Misano MotoGP, Kubica's home rally, Oschersleben DTM
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BTCC - Rockingham: Tyre swapping to start with for the front wheel drive runners.
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BTCC - Rockingham: Colin Turkington lays down an early marker with a 1m23.092s pole lap in his WSR BMW, Audis of Rob Austin and Will Bratt are 2nd and 3rd.
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BTCC - Rockingham: Sam Tordoff's MG knocks Turkington down to 2nd with a 1m22.660s lap.
BTCC - Rockingham: Andrew Jordan goes 2nd fastest, just 0.013s slower than Tordoff.
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BTCC - Rockingham: Rob Austin's Audi snatches pole with a 1m22.588s best.
BTCC - Rockingham: Knockhill poleman Rob Austin leads the way after the initial jousts for pole, from Tordoff, Jordan, Plato, Jeff Smith, Shedden, Turkington, Collard, Neal and Mat Jackson.
ELMS - Hungaroring: Just as Oliver Turvey shapes up to pass Jonathan Hirschi for second, his #38 Jota Zytek suffers a left rear puncture heading into the final corner.
Having just missed the pit entry, Turvey now has to do a whole lap before he can get back to the pits. Hirschi, now unchallenged in second, is 1m11s behind race leader Pierre Ragues.
Having just missed the pit entry, Turvey now has to do a whole lap before he can get back to the pits. Hirschi, now unchallenged in second, is 1m11s behind race leader Pierre Ragues.
BTCC - Rockingham: Practice pacesetter Dave Newsham breaks into the top 10 with a 1m22.934s lap to go seventh.
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BTCC - Rockingham: Sam Tordoff jumps onto provisional pole with a time just 0.031s quicker than Austin.
Liam Doran sits on top of the order after two heats at the eighth round of the FIA European Rallycross in Austria.
Full report here.
Red flag
BTCC - Rockingham: Session stopped with just over nine minutes to go. Frank Wrathall stopped at Chapman Curve.
BTCC - Rockingham: Tordoff currently leads the way in the fight for pole, from Austin, Jordan, Plato, Jeff Smith, Shedden, Newsham, Turkington, Collard and Mat Jackson.
Green flag
BTCC - Rockingham: Session back underway. Just a few minutes left for someone to deny Sam Tordoff his second BTCC pole position...
ELMS - Hungaroring: We're past 1/3 distance, and Ragues leads by more than 1m20s from Hirschi. Turvey is setting fastest laps as he recovers from his puncture, and he is 20s adrift of second place for Jota.
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BTCC - Rockingham: Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Jason Plato leaps onto provisional pole with a time 0.2s quicker than team-mate Tordoff.
ELMS - Hungaroring: Ragues had a slow start to his second stint after taking slick tyres, but they have finally come alive and he has just taken the fastest lap from intermediate-shod Turvey. But the Jota car is also lighting up the timing screen, showing how marginal tyre selection is right now as the track dries so slowly.
Checkered flag
BTCC - Rockingham: No one else is able to take the fight to MG in the dying minutes, so Plato leads a Triple Eight one-two from Tordoff to prove Ian Harrison's predictions wrong. Austin, Jordan, Shedden and Jeff Smith round out the top six.
ELMS - Hungaroring: Turvey has finally taken the second place he was lining up a move for before his puncture struck earlier on. He's got ahead of Hirschi, and is now 1m26s behind race leader Ragues.
ELMS - Hungaroring: Half distance up now, and Ragues is doing more than enough to keep Signatech's lead over the Turvey/Jota combination at well over a minute.
There's been some action in GTE - class leader Jean-Karl Vernay has just been given a one-minute stop/go penalty for overtaking under yellow flags, and Johnny Mowlem's #52 Ferrari makes an unscheduled stop with a missing wing mirror. This will all play into the hands of Nick Tandy in the #77 Porsche, which is now second as we await Vernay's penalty.
There's been some action in GTE - class leader Jean-Karl Vernay has just been given a one-minute stop/go penalty for overtaking under yellow flags, and Johnny Mowlem's #52 Ferrari makes an unscheduled stop with a missing wing mirror. This will all play into the hands of Nick Tandy in the #77 Porsche, which is now second as we await Vernay's penalty.
ERC - Poland: The last stage of the day gets going at 18:06 local time (17:06 BST).
Kubica was quickest through Mragowo this morning, but current rally leader Bouffier has vowed to keep pushing in an effort to extend his 17.2s advantage.
“It feels good to be in this position, but I will continue to keep fighting because the gap is very small to the drivers behind," said the Frenchman during the brief interval.
Kubica was quickest through Mragowo this morning, but current rally leader Bouffier has vowed to keep pushing in an effort to extend his 17.2s advantage.
“It feels good to be in this position, but I will continue to keep fighting because the gap is very small to the drivers behind," said the Frenchman during the brief interval.
