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Moto3 - Austin: Vazquez fights back and retakes second from Fenati. Two laps left, they're both right behind Miller and Marquez is in the hunt too.
Moto3 - Austin: Fenati is now all over the back of Miller for the race lead. Could Valentino Rossi's team win only its second race?
Moto3 - Austin: Fenati became Italy's new hope when he won only his second race at world championship level at a wet Jerez two years ago. He's had a very, very lean time since then, but is firmly back in business now...
Fenati goes side by side with Vazquez and Marquez and outbrakes them both down the outside!
Fenati goes side by side with Vazquez and Marquez and outbrakes them both down the outside!
Green flag
WTCC - Marrakech: Poleman Coronel and Bennani make contact. Coronel crashes heavily and Yvan Muller's Citroen is also out with damage,
Moto3 - Austin: With five laps to go, Fenati has joined the lead tussle for Rossi's new VR46 team. He's fourth and all over the back of Marquez, who's just lost out to Vazquez yet again.
Moto3 - Austin: Marquez and Vazquez are side by side for second once again through the dramatic downhill sweepers after Turn 3. It's Mazquez who reaches the bottom of the hill in front.
Moto3 - Austin: Rins is now down to sixth after being passed by Kornfeil. But that should be as low as the pre-season title favourite drops as he has an 11s gap back to Alexis Masbou in seventh.
Lopez
Here's the full story of how Lopez led Loeb and Muller home for a Citroen 1-2-3 on their WTCC debut:
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Moto3 - Austin: ...but now Mazquez takes second back again, though only briefly before Vazquez outbrakes him once more.
You'd expect the pair to be dropping off Miller's tail when fighting this hard, but they're still right with him.
You'd expect the pair to be dropping off Miller's tail when fighting this hard, but they're still right with him.
WTCC - Marrakech: The start for race two has been delayed.
Moto3 - Austin: Miller's chasing Spaniards swap places again as Vazquez once again reclaims second from Marquez. Just over six laps left.
WTCC - Marrakech: We are likely to have three non-starters for race two. James Thompson is reported to have encountered a braking issue, and the team is said to prefer to play safe and not send him out.
Lada team-mate Rob Huff has a turbo-related issue, and Norbert Michelisz is ruled out by a steering-pump problem on his Zengo Honda.
Lada team-mate Rob Huff has a turbo-related issue, and Norbert Michelisz is ruled out by a steering-pump problem on his Zengo Honda.
Moto3 - Austin: Rossi's man Fenati is now past Rins for fourth and starting to creep closer to the leaders.
Crash
Moto3 - Austin: Niccolo Antonelli, who had started fifth for Gresini, has also crashed out.
Moto3 - Austin: Marquez drafts past Vazquez again to retake second, and this time nearly gets Miller for the lead as well.
Moto3 - Austin: Brad Binder brings his Mahindra slowly into the pits. He had qualified 10th despite a big crash at the end of qualifying yesterday.
Moto3 - Austin: Vazquez reclaims second place from Marquez. Is this going to let Miller escape? Not so far...
WTCC - Marrakech: Neither Lada racer James Thompson nor Zengo driver Norbert Michelisz appear likely to take the race 2 start from their grid positions. Both men's cars remain in the pits.
Crash
Moto3 - Austin: Isaac Vinales (younger cousin of last year's champion Maverick) has crashed while running seventh. He's OK.
Moto3 - Austin: Marquez drafts the two leaders and slips between them into second place.
Moto3 - Austin: Rins was initially coming with team-mate Marquez in pursuit of the top two, but now he's having to concentrate more on Fenati and Kornfeil behind him.
Moto3 - Austin: With 13 laps left, Marquez is right with Miller and Vazquez up front.
Moto3 - Austin: Starting lap five, Vazquez takes a big look at Miller into Turn 1 but is rebuffed.
Crash
Moto3 - Austin: Replays show a scary fall for young Malaysian Hafiq Azmi, who came very close to being clipped by several other riders as he crashed. Everyone missed him and he's been able to rejoin.
Moto3 - Austin: Alex (younger brother of Marc) Marquez has made it to the head of the second group in third, and he's managing to break away from Monlau team-mate Rins a little.
Marquez looked like he was on course for his maiden win last time out at Losail, only for a slight slip on the last lap to let Miller take it instead.
Marquez looked like he was on course for his maiden win last time out at Losail, only for a slight slip on the last lap to let Miller take it instead.
Moto3 - Austin: At the end of lap one, Miller is 0.2s ahead of Vazquez and then there's a big (1.7s) gap back to the next pack, led by Kornfeil, Marquez, Rins and Vinales.
Crash
Moto3 - Austin: Andrea Locatelli and Arthur Sissis got tangled up in the midfield at Turn 1. Both are OK.
