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USC - Road America: All the Prototype runners pit, bar the #1 Extreme Speed HPD of Sharp, who pitted before the caution came out.
USC - Road America: GTLM leader at the moment is Tandy in the aptly numbered #911 Porsche 911. Farnbacher and Kuno Wittmer trail the Brit as the pits begin to open.
Red flag
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: We're back under the red flag again, but at least the damaged barrier has been taken away now, so the rebuilding process can begin.
Yellow flag
USC - Road America: Out come the yellows for a third time. This time due to Ben Barker in the #81 GB Porsche 911 going off at Turn 12 after running wide at the exit.
USC - Road America: We've managed to go the best part of 15 minutes without a caution period here at Road America. Ricky Taylor currently leads after Fittipaldi spun off. Seems as though the two came together at Turn 3...
Fittipaldi is down to third.
Fittipaldi is down to third.
Yellow flag
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: The cars were held at Turn 1, so this is a temporary yellow flag before we go red again when they get back to the start/finish line.
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Cars are moving again at The Glen, but we expect they're just being allowed to roll around to the pitlane, as there's a huge chunk of barrier that needs repairing still.
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Ryan Newman explained of that huge crash: "Biffle jumped the kerb, got across the grass, and I could have give him more room but I tried to time it so I could shoot past." He then went on to attack the track's safety standards, calling it "antiquated".
Michael McDowell added: "That’s a bad wreck. When I do it, they’re fairly big. I didn’t really have time [to react], I tried not to hit Ryan in the door there, but then I was just along for the ride. Glad to walk away from it.”
Michael McDowell added: "That’s a bad wreck. When I do it, they’re fairly big. I didn’t really have time [to react], I tried not to hit Ryan in the door there, but then I was just along for the ride. Glad to walk away from it.”
Trophy
MotoGP - Indianapolis: Marquez and Honda may have won everything this year, but that hasn't made them any less euphoric when it's podium time.
Green flag
USC - Road America: Green flag and Ricky Taylor is much closer to leader Fittipaldi this time around.
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Newman got into the back of Biffle, which sent him into the barriers on one side of the track. McDowell then collected Newman's spinning car and piled into the barrier on the other side of the track.
The Armco which McDowell flew into has been completely torn apart. Part of his car's suspension is impaled in the catch fencing.
He hit the wall just where the long version of the track rejoins the NASCAR layout. This is going to be a long repair job.
The Armco which McDowell flew into has been completely torn apart. Part of his car's suspension is impaled in the catch fencing.
He hit the wall just where the long version of the track rejoins the NASCAR layout. This is going to be a long repair job.
Checkered flag
MotoGP - Indianapolis - result:
1 Marquez
2 Lorenzo
3 Rossi
4 Pedrosa
5 P Espargaro
6 Smith
7 Dovizioso
8 Crutchlow
9 Redding
10 Aoyama
1 Marquez
2 Lorenzo
3 Rossi
4 Pedrosa
5 P Espargaro
6 Smith
7 Dovizioso
8 Crutchlow
9 Redding
10 Aoyama
Yellow flag
USC - Road America: Caution for debris in the centre of the track at Turn 13.
Checkered flag
MotoGP - Indianapolis: Marquez secures victory - 10 wins from 10 grands prix in 2014.
Red flag
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Newman and McDowell climb from their cars, which are both totalled. Both cars got some serious air during that crash.
Crash
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: A huge, huge shunt on the backstraight. Ryan Newman hits the wall, and gets collected by Michael McDowell.
USC - Road America: Franbacher leads GTLM in the #91 SRT Viper, ahead of Nick Tandy in the Porsche 911.
MotoGP - Indianapolis: Smith passes Dovizioso for sixth. That'll be as low as Dovi falls because next up is Ducati team-mate Crutchlow, and he's 18s behind scuffling with Redding still.
Green flag
USC - Road America: And we're back to racing. Fittipaldi maintains his lead at the front of the field ahead of Ricky Taylor and Scott Sharp.
Chris Cummin continues to lead the PC class, ahead of Luis Diaz and James French.
Chris Cummin continues to lead the PC class, ahead of Luis Diaz and James French.
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Ambrose gets passed by Kurt Busch, but the Aussie gets him back at the Bus Stop.
Green flag
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Green flag flies at the Glen, with Johnson leading Earnhardt, Kahne and Hamlin. Allmendinger runs fifth, with Ambrose eighth.
USC - Road America: Still under yellows at the moment as marshals attend to the tyre barriers that Ende smashed into. Edwards has just taken the opportunity to pit from second in GTD in his BMW and swaps places with Dirk Muller.
