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MotoGP - Brno: Here we go then. In cool temperatures, the field heads round for the customary warm-up lap. Can Crutchlow end Britain's wait?
Yellow flag
BTCC - Knockhill: The safety car is out on lap 10 as marshals put out a small fire on his Hard Vauxhall.
Crash
BTCC - Knockhill: Paul O'Neill crashes on the exit of the hairpin. That'll mean a safety car.
MotoGP - Brno: Over in MotoGP meanwhile all eyes are turned to the heavens. For now, the rain seems to be staying away...
BTCC - Knockhill: Adam Morgan slips ahead of Neal's heavily-ballasted Honda at the hairpin to take eighth.
Crash
Moto2 - Brno: An update from an incident-packed Moto2 race earlier - Mike di Meglio has been taken to hospital, while Sandro Cortese has reportedly broken his right arm. Last year's Moto3 champion was running in the top eight when he crashed heavily at Turn 1.
BTCC - Knockhill: Although Shedden is up to second, he hasn't managed to shake Austin yet and Turkington has pulled out a 2.4s lead after five laps.
BTCC - Knockhill: Austin has a huge lock-up into the hairpin as he fends off Shedden. But he can't resist the champion on the next lap and loses second.
Crash
BTCC - Knockhill: Matt Neal takes a look at Jason Plato for fourth at Clark and clouts the MG sideways and into the gravel, but it emerges still in front.
BTCC - Knockhill: Turkington attacks Austin down the inside at the hairpin on lap two as Gordon Shedden tries the outside and makes it three-abreast.
Turkington grabs the lead, Shedden has to settle back into third.
Turkington grabs the lead, Shedden has to settle back into third.
BTCC - Knockhill: Austin and Colin Turkington move into clear first and second places through the plunging first corners, as the whole field makes it through without battering each other in any conspicuous manner.
Lights out
BTCC - Knockhill: The ample field is squeezing onto Knockhill's narrow straight reading for 24 no doubt wild laps.
MotoGP - Brno: We're 15 minutes away from the start of this year's Czech Grand Prix, where Cal Crutchlow will be bidding for his first victory, at the circuit which yielded his maiden MotoGP podium. He's made the ideal start as well, securing pole with a record lap.
Here's how the championship standings look heading into the weekend:
1 Marquez, 188 points
2 Pedrosa, 167
3 Lorenzo, 153
4 Rossi, 130
5 Crutchlow, 127
And here's the full report on Crutchlow's record-breaking qualifying run.
Here's how the championship standings look heading into the weekend:
1 Marquez, 188 points
2 Pedrosa, 167
3 Lorenzo, 153
4 Rossi, 130
5 Crutchlow, 127
And here's the full report on Crutchlow's record-breaking qualifying run.
BTCC - Knockhill: There's an Audi on the back row as well as the front. Austin's team-mate Will Bratt twice failed the ride height test so is 25th.
Mildly interesting fact - both RAR drivers are among the handful in the current BTCC with a single-seater background.
Austin was a British Formula 3 race-winner in the early 2000s, when his rivals including Nelson Piquet Jr, Jamie Green and Alan van der Merwe, and Bratt was champion in the Italian-based Euro F3000 series in 2008 and then won in Formula 2 as well.
Mildly interesting fact - both RAR drivers are among the handful in the current BTCC with a single-seater background.
Austin was a British Formula 3 race-winner in the early 2000s, when his rivals including Nelson Piquet Jr, Jamie Green and Alan van der Merwe, and Bratt was champion in the Italian-based Euro F3000 series in 2008 and then won in Formula 2 as well.
Rob Austin
BTCC - Knockhill: From Germany to Scotland, with Rob Austin on his first pole (bar reversed grids) in his team's Audi.
It's also the first BTCC pole for an Audi since Frank Biela at this very same track in 1997.
Austin is maximising his chances by choosing the soft tyres for this race. Most of those behind are on the harder rubber.
Here's the full story of qualifying and the complete grid line-up.
Breaking news
WRC - Germany: That was fun wasn't it?
Imagine if the FIA changes the running order rules... we could have that sort of showdown to every gravel round next year, like it used to be...
Anyway here's the full story of this remarkable WRC weekend:
Rally Germany full report
Imagine if the FIA changes the running order rules... we could have that sort of showdown to every gravel round next year, like it used to be...
