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BTCC - Oulton Park: The cars are heading out of the pits for the third and final BTCC race of the weekend.
The reversed-grid will look like this:
Jeff Smith, Welch, Austin, Morgan, Newsham, Jordan, Neal, Turkington, Shedden, Plato.
Most runners will be on the fragile soft tyre for this one, though Welch will be on the favoured harder rubber.
The reversed-grid will look like this:
Jeff Smith, Welch, Austin, Morgan, Newsham, Jordan, Neal, Turkington, Shedden, Plato.
Most runners will be on the fragile soft tyre for this one, though Welch will be on the favoured harder rubber.
Checkered flag
Le Mans - Test Day: The chequered flag falls and seconds later Duval crosses the line to complete a 3m22.583s lap, which puts him nearly three seconds clear at the top of the times. Di Grassi is second and Lotterer third in a one-two-three for Audi. Olivier Pla is fastest in LMP2 for OAK Racing and Frederic Makowiecki quickest in GTE Pro for Aston Martin. Jamie Campbell-Walter jumps to the top of the times in GTE Am right at the death.
WTCC - Moscow: Pepe Oriola, Marc Basseng and Nikolay Karamyshev have been penalised for false starting today’s first race at the Moscow Raceway.
Oriola falls from eighth to 17th as a result, while Stefano D'Aste claims a solitary point thanks to the reshuffle.
Oriola, Basseng, Karamyshev penalised.
Red flag
Le Mans - Test Day: Another stoppage - for an incident involving Dominik Kraihamer's Lotus LMP2 in the Porsche Curves - but not before Kristensen jumps to the top of the leaderboard on a 3m25.683s. Brundle is fastest for OAK Racing in P2, just 0.05 ahead of John Martin's G-Drive/Delta-ADR car.
Le Mans - Test Day: The times they are a-tumblin': Kristsensen, Sarrazin and Treluyer all go fastest with laps in the 3m29s, before Sarrazin dips into the 3m27s and Treluyer ends up on a 3m26.654s.
Breaking news
BTCC - Oulton Park: BTCC rookie Aaron Mason's Oulton weekend is over. It was engine failure that put the AmD Golf out of race two and he won't be out for the reversed-grid finale.
Le Mans - Test Day: Treluyer bangs in a 3m31.194s on his first flying lap after the stoppage. Then, Sarrazin goes second for Toyota on a 3m33.024s.
Checkered flag
Superstars - Slovakiaring: Berton takes a huge win for BMW! Leads home Thomas Biagi by 10 seconds.
1 Berton; 2 Biagi; 3 Morbidelli; 4 Ferrara; 5 Mugelli; 6 Bacci.
DNFs for Liuzzi and Giovanardi.
1 Berton; 2 Biagi; 3 Morbidelli; 4 Ferrara; 5 Mugelli; 6 Bacci.
DNFs for Liuzzi and Giovanardi.
Superstars - Slovakia: Berton back in the lead, as Fabrizio Giovanardi pulls his Porsche off the road. Looks like his weekend is done.
Green flag
Superstars - Slovakia: The safety car is back in pit-lane and we're racing again. Bacci leads, his Mercedes too strong for Berton's BMW on the re-start. 11 of the 25 minutes remaining.
Le Mans - Test Day: Fisichella has dumped the lead AF Corse Ferrari into the barriers on the exit of Mulsanne Corner after topping the GTE Pro times with a 4m03404s. Treluyer had just gone quickest overall on a 3m35.234s.
Yellow flag
Superstars - Slovakiaring: Bacci's lead didn't last long. Giovanni Berton is already in front.
Just in time too, as the safety car is deployed to tend to Liuzzi's burnt crisp.
Just in time too, as the safety car is deployed to tend to Liuzzi's burnt crisp.
Green flag
Superstars - Slovakiaring: Race two is a goer in Slovakia, and Andrea Bacci who leads the field through turn one.
And Liuzzi is already out of the race! His Mercedes is on fire and he has very hastily got out of there. Madness!
And Liuzzi is already out of the race! His Mercedes is on fire and he has very hastily got out of there. Madness!
Checkered flag
BTCC - Oulton Park: Plato completes a dominant win for MG, from Gordon Shedden's Honda and a closing Colin Turkington's BMW.
Superstars - Slovakiaring: Not far away from the start of race two here in Slovakia. With the top eight from race one reversed, here's how the grid looks...
1 Benedetti; 2 Bacci; 3 Trentin; 4 Mugelli; 5 Giovanardi; 6 Berton; 7 Biagi; 8 Luzzi; 9 Sini; 10 Ferrara; 11 Ascani; 12 Baccarelli; 13 Morbidelli; 14 Diabolik; 15 Geri.