ELMS - Hungaroring: Just one of the three hours remain here in Hungary. Nelson Panciatici is now at the wheel of the leading Signatech car, with Brendon Hartley giving chase for Murphy Prototypes. Hartley is the quicker of the two, but he has had to chip away at a gap of nearly 1m30s since the most recent pitstops.
In the GT ranks, Emmanuel Collard is hunting down the class-leading #77 Porsche, which Nick Tandy has handed to Klaus Bachler for the final stint. The top two are covered by 22s, with Johnny Mowlem 50s behind Bachler in third.
In the GT ranks, Emmanuel Collard is hunting down the class-leading #77 Porsche, which Nick Tandy has handed to Klaus Bachler for the final stint. The top two are covered by 22s, with Johnny Mowlem 50s behind Bachler in third.
ERC - Poland: Kopecky sets off for 25.1 kilometres of mud-filled mayhem.
ERC - Poland: Tricky conditions this late in the day, not just on the surface but in the sky, as sunset is but 50 minutes away.
ERC - Poland: Kopecky is the the first car home with a time of 16m42.8s and describes the stage as "horrible, much worse than the first pass."
ERC - Poland: Kosciuscko loses 13.7s to the current championship leader. Bouffier is next to complete the stage and sets an incredible time of 16m13.3s!
ELMS - Hungaroring: Hartley now has Panciatici's lead down to under a minute, with 35 mins left on the clock. A sprinkling of light rain is threatening to mix things up as well, so the Signatech Alpine squad cannot relax just yet.
Crash
ERC - Poland: Drama as Kubica is trying to nurse his car to the finish minus its front right wheel.
ERC - Poland: Incredible scenes as the Poleman ploughs his way through the mud in an effort to retain second position overall.
ERC - Poland: Agonisingly, he completes the stage having lost the best part of three and a half minutes.
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ERC - Poland: "A big stone in the cut," says a despondent Kubica. "It was in a fifth-gear corner and we hit a stone. We see what we can do."
He's dropped well down the order as a result and is 3m42.8s behind Bouffier overall.
He's dropped well down the order as a result and is 3m42.8s behind Bouffier overall.
ERC - Poland: Kajetanowicz posts the quickest time of the stage with a 16m07.6s and has eaten into Bouffier's overall lead by a couple of seconds.
Solowow, who was third quickest on the stage, is also third overall thanks to Kubica's earlier mishap.
Solowow, who was third quickest on the stage, is also third overall thanks to Kubica's earlier mishap.
ERC - Poland - SS7 results:
Stage: 1 Kajetanowicz; 2 Bouffier +5.7s; 3 Solowow +16.5s; 4 Kopecky +35.2s; 5 Holowczyc +47.3s.
Overall: 1 Bouffier; 2 Kajetanowicz +16.8s; 3 Solowow +1m05.9s; 4 Kopecky +1m11.0s; 5 Holowczyc +1m46.9s.
Stage: 1 Kajetanowicz; 2 Bouffier +5.7s; 3 Solowow +16.5s; 4 Kopecky +35.2s; 5 Holowczyc +47.3s.
Overall: 1 Bouffier; 2 Kajetanowicz +16.8s; 3 Solowow +1m05.9s; 4 Kopecky +1m11.0s; 5 Holowczyc +1m46.9s.
ELMS - Hungaroring: Panciatici has made his third and final stop, putting Hartley (who stopped around 20 minutes earlier) back on the lead lap. There are only 15 minutes to go, so the Signatech driver just needs to bring it home from here.
Checkered flag
ELMS - Hungaroring: Nelson Panciatici and Pierre Ragues take LMP2 honours for Signatech Alpine, ahead of Brendon Hartley and Jonathan Hirschi's Murphy Prototypes car.
Simon Dolan and Oliver Turvey complete the podium, while GTE honours go to the #77 Proton Competition entry of Christian Ried, Klaus Bachler and Nick Tandy.
Simon Dolan and Oliver Turvey complete the podium, while GTE honours go to the #77 Proton Competition entry of Christian Ried, Klaus Bachler and Nick Tandy.
Breaking news
DTM - Oschersleben: Breaking news: Bruno Spengler has been stripped of pole position for tomorrow's race.
Race stewards say that in Q3 he used one slick that was allocated to his car for Q4, breaking Article 25 of the sporting regulations.
He drops to sixth, the penalty promoting Jamie Green to pole.
Race stewards say that in Q3 he used one slick that was allocated to his car for Q4, breaking Article 25 of the sporting regulations.
He drops to sixth, the penalty promoting Jamie Green to pole.
DTM - Oschersleben: Here's more details on polesitter Bruno Spengler's 5-place grid penalty for tomorrow's race, plus a revised grid.
DTM - Oschersleben: And while AUTOSPORT was pounding the paddock, Brit Emil Bernstorff won the second German F3 race of the day.
With Lotus team-mate Artem Markelov crashing at Turn 2 - again - just six points separate them in the battle for second in the championship.
With Lotus team-mate Artem Markelov crashing at Turn 2 - again - just six points separate them in the battle for second in the championship.
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