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NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Gordon's problem is an electrical failure in his car's wiring loom: Team boss Rick Hendrick says: "We can't find it, everything's dead. Some connection somewhere, we just don't know where it is."
MotoGP - Indianapolis: Crutchlow and Redding continue to swap places in eighth and ninth.
Up front, Marquez's lead is up to two seconds, and Rossi has fallen 3.1s behind Lorenzo with three laps to go.
Smith has got the gap to Dovizioso down to 1.2s in his pursuit of sixth.
Up front, Marquez's lead is up to two seconds, and Rossi has fallen 3.1s behind Lorenzo with three laps to go.
Smith has got the gap to Dovizioso down to 1.2s in his pursuit of sixth.
MotoGP - Indianapolis: The TV cameras missed the detail of the Bradl/Espargaro shunt, but Espargaro is now giving interviews and his description suggests Bradl was trying to get on the Forward Yamaha a few months early...
MotoGP - Indianapolis: Espargaro takes fifth from Dovizioso. Smith (and his mangled finger) will be next on the Ducati's tail, the current 3.2s gap is closing fast.
Camier has come back into the pits.
Slow lap from Redding there too, Crutchlow has repassed him.
Camier has come back into the pits.
Slow lap from Redding there too, Crutchlow has repassed him.
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: The leaders pit, but Johnson and Earnhardt stay out. That's a roll of the strategy dice. Ambrose just beats Kurt Busch out.
Gordon's car is being fixed behind the wall.
Gordon's car is being fixed behind the wall.
MotoGP - Indianapolis: Lorenzo is setting some of the best sector times of the race, but the margins over Marquez are pretty tiny. 10 out of 10 coming up in seven laps' time...
Further back, Dovizioso is dropping towards Pol Espargaro now.
Further back, Dovizioso is dropping towards Pol Espargaro now.
MotoGP - Indianapolis: Two Ducatis fading - Dovizioso has now lost touch with Pedrosa for fourth, and Crutchlow's lost eighth place to the flying Redding.
MotoGP - Indianapolis: Lorenzo is through on Rossi for second, but Marquez is now 1.9s clear.
Yellow flag
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Gordon's car, which is puttering along the start/finish straight, causes the day's second yellow.
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Gordon, who was second, is touring! "It just died," he says. "I've got no power." Disaster for the poleman and early leader.
MotoGP - Indianapolis: Coming up to 10 laps to go, it all looks like this...
Marquez has got his lead over the battling Yamahas up to 1.5s.
Pedrosa hasn't managed to shake off Dovizioso for fourth.
Tech 3 boys Espargaro and Smith are lonely in sixth and seventh, and Crutchlow has hassle from Redding for eighth.
Remaining runners after that are Aoyama, Abraham, di Meglio, Edwards, Laverty, Parkes and Camier.
Marquez has got his lead over the battling Yamahas up to 1.5s.
Pedrosa hasn't managed to shake off Dovizioso for fourth.
Tech 3 boys Espargaro and Smith are lonely in sixth and seventh, and Crutchlow has hassle from Redding for eighth.
Remaining runners after that are Aoyama, Abraham, di Meglio, Edwards, Laverty, Parkes and Camier.
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Allmendinger pits from fourth, he's gambling on some more yellows today, or he'll be making three stops.
USC - Road America: Ende's RSR ORECA has seen better days, but thankfully he managed to get out under his own steam after that crash. Huge disappointment for the him and co-driver Bruno Junqueira, who finished second last time out at Indianapolis and won at Road America last year.
MotoGP - Indianapolis: All these retirements mean only 16 bikes are still running, so Camier - who has rejoined after attention to a misfire - may yet sneak a point on his debut.
MotoGP - Indianapolis: Iannone has parked his Ducati high up the oval. Looks like a mechanical problem. He was holding off Smith for seventh.
MotoGP - Indianapolis: Lorenzo is putting Rossi under more pressure from second now, the two Yamahas very close indeed.
USC - Road America: The #56 RLL BMW of Edwards took a knock in that accident and lost part of its front left panel. Yellow flags are out in force at the moment while the track is being cleared of debris.
NASCAR - Watkins Glen: Halfway point of today's race at The Glen, and although he's complaining of a lack of rear grip, Ambrose leads Gordon by 3s. Gordon is also making similar comments, which could be connected to Keselowski, who has slipped down the order, saying he thinks he's losing fluid.
Kurt Busch is third, with Allmendinger all over him.
Kurt Busch is third, with Allmendinger all over him.
By: Matt Beer, AUTOSPORT staff, Charles Bradley, Dan Cross
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