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FR3.5 - Hungaroring: Something happened to Sirotkin on the inside of Turn 1, pushing him wide into Tunjo, who was flipped by Latifi. Buller was on the outside and had nowhere to go.
Nato leads Merhi, Rowland, van Buuren, Sainz, Gasly under the safety car.
Nato leads Merhi, Rowland, van Buuren, Sainz, Gasly under the safety car.
MotoGP - Misano: Already a short distance behind in fourth, Iannone is holding off Dovizioso and Pedrosa.
MotoGP - Misano: Marquez tries again on lap two and again takes second from Rossi - and again the Italian manages to get back through.
Huge cheer from the crowd for that one.
Lorenzo remains just ahead of them.
Huge cheer from the crowd for that one.
Lorenzo remains just ahead of them.
Yellow flag
FR3.5 - Hungaroring: Big crash at the first corner, we have what looks like Tunjo upside down, with Sirotkin, Buller and Latifi also in trouble. Safety car is out.
Lights out
FR3.5 - Hungaroring: Nato grabs the lead from third on the grid, passing poleman Merhi on the outside of Turn 1 as Sainz slips back.
MotoGP - Misano: Marquez down the inside of Rossi and he gets between the Yamahas, but Rossi immediately fights back and reclaims it.
MotoGP - Misano: Rossi and Marquez are right on Lorenzo's tail. The leader's hard tyre isn't going to be ideal for the opening laps.
MotoGP - Misano: Order so far is Lorenzo leading Rossi, Marquez, Iannone, Dovizioso, Pol Espargaro, Pedrosa (slow start) and Smith.
Lights out
MotoGP - Misano: A Yamaha 1-2 into the first corner as Lorenzo leads from Rossi, and Marquez is straight past Iannone to third.
FR3.5 - Hungaroring: After some dramas this morning with the camera at Turn 1 for the Formula Renault Eurocup race, it appears that we once again will have a view of what's going on at the most important corner on the track for this FR3.5 race. Phew!
ELMS - Paul Ricard: And sure enough, Chatin takes third from Gonzalez down the Mistral Straight.
Green flag
FR3.5 - Hungaroring: Formation lap is under way. Merhi leads the field, with Sainz, Nato, Rowland next up.
Yesterday's second place finisher Gasly is seventh, with Pons duo Tunjo and van Buuren ahead of him after they mastered the changeable conditions in qualifying this morning.
Yesterday's second place finisher Gasly is seventh, with Pons duo Tunjo and van Buuren ahead of him after they mastered the changeable conditions in qualifying this morning.
ELMS - Paul Ricard: Gonzalez is having to go defensive as Paul-Loup Chatin is trying to claim third in the #36 Signatech Alpine-Nissan. Chatin has made a name for himself with some eye-catching stints this season and he's living up to his reputation.
Green flag
MotoGP - Misano: The field sets off for the formation lap. Everyone is running medium tyres at both ends among the frontrunners except poleman Lorenzo, who has opted for a hard front.
Hernandez is the only Ducati man to try softs.
Hernandez is the only Ducati man to try softs.
Kangaroo
WRC - Australia: One more picture from DAVID EVANS's adventures Down Under to squeeze in before the next races start:
Mid-way through Wedding Bells, we found a kangaroo. That's not a sentence I type every week...
On last year's recce, we found a field full of about 15 kangaroos and this time around we've seen two.
Amazing that in all the years I reported on Rally Australia in Perth I didn't see Skippy once.
Actually, I did see him once, but he was sleeping at the side of the road and would be sleeping for a long time, if you catch my drift.
MotoGP - Misano: Not long till the grid will be cleared at a sunny Misano.
Here's the starting line-up in full:
1 Lorenzo
2 Iannone
3 Rossi
4 Marquez
5 Pedrosa
6 Dovizioso
7 P Espargaro
8 A Espargaro
9 Smith
10 Bradl
11 Hernandez
12 Bautista
13 Crutchlow
14 Redding
15 Aoyama
16 Camier
17 Abraham
18 Laverty
19 de Angelis
20 Parkes
21 Barbera
22 di Meglio
23 Petrucci
Here's the starting line-up in full:
1 Lorenzo
2 Iannone
3 Rossi
4 Marquez
5 Pedrosa
6 Dovizioso
7 P Espargaro
8 A Espargaro
9 Smith
10 Bradl
11 Hernandez
12 Bautista
13 Crutchlow
14 Redding
15 Aoyama
16 Camier
17 Abraham
18 Laverty
19 de Angelis
20 Parkes
21 Barbera
22 di Meglio
23 Petrucci
FR3.5 - Hungaroring: All the attention in this race is going to be on our front row starters - the top two in the championship, Carlos Sainz Jr and Roberto Merhi.
