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That brings AUTOSPORT Race Centre Live's weekend to a close.
Thanks for your company, we'll see you next weekend as Formula 1 resumes with the Belgian Grand Prix, the World Rally Championship returns to asphalt for Rally Germany, and GP2 and GP3 commence their title run-ins.
Thanks for your company, we'll see you next weekend as Formula 1 resumes with the Belgian Grand Prix, the World Rally Championship returns to asphalt for Rally Germany, and GP2 and GP3 commence their title run-ins.
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NASCAR - Michigan: Meanwhile as NASCAR crews pack up at Michigan and prepare to head to the Bristol bullring for next Saturday's inevitable bruising night race, Jimmie Johnson is busy replying to irate Ryan Newman fans on Twitter...
"Anyone else would've wrecked him. He's lucky it was me."
"Anyone else would've wrecked him. He's lucky it was me."
Checkered flag
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Excellent drive by Power, and a massive result in championship terms - he came into the weekend with a four point advantage, and leaves it with a 39 point lead. As he crossed the line, he yelled 'I love winning on ovals!" over the radio.
Montoya completes the Penske 1-2 in second, and Kanaan rounds out the podium in third.
Montoya completes the Penske 1-2 in second, and Kanaan rounds out the podium in third.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Power can't find a way past Pagenaud, and Newgarden takes advantage of the trapped Penske to unlap himself. Montoya is still 2.2s behind him with two laps to go.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Montoya lost a stack of time behind Hawksworth there - the gap is back out to 2.5s. Power is now about to lap Pagenaud, who is in sixth. Remarkable.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: The leaders are navigating traffic, and it's working more to Power's advantage than Montoya's right now. There are 11 laps to go.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Newgarden has pitted from third, but our attention is just ahead of him, where Montoya has taken 1.0s out of Power's lead on a single lap.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Just 17 laps remaining. and Power's lead over Montoya is 2.4s. Their Penske team-mate Castroneves has just gone down a lap.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: The gap between Power and Montoya is 2.1s with 32 laps to go. Newgarden is 3.3s further back, trying to stay ahead of Kanaan to keep third.
NASCAR - Michigan: That fiery crash really has badly dented Larson's hopes of being in the Chase as a rookie.
Here's the pack of drivers yet to win and scrapping for the four Chase spots currently available via points (as there have been 12 different race winners so far):
Kenseth 709
Newman 679
Bowyer 672
Biffle 660
Kahne 651
Dillon 638
Larson 636
Ambrose 616
The top four of that group are in the Chase for now, and whereas Larson started today between Newman and Bowyer, being classified only 43rd at Michigan has sent him tumbling away from the Chase cut with only three races to go.
Here's the pack of drivers yet to win and scrapping for the four Chase spots currently available via points (as there have been 12 different race winners so far):
Kenseth 709
Newman 679
Bowyer 672
Biffle 660
Kahne 651
Dillon 638
Larson 636
Ambrose 616
The top four of that group are in the Chase for now, and whereas Larson started today between Newman and Bowyer, being classified only 43rd at Michigan has sent him tumbling away from the Chase cut with only three races to go.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Montoya has passed Newgarden for second, and now it's a Penske 1-2 up at the front. Montoya is all over the back of his team-mate as the pair work their way through traffic.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: And now Kanaan is in, followed by Montoya. Kanaan opted for a wing adjustment, which allowed Montoya to leapfrog him. Power has retained the lead, and Newgarden is up to second. The Montoya/Kanaan battle is right in his mirrors.
Jeff Gordon ice bucket
NASCAR - Michigan: Dozens of motorsport stars have been joining in with the charity Ice Bucket Challenge over recent days, and Jeff Gordon and Hendrick decided Victory Lane at Michigan would be a good place to do it.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Power pits from the lead. The other cars that had stayed out during the caution, Newgarden and Andretti pitted a lap earlier; the latter losing time to a slow stop.
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IndyCar - Milwaukee:
Ryan Hunter-Reay:
"I could feel it running rough the laps before that, so it wasn't a clean suspension break. Every time I went back on the power, it was big-time squat. It was undriveable."
Ryan Hunter-Reay:
"I could feel it running rough the laps before that, so it wasn't a clean suspension break. Every time I went back on the power, it was big-time squat. It was undriveable."
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Hunter-Reay is out of his car.
Not much change up at front, where the respective gaps between Power, Kanaan and Montoya have stabilised at around 0.7s
Not much change up at front, where the respective gaps between Power, Kanaan and Montoya have stabilised at around 0.7s
IndyCar - Milwaukee: It looks like Hunter-Reay had some sort of suspension failure. He didn't hit anything; the car just suddenly wiggled on the straight.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Problems for Hunter-Reay. He had a big wiggle on the front straight, and is now making slow and unhappy progress back to the pits. No idea what happened there, but it's a huge blow to his title hopes.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Montoya is up to third. That will give Kanaan something else to think about.
