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V8 Supercars - Austin race 1 result: 1 Whincup; 2 Lowndes; 3 Coulthard; 4 W Davison; 5 Tander; 6 R Kelly; 7 Webb; 8 Winterbottom; 9 Courtney; 10 Wall.
V8 Supercars - Austin: V8 Supercars' first race in America is about to get underway. Fabian Coulthard has pole for race one.
WTCC - Salzburgring: Grid still unclear as penalty news unfolds, but Sam Tremayne has the story of the massive punishments handed out.
MotoGP - Le Mans: Cal Crutchlow is in doubt for race day at Le Mans after a shin fracture was found from his practice crash. Full story here.
DTM - Brands Hatch: Martin Tomczyk has been stripped of his pole position, Mike Rockenfeller inheriting pole as a result. Tomczyk starts last.
ELMS - Imola: Beche/Thiriet win for TDS, 46s up on Signatech drivers Panciatici/Ragues. Morand third with Mailleux and Gachnang. Ram duo Griffin and Mowlem take GTE honours.
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V8 Supercars - Austin - race two qualifying: 1 Whincup; 2 Lowndes; 3 Coulthard; 4 van Gisbergen; 5 Webb; 6 R Kelly; 7 Davison; 8 Premat; 9 McLoughlin; 10 Moffat.
Winterbottom back in 12th.
Winterbottom back in 12th.
ERC - Corsica: A late scare for Jan Kopecky as his Skoda begins to misfire on the last stage, dropping him 39s away from winner Bryan Bouffier.
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ERC - Corsica final result: 1 Bouffier; 2 Kopecky; 3 Sarrazin; 4 Breen; 5 Delecour; 6 Maurin.
Euro F3 - Brands Hatch: Marciello on his win: "My biggest rival was Nissany! Six laps he stay in my way! It's difficult for these drivers because they're in a fight, but six laps is a bit too much."
ERC - Corsica: Craig Breen misses out on the podium. After a flat-out final stage for both men, Stephane Sarrazin pips him by three seconds.
Euro F3 - Brands Hatch: Marciello untroubled in win at Brands, although backmarkers allowed Lynn to slash the gap.
V8 Supercars - Austin: Big surprise of that first qualifying session was David Wall getting onto row two, by far his best and another sign of Brad Jones Racing's 2013 strength. Wall's Britek squad is a BJR satellite.
Race two qualifying is just minutes away.
Race two qualifying is just minutes away.
European F3 - Brands Hatch: Race 2, 1 Marciello; 2 Lynn; 3 Auer; 4 Muller; 5 Rosenqvist; 6 Blomqvist; 7 Tincknell 8 Buller; 10 Mardenborough.
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V8 Supercars - Austin - race one qualifying: 1 Fabian Coulthard; 2 Jamie Whincup; 3 Craig Lowndes; 4 David Wall; 5 Will Davison; 6 Jonathon Webb; 7 Mark Winterbottom; 8 Garth Tander; 9 Shane van Gisbergen; 10 Rick Kelly.
WTCC - Salzburgring: Recriminations over qualifying's unusual climax haven't stopped yet, with 14 drivers being hauled to the stewards.
Yvan Muller, Tom Chilton, Rob Huff, Gabriele Tarquini, Norbert Michelisz, Mikhail Kozlovskiy, Alex MacDowall, James Nash, Tom Coronel, Tiago Monteiro, Hugo Valente, Stefano D’Aste, Pepe Oriola and DarrylO’Young are all being seen individually, with plenty of rumours flying around about possible punishments.
Yvan Muller, Tom Chilton, Rob Huff, Gabriele Tarquini, Norbert Michelisz, Mikhail Kozlovskiy, Alex MacDowall, James Nash, Tom Coronel, Tiago Monteiro, Hugo Valente, Stefano D’Aste, Pepe Oriola and DarrylO’Young are all being seen individually, with plenty of rumours flying around about possible punishments.
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Superstars - Brno: Thomas Biagi on taking pole position for Mercedes; "I didn't know I was on pole until I got back to parc ferme, because I turned my radio off so I could concentrate on my last flying lap."
