and coasting, he now has a 10 per cent advantage but he's currently still losing too much time.

Praying for a safety car?
Formula E - Battersea: Nick Heidfeld has broken down in the pitlane.

It's not been a great season for the ex-Formula 1 man.

He runs to the second car and he's back on track.
Formula E - Battersea: Piquet has got past Nico Prost to take 11th. Putting his foot down again?

Buemi still in fifth, di Grassi now 8th.

Nick Heidfeld has pitted, too early to be scheduled.
Formula E - Battersea: Yamamoto hits Trulli at Prince Albert and spins, he's now crawling with a damaged front end of the car.

He tried to go on the inside and drove straight into Trulli's rear left wheel.

Very accident prone weekend and one to forget for Amlin Aguri so far.

By: Matt Beer, AUTOSPORT staff, Scott Mitchell, Mitchell Adam, Gary Watkins, Jack Benyon, Marcus Simmons

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