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Formula E - Battersea: Buemi has built his lead to a second with seven laps to go.
There's eight laps to go and most have over 70 per cent energy left, it's definitely foot to the floor racing now.
Formula E - Battersea: D'Ambrosio has kept in reaching distance though with a similarly good restart.
Formula E - Battersea: 10 laps to go and the safety car is now coming in.

We're back racing and Buemi has made another good restart.
Formula E - Battersea: Pitstops will leave British fans annoyed, but not as much as Bird and Turvey.

Both had slower stops and now run in 10th and 11th respectively.

With the safety car still circulating and a track so narrow it's hard to see how they'll make up too many places.
Formula E - Battersea: Bizarrely there's still no safety car after Abt drifted into the wall.

Although Yamamoto breaking down at pit exit might not help.

Finally the safety car has been deployed.
Formula E - Battersea: Daniel Abt has hit the wall at Chelsea gate.

That almost certainly means a safety car and that will save energy, should mean an all out sprint in the final laps.
BTCC - Croft: This is the grid:

1 Tordoff
2 Priaulx
3 Shedden
4 Collard
5 Turkington
6 Neal
7 Austin
8 Goff
9 Morgan
10 Jordan

Plato's down in 12th. Nicolas Hamilton will start his first BTCC race 29th.
Formula E - Battersea: The narrowness of Battersea is causing chaos as packs leaving the pitlane battle for position.

Bird has now pitted and Buemi is back in front ahead of D'Ambrosio and Vergne.

Some seriously impressive stops here.
Formula E - Battersea: Turvey uses his fan boost in the midfield pack to attack Daniel Abt.

Turvey now moves into 11th, recovering from his 10 seconds slower pitstop.
BTCC - Croft: It's Tordoff on pole, from Priaulx - a WSR BMW one-two.

Shedden is third, denying Collard (which would have been a 1-2-3 for Dick Bennetts's team).
DTM - Norisring: Second career DTM victory for Wehrlein. He leads home Wickens, Paffett and Vietoris in a Mercedes 1-2-3-4. Spengler and Tomczyk finish fifth and sixth, ahead of Green.
Formula E - Battersea: Everyone has either pitted or in the process of leaving bar Sam Bird who now leads with two per cent!
BTCC - Croft: The chequered flag is out. Priaulx has one last chance to snatch pole.

Plato's 12th...
Formula E - Battersea: And he's in. The top four all stop and Daniel Abt with Stephane Sarrazin follow into the pits.
Formula E - Battersea: Buemi still going strong ahead of D'Ambrosio but both will surely be pitting on lap 16.

Prost, Senna and Bird have been elevated into 4th, 5th and 6th ahead of their stops.
Formula E - Battersea: Those three are into the pits, along with Turvey and Leimer.

Loic Duval soon follows with Heidfeld also in on lap 15.
DTM - Norisring: Tomczyk has taken sixth from Green. Still no change in the Mercedes battle with two minutes remaining.
Formula E - Battersea: Vergne, Di Grassi and Piquet well below 10% and are heading into the pits shortly.
BTCC - Croft: Priaulx does a 1m23.956s and extends his advantage to 0.400s, but Tordoff pips his team-mate next time through and takes pole by 0.070s.

Plato baulked and stays 13th, as team-mate Turkington rises to fourth.
Formula E - Battersea: Speaking of the British, Oliver Turvey is having an encouraging debut in seventh. He's managing the power well too.

That can't be said for 17th placed Fabio Leimer, who's down to four per cent already.
Formula E - Battersea: It's not been an ideal race for home racer Sam Bird, but he's making inroads on the Mahindra entry of Bruno Senna.

Sennia is currently in eighth, the Virgin Racing man in ninth.
DTM - Norisring: Wehrlein looked like he was going to be easy pickings for Wickens and co when they caught him five minutes ago, but he's still leading the way, with five minutes remaining.
Formula E - Battersea: Buemi has just set the fastest lap of the race, a 1m29.233s.
Formula E - Battersea: Vergne might be losing energy, but he's within a second of second placed D'Ambrosio now.

Buemi still way clear.
BTCC - Croft:Neal sixth, Jordan seventh courtesy of improvements.

Plato's been shuffled back to 12th, but is back on track now.
DTM - Norisring: Wehrlein's lead is gone. He now leads a four-car Mercedes pack. As the TVs in the media centre - on the channel of the DTM's broadcaster - switch to the news. Super handy.
Formula E - Battersea: Vergne's 33 per cent energy level is quite a way down on the rest of the field.
Formula E - Battersea: Below half way on energy storage, Buemi has 44 per cent and so does D'Ambrosio.
DTM - Norisring: Wehrlein's lead is down to 0.8s. He's been on these slicks since the start of the race, Wickens and Paffett's are 15 minutes fresher.
BTCC - Croft: Shedden and Collard improve in unison to go third and fourth.

Just before that Tordoff set personal-best first and third sectors but didn't improve his laptime.
DTM - Norisring: Green is playing a lone hand for Audi, its next best driver is Mortara in 11th.
Formula E - Battersea: Buemi leads and if it stays this way, with Piquet in fifth, Buemi would be only three points down on Piquet's championship lead.
DTM - Norisring: Farfus has lost fifth place - the best non-Mercedes - to Spengler and Green. Spengler went past on the inside of Turn 1, Green pounced and grabbed a place as well.
Formula E - Battersea: Vergne makes a stunning move to get third, he locks up heavily on the entry and forces di Grassi to concede.

Vergne is now third, di Grassi in fourth.
BTCC - Croft: The timing screen is changing every time we look at it. Tordoff goes second now, as Turkington improves his time but is only fourth after others go quicker.

Aron Smith and Plato have risen to seventh and ninth respectively.
Formula E - Battersea: The top three have over 60 per cent power left while Vergne and Piquet are on 58 per cent and 57 per cent respectively.

Remember Piquet has used his fanboost too.

Will be interesting to see his and Vergne's pit strategies later on.
DTM - Norisring: On current Mercedes drivers, Paffett is putting pressure on Wickens. They're both chipping away at Wehrlein's lead, which is 2.7s with 13 minutes to go.
BTCC - Croft: Austin improves again, and goes quickest! 1m24.582s. The times are tumbling...

...and again! Priaulx this time. The three-time world champion takes provisional pole on a 1m24.275s.
DTM - Norisring: Jean Alesi is here as a guest of his former DTM employer Mercedes. If you haven't seen a photo of Jean, he looks exactly the same as he did in his F1 days.

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

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