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FR3.5 - Monaco Nico Muller tops the second group, and his lap of 1m23.453 is better than Jaafar's effort so he takes pole. Row two will be an all Danish affair, with Sorensen and Magnussen.
Stopwatch
FR3.5 - Monaco As the cars come back to the pits to change tyres, the top five is as follows: Vandoorne, da Costa, Sirotkin, Sorensen, Yelloly. 10 minutes to go.
FR3.5 - Monaco It's worth noting that as the first session came to an end, Sainz was fastest of anyone through the middle sector, but he blew the lap by bouncing over the kerbs in the second part of the Swimming Pool section.
Green flag
FR3.5 - Monaco Now it's the turn of the second group. Whoever is fastest in this session will have to beat Jaafar's 1m23.648s to take pole for Sunday's race.
Checkered flag
FR3.5 - Monaco Rookie Jaafar tops the first group's qualifying session, ahead of Magnussen, Sainz, Nato and Will Stevens.
FR3.5 - Monaco As the cars come in for a second set of tyres with around 10 minutes remaining, Jaafar leads the way from debutant Carlos Sainz Jr, Andre Negrao, Arthur Pic and Magnussen.
Stopwatch
Monaco FR3.5 - The early sparring in group 1 is between Carlin's Jazeman Jaafar and DAMS pair Magnussen and Norman Nato. Their trading of blows at the top (with Jaafar in P1) is briefly halted thanks to yellow flags at Rascasse following a spin for Nigel Melker.
Indy Lights Indianapolis
Indy Lights - Indianapolis: IndyCar has now released full results from Friday's incredble Freedom 100 four-wide finish.
We already knew Peter Dempsey's 0.0026s victory margin was the closest in Indianapolis Motor Speedway history, now we know the top four were covered by just 0.0443s over the line!
AUTOSPORT US editor Mark Glendenning's (@m_glendenning) full race report is here, and you can watch the finish again here.
Green flag
FR3.5 - Monaco Qualifying for group 1 is under way.
FR3.5 - Monaco The format for splitting the groups in FR3.5 qualifying is different to the 'odds and evens' approach used in GP2. Here the cars are split based on championship position, so group 1 is headed by points leader Kevin Magnussen. Vandoorne - second in the standings - will head group 2.
FR3.5 - Monaco Remember, da Costa clarified on Thursday that his anger at the leniency of Vandoorne's penalty was based on how seriously the matter of yellow flags is treated in the drivers' briefing for Monaco, rather than because Vandoorne is a title rival.
Twitter
FR3.5 - Monaco Vandoorne's penalty, and the ban given to Johnny Cecotto Jr in GP2 yesterday, caught the attention of FR3.5 title contender Antonio Felix da Costa on Twitter last night: @afelixdacosta "Funny to see Johnny Cecotto being banned for race 2 for out braking him self and causing a bit of a mess 1/2. And Vandoorne gets only a 5 place grid penalty for crashing under yellow flags into 2 cars and marhals. I guess different criterias..."
Stoffel Vandoorne
FR3.5 - Monaco The big talking point remains Stoffel Vandoorne's five-place grid penalty for crashing under yellow flags in free practice. The McLaren junior, racing here for the first time, was fastest in Thursday's session.
FR3.5 - Monaco After nearly 48 hours since free practice, the FR3.5 cars will get the action started on Saturday in Monte Carlo. The session - split into two groups for 25 minutes each, gets underway in a little over 20 minutes.
Indy Lights concluded Friday's action on AUTOSPORT Race Centre Live.
We'll be back on Saturday for GP2 and Formula Renault 3.5 in Monaco plus British Formula 3's return to life at Silverstone.
Saturday schedule - all times GMT:
08:00: Formula Renault 3.5 qualifying
10:45: British Formula 3 qualifying
15:10: GP2 sprint race
15:10: British Formula 3 race one
We'll be back on Saturday for GP2 and Formula Renault 3.5 in Monaco plus British Formula 3's return to life at Silverstone.
Saturday schedule - all times GMT:
08:00: Formula Renault 3.5 qualifying
10:45: British Formula 3 qualifying
15:10: GP2 sprint race
15:10: British Formula 3 race one
Breaking news
Indy Lights - Indianapolis: Full race report from AUTOSPORT correspondent Mark Glendenning (@m_glendenning) now live
Checkered flag
Indy Lights: AMAZING! Big runs from Karam and Dempsey out of Turn 4 result in the leaders crossing the finish line four-wide. Demspey takes the win, which is extraordinary considering how far back he was at the start of the lap.
