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NASCAR - Dover: For the record, Brad Keselowski won the NASCAR Sprint Cup pole at Dover with a track-record speed of 164.444mph. It's his second pole of 2014, his first at Dover and the fifth of his career at the top level of US stock car racing.
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Just under 30 minutes to go until we kick off our coverage of the 13th round of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup season over at Dover. In the meantime, here's the report from the third and final Euro F3 race:
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Checkered flag
So at the end of the day, the leaderboard looks like this:
TIMES OVERALL
1 #8 Buemi/Davidson/Lapierre Toyota 3m23.014s
2 #7 Nakajima/Wurz/Sarrazin Toyota 3m23.156s
3 #3 Bonanomi/Albuquerque Audi 3m23.799s
4 #1 Kristensen/Duval/Di Grassi Audi 3m24.453s
5 #16 Jani/Dumas/Lieb Porsche 3m24.692s
6 #2 Lotterer/Treluyer/Fassler Audi 3m24.757s
LMP2 Rusinov/Pla/Canal 3m39.922s
GTE Pro Makowiecki/Holzer/Lietz 3m57.260s
GTE Am Ruberti/Roda/Montecalvo Ferrari 3m57.403ss
TIMES OVERALL
1 #8 Buemi/Davidson/Lapierre Toyota 3m23.014s
2 #7 Nakajima/Wurz/Sarrazin Toyota 3m23.156s
3 #3 Bonanomi/Albuquerque Audi 3m23.799s
4 #1 Kristensen/Duval/Di Grassi Audi 3m24.453s
5 #16 Jani/Dumas/Lieb Porsche 3m24.692s
6 #2 Lotterer/Treluyer/Fassler Audi 3m24.757s
LMP2 Rusinov/Pla/Canal 3m39.922s
GTE Pro Makowiecki/Holzer/Lietz 3m57.260s
GTE Am Ruberti/Roda/Montecalvo Ferrari 3m57.403ss
Red flag
Le Mans - Test Day: Red flag number four brings proceedings to a slightly premature end - there were two minutes left on the clock. Heidfeld has gone off in the Porsche Curves in the #12 Rebellion-Toyota.
Le Mans - Test Day: Rusinov jumps ahead of Chandhok in the P2 times. The Russian is five tenths clear in the OAK-run G-Drive Morgan.
Le Mans - Test Day: Makowiecki, pole man in GTE Pro for the past two years, goes quickest in class for Porsche with a time half a second up on Bruni's factory finale. The second quickest GTE car is actually an Am car, the AF-run 8Star Ferrari driven by Ruberti.
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Here's our comprehensive report from today's IndyCar qualifying session in Detroit, with Takuma Sato claiming his fifth series pole position:
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Red flag
Le Mans - Test Day: Another red flag. Anton Ladygin has spun his SMP ORECA.
Le Mans - Test Day: Nakajima goes second with a time almost exactly a second behind team-mate Buemi. Bonanomi improves to third with a 3m24.453s and then team-mate Duval matches it to the one thousandth!
Trophy
European F3 - Hungaroring: A slightly disappointing end to the race, here is the classification:
1 Ocon
2 Fuoco
3 Auer
4 Verstappen
5 Giovinazzi
6 Blomqvist
7 Serralles
8 Menezes
9 Dennis
10 Latifi
1 Ocon
2 Fuoco
3 Auer
4 Verstappen
5 Giovinazzi
6 Blomqvist
7 Serralles
8 Menezes
9 Dennis
10 Latifi
Red flag
European F3 - Hungaroring: The red flag is out, the result is final and Esteban Ocon takes his second win of the day.
Yellow flag
European F3 - Hungaroring: The safety car is out, presumably for the conditions as the rain worsens in Hungary.
European F3 - Hungaroring: Jake Dennis has passed Roy Nissany for tenth. Dennis started 13th and is moving up slowly.
Rain
European F3 - Hungaroring: It's starting to rain heavily at the Hungaroring with six laps to go. Ocon's pace has reduced dramatically, signifying the conditions are worsening.
Ocon leads from Fuoco, Auer, Verstappen, Giovinazzi and Blomqvist.
Ocon leads from Fuoco, Auer, Verstappen, Giovinazzi and Blomqvist.
European F3 - Hungaroring: Tom Blomqvist makes a great move into Turn 1, braking as late as he dared to steal sixth from Felix Serralles.
European F3 - Hungaroring: Fifth placed Antonio Giovinazzi has set a purple first sector, he's fifth just over 1s behind Verstappen in fourth.
European F3 - Hungaroring: Ocon's lead on lap 8 is up to 6.898s, team-mate Fuoco in the same machinery is unable to match Ocon's pace today.
European F3 - Hungaroring: Mitch Gilbert is the latest to receive a drive through, no prizes for guessing the cause of the penalty, exceeding track limits
European F3 - Hungaroring: Verstappen would love a podium place here, he inherited fourth as Rosenqvist took his drive through penalty.
Verstappen retired from the first race of the weekend, and he suffered from a drive through himself in race two only finishing 16th.
Verstappen retired from the first race of the weekend, and he suffered from a drive through himself in race two only finishing 16th.
European F3 - Hungaroring: Rosenqvist has served his drive through, he rejoins in 18th.
Antonio Giovinazzi and Jake Dennis have received warnings for exceeding track limits.
Antonio Giovinazzi and Jake Dennis have received warnings for exceeding track limits.
