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USC - Road America: Our new leader is now Joan Barbosa in the #5 Action Express Corvette DP, with Ryan Dalziel second and Joel Miller third - all three having not stopped during this caution period.
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: The gap was 1.7s last lap, Allmendinger to Busch. What will Ambrose do about it?
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Huge dive from Ambrose to pass Busch for second place. MASSIVE move.
USC - Road America: Rojas finishes his mega stint and Scott Pruett is now behind the wheel of the #91 Ganassi Riley DP.
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Ambrose is lapping fractionally quicker than Allmendinger, but he's got to get past Busch to truly make inroads. How costly was that stall in the pits?
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Running order is now Allmendinger, Busch and Ambrose with 28 laps to go.
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: This is Allmendinger's big chance to grab a spot in the Chase. Busch passes Edwards for second.
Ambrose is up to third, taking full advantage when Harvick got together with Mears at Turn 1, and Busch's move on Edwards.
Ambrose is up to third, taking full advantage when Harvick got together with Mears at Turn 1, and Busch's move on Edwards.
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Allmendinger grabs the lead at Turn 1.
USC - Road America: Pla is visibly annoyed - he's stomping a bit - as he walks to the safety vehicle. Looks like Johannes van Overbeek won't be on his Christmas card list this year after the Extreme Speed driver hit Pla up the rear.
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Allmendinger grabs second and is right on Edwards' tail. Busch comes up to third.
Green flag
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: We're racing again, with Edwards leading Biffle.
Replays show Ambrose stalled during that splash-and-go stop.
Replays show Ambrose stalled during that splash-and-go stop.
Yellow flag
USC - Road America: Fifth caution of the day as Olivier Pla crashes out at Turn 3.
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: The leaders all pit. Ambrose takes just a two-second splash of fuel, but it's Allmendinger who's out of the pits first ahead of McMurray. Edwards didn't pit, so he's the new leader.
USC - Road America: Jordan Taylor managed to find a way past Rojas at Turn 5 on the restart, while Jack Hawksworth came off at Turn 3.
Yellow flag
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: We're rolling again at The Glen.
Green flag
USC - America: We're back to green with just over 45 remaining. Rojas leads the field with Jordan Taylor and Richard Westbrook in hot pursuit.
USC - Road America: Congested pitlane as GTLM and GTD cars make their stops under this caution period. Kaffer and Cameron retain their class leads.
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: There will be 34 laps remaining when we get back under way. Johnson leads Earnhardt Jr, Allmendinger, Kahne, Hamlin and McMurray. However, their strategies have all been compromised by this stoppage, so seventh-placed Ambrose is in the best position at this stage, with Kurt Busch also in the frame for victory.
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Those famous powder-blue barriers are back together on the backstraight between Turn 5 and Turn 6, so we should be thinking about a restart here at The Glen soon. Drivers are walking back to their cars after a delay of over an hour.
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USC - Road America: Call it a hunch, but we don't think Junqueira is too happy after team-mate Ende was punted off early in the race...
"In the second lap, a slow amateur driver made a mistake and took @DuncanEnde out of the race @roadamerica"
"In the second lap, a slow amateur driver made a mistake and took @DuncanEnde out of the race @roadamerica"
USC - Road America: Lietz will have to serve a drive-through penalty in the not too distant future for an unsafe release from the pits. He currently sits third in GTLM.
USC - Road America: Replays show that Braun was trying to defend his position against David Ostella's #38 Performance Tech ORECA, before the latter made contact and sent Braun into the wall. The CORE autosport driver is limping his way back to the pits.
Yellow flag
USC - Road America: Fourth caution and this time because Colin Braun has gone off at Turn 12. He was third in the PC class before he took a trip across the gravel.
Red flag
Watkins Glen
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: If you're just joining us and are wondering what's going on at The Glen, the answer is right now not a lot except a huge barrier rebuild after a big crash involving Ryan Newman and Michael McDowell.
Both were unhurt, the barriers were not. The race is still under red flags.
USC - Road America: Rojas continues to lead, but only by a slender 0.301s over Jordan Taylor. Top drive by the Mexican so far, who is making his return to the series this weekend after a back injury he sustained at Mosport last month.
USC - Road America: The DeltaWing has returned this weekend following a massive rebuild to the unique prototype class entry. The car was forced out of last month's race at Mosport following a fire in practice, which destroyed the chassis.
Apparently only 10 per cent of the parts on the car at Mosport have been carried over to the new car, which Andy Meyrick is currently driving in seventh place overall and 11.274s off the lead.
Apparently only 10 per cent of the parts on the car at Mosport have been carried over to the new car, which Andy Meyrick is currently driving in seventh place overall and 11.274s off the lead.
