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Marco Wittmann
DTM - Hockenheim: Victory at Hockenheim, pole at Oschersleben, and now pole at the Hungaroring too - it's turning into a great 2014 for BMW's Marco Wittmann.
ANDREW VAN LEEUWEN's report has all you need to know about the young German's latest pole in Hungary this evening, and Mercedes' continued troubles:
Hungaroring DTM qualifying report
USC - Detroit: Corvette is excitedly tweeting about the fact that it's currently running 1-2-3, which is a big deal considering that GM's global HQ dominates the skyline here. There's still 14 minutes to go, but if the last few minutes are any guide then they're looking good - the outright battle is absolutely static.
It's a bit more interesting in GTD, where the top three are covered by 0.9s.
It's a bit more interesting in GTD, where the top three are covered by 0.9s.
USC - Detroit: Just over 20 minutes remaining, and the current order is:
1. Taylor
2. Barbosa
3. Westbrook
4. Pla
5. Negri
1. Taylor
2. Barbosa
3. Westbrook
4. Pla
5. Negri
USC - Detroit: Lots of squabbling between Barbosa in P2 and Dalziel in P6, which has allowed Ricky Taylor to kick out a 3.0s gap in just one lap.
Checkered flag
NASCAR - Dover: Final practice for the Sprint Cup field has just finished, and Jimmie Johnson managed to topple polesitter and morning pacesetter Brad Keselowski.
Here's how they stood:
1 Jimmie Johnson
2 Brad Keselowski
3 Ryan Newman
4 Denny Hamlin
5 Kevin Harvick
6 AJ Allmendinger
7 Carl Edwards
8 Brian Vickers
9 Paul Menard
10 Kyle Larson
Here's how they stood:
1 Jimmie Johnson
2 Brad Keselowski
3 Ryan Newman
4 Denny Hamlin
5 Kevin Harvick
6 AJ Allmendinger
7 Carl Edwards
8 Brian Vickers
9 Paul Menard
10 Kyle Larson
Green flag
USC - Detroit: No idea why that caution was so long, but at any rate, they're racing again now with just under 30 minutes left on the clock.
USC - Detroit: A quote from the Race Notes sheet we've just been handed by USC:
'At 12:32pm (0h22m) Cooper MacNeil OP19, CP9, pits. fuel only (pit lane 0:45) passenger side door. unconfirmed if it was Jim Morrison or Ray Manzarek'.
We suspect that there is some sort of in-joke going on here.
'At 12:32pm (0h22m) Cooper MacNeil OP19, CP9, pits. fuel only (pit lane 0:45) passenger side door. unconfirmed if it was Jim Morrison or Ray Manzarek'.
We suspect that there is some sort of in-joke going on here.
Checkered flag
DTM - Hungaroring: Marco Wittmann takes pole in Budapest! Impressive stuff from the BMW driver, who beats Timo Glock and Miguel Molina to pole.
Here's the order of the top eight:
1 Wittmann
2 Glock
3 Molina
4 Martin
5 da Costa
6 Farfus
7 Tambay
8 Muller
Here's the order of the top eight:
1 Wittmann
2 Glock
3 Molina
4 Martin
5 da Costa
6 Farfus
7 Tambay
8 Muller
Yellow flag
USC - Detroit: Debris, and another GTD car in the wall.
USC - Detroit: There's a GTD Porsche stopped on the side of the track at Turn 7 with a broken rear wing, and a broken several other things by the looks of it. It has already been cleared.
AUTOSPORT assistant editor SCOTT MITCHELL just finished sixth in the Ginetta Racing Drivers' Club race at Silverstone - his car racing debut (though we understand he used to be quite nifty in a kart).
Green flag
USC - Detroit: Restart. It's clean.
USC - Detroit: The leaders have all pitted for new tyres and driver changes while we're under caution. Ricky Taylor takes over the lead car from his brother; Joao Barbosa takes the wheel from Fittipaldi in second. Valiante remains in his car, and is third. A bunch of the GTD teams are also doing driver changes but we're not even going to try to track those.
MotoGP - Mugello: Cal Crutchlow achieved his best qualifying result for Ducati so far at Mugello today, grabbing sixth on the grid.
