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Misano MotoGP, Kubica's home rally, Oschersleben DTM

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BTCC - Rockingham: Tordoff shaves another second off his best, and is half a second clear of Smith.
BTCC - Rockingham: Apparent problems for Jason Plato's MG. Triple Eight busy working on the car. JP shrugs his shoulders.
FR3.5 - Hungaroring: It's almost time for the FR3.5 cars to leave the pits and head to the grid for race one. At the moment track conditions are a lot better than they were for qualifying this morning. It's still wet, but most of the standing water has cleared.
MotoGP - Misano: Lukas Pesek is down now, but marshals are on the scene quickly and do well to rescue the situation before the red flags are obliged to fly. Seven minutes to run, and we're then into qualifying.
BTCC - Rockingham: Rob Austin puts his Audi second fastest, just moments before Andrew Jordan pips him in his Eurotech Honda. Tordoff still has a tenth in hand.
BTCC - Rockingham: Jordan does an absolute best in the first sector but doesn't improve. Mat Jackson comes up to 5th in Motorbase Focus.
BTCC - Rockingham: No Dan Welch Proton so far. Team replacing a driveshaft we're told.
BTCC - Rockingham: Colin Turkington goes 3rd fastest in WSR BMW and is immediately dumped to 4th by team-mate Rob Collard. Matt Neal is currently 10th fastest.
BTCC - Rockingham: Matt Neal now up to 6th in works Honda. Plato back into the pits for more work on the MG.
MotoGP - Misano: Chequered flag, and Marquez completes a comprehensive clean sweep of practice.

It wasn't all good news for the Spaniard however after his Turn 13 fall, which means he will ride his second bike in qualifying - which is coming up in around 15 minutes.

Crutchlow, who will make his first appearance of the year in FP1, was seventh fastest overall.
BTCC - Rockingham: Neal back to the pits for adjustments as Adam Morgan moves up into the top six in his Toyota.
MotoGP - Misano - Free Practice 4:

1 Marquez; 2 Lorenzo; 3 Bautista; 4 Rossi; 5 Pedrosa; 6 Dovizioso; 7 Crutchlow; 8 Bradl; 9 Pirro; 10 Iannone.
ERC - Poland: The second loop of the day gets underway at 14:10 local time (13:10 BST) with a re-run of this morning's Talty and Baranowo stages, before the resort town of Mikolajki hosts a 2.5-kilometre test.

Bouffier currently leads the rally, ahead of home hero Robert Kubica who notched up his 17th stage win of the season with a sublime performance before the interval.

Don't count out Kajetanowicz just yet though, as the runaway leader in the Polish championship - and two-time Rally Poland winner - will be desperate to reclaim his second place this afternoon.

Bryan Bouffier opens early lead over Robert Kubica.
FR3.5 - Hungaroring: More weather updates from Hungary: with less than 10 minutes to go until the start of race one, a huge downpour has just started. So much for all of the standing water having cleared.
BTCC - Rockingham: Gordon Shedden goes 2nd fastest as he begins his usual free practice late-show in the Honda, 0.111s shy of Tordoff. Just under 12 minutes to go.
BTCC - Rockingham: Adam Morgan goes up to 3rd in Ciceley Racing Toyota. Top 16 covered by less than a second at the moment. Shedden shaves the gap to Tordoff down to less than a tenth.
BTCC - Rockingham: Morgan finally deposes Tordoff by 0.142s as Plato finally completes a flying lap sequence and goes 5th. Nine minutes to go.
FR3.5 - Hungaroring: Race control confirms that the race will start behind the safety car.
RallycrossRX - Austria: Alexander Hvaal set the fastest time in heat one at RallycrossRX at Greinbach. Anton Marklund was second fastest, with Liam Doran, Frode Holte, Peter Hedstrom and Timur Timerzyanov rounding out the top six.

Petter Solberg had a startline problem, which meant he got a slow getaway and gave his rivals a half-lap lead. Timmy Hansen meanwhile had a first lap spin but recovered to finish his race. Andreas Bakkerud also spun but was unable to restart his Citroen DS3.