Anyway here's the full story of this remarkable WRC weekend:
Rally Germany full report
Trophy
WRC Germany: Robert Kubica clinches his third WRC2 victory in four rallies and moves into the championship lead in the process.
Crash
WRC - Germany: Neuville did indeed go off the road on that final stage, losing nearly a minute. Even before then, he was set to fall slightly short.
Trophy
WRC - Germany: Sordo takes the rally win!
WRC - Germany: Neuville completes the stage with evidence of a trip off the road...
WRC - Germany: Equal's no good for Neuville though, he needs to outpace Sordo by 3s over these last few kilometres.
WRC - Germany: The leaders are absolutely equal at the final split...
WRC - Germany: Split three is in and Sordo is one second slower than Neuville... It's wide open again!
WRC - Germany: Neuville hits back hard, now Sordo is only 0.1s faster at split two. But he does have a 3.0s gap to recover.
Checkered flag
Kallio
Moto2 - Brno: And Kallio claims his maiden Moto2 victory after pulling out a sizeable gap in the final sector. Nakagami did well to fend off Luthi in the end.
Zarco looked certain to have fourth, but Espargaro took his race-long position back two turns before the finish.
Results: 1 Kallio; 2 Nakagami; 3 Luthi; 4 Espargaro; 5 Zarco; 6 Terol.
And even though Redding finished a commendable eighth, he still leads the championship as Moto2 heads to Silverstone next weekend.
WRC - Germany: This could be settled in Sordo's favour as he comes through the first split 2.6s quicker than Neuville.
Moto2 - Brno: Final lap and Kallio is managing to hold off Nakagami. Both riders are going for their maiden Moto2 win today.
Crash
Moto2 - Brno: Cortese has a massive crash at Turn 1. Fortunately the reigning Moto3 champion gets up under his own steam. He had been running in the top eight before that moment.
WRC - Germany: Ogier's time is 15m37.9s. Not expecting anyone to threaten that until the top two arrive.
Moto 2 - Brno: And Kallio is now back in the lead as Nakagami also demotes Luthi to take second place.
WRC - Germany: Ogier completes the stage and the rally.
He very much wants to salvage the powerstage points from this weekend.
"Not too bad, I hope I can get points with that. But Dani and Thierry will be at maximum attack as well," he says.
He very much wants to salvage the powerstage points from this weekend.
"Not too bad, I hope I can get points with that. But Dani and Thierry will be at maximum attack as well," he says.
WRC - Germany: Third-placed Hirvonen is onto the stage. Neuville and Sordo will start next.
Moto 2 - Brno: Title challenger Espargaro is doing a great job of fending off Zarco, while Luthi has found a way past Kallio to take the lead with five laps to go.
Moto 2 - Brno: One to keep an eye on at this stage is Zarco who is the quickest man at the moment with two successive times in the 2m02.800s region. He is running in fifth position.
Moto 2 - Brno: Kallio looks about as comfortable as he is going to be at the front of the field. He is currently 0.258s ahead of Luthi.
Nakagami is third at the moment, ahead of Terol and Espargaro.
Nakagami is third at the moment, ahead of Terol and Espargaro.
Lights out
WRC - Germany: Ogier is onto the stage. We're expecting Neuville and Sordo to be eighth and ninth in the start order.
Moto 2 - Brno: Fourth place Nakagami looks to be making a comeback as he picks up the pace...
...and having just said that, he's just gone on the inside of Terol to take third.
...and having just said that, he's just gone on the inside of Terol to take third.
Moto 2 - Brno: Lap 10 of 20 and Kallio has decided he wants to now lead the race. Terol has Luthi up his exhaust pipe in second place.
The order at the moment: 1 Kallio; 2 Terol; 3 Luthi; 4 Nakagami; 5 Espargaro; 6 Redding.
The order at the moment: 1 Kallio; 2 Terol; 3 Luthi; 4 Nakagami; 5 Espargaro; 6 Redding.
Moto 2 - Brno: A teeth-sucking moment as Espargaro and Redding battle it out and almost collide.
Moto 2 - Brno: All change! Terol has picked off Nakagami and Kallio in quick succession to take the lead of the race!
By: Connell Sanders Jr, Matt Beer, Charles Bradley, Dan Cross, Sam Tremayne, Mark Glendenning
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