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Superstars - Brno: Giovanni Berton on his out-of-the-blue qualifying pace; "We didn't use any new tyres in practice. In qualifying, they made the difference. Tomorrow will be a good fight."
ERC - Corsica: Final stage is about to get underway. Bryan Bouffier should have this in the bag now. Craig Breen faces a tough task to get third place back from Stephane Sarrazin.
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DTM - Brands Hatch: Toto Wolff on having five Mercedes near the back of the grid... "Is it not a reversed-grid race tomorrow? Seriously, I'm having to do something, anything, to still be able to smile."
Superstars - Brno - qualifying: 1; Thomas Biagi; 2 Giovanni Berton; 3 Tonio Liuzzi; 4 Fabrizio Giovanardi; 5 Gianni Morbidelli; 6 Luigi Ferrara; 7 Max Mugelli; 8 Edoardo Piscopo; 9 Christian Klien; 10 Francesco Sini.
European F3 Brands Hatch: Not far into race two and Raffaele Marciello - who beat Alex Lynn into Paddock at the start - is already nearly 5s in front. An All-Prema 1-2-3 at the moment.
Superstars - Brno: Crazy finish to qualifying. Just when it looked like Giovanni Berton would take a shock pole, Thomas Biagi nabbed top spot right at the death – by 0.04s!
MotoGP - Le Mans: Dani Pedrosa admits his crash halfway through Q2 blew his chance of a front-row spot, as he didn't have time to get himself up to speed or his tyres up to temperature when he got back on his spare Honda. He will start sixth.
ELMS - Imola: Leader Beche and chasing Turvey trading fastest race laps as they head towards their second pitstops. Gap stands at 3.2s just before half distance in this three-hour race.
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MotoGP - Le Mans: 49-time MotoGP polesitter Valentino Rossi admits that he can't match Jorge Lorenzo and the Hondas in qualifying these days. Here's the full story.
Superstars - Brno: Qualifying is underway here in the Czech Republic. The weather has held off and we have a dry track. 30 minutes to determine pole position.
ERC - Corsica: But it looks like battle over at the front. Bryan Bouffier extends his lead over Jan Kopecky to 13s, with the Czech deciding not to risk pushing for victory as he has a championship lead to protect.
ERC - Corsica: If you thought the battle for third was over when Craig Breen got back ahead of Stephane Sarrazin, think again.
Sarrazin blitzed the penultimate stage and beat Breen by 8s, so will take a 7.9s advantage onto the decider.
Sarrazin blitzed the penultimate stage and beat Breen by 8s, so will take a 7.9s advantage onto the decider.
ELMS - Imola: Commentator's curse - Griffin loses GTE lead seconds after the clock passes one hour. Long goes past when the Ram Ferrari suffers fuel surge and heads for the pits.
ELMS - Imola: Beche leads Turvey by 6.2s at the end of the first hour. Mailleux a further 9s back in Morand Morgan. Griffin leads Long by 0.6s in GTE
ELMS - Imola: DKR Lola reported for speeding in the pitlane. No reports of it speeding out on the circuit - old Pecom Lola woefully slow. Turvey and Jota lose out to Beche and TDS in first round of stops.
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Superstars - Brno: Thomas Biagi has been doing some pre-qualifying tweeting. According to Google Translate, he says that practice was OK, he's optimistic despite having 50kg of ballast, and that the Brno circuit is wonderful. Italian speakers can see the original here.
Imola - ELMS: That's bizarre. Top five cars all set their fastest lap of the race at the same time - leader Turvey is fastest of all to eke out his advantage over Hartley to 0.9s
DTM - Brands Hatch: Toto Wolff (after no Mercedes qualified higher than 12th): "This is not what we wanted to achieve. It's very disappointing. We need to fully analyse what happened."
DTM - Brands Hatch: Martin Tomczyk: You need everything to come together on one lap here, and thankfully it did today. I've waited a long time for this.
WTCC - Salzburgring: Yvan Muller takes his third pole of 2013 as qualifying builds to a comical finish. Read it here.
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