Checkered flag
Indy Lights - Indianapolis - results: 1 Dempsey; 2 Chaves; 3 Karam; 4 Munoz; 5 Veach; 6 Goncalvez; 7 Simpson; 8 Austin; 9 Garcia.
Indy Lights: Spin from one of the slow yellow cars at the back - hard to tell whether it was Simpson or Garcia. Whoever it is, he didn't hit anything and is up and running again.
Indy Lights: 10 laps to go. The top three have broken away again, and Chaves is starting to lose touch with Karam. Dempsey has spent the past few laps battling Veach, who seems to have suddenly vanished. He's still showing in fifth, but has lost about two seconds.
Indy Lights: Random Kyle O'Gara fact: He's the brother-in-law of IndyCar racer-turned-team owner Sarah Fisher.
Out on the track, the lead pack has closed up and Karam is under a lot of pressure from Gabby Chaves. Dempsey and Veach are hanging on to the back of the lead group.
Out on the track, the lead pack has closed up and Karam is under a lot of pressure from Gabby Chaves. Dempsey and Veach are hanging on to the back of the lead group.
Indy Lights: Blow for British title contender Jack Hawksworth, who is out of the race after glancing the Turn 4 wall.
Indy Lights: Lead change! Munoz ducks out of Karam's slipstream and takes P1. That was in the works for a while.
Zach Veach
Indy Lights: O'Gara has been released from the medical centre.
Meanwhile, Munoz is still chasing Karam and Zach Veach, driving a car with a livery even uglier than Katherine Legge's, is pressuring Dempsey for third. Seriously - purple and green. What's that all about?
Green flag
Indy Lights: Here we go. Karam and Munoz cleared off from Dempsey at the restart; Munoz is now clamped to Karam's rear wing.
Crash
Indy Lights:Literally as I wrote that last comment, Kyle O'Gara went too low into Turn 4 and spun back up into the concrete. He's OK, and all things considered, the car doesn't look too badly damaged. We're under yellows.
Green flag
Indy Lights: Green flag for the Freedom 100. Everyone's safe through turn 1, which is good news - we only have 11 cars in the field, so it can't afford to lose too many in the wall.
Sage Karam and Kyle O'Gara
It's the Indy Lights race at Indianapolis next.
Sage Karam qualified on pole, ahead of Carlos Munoz - who starts second for both the Indianapolis 500 and its Freedom 100 sibling.
Checkered flag
Indianapolis 500 - Carb Day practice results: 1 Pagenaud; 2 Viso; 3 Hunter-Reay; 4 Dixon; 5 Bourdais; 6 Franchitti; 7 Jakes; 8 Legge; 9 Andretti; 10 Tagliani.
Checkered flag
Indianapolis 500: A bit of late drama as Ryan Briscoe's car slows and then catches fire on the back straight, but the safety crews are quickly on top of things. Pagenaud ends the session on top with his 225.827mph lap.
Indianapolis 500: Simon Pagenaud goes to the top with less than a minute to go.
Indianapolis 500: For the first time today we see a lap above the 225mph mark courtesy of EJ Viso.
Legge
Indianapolis 500: Speaking of Katherine Legge, that car's livery is truly hideous. It looks like a lemon-lime popsicle. Given that she's still P3, it's unlikely that she cares much though.
Indianapolis 500: Sounds like Beatriz got caught out by a slow-moving Carlos Munoz and hit the back of the Andretti car. Minor front wing and steering damage.
Green flag
Indianapolis 500: Back underway with just under 20 minutes to go.
Yellow flag
Indianapolis 500: Ana Beatriz has stopped near the pit entry. Top three are Scott Dixon, Dario Franchitti, and Katherine Legge(!). It's currently a Honda 1-2-3.
Indianapolis 500: Almost halfway into the session, and Dario Franchitti goes P1 with 224.688mph. We haven't seen a lot of drafting so far.
By: Matt Beer, Glenn Freeman, Sam Tremayne, Pablo Elizalde, Charles Bradley, Mark Glendenning, Marcus Simmons
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