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AutoGP - Monza: Kevin Giovesi takes a serene win for Eurotech in race two at Monza. Andrea Roda is second despite a late charge and Markus Pommer rounds off the podium. Yoshitaka Kuroda takes fourth and Tamas Pal Kiss finishes fifth.
Auto GP - Monza: Giovesi pits on lap 12 and takes two new rear tyres. No sticky wheels today for the Milanese. He now has a clear run to the flag with Roda 2.8s behind in second. Pommer is a net third, as Kuroda is yet to pit.
AutoGP - Monza: Halfway point of the race and Giovesi still leads Roda and by a decent margin - 2.9s.

Third is now Kuroda after he took Cipriani at Rettifilo. Pommer has stopped and is setting fastest laps in clear air. His podium prediction looks on.

Kiss meanwhile is making up for a poor start and sits seventh.
Moto3 - Mugello: Race direction is going to investigate the crash that ended Miller, Bastianini and Marquez's races on the last lap.
Moto3 - Mugello: The finishing order is confirmed and second/third are swapped, so here's your top 10 after what will probably be the best race anywhere in the world today, even better than the Legends at Cadwell Park:

1 Romano Fenati
2 Isaac Vinales
3 Alex Rins
4 Miguel Oliveira
5 Niklas Ajo
6 Alexis Masbou
7 Alessandro Tonucci
8 Juanfran Guevara
9 Brad Binder
10 Karel Hanika
AutoGP - Monza: La Rosa is off at Roggia as he tried to wrest third from Cipriani. Pommer is now up to fourth and right with Cipriani. The race one leader is flying. Giovesi still has a clear lead from Roda.
Moto3 - Mugello: Replays of the last-lap shunt show that Oliveira cut across on Miller and caused the Australian to fall, with his sliding bike then taking out Bastianini and Marquez too.
Moto3 - Mugello: Race direction is reviewing video of the finish to determine for certain who got second place. The timing system split Rins and Vinales by 0.002s.
Moto3 - Mugello: Fenati, Rins and Vinales cross the line three-abreast in a stunning photo finish and Valentino Rossi's protege gets a home win by just 0.008s over Rins and 0.010s over Vinales.

That was even better than we expected.
Moto3 - Mugello: Fenati regains the lead, Rins into second and Miller gets taken out in a three-bike tangle mid-pack!
Moto3 - Mugello: From nowhere, Isaac 'cousin of Maverick' Vinales launches himself into the lead onto the last lap!
Moto3 - Mugello: Championship leader Miller is only fifth at the moment, he won't want to be beaten by main rivals Rins and Fenati.
Auto GP - Monza: Giovesi leads in to the Rettifilo from Cipriani and Roda. Clean start.
Moto3 - Mugello: Bastianini is more than holding his own in these decisive stages, popping back into second...

...but it's countryman Fenati who slipstreams into the lead as they begin the penultimate lap. The Monlau duo slot in behind him.
Moto3 - Mugello: Into the final three laps, the lead pack is Miller, Rins, Bastianini, Marquez, Vinales, Tonucci, Fenati, Ajo, Masbou and Olveira, and frankly any of them could win.
Auto GP - Monza: Kevin Giovesi leads the 13-car field off on the formation lap for round eight of the 2014 Auto GP season.
European F3 - Hungaroring: The top 10 from the Hungaroring:

1 Ocon
2 Fuoco
3 Auer
4 Rosenqvist
5 Blomqvist
6 Giovinazzi
7 Menezes
8 Serralles
9 Latifi
10 Bryant-Meisner
European F3 - Hungaroring: Esteban Ocon wins race two here at the Hungaroring with a magnificent drive at the front. The Frenchman has been in a class of his own and untouchable for this 21 lap race.

Antonio Fuoco comes home second after a measured drive under pressure from third placed Lucas Auer, who finished just 0.396s behind Fuoco at the finish.
European F3 - Hungaroring: Gelael picks up a drive through penalty, and will just get it in before the end of the race.
Le Mans - Test Day: Nissan's ZEOD RC experimental racer has completed four laps and has managed a 4m04s so far in Reip's hands.
European F3 - Hungaroring: Ocon's lead is up to 7.408s on lap 18, he really has been dominant so far and no one seems to have an answer for his blistering pace.

Auer is 0.594s behind second placed Fuoco, Auer has been right behind Fuoco for most of the race but has struggled to get close enough to pass the Prema Dallara-Mercedes.
Le Mans - Test Day: Bruni is fastest for the AF Corse Ferrari team in GTE Pro. An Am car, another AF entry, is second quickest in GTE with Giammaria driving.
European F3 - Hungaroring: Further down the order, Jake Dennis is a heartbreaking 18th after receiving a drive through early for jumping the start. He had got as high as fourth before the penalty.
Moto3 - Mugello: Bastianini's been shuffled back now and it's Rins leading Marquez.