It's the latter who is the man in form at the moment, and he's on pole. If he beats Sainz today, he'll crucially close the championship gap to within a race win's worth of points (25).
The weather hasn't been great all weekend, but at the moment we are on course for a dry race (with a mandatory pitstop), so strategy is likely to be the main way positions are going to change.
It's the latter who is the man in form at the moment, and he's on pole. If he beats Sainz today, he'll crucially close the championship gap to within a race win's worth of points (25).
The weather hasn't been great all weekend, but at the moment we are on course for a dry race (with a mandatory pitstop), so strategy is likely to be the main way positions are going to change.
DTM - Lausitzring: It's now four Mercs in the top five, thanks to Jamie Green making his second mistake of the race. This time he ran wide, re-joining in 11th.
Wehrlien continues to lead comfortably from Vietoris and Juncadella.
Wehrlien continues to lead comfortably from Vietoris and Juncadella.
FR3.5 - Hungaroring: With less than 10 minutes to go until the start of race two here in Hungary, here's a reminder of what happened in yesterday's race:
MotoGP - Misano: The big shock of yesterday was that Marc Marquez not only failed to get pole, he failed to get on the front row.
That hasn't happened since Barcelona in June 2013, and it's only the fourth time it's happened in his whole MotoGP career so far.
And yes, that MotoGP career only numbers 30 races, but they've been pretty successful ones all in all.
After Marquez's defeat at Brno last month, where his set-up wasn't quite right for the race and he settled for a risk-free fourth, you might wonder if he'll take it similarly cautiously today. The title isn't exactly in jeopardy...
But all the indications are that Marquez will be properly on it and in the mix with the Yamahas and Ducatis. Last night he was keen to talk about how many overtaking spots there are, and he topped the warm-up earlier.
This could be the most open race of the year.
That hasn't happened since Barcelona in June 2013, and it's only the fourth time it's happened in his whole MotoGP career so far.
And yes, that MotoGP career only numbers 30 races, but they've been pretty successful ones all in all.
After Marquez's defeat at Brno last month, where his set-up wasn't quite right for the race and he settled for a risk-free fourth, you might wonder if he'll take it similarly cautiously today. The title isn't exactly in jeopardy...
But all the indications are that Marquez will be properly on it and in the mix with the Yamahas and Ducatis. Last night he was keen to talk about how many overtaking spots there are, and he topped the warm-up earlier.
This could be the most open race of the year.
Breaking news
Ocon damage
FR3.5 - Hungaroring: As the cars head out for their laps to the grid, one driver that will be missing from the field is Formula 3 European championship leader Esteban Ocon.
The Frenchman, who finished in the points on his debut (despite his car briefly going into anti-stall halfway round the opening lap!), had a huge crash at the fast Turn 10 left-hander this morning as he hit a damp patch of track on slick tyres.
The shunt caused too much damage to part of the gearbox for Ocon to be able to race today, and here's a shot of parts of his car laid out on the floor of the Comtec garage.
ELMS - Paul Ricard: Leader Tincknell pits as does Derani, who swaps places with Rodolfo Gonzalez in the Murphy ORECA-Nissan.
ELMS - Paul Ricard: Pierre Thiriet has pitted with what looks like another issue for the #46 Thiriet Ligier, which was hit by problems during the Red Bull Ring in July, with first a brake disc failure and then a stub-axle broke.
DTM - Lausitzring: Wow, it's lap nine and Wehrlein is 10.2s clear of second place. Fantastic drive.
It's time for AUTOSPORT's Ben Anderson to do his bit at the Goodwood Revival meeting, driving a Fiat 1100 in the second part of the St Mary's Trophy for 1950s tin-tops. Team-mate and 1990 BTCC champion Robb Gravett finished 12th yesterday.
Follow the action here.
Follow the action here.
DTM - Lausitzring: Drivers are starting to look for the wet parts of the track now, but wets still seem to be the go. Mortara is struggling right at the back.