European F3 - Hungaroring: Sandro Zeller has turned in on Alexander Toril at Turn 1, the damage will put Zeller out of the race.
European F3 - Hungaroring: Ocon has pulled out a gap of 2.187s on lap 6.
European F3 - Hungaroring: Rosenqvist has picked up a drive through penalty for exceeding track limits. He was in second but will tumble down the order.
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DTM – Hungaroring: ANDREW VAN LEEUWEN has just been down to Audi to have a chat with Jamie Green, who scored his first points of the 2014 season today with seventh place.
"The aim was to finish, because this is the race of the year, and I hadn't finished one yet. I thought if I got some points, it would be a bonus. So I'm satisfied to finish seventh.
"It's nothing special, but we needed it to settle the ship."
During the Audi press call, Timo Glock arrived to have a private chat with Audi's DTM boss Dieter Gass. No prizes for guessing that the topic would have been driving standards, after Glock spent the majority of the race banging doors with RS5s...
"The aim was to finish, because this is the race of the year, and I hadn't finished one yet. I thought if I got some points, it would be a bonus. So I'm satisfied to finish seventh.
"It's nothing special, but we needed it to settle the ship."
During the Audi press call, Timo Glock arrived to have a private chat with Audi's DTM boss Dieter Gass. No prizes for guessing that the topic would have been driving standards, after Glock spent the majority of the race banging doors with RS5s...
European F3 - Hungaroring: The order at Lap 5:
1 Ocon
2 Rosenqvist
3 Fuoco
4 Auer
5 Verstappen
6 Giovinazzi
7 Serralles
8 Blomqvist
9 Menezes
10 Latifi
1 Ocon
2 Rosenqvist
3 Fuoco
4 Auer
5 Verstappen
6 Giovinazzi
7 Serralles
8 Blomqvist
9 Menezes
10 Latifi
Rain
European F3 - Hungaroring: Lap 3 and there are some umbrellas up in the stands, the track is starting to look a little greasy.
Ocon leads by 1.7s ahead of Rosenqvist, Fuoco and Auer.
Ocon leads by 1.7s ahead of Rosenqvist, Fuoco and Auer.
European F3 - Hungaroring: Rosenqvist has moved up to second thanks to an excellent move at Turn 2 and into Turn 3.
Lucas Auer had challenged Ocon at Turn 1 but forgot about team-mate Rosenqvist, who stole second.
Lucas Auer had challenged Ocon at Turn 1 but forgot about team-mate Rosenqvist, who stole second.
Lights out
European F3 - Hungaroring: Ocon leads into Turn 1 with a huge battle for second
European F3 - Hungaroring: Race three is about to get underway here in Hungary, and for the second time today, the European F3 field leaves the grid for the formation lap.
Esteban Ocon will be looking to repeat his performance from earlier in the day, with a lights to flag victory in the second race of the weekend.
Esteban Ocon will be looking to repeat his performance from earlier in the day, with a lights to flag victory in the second race of the weekend.
Le Mans - Test Day: Another red flag courtesy of debris on the entry to Mulsanne Corner. No reports of anyone having gone off as yet.
Le Mans - Test Day: Bruni has restored order at the top of GTE Pro. He's shaded Parente by a couple of tenths with a 3m57.599s.
Le Mans - Test Day: This is the AF Corse set-up in the pits. It is running a total of 10 cars (two SMP P2s, two factory Ferraris and the six privateer cars), which must surely be some kind of record.
Reckon we should call their enclave 'Little Italy'...
IndyCar - Detroit: There's the flag, and Sato leaps to the top right at the end to take a surprise pole ahead of Hinchcliffe.
The top five:
1. Sato
2. Hinchcliffe
3. Castroneves
4. Conway
5. Briscoe
The top five:
1. Sato
2. Hinchcliffe
3. Castroneves
4. Conway
5. Briscoe
Le Mans - Test Day: Chandhok goes quickest in P2 in the Murphy ORECA-Nissan. His 3m38.286s puts him over a second clear of the Judd/BMW-powered Race Performance version, which in turn was four tenths up on the first session best from Signatech Alpine.
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IndyCar - Detroit: Ryan Hunter-Reay: "Been hard on that left-rear this weekend, just like yesterday. It snapped out, and I couldn't catch it. Colder tyre temps caught me out. Totally my fault."
Green flag
IndyCar - Detroit: Green flag. The clock is showing just over four minutes to go, so things are going to be manic.
IndyCar - Detroit: Michael Andretti shakes his head in disbelief as Hunter-Reay returns to the pits. The team was working late last night getting his car rebuilt for today, and how it faces another busy couple of hours to get it put back together for the race.
Red flag
IndyCar - Detroit: Ryan Hunter-Reay hits the wall and trashes his left-rear. That's his third hit of the weekend. As things stand, the two most recent series champions will share the back row.
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FR3.5 - Spa: Rowland reveals that his car stalled as he pulled into his pit during that race. "I pulled the clutch in and nothing happened. Considering we had to fire the engine back up, finishing third is a pretty good result. But I was quicker than Carlos [Sainz] today so it's still disappointing."
Green flag
IndyCar - Detroit: Green flag for group two.
By: Matt Beer, Andrew van Leeuwen, Mark Glendenning, Glenn Freeman, Sam Smith, Dan Cross, Gary Watkins, AUTOSPORT staff, Charles Bradley
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