Lights out
Moto3 - Austin: Vazquez gets the better start and draws alongside Miller, but the Australian brakes later around the outside and takes the lead back.
Moto3 - Austin: Valentino Rossi heads to the pitwall to watch the start.
The top MotoGP men always keep a close eye on the feeder series, but Rossi has more reason to do so than anyone else now he's a team owner.
His Sky-backed VR46 bikes start eighth and 14th with Romano Fenati and Francesco Bagnaia.
The top MotoGP men always keep a close eye on the feeder series, but Rossi has more reason to do so than anyone else now he's a team owner.
His Sky-backed VR46 bikes start eighth and 14th with Romano Fenati and Francesco Bagnaia.
Moto3 - Austin: Some forecasts had suggested we'd get storms today, but it's now looking like the rain will miss the Circuit of the Americas.
WTCC - Marrakech: Result: 1 Lopez; 2 Loeb; 3 Muller; 4 Chilton; 5 Borkovic; 6 Monteiro.
Checkered flag
WTCC - Marrakech: Lopez wins. The Argentinean former TC2000 champion led a Citroen one-two-three on the debut of the C-Elysee model.
The Moroccan crowd gave the biggest cheer to Mehdi Bennani for moving ahead of Norbert Michelisz into seventh on the penultimate lap.
Tom Chilton was top non-Citroen in fourth.
The Moroccan crowd gave the biggest cheer to Mehdi Bennani for moving ahead of Norbert Michelisz into seventh on the penultimate lap.
Tom Chilton was top non-Citroen in fourth.
Austin Moto3 starting grid:
1 Jack Miller
2 Efren Vazquez
3 Alex Rins
4 Alex Marquez
5 Niccolo Antontelli
6 Jakub Kornfeil
7 Alexis Masbou
8 Romano Fenati
9 Isaac Vinales
10 Brad Binder
1 Jack Miller
2 Efren Vazquez
3 Alex Rins
4 Alex Marquez
5 Niccolo Antontelli
6 Jakub Kornfeil
7 Alexis Masbou
8 Romano Fenati
9 Isaac Vinales
10 Brad Binder
Moto3 - Austin: Twenty minutes to go until the first of today's Grand Prix of the Americas races - it's nearly Moto3 time and there's so far no sign of the rain that has been predicted for today.
Jack Miller has followed up his maiden category win in Qatar last month with a maiden pole in Texas.
Jack Miller has followed up his maiden category win in Qatar last month with a maiden pole in Texas.
WTCC - Marrakech: Lada new recruit Rob Huff has pitted. Up front it is a formation showing by Citroen. The three C-Elysee cars are nine seconds clear of fourth-placed Tom Chilton.
WTCC - Marrakech: The closest fight on track was for fifth between Tiago Monteiro's Honda and and Dusan Borkovic. Monteiro was punted out of position at the final corner on lap four, and has lost his rear bumper.
WTCC - Marrakech: Rene Munnich was creeping and then paused at the start. The German, who qualified sixth, has dropped to last.
Green flag
WTCC - Marrakech: Polesitter Jose Maria Lopez has made a clean start. Team-mate Sebastien Loeb assumes second from the front row.
Third-place starter Tom Chilton was passed immediately by the third Citroen of Yvan Muller.
Third-place starter Tom Chilton was passed immediately by the third Citroen of Yvan Muller.
MotoGP - Austin: The top 10 in this morning’s warm-up:
1 Marquez 2m03.490s; 2 Pedrosa +0.303s; 3 Lorenzo +0.755s; 4 Smith +0.778s; 5 Rossi +0.927s; 6 P. Espargaro +0.931s; 7 Dovizioso +0.967s; 8 Crutchlow +1.127s; 9 Iannone +1.144s; 10 Bradl +1.181s.
1 Marquez 2m03.490s; 2 Pedrosa +0.303s; 3 Lorenzo +0.755s; 4 Smith +0.778s; 5 Rossi +0.927s; 6 P. Espargaro +0.931s; 7 Dovizioso +0.967s; 8 Crutchlow +1.127s; 9 Iannone +1.144s; 10 Bradl +1.181s.
MotoGP - Austin: The warm-up session has just finished at Austin and Marc Marquez led the way once again - 0.3 seconds ahead of Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo.
Many of the riders practised swapping bikes in preparation for the possibility of rain later and a certain reigning champion stalled his second machine when he tried to pull away.
Perhaps he isn't invincible after all...
Many of the riders practised swapping bikes in preparation for the possibility of rain later and a certain reigning champion stalled his second machine when he tried to pull away.
Perhaps he isn't invincible after all...
By: Matt Beer, Peter Mills, Dan Cross, Charles Bradley, Mark Glendenning
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