ELMS - Paul Ricard: Ben Barker continues to lead in GTE in the #86 Gulf Racing Porsche 911. Michael Lyons is in pursuit... Well he was, but Mirko Venturi has just found a way past in the #56 AT Racing Ferrari.
DTM - Lausitzring: Paffett is the next Brit to have a spin. He's now dead last.
DTM - Lausitzring: Spin for Jamie Green! The rain master slips from third to seventh. Things couldn't be going better for Wittmann here. Wehrlein too; he's out to a 5.9s lead with two Mercedes behind him!
Breaking news
Ott Tanak crash
WRC - Australia: Ott Tanak had a big crash on the penultimate stage today - this McKlein picture of the post-impact state of his Ford showing just how big.
He's OK, as is co-driver Raigo Molder, but he'll be kept in hospital overnight for observation.
DTM - Lausitzring: Big mistake from Ekstrom! He takes a trip through the gravel and rejoins in 15th. Could that be championship over?
MotoGP - Misano: Will Rossi win today? His qualifying effort was his most convincing pole bid in a long while, and he's sounding quietly confident about his race pace too.
But he's got to beat his team-mate Lorenzo, who starts from pole for the first simce since Malaysia 2013, 11 months ago.
Lorenzo was seething at Silverstone when Bridgestone brought the tyre spec that left him so unhappy at the start of the year, but that didn't stop him pushing Marquez very hard for the win.
Lorenzo was jubilant yesterday, saying the bike was thriving at Misano in the way it would have done at Silverstone had it been on the 'right' rubber.
He's won here for the last three years too.
But he's got to beat his team-mate Lorenzo, who starts from pole for the first simce since Malaysia 2013, 11 months ago.
Lorenzo was seething at Silverstone when Bridgestone brought the tyre spec that left him so unhappy at the start of the year, but that didn't stop him pushing Marquez very hard for the win.
Lorenzo was jubilant yesterday, saying the bike was thriving at Misano in the way it would have done at Silverstone had it been on the 'right' rubber.
He's won here for the last three years too.
DTM - Lausitzring: Juncadella drops to fourth, as Vietoris and Green charge past him into Turn 1 at the start of lap two.
Lights out
DTM - Lausitzring: We're go, and Wehrlein has made a beauty of a start, leading the field from Juncadella. Ekstrom has made a shocker and slipped to sixth, just a spot in front of Wittmann.
DTM - Lausitzring: Inside five minutes until race start in Brandenburg. All on wets except Mortara, who is on the options. Brave boy! It's still pretty wet out there.
ELMS - Paul Ricard: The #58 Sorfrev Ferrari 458 has retired. The car came to a halt at Turn 6 while Fabien Barthez was at the wheel.
MotoGP - Misano: Being able to use the softer tyre and other Open class bonuses has certainly helped Ducati in qualifying trim this year.
Dovizioso isn't so confident about the race today, but Iannone is sounding pretty combative.
Anything above fifth will be a career-best for the Pramac man.
Incidentally, though he's still in Pramac colours, Iannone is getting a fair bit more help from the factory as he's bound for the main team next year.
LCR-bound Cal Crutchlow, the man Iannone is replacing, doesn't quite have the same kit these days. He starts 13th after another troubled qualifying session.
Dovizioso isn't so confident about the race today, but Iannone is sounding pretty combative.
Anything above fifth will be a career-best for the Pramac man.
Incidentally, though he's still in Pramac colours, Iannone is getting a fair bit more help from the factory as he's bound for the main team next year.
LCR-bound Cal Crutchlow, the man Iannone is replacing, doesn't quite have the same kit these days. He starts 13th after another troubled qualifying session.
ELMS - Paul Ricard: Bad news for SMP as both the #71 and #72 Ferraris receive stop-go penalties for jump starting. The #71 is currently third in GTC in the hands of K. Ladygin, while the #72 is fourth in GTE with Sergey Zlobin.
ELMS - Paul Ricard: Ragues is now gaining on Derani for second. The gap between them is just over a 1s.
Wehrlein
DTM - Lausitzring: Here's what it looks like for first time poleman Pascal Wehrlein as he lines up on the grid. Race start not far away.
By: Matt Beer, Glenn Freeman, AUTOSPORT staff, Andrew van Leeuwen, David Evans, Dan Cross, Kevin Turner
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