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British F3 - Silverstone: Mid-race, gap Giovinazzi-Buller static at 3.3s. Serralles chasing Calderon for fourth.
British F3 - Silverstone: lap six, and Buller passes Gelael for second at Stowe
British F3 - Silverstone: Early on, it's Giovinazzi-Gelael in Double R one-two, but Buller is chasing.
British F3 - Silverstone: Also, the German F3 Cup car of Saturday winner Bryant-Meisner has had 15kg added for today's racing. Whether this is performance balancing or punishment for subjecting his driver coach to Justin Bieber songs on Friday evening is open to conjecture...
British F3 - Silverstone: Set for a manic/random (delete where appropriate) reversed-grid race at Silverstone. Two National Class cars on front row, and Carlin cars and Serralles buried towards rear of pack.
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FR3.5 - Monaco - results: 1 Muller; 2 Sorensen; 3 Jaafar; 4 Magnussen; 5 da Costa; 6 Sainz; 7 Stevens; 8 Aleshin; 9 Vandoorne; 10 Pic.
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FR3.5 - Monaco: Nico Muller takes his maiden FR3.5 victory on the streets of Monte Carlo. The rest of the top 10 is as follows: Sorensen, Jaafar, Magnussen, da Costa, Sainz, Stevens, Aleshin, Vandoorne, Pic.
FR3.5 - Monaco: It's the penultimate lap and da Costa has upped the ante in his fight with Magnussen. The Dane is now defending furiously to fend him off.
FR3.5 - Monaco: One of the closest battles on track is between title rivals Magnussen and da Costa. In the junior F1 stakes, that means McLaren vs Red Bull. Unfortunately for them, it's only for fourth place.
FR3.5 - Monaco: Magnussen pounces on a mistake by Sainz in the second part of the Swimming Pool section to pass the debutant for fourth at Rascasse. Da Costa then pounces on his fellow Red Bull junior on the exit of the corner.
FR3.5 - Monaco: Muller and Sorensen are sparring (in the laptime sense) out front. At the moment the leader seems to have an answer every time Sorensen attacks.
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FR3.5 - Monaco: Poleman Muller races into the lead as Sorensen beats Jaafar to Sainte Devote to take second. Debutant Carlos Sainz Jr slots in ahead of Magnussen at the start, demoting the championship leader to P5.
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Formula Renault 3.5 - Monaco: Expect fireworks from Red Bull junior da Costa. His last words to AUTOSPORT before leaving the paddock were "nobody remembers who finishes behind the winner in this race".
Formula Renault 3.5 - Monaco: There's a good chance of a first-time winner in the series, with Nico Muller starting from his maiden pole and Jazeman Jaafar on the front row for the first time in his rookie season. Behind them are race winners in Kevin Magnussen, Marco Sorensen and Antonio Felix da Costa.
Formula Renault 3.5 - Monaco: Soon it will be the turn of single seaters to take over the streets again, with FR3.5 serving as the warm-up for the main event later today. The Renault racers are off at 10 past the hour.
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Porsche Supercup - Monaco: Sean Edwards take a dominant victory on the morning of the Monaco GP, winning by 20 seconds from Kuba Giermaziak. As for the rally stars - Ogier took 13th and Loeb was 16th.
Porsche Supercup - Monaco: A replay of the start shows that Loeb took a big hit at the first corner. Cue some very tongue-in-cheek speculation that it was from Ogier.
Meanwhile, in the battle of the rallying Sebastiens, it currently stands Ogier 13th, Loeb 17th on the streets.
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Monaco Grand Prix day is finally here. The on-track action has just kicked off with the Porsche Supercup. Sean Edwards is leading the early running.
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GP2 - Monaco - sprint race results: 1 Coletti; 2 Quaife-Hobbs; 3 Evans; 4 Nasr; 5 Calado; 6 Binder; 7 Ceccon; 8 Richelmi; 9 de Jong; 10 Rosenzweig.
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GP2 Monaco Local hero Stefano Coletti wins the sprint race! He passed poleman Adrian Quaife-Hobbs at the harbour-front chicane in the early stages, and dominated the race despite having to manage his tyres throughout. Quaife-Hobbs finished second, ahead of Mitch Evans.
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GP2 Monaco Just when we were having a clean race, Jake Rosenzweig ruins it all by punting Jon Lancaster at Loews. It gives him 10th. Stewards might look at that one.
GP2 Monaco Bird sets fastest lap on his fresh super-softs.
GP2 Monaco Tom Dillmann has fastest lap, but is outside the top 10 so won't score the point for it. That will go to Stephane Richelmi, who used super-softs yesterday so he had a fresh set of softs. If only he hadn't lost eighth place, and reversed-grid pole, on the final lap...
GP2 Monaco Sam Bird, yesterday's winner, won't be scoring points today. Apart from one lap when he was fastest, he's struggled for pace since the start, and it looks like his rear tyres - which he was forced to re-use from the feature race - have cried enough. He's pitted after tumbling down the order and has rejoined on fresh super-softs.
GP2 Monaco Surprisingly high number of passes in the sprint race, by Monaco standards. Evans grabbed third from Calado at Mirabeau, and Nasr also passed the Brit a lap later at Ste Devote. Ceccon passed Bird for seventh at the harbour-front chicane, and Palmer snook past Canamasas at Rascasse for 13th.
GP2 Monaco No repeat of the first-corner accident today. Poleman Adrian Quaife-Hobbs led from the start, but series leader Stefano Coletti passed him on lap three at the harbour-front chicane.
GP2 Monaco Only 25 cars on the grid following Johnny Cecotto Jr's race ban for causing a carambolage yesterday.
GP2 Monaco Spots of rain falling on the grid. Most frontrunners on the soft-compound slick tyres.
British F3 Silverstone Neat observation on Sean Gelael's massive improvement in form to go third fastest of points contenders in qualifying. "Asian drivers are always quick when the sun comes out!" he said.
Breaking news
British F3 Silverstone news: John Bryant-Meisner has boost disconnected after dominating qualifying
British F3 Silverstone Performance Racing, who run Bryant-Meisner, hold their hands up to advantage and will run with boost button disconnected in races. Story to follow...
British F3 Silverstone Jordan King gets two 'moral' poles for British F3 at Silverstone, with Will Buller second for race three, Nicholas Latifi for race one.
British F3 Silverstone John Bryant-Meisner comfortably quickest in British F3 qualifying at Silverstone. Car is audibly revving higher than the others. It runs with German F3-spec boost button...
Jordan King
Next up is British Formula 3 qualifying from Silverstone.
The truncated series has attracted a 19-car entry. Jordan King was fastest in Friday's test sessions.
Marcus Simmons (@MarcusSimmons54) is AUTOSPORT's man in the paddock.
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FR3.5 - Monaco Lots of drivers have their own stories of clipping the walls and getting held up in traffic. Will Stevens put it best: "I'm sure everyone has a story or two like that. That's Monaco. It's about more than having the perfect car and pushing to the limit for the whole lap. No-one can be on the limit in every corner. You just need to get it as hooked up as you can."
FR3.5 - Monaco Poleman Muller clipped the barriers twice on his quickest lap. He wasn't the only one to return to the paddock with scuffs on his tyre sidewalls.
By: Matt Beer, Glenn Freeman, Sam Tremayne, Pablo Elizalde, Charles Bradley, Mark Glendenning, Marcus Simmons
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