Newgarden is still fourth, but he has Briscoe and Dixon closing in fast.
Newgarden is still fourth, but he has Briscoe and Dixon closing in fast.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Power's tyres are 12 laps older than Kanaan's, but he is doing a pretty good job of keeping the Ganassi car in check right now.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Kanaan has already taken Newgarden and Andretti, and now he's all over Power. He has a look, but Power slams the door shut.
Green flag
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Restart. Let's see what the guys on new tyres can do.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Munoz is out of the race. It sounds like he just went a little wide, got onto the marbles, and was a passenger from there on.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: So the new top three is Power, Newgarden, and Andretti, who were the only three to stay out.
Kanaan is fourth ahead of Montoya, Dixon, Briscoe, Castroneves, Pagenaud, Bourdais, Hunter-Reay, Carpenter, Hawksworth and Rahal. Briscoe lost a couple of positions during all of that.
Kanaan is fourth ahead of Montoya, Dixon, Briscoe, Castroneves, Pagenaud, Bourdais, Hunter-Reay, Carpenter, Hawksworth and Rahal. Briscoe lost a couple of positions during all of that.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: A lot of cars, including Kanaan, have taken advantage of the yellows to pit. Power stayed out.
Yellow flag
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Caution for Carlos Munoz, who is dragging a sick Andretti Autosport car back to the pits. There's some damage to the right-rear - he has made contact with the wall somewhere.
Kanaan's lead over Power was 1.5s before the yellows came out.
Kanaan's lead over Power was 1.5s before the yellows came out.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Power is already eating into Kanaan's lead, while a little further back, Dixon has climbed into the top four. He's slightly out of sequence with the cars around him.
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NASCAR - Michigan: Johnson and Newman had some blunt words for each other after slamming into each other a few times in the closing laps.
Newman refused to speak to the press about it. Johnson was happy to have his say, though, calling it "typical Ryan Newman stuff".
That wasn't a compliment.
Newman refused to speak to the press about it. Johnson was happy to have his say, though, calling it "typical Ryan Newman stuff".
That wasn't a compliment.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: And for Power, it pans out badly - he is nowhere near the pit exit when Kanaan screams past to take the lead. Penske held on a couple of laps too long there.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Just as Kanaan passes Power to unlap himself, Power pits. Interesting to see how this pans out.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Power is still out - this is currently a 59 lap stint. He has Kanaan all over his rear again, but this time Kanaan is a lap down.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Hunter-Reay is also in; Power passes the pit entry and heads off on another lap.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Kanaan pits from second; Power stays out.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Power's gap to Kanaan is now almost 6s.
Briscoe is again the first of the frontrunners to pit; the Ganassi driver heading in from third.
Briscoe is again the first of the frontrunners to pit; the Ganassi driver heading in from third.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: The pit window is opening again, and we've already seen Bourdais, Dixon and Pagenaud head in to make their second stops.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Power is opening a gap over Kanaan again now - at 2.6s, it's the biggest we've seen all day.
Hunter-Reay is now up to fifth. He stopped five laps earlier than the guys ahead, and it will be interesting to see whether he can maintain this sort of pace. Up ahead of him is Juan Pablo Montoya, who is lapping at roughly the same pace.
James Hinchcliffe and Jack Hawksworth have also made some good early progress, climbing from 13th to eighth and 17th to ninth respectively.
Hunter-Reay is now up to fifth. He stopped five laps earlier than the guys ahead, and it will be interesting to see whether he can maintain this sort of pace. Up ahead of him is Juan Pablo Montoya, who is lapping at roughly the same pace.
James Hinchcliffe and Jack Hawksworth have also made some good early progress, climbing from 13th to eighth and 17th to ninth respectively.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: We're watching an overhead replay of Montoya's stop. Aleshin was in the pit immediately behind him, and it looks like there wasn't enough space for him to get into his box properly. That probably explains why race control decided to be lenient - usually, hitting pit equipment is an automatic penalty.
Meanwhile, Hunter-Reay keeps making good progress, and is up to sixth.
Meanwhile, Hunter-Reay keeps making good progress, and is up to sixth.
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NASCAR - Michigan: Gordon describes his third win of 2014 as "unbelievably awesome."
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Montoya has been given a warning for hitting pit equipment, but he has escaped a penalty. The time he lost in the pits cost him one position, and he's currently fourth behind Briscoe.
IndyCar - Milwaukee: Heck of a battle between Power and Kanaan for the lead here - Kanaan has got a run on Power twice, but the Australian has been able to counter and reclaim the lead on both occasions.
By: Matt Beer, AUTOSPORT staff, Andrew van Leeuwen, Marcus Simmons, Mark Glendenning
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