Fastest in Super1600 was Reinis Nitiss while Irish driver Derek Tohill was quickest in TouringCar.
MotoGP - Misano: We're underway in Q1, and its Crutchlow who sets the early pace with a 1m35.104s. Michele Pirro sits second, four tenths down. Just the two spots available to progress into Q2, which means Bradley Smith, currently in ninth, could miss out.
ERC - Poland: Kopecky is first to post a time in this afternoon's first stage. He completes Talty in 4m02.1s. As a guide, Bouffier completed it in 4m01.9s this morning.
FR3.5 - Hungaroring: They're off. Sort of. As the field follows the safety car away, Carlos Sainz Jr and Carlos Huertas fail to get off the line. Sainz gets going eventually, but Huertas is rolled towards the pits.
BTCC - Rockingham: Mat Jackson leaps to 2nd fastest in his Motorbase Focus. Team-mate Aron Smith goes 10th. Three minutes to go and Jackson now on a quicker lap.
MotoGP - Misano: Pirro goes fastest now to leave Crutchlow on the bubble. His time is likely to be beyond all but Smith (famous last words). Edwards is 13th and best of the rest, three tenths down on Crutchlow.
ERC - Poland: Next through is Kosciuszko who is 3.1s slower than Kopecky.
MotoGP - Misano: Smith is six hundredths of a second away from denying Crutchlow a spot in Q2. He's got seven minutes to find that gap.
BTCC - Rockingham: Jeff Smith briefly tops the times before Mat Jackson puts him back to 2nd.
ERC - Poland: And here comes Bouffier with a time of 4m00.6s - 1.3s quicker than he went this morning.
BTCC - Rockingham: Tordoff re-asserts himself at the top of the times before Dave Newsham pumps in the first lap under 1m23s to nab the top spot.
MotoGP - Misano: Crutchlow goes top now with an identical lap to Pirro - he's top though courtesy of a faster second lap. Which means Smith has to find even more time if he's to demote the pair and win his own place in Q2.
ERC - Poland: Kubica's progress up the order has been somewhat delayed as he posts a time 7.5s slower than Bouffier and is now 19.8s behind the Frenchman overall.
MotoGP - Misano: Crutchlow into the pits, he's called time on this session. Over to Smith and Pirro. Behind them its Edwards, de Puniet, Aoyama and Barbera. Two minutes on the clock.
BTCC - Rockingham: Newsham does a second consecutive lap under 1m23s and remains fastest as the flag falls, followed by Sam Tordoff, Mat Jackson, Jeff Smith, Adam Morgan and Andrew Jordan.
MotoGP - Misano: Pirro sneaks into 11th at the death, but Crutchlow's place is safe as Smith's final flyer falls short.

The latter goes down on his final lap as he hunts the time, but is OK and able to walk away. He'll start tomorrow's race from 13th.
ERC - Poland: Breen beats his previous time through Talty by 5.7s as he completes the second pass in 4m09.3s.
MotoGP - Misano - Q1:

11 Pirro; 12 Crutchlow; 13 Smith; 14 Edwards; 15 Aoyama; 16 De Puniet; 17 Barbera; 18 Corti; 19 Petrucci; 20 Laverty; 21 Hernandez; 22 Abraham; 23 Staring; 24 Pesek.
FR3.5 - Hungaroring: After five laps behind the safety car we are finally underway here. Negrao and Muller fight over the lead into Turn 1, but the poleman gets the upper hand.
ERC - Poland: A cracking time by Martin Kangur who goes second quickest with 4m00.9s and, as a result, moves up two places overall to seventh, 5.2s behind Breen.
FR3.5 - Hungaroring: More drama for Antonio Felix da Costa. The Red Bull racer goes to the inside of Mikhail Aleshin at Turn 5, but he clips the Russian. Aleshin spins, while da Costa pulls over with front left suspension damage. He's out.
ERC - Poland: And here comes the time we've all been waiting for, as Kajetanowicz posts the fourth fastest time with 4m02.6s, demoting Kubica to third place overall.

By: Sam Tremayne, David Evans, Jamie O'Leary, Pablo Elizalde, Dan Cross, Glenn Freeman, Connell Sanders Jr, Ben Anderson, Matt Beer

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