There's going to be some passing, that's for sure.
1 Benedetti; 2 Bacci; 3 Trentin; 4 Mugelli; 5 Giovanardi; 6 Berton; 7 Biagi; 8 Luzzi; 9 Sini; 10 Ferrara; 11 Ascani; 12 Baccarelli; 13 Morbidelli; 14 Diabolik; 15 Geri.
There's going to be some passing, that's for sure.
Le Mans - Test Day: That racing line almost looks dry - Lapierre pops in a 3m37.698s, five seconds faster than Jani's previous best at the top of the timesheets.
Le Mans - Test Day: And now Jani jumps to the top of the times on a 3m42.987s in the best of the Rebellion Lolas. And Thiriet eclipses Conway in P2 for TDS Racing.
Le Mans - Test Day: The times are suddenly starting to fall. Kristensen, in the repaired Audi, goes three seconds faster than Fassler to get into the 3m43s.Then he does it again to end up on 3m43.051s. Davidson jumps to second for Toyota on a 3m44.088s. Conway goes quickest in P2 for G-Drive/Delta-ADR
Green flag
BTCC - Oulton Park: And we're under way again, with Plato holding his lead.
BTCC - Oulton Park: Plato had pulled 2.5 seconds over team-mate Sam Tordoff, struggling on the soft tyre, in two laps and will now have to do it again.
Yellow flag
BTCC - Oulton Park: The safety car is out with Jack Goff's Vauxhall Insignia stopped on the pit entry.
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Superstars - Slovakiaring: Speaking of Morbidelli, he's trying to stay positive after a disaster of a first race... sort of.
@MorbidelliG: Race 1 good news: I posted the third best ideal time. Race 1 bad news: my ideal lap was a whopping 2.4s behind Tonio Liuzzi's ideal lap!
@MorbidelliG: Race 1 good news: I posted the third best ideal time. Race 1 bad news: my ideal lap was a whopping 2.4s behind Tonio Liuzzi's ideal lap!
Le Mans -Test Day: Fassler finally eclipses Duval's morning time with a 3m46.044s. That's still 23s slower than last year's pole mark. Squint at the track, and you can even see the beginnings of a dry line emerging.
BTCC - Oulton Park: Race two is go and Plato leads as Colin Turkington storms from fifth to third in the RWD BMW.
Superstars - Slovakiaring: Audi Sport Italia has confirmed that Gianni Morbidelli will make the start of this afternoon's second race. His transmission failure in race one wasn't as serious as first thought.
BTCC - Oulton Park: The field heads out to form up for race two. Race one winner Jason Plato will now be starting with 45kg of success ballast.
Le Mans - Test Day: Audi has got the crashed #2 out as promised, Duval is driving. Straight back on the horse, as it were.
Le Mans - Test Day: Sorry, that should be safety cars - we have three of the blighters around this place. Turns out Tracy Krohn has crashed his Ferrari down at Mulsanne Corner.
Euro RX - Kouvala: Solberg commanded the final here in Finland, until steering failure halted his charge on the penultimate lap. American Tanner Foust took the win ahead of Timerzyanov and round three winner Hansen.
Le Mans - Test Day: Excitement! The safety car is out — just a bit of practice for the officials.
Le Mans - Test Day: Fassler and Jarvis have dipped under the 3:50 mark, but with the risk of sounding like Test Match Special, umbrellas are going up around the ground, sorry circuit. Looked like the sky was brightening up a while back, but it turned out your correspondent was just in a room with big windows.
Le Mans - Test Day: Blancpain McLaren racer Nico Verdonck is going to do his 10 laps aboard one of the ORECA-run Formula Le Mans prototypes this afternoon. The Belgian, FLM champion in 2009, had a sniff of a drive in one of AF Corse's GTE Am class Ferraris and wants to be ready to do the race should another opportunity come his way.
Le Mans - Test Day: Still raining, but only the odd spot now. Fassler has just done fastest time of this session on a 3m51.328s - that's five seconds slower than Duval's best from this morning.
Euro RX - Kouvala: Supercar drivers through to the final:
Semi-final 1: Timerzyanov, Hansen, Foust.
Semi-final 2: Solberg, Doran, Bakkerud.
Semi-final 1: Timerzyanov, Hansen, Foust.
Semi-final 2: Solberg, Doran, Bakkerud.
BTCC - Oulton Park: Jason Plato is now just three points behind Matt Neal in the BTCC standings after his dominant win in race one. Andrew Jordan is third, just 10 behind Neal.
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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