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MotoGP - Le Mans: Has Iannone got anything left to overhaul Marquez for fourth?
MotoGP - Le Mans: Final lap: Lorenzo's arrowing in on victory.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Marquez hasn't got fourth won yet - Iannone is in touch, with Smith hanging on.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Lorenzo's lead is 2.5s now, with two and a half laps to go. It's all over bar the shouting.
Dovizioso is in a lonely third.
Dovizioso is in a lonely third.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Marquez gets past Iannone at Turn 6, Iannone drives past him on the straight, then runs wide.
Marquez, finally, takes fourth.
Marquez, finally, takes fourth.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Superb riding as it takes Iannone about a lap to get fourth back properly! Marquez tries to slip underneath him at the penultimate turn but Iannone cuts back underneath.
Then they do it again at the chicane! Marquez dives inside, runs wide, Iannone gets back ahead.
Then they do it again at the chicane! Marquez dives inside, runs wide, Iannone gets back ahead.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Wow! Smith dives down the inside of Iannone, but Marquez throws it down the inside of both of them!
Iannone's Ducati punches out of the chicane better than the others and he reclaims fourth, but Marquez has got ahead of Smith.
Iannone's Ducati punches out of the chicane better than the others and he reclaims fourth, but Marquez has got ahead of Smith.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Six laps to go and Lorenzo's comfortable out front, over two seconds clear of Rossi.
Iannone. Smith. Marquez. The battle for fourth will have to be enough in the closing stages.
Iannone. Smith. Marquez. The battle for fourth will have to be enough in the closing stages.
ELMS Imola: Jota has reason to be very pleased with Tincknell's stint so far. He has a lead of just under 19 seconds...well, had as the safety car has been deployed because of gravel on the track.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Smith needs to clear Iannone - Marquez is coming back at him.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Smith's caught Iannone. He's all over the Ducati.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Smith is definitely going to take fourth at this rate. He's taking chunks out of Iannone's advantage, whose tyres must be shot - with more than a third of the race to go.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Tell you what, the front three looks pretty set right now - although with 12 laps to go a lot could change.
Perhaps the real action is the battle for fourth. Iannone's dropped right off the three ahead of him and Smith, who has left Marquez in his dust, is closing in.
Perhaps the real action is the battle for fourth. Iannone's dropped right off the three ahead of him and Smith, who has left Marquez in his dust, is closing in.
ELMS Imola: The three favourites have now established themselves up front. Tincknell leads for Jota with Thiriet second in the TDS ORECA and Wirdheim third in the Silverstone-winning Greaves Gibson.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Jack Miller's crashed. There's nothing funny about motorcycle crashes - although when a rider's airbag goes off, the image is amusing (so long as the hunchback is unhurt).
MotoGP - Le Mans: The gap between the Yamahas is 1.7s. Rossi only took a fraction out of him that time round - there are 14 laps remaining, so let's see what The Doctor can do.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Oh, that's lovely. Rossi edges closer to Dovizioso through the final third of the lap and then sticks his Yamaha inside the Ducati ahead of him into the penultimate turn.
Smooth as you like. Now for Lorenzo...
Smooth as you like. Now for Lorenzo...
MotoGP - Le Mans: Lorenzo's making a break for it - Dovizioso has fallen back into Rossi's clutches.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Tidy move from Rossi, who lines up Iannone and gets ahead - easing his rival as wide as possible to make sure the move sticks.
Seventeen laps remaining, and Rossi's on the move. He's come alive on raceday.
Seventeen laps remaining, and Rossi's on the move. He's come alive on raceday.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Lorenzo's having to deal with a lot of pressure right now. Dovizioso is hounding the Yamaha right now.
Iannone and Rossi keeping a watching brief at present.
Iannone and Rossi keeping a watching brief at present.
ELMS Imola: Tincknell is now vanishing up front, almost 14 seconds clear after eight laps with the chasers queuing up behind 63-year-old Patterson's Murphy ORECA.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Four seconds separates the lead quartet and Smith, who will surely have Marquez all over him now the pressure of Crutchlow has been lifted from the Honda rider's shoulders.
Of that lead group, there's not really anything in it. Dovi is really close to Lorenzo.
Of that lead group, there's not really anything in it. Dovi is really close to Lorenzo.
Crash
MotoGP - Le Mans: Crutchlow's crashed! He's off at Turn 6!
He was right behind Marquez, a safe seventh, but that's any chance of a good result out of the window.
He was right behind Marquez, a safe seventh, but that's any chance of a good result out of the window.
MotoGP - Le Mans: The front four riders are well clear of the rest. Smith's fifth but got Marquez and Crutchlow for company.
ELMS Imola: With four laps in the books, Tincknell leads Patterson, while Roussel in the Pegasus Morgan has taken third from Wirdheim.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Smith has got past Marquez and Crutchlow nips ahead briefly as well.
The world champion ran off track, that's what dropped him down. He's a bit rattled in the early stages. Still 23 laps to go though.
The world champion ran off track, that's what dropped him down. He's a bit rattled in the early stages. Still 23 laps to go though.
Crash
MotoGP - Le Mans: Scott Redding's the latest to crash. A pretty big shunt at Turn 6.
Stopwatch
MotoGP - Le Mans: Rossi's on the move, a 1m32.879s breaks Lorenzo's lap record pretty quickly.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Rossi's smelling blood and dives past Marquez - then hangs him out to dry!
Life in the old dog, etc.
Life in the old dog, etc.
Stopwatch
MotoGP - Le Mans: So, Lorenzo's making the early running - a new lap record! Swift.
Then it's Dovi, Iannone, Marquez, Rossi, Smith, Crutchlow.
Aleix Espargaro in the pits.
Then it's Dovi, Iannone, Marquez, Rossi, Smith, Crutchlow.
Aleix Espargaro in the pits.
Lights out
ELMS Imola: The race has now got underway properly, with Tincknell holding the lead in the Jota Sport Gibson ahead of Patterson in the Murphy ORECA. Wirdheim is third in the Greaves Gibson.
Crash
MotoGP - Le Mans: Another crash, Bradl this time. A very busy opening two laps.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Pedrosa was up to seventh and has gone down at the chicane. He's got a push and is back on the bike.
He just dropped it all on his own.
He just dropped it all on his own.
Crash
MotoGP - Le Mans: Pedrosa's crashed!
MotoGP - Le Mans: Marquez got shuffled back to fourth in all that, with Rossi already up to fifth.
Iannone's up to third, and Crutchlow's slipped back to eighth.
Iannone's up to third, and Crutchlow's slipped back to eighth.
Lights out
MotoGP - Le Mans: Lights out and away we go! Dovizioso storms into the lead in the Ducati, Marquez throws it back up the inside at the chicane but is way too deep and drops back again.
Drama from the off! And Jorge Lorenzo leads!
Drama from the off! And Jorge Lorenzo leads!
MotoGP - Le Mans: And we're back. Marquez gets himself ready...
ELMS Imola: The warm-up lap for the four-hour race is underway, and already there's a car in trouble. Yamagishi in the #44 Ibanez Racing ORECA has ground to a halt. As a result, an extra formation lap has been added while they clear the track.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Right, almost there now. The green-flag lap is under way!
WorldRX - Belgium: Johan Kristoffersson topped the World Rallycross Championship's classification after the heats at Mettet in Belgium, overcoming an overnight advantage for Petter Solberg and Mattias Ekstrom.
Read HAL RIDGE's update here:
Kristoffersson leads in Belgium
Read HAL RIDGE's update here:
Kristoffersson leads in Belgium
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