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Indy Lights - Baltimore: We're under yellow in the Lights race after newcomer Dalton Kellett crashed on the opening lap. Jack Hawksworth leads from the fast-starting Sage Karam.
Moto3 - Barcelona: The grandstands are starting to fill as the bikes are making their way to the dummy grid. It's an all-Spanish front row but points leader Maverick Vinales lines up fifth.
That concludes the second weekend of AUTOSPORT Race Centre Live. Thank you for joining us over what has been three brilliant days of motorsport.

Race Centre Live returns next weekend to cover Barcelona MotoGP, IndyCar and Indy Lights Milwaukee, DTM Lausitz, GP3 Valencia, NASCAR Michigan and European Rallycross Hell.

It all starts at 8.15am BST/7.15am GMT on Friday for GP3 and MotoGP practice.

See you then!
Jimmie Johnson

Jimmie Johnson


NASCAR – Pocono: Jimmie Johnson has extended his lead in the drivers' championship following a dominant win at Pocono.

Jimmie Johnson takes dominant win
NASCAR - Pocono - results: 1 Johnson; 2 Biffle; 3 Earnhardt; 4 Stewart; 5 Newman; 6 Kyle Busch; 7 Kurt Busch; 8 Hamlin; 9 Harvick; 10 Logano.
NASCAR – Pocono: Johnson wins after dominating all day. Biffle takes second, Earnhardt third.
NASCAR – Pocono: We're onto the last lap and Johnson is way ahead. It's a great fight for second between Biffle, Earnhardt and Stewart.
NASCAR – Pocono: You guessed it: Johnson leads away at the restart. Biffle jumps into second.
NASCAR – Pocono: With six laps to go the top five are:

1. Johnson
2. Earnhardt
3. Kyle Busch
4. Biffle
5. Newman

Looks like a four-lap dash to the flag then.
NASCAR – Pocono: No, is the answer as Blaney hits the wall again thanks to some help from Stenhouse. Keselowski pitted during the previous caution so is way back in the pack but has the fresher rubber.
NASCAR – Pocono: There's no touching Johnson at these restarts. Any chance we can go green to the end now?
NASCAR – Pocono: Another caution as AJ Allmendinger suffers broken suspension.
NASCAR – Pocono: Johnson leads the restart again but Earnhardt is hot on his heels.
NASCAR – Pocono: Blaney spins. Just a moment before Keselowski and Stewart did a replay of Monyota/Kenseth only both kept control.
NASCAR – Pocono: Three-wide at the restart, but it's Johnson who comes out ahead. 24 to go.
NASCAR – Pocono: Montoya and Kenseth touch and have a synchronised spin. Not much damage, and that's it for the fuel saving.
NASCAR – Pocono: Johnson out-drags Newman to lead. Now the fuel saving begins.
NASCAR – Pocono: With a two-tyre stop Johnson is first off pit road. Despite a four-tyre change Hamlin leaps five places into second. Most teams think they're about three laps short of having enough fuel to make it to the finish...
NASCAR – Pocono: There's a caution, but it came just after Newman pitted. This could spice things up (hopefully). Caution is for fluid leaking from Truex's car.
NASCAR – Pocono: We're into the final quarter of the race at Pocono. Johnson leads as he has almost all day. The off-sequence Newman is about 1.3s back in second. Montoya has just cracked the top 10. Should be just one more stop for all bar Newman, who will need a splash-and-dash or a caution.
NASCAR – Pocono: The third round of green-flag stops has played out. Newman, who's running a different strategy leads, but it's bad news for Kevin Harvick who's busted for speeding.
NASCAR – Pocono: It's the half-way point and Johnson leads by 1.1s from Newman, Earnhardt and Kenseth. Montoya is 11th.
NASCAR – Pocono: Johnson instantly passes Ryan Newman who didn't pit under that caution to regain his place out front.
Bayne wins in Iowa

Bayne wins in Iowa


NASCAR Nationwide – Iowa: The Nationwide race at Iowa Speedway has finally reached its conclusion, having been postponed from last night due to inclement weather and red-flagged on lap 164 when the heavens opened again.

The race was temporarily abandoned during a caution-flag period after Travis Pastrana clouted the high wall before ricocheting quite spectacularly into Max Papis.

Pastrana was taken to the medical centre where he checked out OK.

Trevor Bayne took the chequered flag ahead of Austin Dillon, his second Nationwide win and Ford's 200th in the series.

Results: 1 Trevor Bayne; 2 Austin Dillon; 3 Elliott Sadler; 4 Sam Hornish Jr.; 5 Kyle Larson; 6 Brian Scott; 7 Regan Smith; 8 Justin Allgaier; 9 Ryan Blaney; 10 Mike Bliss.
NASCAR – Pocono: Caution at Pocono. All the leaders are in for some fresh rubber and a top-up of fuel. Johnson's first off pit road.
NASCAR – Pocono: The second round of green-flag stops has taken place and no prizes for guessing who's leading. Yep, Jimmie Johnson is still way out in front.
NASCAR – Pocono: The first round of green-flag pitstops has taken place. Johnson continues to lead from Edwards, but the gap has been reduced to 3.3s.
BTCC - Oulton Park: Lea Wood has also confirmed it was a rear suspension failure that pitched his Vauxhall Vectra off in race three, handing Jack Sears Trophy honours to Liam Griffin.
BTCC - Oulton Park: A few unhappy people in the paddock after that crazy third race. Gordon Shedden blames Dave Newsham for hitting him, while Newsham is adamant he was alongside out of Old Hall and Sheds drove into him!
NASCAR – Pocono: We've just passed 1/10th distance and Johnson is miles ahead and starting to lap the backmarkers. This could be a long afternoon for the rest.
Better open up another tab on your internet browser: our sister F1 service is just about to begin its live coverage of the Canadian Grand Prix.
NASCAR – Pocono: He made a poor start but Johnson finally works his way around Edwards to lead.
NASCAR – Pocono: It's only lap one and one of the favoured runners hits trouble as Kasey Kahne slows and pits.
NASCAR – Pocono: The green flag drops at Pocono and the #99 Ford of Carl Edwards takes an early lead.
NASCAR - Pocono Drivers, start your engines! 43 V8s fire up at Pocono ahead of the NASCAR Sprint Cup race. Jimmie Johnson starts on pole after qualifying was washed out.

Johnson and Kurt Busch were fastest in practice yesterday.
BTCC - Oulton Park: A mad race, which included fire, contact and three different leaders finally comes to an end.

Andrew Jordan takes the win, from Colin Turkington. Adam Morgan holds off Matt Neal across the line.

Full report to follow.
Le Mans - Test Day: Correction: it was Dumbreck who was fastest in GTE Pro on a 3m58.806s.
BTCC - Oulton Park: A crazy race as Austin holds up the pack. Contact has already resulted in a fire for Plato and Shedden pitting with a puncture!
BTCC - Oulton Park: The reversed-grid race gets under way with Rob Austin bursting through from row two to lead.

By: Matt Beer, Mark Glendenning, Dan Cross, Sam Tremayne, Andrew van Leeuwen, Kevin Turner, Pablo Elizalde, Gary Watkins, Charles Bradley, Connell Sanders Jr, Peter Mills, Andrew van de Burgt

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