Phillip Island MotoGP, DTM, Euro F3 and FR3.5 finales
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Deletraz must work his way up three places if he is to overhaul championship leader Aitken.
The safety car is still circulating. Romanov's car has been lifted from the gravel at the chicane, but Jehan Daruvala has now stopped.
The safety car is still circulating. Romanov's car has been lifted from the gravel at the chicane, but Jehan Daruvala has now stopped.
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Championship leader Petter Solberg fought back from his heat three dramas to set the fastest time in the fourth heat at Franciacorta, and climbed to third at the Intermediate Classification as a result.
Johan Kristoffersson was only able to set ninth fastest time in the worsening rain, but remains top and claims 16 championship points heading into the semi-finals.
Timmy Hansen is second overall with Andreas Bakkerud fourth, Robin Larsson fifth and Reinis Nitiss sixth.
Marklund Motorsport drivers Toomas Heikkinen and PG Andersson both failed to make it into the semi-finals, while Liam Doran has made the top 12 cut for the first time since round two at Hockenheim.
In the European Championship, series leader Tommy Rustad heads the order ahead of the semi-final stage.
Johan Kristoffersson was only able to set ninth fastest time in the worsening rain, but remains top and claims 16 championship points heading into the semi-finals.
Timmy Hansen is second overall with Andreas Bakkerud fourth, Robin Larsson fifth and Reinis Nitiss sixth.
Marklund Motorsport drivers Toomas Heikkinen and PG Andersson both failed to make it into the semi-finals, while Liam Doran has made the top 12 cut for the first time since round two at Hockenheim.
In the European Championship, series leader Tommy Rustad heads the order ahead of the semi-final stage.
The safety car is out for the second time as Vasily Romanov has beached his Cram car in the gravel.
Aitken is up to 22nd. Closest rival Jorg has had trouble of his own and is down in 25th. Louis Deletraz has dropped behind D'Agosoto to fourth and is under major pressure from Jake Hughes.
Ben Barnicoat leads from Hubert, Deletraz, D'Agosto, Hughes and Defourny.
Jack Aitken will be grateful for the prescence of the safety car, which will assist him in closing up to the tail of the field, but will want the race to go green soon in order to make further progress.
Jack Aitken will be grateful for the prescence of the safety car, which will assist him in closing up to the tail of the field, but will want the race to go green soon in order to make further progress.
The safety car boards are out after an accident at Turn 1 involving fifth-qualifier Simon Gachet and sixth-starter James Allen.
RSF-backed Barnicoat lost a podium position on the last lap of race one when electical issues struck.
Hubert was involved in an accident in race two yesterday, that caused a large proportion of the race to be run under a safety car.
Hubert was involved in an accident in race two yesterday, that caused a large proportion of the race to be run under a safety car.
Ben Barnicoat starts from pole ahead of Anthoine Hubert. Both drivers have suffered their share of misfortune this weekend.
The Finnish Koiranen GP crew have succeeded in starting Aitken's car, and the Briton has positioned himself at the pitlane exit. The rest of the 27-car field has set off on the formation lap.
Deletraz is starting race three from third, Jorg 12th and Aitken appears destined for a pitlane start at best.
Aitken leads the Eurocup standings on 206 points, 13 ahead of Kevin Jorg. The second Josef Kaufmann Racing entry of Louis Deletraz is third on 185.
Championship leader Jack Aitken has stopped on his way to the grid for the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup title decider at Jerez. The Koiranen GP car is being towed by a circuit vehicle back into the pitlane.
And here is Capitanio celebrating that achievement
Dario Capitanio has taken victory in the second race of the Renault RS01 Trophy at Jerez for Prestige drivers. The Oregon driver also clinches the Prestige driver's title and will receive a prize seat in next year's Le Mans 24 Hours.
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While waiting for the next batch of sessions (Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup, World Rallycross and European Le Mans action all coming up before we have the headlining Formula Renault 3.5 and DTM finales this afternoon), here are some more people being excited about how good MotoGP was today...
F3
Here's the full report on the final race of the Formula 3 European Championship from a little earlier: 
FR3.5
And also recently sorted was the grid for today's Formula Renault 3.5 race at Jerez - the end of both a season and an era. Here's how that one - which is being covered here on Autosport Live from 2.30pm - shapes up: 
DTM
Here's the full recap of that DTM qualifying session and the starting grid for this afternoon's finale, which you can follow here on Autosport Race Centre Live from 2.15pm: 
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For those of you wondering, that's Paffett's first DTM pole since the Norisring round in June 2012.
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Wehrlein saved his worst qualifying session for last, the new champion will start 17th.
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Green is second, ahead of Ekstrom, Molina, Martin, Tambay, Muller, Scheider, Gotz and Farfus.
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That looks like it's it. Paffett takes pole, the 14th different polesitter of the season.
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Green goes second, Ekstrom pits, he'll start no higher than third. Martin is back up to fifth.
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As the chequered flag flies, Paffett jumps from 23rd to first.
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Muller jumps up to third, Tambay does the same. Six Audis at the top.
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Martin goes fifth, behind four Audis.
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Scheier jumps up to third as well.
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He goes fastest, 1m32.729s.
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Ekstrom looks set to improve, purple and green in the first two sectors.
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The whole field is back out there now, for the final four minutes.
Replays show Glock ran very wide at Turn 1, getting his BMW sideways on the astro turf.
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This little window is when Martin set his polesitting time yesterday, before the track got busy in the final minutes. Molina is out there, with Spengler, Glock and Tomczyk, looking to cash in.
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We have 6m35s remaining. Molina leads Green, di Resta, Mortara, Ekstrom, Wehrlein, Rockenfeller, Juncadella, Farfus and Wittmann.
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On a quiet track - with seven cars out there - Mortara slotted into fourth.
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di Resta goes third-fastest, Wehrlein fifth.
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