That surprised the Brit, who thought a set-up change in practice four had made the bike worse. He's optimistic for tomorrow, though reckons he needs to "calm down" in a few corners.
Andrea Dovizioso has been the works Ducati team's star turn so far in 2014, but he's two places behind Cruthclow on the grid for his home race, and admitted he hadn't got the most out of the bike.
That surprised the Brit, who thought a set-up change in practice four had made the bike worse. He's optimistic for tomorrow, though reckons he needs to "calm down" in a few corners.
Andrea Dovizioso has been the works Ducati team's star turn so far in 2014, but he's two places behind Cruthclow on the grid for his home race, and admitted he hadn't got the most out of the bike.
DTM - Hungaroring: That's Q2 done, and Marco Wittmann is quickest again. Here are positions 9-18:
9 Spengler
10 Green
11 Ekstrom
12 Mortara
13 Rockenfeller
14 Hand
15 Scheider
16 Wehrlein
17 Wickens
18 Tomczyk
So, that means that Wittmann, da Costa, Glock, Martin, Molina, Farfus, Muller and Tambay will fight it out for pole in Q3.
9 Spengler
10 Green
11 Ekstrom
12 Mortara
13 Rockenfeller
14 Hand
15 Scheider
16 Wehrlein
17 Wickens
18 Tomczyk
So, that means that Wittmann, da Costa, Glock, Martin, Molina, Farfus, Muller and Tambay will fight it out for pole in Q3.
USC - Detroit: I suspect that the yellow is for debris rather than anything else - the stricken cars appeared to all get going again, but several large bits of Cisneros' car are still scattered around.
However the caution is bad news for Jordan, whose lead had ballooned out to 3.8s.
However the caution is bad news for Jordan, whose lead had ballooned out to 3.8s.
Yellow flag
USC - Detroit: Another GTD spin, and this time it's Henrique Cisneros in his NGT Porsche.
... and now they're all doing it. Chris Cumming is facing the wrong way in his Ferrari, and Brett Sandberg has spun his Porsche. Meanwhile, Cisneros is back in the pits and the team is surveying the damage.
... and now they're all doing it. Chris Cumming is facing the wrong way in his Ferrari, and Brett Sandberg has spun his Porsche. Meanwhile, Cisneros is back in the pits and the team is surveying the damage.
Bryan Bouffier
WRC: The World Rally Championship doesn't resume until Sardinia next week, but Hyundai's new i20 WRC took its first win today, with test driver Bryan Bouffier securing victory on French series round Rally Antibes.
Only beating occasional WRC and ERC midfielder Julien Maurin's Ford Fiesta WRC by 22 seconds doesn't sound stunning, but bear in mind this was a glorified test for Bouffier and Hyundai, trying WRC set-ups, engine maps and tyre choices ahead of the asphalt rounds later in the year.
USC - Detroit: One of the GTD cars spun, and while we were trying to figure out who it was, Taylor got ahead of Valiante for the lead.
USC - Detroit: It was good while it lasted. The leaders are back into clear air and the gaps have blown out again.
It looks like the Prototype ranks have just been thinned a little further - Boris Said has pulled into an escape road trailing blue smoke from the Marsh Racing Corvette.
It looks like the Prototype ranks have just been thinned a little further - Boris Said has pulled into an escape road trailing blue smoke from the Marsh Racing Corvette.
Breaking news
European F3 - Hungaroring: Full times and results from the second European Formula 3 qualifying session of the weekend are now in, so you can see how they line up behind pole-sweeping Lotus F1 team protege Esteban Ocon:
Hungaroring European F3 qualifying two report
Hungaroring European F3 qualifying two report
USC - Detroit: Lapped cars are turning this into a proper race now - Valiante, Taylor's mullet and Fittipaldi are covered by less than a second.
DTM - Hungaroring: Some great footage of Gary Paffett sliding through the chicane on the TV monitors here in the media centre. He was trying his hardest at the end of Q1 – and even did a personal best in S1 of his last lap – but that Mercedes just looks like it's no fun to drive.
