Mugello MotoGP, Le Mans test day, Detroit IndyCar

MotoGP - Mugello: Espargaro's first lap only puts him third behind Hernandez and Bautista.

MotoGP - Mugello: Q1 is in progress. Big names fighting to avoid early embarrassment in this session include Alvaro Bautista and Aleix Espargaro.

Bautista is currently second to early pacesetter Yonny Hernandez, while Espargaro is yet to set a time after his practice four crash, though he is on an out-lap.

Hernandez is one of two Ducatis stuck in this session, along with factory wildcard Michele Pirro.

IndyCar - Detroit: After a month of focusing on 220mph+ speeds at Indianapolis, the IndyCar field are braking and turning right again on the streets of Detroit.

First qualifying is just under half an hour away, and if you think that's a bit early... it is. But with two IndyCar races and a United SportsCar round plus supports to fit in, it's a packed timetable on Belle Isle.

Here's how the IndyCar battle is shaping up after Ryan Hunter-Reay's lucractive (in money, prestige AND points terms) Indy 500 win:

Championship standings after five of 18 rounds:

1 Ryan Hunter-Reay 274
2 Will Power 234
3 Helio Castroneves 220
4 Simon Pagenaud 211
5 Marco Andretti 192
6 Carlos Munoz 160

(50 points for a win plus bonuses)
Full 2014 IndyCar data on FORIX

And here's what happened yesterday, as man of the moment Hunter-Reay topped the morning before Pagenaud led the afternoon session.

MotoGP - Mugello: A very quick pause now before Q1 in which everyone outside the top 10 in combined practice times fights for two spots in Q2.

Among the crowd today is Ferrari Formula 1 star Fernando Alonso, currently hanging out with MotoGP commercial chief Carmelo Ezpeleta.

MotoGP - Mugello: Quick lap from Rossi as practice four nears its end, but maybe not as good as he would've hoped. The first two sectors put him on course to depose the Hondas up front, but the lap tailed off and he only went to fourth.

Dani Pedrosa

MotoGP - Mugello: Marquez has been tipping Rossi as his big threat for this weekend, Lorenzo has won at Mugello for the last three consecutive years, and Marquez has won everything everywhere so far this year... all of which makes it easy to overlook our current pacesetter Pedrosa.

But the veteran (relatively speaking) on the #26 Honda was quickest in practice three this morning and a look at the championship standings shows that actually it's not been too bad a year for him so far...

Championship standings after five of 18 rounds:

1 Marc Marquez 125
2 Dani Pedrosa 83
3 Valentino Rossi 81
4 Andrea Dovizioso 53
5 Jorge Lorenzo 45
6 Stefan Bradl 39

(25 points for a win)
Full 2014 MotoGP statistics on FORIX

MotoGP - Mugello: There's just 0.065s between Pedrosa and Marquez going into the final minutes of this practice session, with Jorge Lorenzo third and Andrea Iannone flying again for Pramac Ducati in fourth.

Iannone is also top Italian, just ahead of illustrious compatriots Andrea Dovizioso and Valentino Rossi.

MotoGP - Mugello: Smith and Bautista are already back out again, with Smith on the same Tech 3 Yamaha successfully dusted down.

Bautista's rear-mounted on-board camera is a bit of a giveaway that he's recently been off - it gives a great view of the scuffs and asphalt marks on his leathers.

DTM – Hungary: Practice has just finished here in Budapest. Miguel Molina was fastest for Audi with a 1m37.558s, ahead of BMW's Marco Wittmann (1m37.586s) and Timo Glock (1m37.863s). Best-placed Mercedes was Robert Wickens down in 15th.

Welcome to AUTOSPORT Race Centre Live as we begin one of the busiest non-Formula 1 weekends of 2014 so far.

We'll be bringing you every moment of action from the Mugello MotoGP weekend, plus the DTM in Hungary, Formula Renault 3.5 at Spa, the IndyCar double-header in Detroit, and tomorrow's official Le Mans 24 Hours test day.

If that's the icing, then there's no shortage of cake, as we're also covering European Formula 3 from Hungary, Auto GP at Monza, United SportsCar on the Detroit streets and NASCAR back on the short tracks at Dover's 'Monster Mile'.