Phillip Island MotoGP, DTM, Euro F3 and FR3.5 finales
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Green leads by 2.5s, Ekstrom and co. are now closing on Paffett.
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Wehrlein is still 18th, but da Costa has jumped from 19th to 10th in the first 10 minutes.
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Paffett says he has no grip, questioning the rear tyre pressures. He'll no doubt pit early in the window and look to regroup.
DTM
Ekstrom gets third from Martin.
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Green has bolted. He leads by 1.2s by the end of the lap. He's out of the DRS zone.
DTM
DRS is enabled and Green wastes no time, passing Paffett at the hairpin on lap four.
Yellow flag
Dolan's Gibson is being dragged out of the gravel. There's a full-course yellow so he's not losing as much time as he might but Greaves Motorsport now in great position for the title.
DTM
Green has slashed Paffett's lead back to 0.5s, we're on lap four now. Ekstrom and Tambay are now all over Martin.
ELMS
And that's massive news for the championship fight - leader Simon Dolan has spun into the gravel and can't get back out!
ELMS
Rain has hit at Estoril. And quite a lot of it.
DTM
Paffett leads by 1.1s at the end of the first lap. Green is second, from Martin, Ekstrom, Tambay, Molina, di Resta, Scheider, Muller and Farfus. Wehrlein is 18th, it was clean around the first lap.
DTM
Paffett nailed the start, he leads Green and Martin.
DTM
The big battle today is for second in the standings. It's been Ekstrom, Mortara, Green and Spengler, essentially.
DTM
The drivers head off for the formation lap, for the last time in 2015.
ELMS
Dolan has now dropped Shaytar and leads by 10 seconds. Hirsch is third in the Greaves Motorsport Gibson, with Lyons fourth in the Murphy car and trying to hold off Thiriet in the TDS car. It's all looking very good for Jota in the championship fight given Dolan is showing decent pace up front.
DTM
If Paffett can convert pole into his first win of the season, that would take the tally to 14 different winners in 18 races. Among the other drivers who could make that happen, Muller starts seventh, Gotz ninth, Farfus and di Resta start 10th and 11th.
DTM
Wehrlein turns 21 today. That's pretty young.
DTM
And if you missed yesterday's race, Pascal Wehrlein became the youngest-ever DTM champion: 
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If you missed qualifying earlier, Gary Paffett will start from pole position, for the first time in more than three years: 
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It's still overcast and cold, but there's no real threat of rain.
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ELMS
Dolan retakes the lead from Shaytar. He forces the Russian to defend into Turn 1 and then cuts back inside. Although the two did make contact at the exit of the corner it was done squarely so Dolan continues in the lead without any problem.
DTM
The final DTM race of the season is about 10 minutes away.
ELMS
Hirsch has moved up to third by passing Lyons. Dolan, meanwhile, is rapidly catching leader Shaytar.
ELMS
The leaders have all made their stops and the BR Engineering BR01 of Shaytar now leads. Dolan has taken over from Albuquerque and now runs second, with Lyons third in the Murphy ORECA and Hirsch fourth after taking over from Wirdheim. Thiriet is fifth in the TDS car after taking over from Badey. Shaytar and Lyons have made up ground thanks to not making a driver change in the first round of stops.
ELMS
A big blow for TDS Racing's title hopes, as Ludo Badey runs through the gravel at Turn 3 and loses second place. Shaitar moves up to second, with Wirdheim third. Badey is now 37s down and in fifth place.
ELMS
But Wirdheim's bid for third is interrupted by Shaytar blasting past on the start/finish straight in the BR01. Shaytar almost managed to pass Badey for third at Turn 1 at the end of the same move too.
ELMS
Wirdheim in third is closing on second-placed Badey and should be in a position to attack very shortly. But more importantly for the championship fight, he is now 20 seconds behind leader Albuquerque.
ELMS
If the race were to finish now, rather than in just over three-and-a-half hours, Jota trio Filipe Albuquerque, Simon Dolan and Harry Tincknell would win the title. Albuquerque leads by 6.5s from Badey, with Wirdheim a further 6.5s down.
ELMS
Eighteen minutes down at Estoril and Wirdheim has managed to get his way up to third. So we have the three title contenders running one-two-three now.
ELMS
Albuquerque has now built a lead of 1.5s over Badey. Wirdheim is fifth and needs to find his way past the BR01 of Mediani and then the Eurasia ORECA of De Bruijn to join his fellow title-challenging crews in the top three. In GTE, Rory Butcher has had a great run early on and leads that class.
Green flag
And the ELMS race has got underway. Albuquerque leads but fellow front-row starter Krohn spins at the first corner. The TDS Racing ORECA is second in the hands of Badey. Krohn got going again but appears to have found the gravel later in the lap.
ELMS
The formation lap is underway at Estoril. It has been declared a wet race, but the track is not in bad shape. However, rain is expected during the four-hour race. Filipe Albuquerque starts in the Jota Gibson that holds a two-point lead in the championship, with Tracy Krohn second on the grid in his Ligier. Wirdheim starts in the Greaves car from 10th.
The Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup has delievered another season of high drama. Next year's crop of hopefuls have a round at Monaco to look forward to and the carrot of a Euro 400 000 prize fund.
Ben Barnicoat ended his season on a high with victory in the final race at Jerez from Anthoine Hubert and Ignazio D'Agosoto.
Alps runner-up Jake Hughes, who has had a superb season in the Eurocup, finished fourth from Ukyo Sasahara. This year's NEC champion Louis Deletraz took sixth. The Swiss was the star of the early rounds this season and also deserves plaudits.
Alps runner-up Jake Hughes, who has had a superb season in the Eurocup, finished fourth from Ukyo Sasahara. This year's NEC champion Louis Deletraz took sixth. The Swiss was the star of the early rounds this season and also deserves plaudits.
ELMS
The European Le Mans Series finale at Estoril gets underway in 10 minutes. Big news is that the Greaves Motorsport Gibson that Jon Lancaster qualified second has lost its front-row slot and will start 10th. That's a big deal given that the Greaves crew is just two points behind the polesitting Jota Sport entry in the championship.
Jack Aitken wins the 2015 Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup! After spinning off in qualifying and technical issues on the way to the grid for race three on Sunday morning, the Koiranen GP driver's nerves must have taken a battering.
The Briton secures the championship with 16th is race three. Closest rival entering the last race Kevin Jorg finished a distant last having clearly suffered his own dramas.
The Briton secures the championship with 16th is race three. Closest rival entering the last race Kevin Jorg finished a distant last having clearly suffered his own dramas.
Hughes has disappeared up the road from Deletraz, who has also fallen behind Sasahara to sixth.
Up front, Barnicoat leads Hubert leads by 0,5s, D'Agosoto is a further second back in third.
Up front, Barnicoat leads Hubert leads by 0,5s, D'Agosoto is a further second back in third.
The Eurocup is back green at the completion of lap 10. Jake Hughes demotes Deletraz to fifth at Turn 6, and the Swiss appears in pace trouble.
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