Fenati is third but is now the sole VR46 man running as team-mate Bagnaia's KTM has slowed and retired.
Moto3 - Mugello: We have an Italian leader - but it's not Fenati.

Gresini's 16-year-old rookie Enea Bastianini is the latest to sneak to the front of this massive slipstreaming lead pack. He's got Miller, Fenati, Marquez and Rins right on his tail.
European F3 - Hungaroring: Carlin's Sean Gelael has a spin, he drops to 17th in the order.

Szymkowiak, who scored his best finish of his European F3 career so far yesterday in the first race in sixth position, becomes the latest victim of the dreaded drive through penalty.
Moto3 - Mugello: Scotland's great run comes to an end as McPhee crashes out of fourth place. That had been a brilliant, breakthrough ride from the 19-year-old.
AutoGP - Monza: Giacomelli-watch: Bruno tells us that in 1983 he was battling in his Toleman-Hart with Mansell's Lotus-Renault for seventh place on the final lap and was about to slipstream him when he noticed '5000 tifosi having an early party on the start/finish straight'. He was flat out doing approximately 190mph at the time!

"I screamed f**** f*** f**** and looked across at Mansell, who turned to me and said f*** f**** f**** too! Still, I managed to take the place but it was crazy. We were so close to a terrible disaster. I got back to the pit and asked my mechanics how many dead tifosi were under the car, luckily there were none, phew!"
European F3 - Hungaroring: Ocon has cleared off at the front now, the lead just under 5s to Fuoco. He also holds the fastest lap of the race so far.

Auer hasn't been able to make a move stick on Fuoco for second, the Austrian is 0.7s behind and unable to get close enough to make any sort of move.
Moto3 - Mugello: Five-abreast for the lead beginning lap six and it's Miller who emerges in front this time ahead of Marquez, Rins, Fenati, McPhee and pretty much everyone else.
Moto3 - Mugello: One less Italian for the crowd to follow as Niccolo Antonelli crashes. But given his form this year, they probably expected that anyway.

That was a scary crash actually, replays show Antonelli's tumbling bike nearly took Kornfeil with it.
Le Mans - Test Day: Davidson has just gone quickest ahead of Toyota team-mate Nakajima with a 3m25.902s. That's quicker than Allan McNish went last year at the test and now only three and a half seconds from the 2013 pole.

Rusinov has jumped to the top of the times in P2 aboard the G-Drive/OAK Morgan on a 3m42.818s, which is eight tenths quicker than the Signatech ORECA.
European F3 - Hungaroring: Max Verstappen's weekend goes from bad to worse as he earns a drive through penalty for exceeding track limits.

He retired from yesterday's race and now faces an uphill struggle to score points in this race.
Moto3 - Mugello: Young Scot John McPhee judges the tow perfectly and flies from sixth to first in one move!

Alexis Masbou overtakes him, but McPhee elbows his way back through.

Rins, Marquez and Fenati are lining up right behind them.
Lucas Auer is closing on second place man Fuoco, the gap is 0.5s.

Spike Goddard takes his drive through penalty for exceeding track limits, something we saw yesterday with Antonio Fuoco and Gustavo Menezes.
Moto3 - Mugello: Bad news for title contender Efren Vazquez. He was only 10th on the grid anyway and now has a jump-start penalty... a penalty it's possible he hasn't spotted judging by the way he's still racing.
AutoGP - Monza: Giacomelli-watch: Bruno also reminisced about his friendship with legendary Ferrari ace, Gilles Villeneuve. "I remember here in 1981 Gilles' helicopter got broken in to and his briefcase and other things got stolen. I gave him my sympathy and you know what he told me? He said: 'Bruno, if the tifosi are responsible then I don't care too much. They are why we are racing here. I love them.'

"He [Gilles] was the most genuine person I ever met. I still miss him, even now."
Moto3 - Mugello: The slipstreaming on the long, long main straight here is spectacular on the small bikes. The top seven crossed the line in one massive, wild swarm at the end of lap one.

Alex - little brother of Marc - Marquez judged it best and burst through to second behind Monlau team-mate Rins.
European F3 - Hungaroring: The order after seven laps here at the Hungaroring:

1 Ocon
2 Fuoco
3 Auer
4 Rosenqvist
5 Verstappen
6 Blomqvist
7 Giovinazzi
8 Menezes
9 Serralles
10 Latifi
Moto3 - Mugello: Poleman Rins bogged down horribly just after the startline and Miller pulled ahead, but under braking for the first corner the Spaniard surged back in front.

Fenati is up to third already, and running a new Italian tricolore design on his bike this weekend for the home crowd.

By: Matt Beer, Andrew van Leeuwen, Mark Glendenning, Glenn Freeman, Sam Smith, Dan Cross, Gary Watkins, AUTOSPORT staff, Charles Bradley

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