USC - Road America: Risi Competizione carries momentum from its best outing of the season at Indianapolis, where former Formula 1 driver Giancarlo Fisichella and Kaffer drove the #62 Ferrari to a second-place result. Will they go one better today?
USC - Road America: Pierre Kaffer currently leads GTLM in the #62 Risi Ferrari 458, ahead of Dirk Muller's BMW and Richard Lietz's Porsche.
Valentino Rossi
MotoGP - Indianapolis: The Yamaha pair, who looked a bit knackered, didn't seem too distraught to be beaten by Marquez, having become rather accustomed to it.
Lorenzo was kicking himself for being bundled back a few places at the first corner, and then wished he'd been better under braking to help him regain ground faster.
That aside, though, he admitted he needed to be a couple of tenths faster to have a shot at Marquez.
Rossi said he'd expected Lorenzo and Marquez to leave him standing given their relative practice pace so was pleased to stay in the fight for as long as he did.
He pointed out that this might be his worst track of the year, as he hadn't even had a podium here since winning in 2008.
USC - Road America: Dane Cameron is the new GTD class leader after 26 laps, thanks in part to the #19 Muehlner Porsche of Leh Keen pitting for fuel, tyres and a driver change to Christian Szymczak.
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NASCAR - Watkins Glen: NASCAR's Robin Pemberton on safety at Watkins Glen: "All [accidents] get reviewed, it's a constant improvement process. We're only here one time a year, it's a multi-purpose venue, we've made great advancements here which have worked well for us. There's a priority list; it's an ongoing process."
USC - Road America: And Rojas has now taken the lead as we enter the final 90 minutes of this race. Jordan Taylor also followed him up the order as erstwhile leader Sharp has dropped to third.
MotoGP - Indianapolis: Needless to say, Marquez is miles ahead in the points, but the battle for second remains spicy as Rossi closes back in on Pedrosa.
Championship standings after 10 of 18 rounds:
1 Marc Marquez 250
2 Dani Pedrosa 161
3 Valentino Rossi 157
4 Jorge Lorenzo 117
5 Andrea Dovizioso 108
6 Pol Espargaro 78
7 Aleix Espargaro 77
8 Andrea Iannone 62
9 Bradley Smith 58
10 Stefan Bradl 56
(25 points for a win)
Complete 2014 MotoGP data on FORIX
Championship standings after 10 of 18 rounds:
1 Marc Marquez 250
2 Dani Pedrosa 161
3 Valentino Rossi 157
4 Jorge Lorenzo 117
5 Andrea Dovizioso 108
6 Pol Espargaro 78
7 Aleix Espargaro 77
8 Andrea Iannone 62
9 Bradley Smith 58
10 Stefan Bradl 56
(25 points for a win)
Complete 2014 MotoGP data on FORIX
USC - Road America: Sharp still leads on lap 25, while Jordan Taylor tried a move on Rojas at Turn 7 but the Mexican was having none of it!
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NASCAR - Watkins Glen:
Dale Jr's old-school view of safety at The Glen: "We've been running through guardrails here for 50 years. I don't know what else they could do."
Dale Jr's old-school view of safety at The Glen: "We've been running through guardrails here for 50 years. I don't know what else they could do."
Green flag
USC - Road America: We're off again and Memo Rojas is applying massive pressure to leader Sharp!
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NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Denny Hamlin, who is currently fifth, thinks the strategy of the top five cars is doomed thanks to this red flag: "All of us in the top five didn't need this strategy, we'll be fighting back for a top 10 finish later," he said.
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MotoGP - Indianapolis: Here's Marquez trying to make it sound like that was really difficult to win:
"The race was so hard, especially because the track temperature was very high compared to yesterday, and it was the most difficult in the beginning because I struggled a little bit with the front tyre.
"I chose to stay behind Valentino and work the tyre out. When I checked that the front was OK, I tried to push, but the rear was sliding a lot. And Lorenzo had very good pace so it was hard to get the gap."
"The race was so hard, especially because the track temperature was very high compared to yesterday, and it was the most difficult in the beginning because I struggled a little bit with the front tyre.
"I chose to stay behind Valentino and work the tyre out. When I checked that the front was OK, I tried to push, but the rear was sliding a lot. And Lorenzo had very good pace so it was hard to get the gap."
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: First pictures of the massive crash are coming in courtesy of LAT Photographic, and this one underlines what we meant about McDowell getting some air...
Watkins Glen NASCAR crash 2014
USC - Road America: PC field are next to pit. Sean Rayhall maintains his lead in the #25 8Star ORECA, ahead of David Ostella and Stephen Simpson.
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