DTM – Hungaroring: Q2 is go, go, go on a Hungaroring circuit that is seeing some sun for the very first time this weekend. The next 11 minutes will determine grid positions 9-18. Top eight will go through to Q3.
USC - Detroit: The good news for Ganassi is that Rojas got back out; the bad news is that he is really, really, really slow. Something is very wrong with that car.
USC - Detroit: Jordan and his mullet have passed Fittipaldi for P2. Naturally, the TV didn't pick it up.
DTM - Hungaroring: The only drivers to make it through were Robert Wickens (15th) and Pascal Wehrlein (18th).
Meanwhile, at the front, Marco Wittmann and Maxime Martin led the way in that session.
The 11-minute Q2 will be up shortly.
Meanwhile, at the front, Marco Wittmann and Maxime Martin led the way in that session.
The 11-minute Q2 will be up shortly.
DTM – Hungaroring: Q1 is done and dusted, and – surprise, surprise – it's all Mercedes at the bottom.
The five drivers eliminated are all driving Mercs, with the back of the grid to look like this tomorrow:
19 di Resta
20 Juncadella
21 Paffett
22 Petrov
23 Vietoris
It's worth mentioning, once again, that Vietoris actually won at Oschersleben just two weeks ago.
The five drivers eliminated are all driving Mercs, with the back of the grid to look like this tomorrow:
19 di Resta
20 Juncadella
21 Paffett
22 Petrov
23 Vietoris
It's worth mentioning, once again, that Vietoris actually won at Oschersleben just two weeks ago.
USC - Detroit: This will get Ganassi's attention: Memo Rojas has just pulled into the pits, and the crew has yanked off the rear bodywork so that they can poke around inside the car.
USC - Detroit: The gap between Valiante and Fittipaldi has opened a little, and the supremely-mulleted Jordan Taylor is about 1.0s further back in third.
USC - Detroit: Something's gone awry for Sharp, who has fallen from second to fifth. No respite for Valiante though, who now has Christian Fittipaldi all over his rear.
MotoGP - Mugello: Unusual reason for Dani Pedrosa ending up only fourth on the grid after topping both practice three and practice four: he touched an engine mapping button by mistake during the Q2 tyre change and left his Honda running on reduced power.
USC - Detroit: However many there are, those GTD cars are providing the early interest - the Prototypes are running around in formation. On the pitwall, Chip Ganassi already looks a little bored.
Twitter
MotoGP - Mugello: Ferrari F1 star Fernando Alonso has been getting about a bit in the MotoGP paddock. He's currently tweeting pictures of himself with all the top riders.
USC - Detroit: Just to be clear, that 'two million' car count is only an estimate.
Green flag
USC - Detroit: Green flag. The entire field of 11 prototypes and about two million GTD class cars make it safely through the first couple of corners.
DTM – Hungaroring: Q1 is underway here in Budapest. In 13 minutes we'll know who will start in positions 19-23.
USC - Detroit: Parade lap ahoy. Michael Valiante is in the polesitting SDR Corvette for the start, with Scott Sharp right alongside him in the Extreme Speed HPD.
USC - Detroit: The United SportsCar pre-race festivities have just about wrapped up here in Detroit, and we're pretty close to getting the race underway. If the Pirelli World Challenge outing from earlier is any guide, we can expect a few cautions.
Miguel Molina
DTM - Hungaroring: With the delayed European F3 qualifying session finally done, the usually-late-scheduled DTM qualifying session isn't far away in Hungary.
Miguel Molina topped practice this morning, and Mercedes struggled again, despite Christian Vietoris' shock win in the wet at Oschersleben last time.
This is how the title battle is shaping up so far.
Championship standings after two of 10 rounds:
1 Mike Rockenfeller 30
2 Christian Vietoris 25
3 Marco Wittmann 25
4 Mattias Ekstrom 18
5 Adrien Tambay 16
6 Edoardo Mortara 15
(25 points for a win)
Full 2014 DTM data on FORIX
By: Matt Beer, Andrew van Leeuwen, Mark Glendenning, Glenn Freeman, Sam Smith, Dan Cross, Gary Watkins, AUTOSPORT staff, Charles Bradley
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