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NASCAR - Homestead: There’s just under 30 minutes to go before the final race of the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup series schedule gets underway in south Florida. At the Homestead-Miami Speedway, to be precise.
So Sebastien Ogier finishes his world-championship-winning season with a win for VW. Welshman Elfyn Evans win WRC2 in front of his home fans. We'll be back at 8pm UK time for the NASCAR Sprint Cup title showdown between Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth.
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Ogier Rally GB
World champion Sebastien Ogier wins Rally GB from VW team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala: "Once again the car was perfect. I knew this rally wasn't the best for me in the past, but even with that we managed to win. Another great victory for us - a really perfect season."
1. Ogier, 2. Latvala, 3. Neuville,
4. Ostberg, 5. Mikkelsen, 6. Prokop.
Latvala fastest so far through the final stage in 2m38.5s. Disappointed to have failed to achieve a Rally GB hat-trick.
Thierry Neuville confirms his runner-up spot in this year's WRC: "I'm really really happy with that. We couldn't imagine that at the beginning of the season - a new car and a new team [for me] but they have such a good job and we've worked so hard to achieve it."
Andreas Mikkelsen comes in third fastest through Great Orme. Doesn't sound too disappointed with his weekend's work, despite the podium challenge crumbling away this morning.
Novikov leads the way on the final stage at the moment, from Ostberg and Sordo.
The final stage of WRC 2013 is live. Evgeny Novikov is first through in his M-Sport Ford Fiesta.
Final stage at Great Orme coming up, though times from Kinmel are still filtering through. Less than 3 miles in total so no real ramifications for the overall standings.
Novikov improved by 2s in his second run through Kinmel. Times are a bit slow coming in, but it seems as though the stage cleaned up a little as the cars went back for seconds.
Ogier pipped Latvala to the fastest time first time through Kinmel by 0.3s. Novikov ended up third fastest.
Drivers complaining that Kinmel Park is the slipperiest stage on the entire rally.
Dani Sordo's Citroen is 0.3s slower than Novikov in the first run through Kinmel Park.
Two runs through Kinmel Park bring us to the brink of the end of the 2013 WRC season. Novikov is first through in 1m34.9s in front of throngs of spectators.
Latvala is furious after stalling in the Powerstage and dropping nearly 7s to the leaders. His slim chances of beating Ogier to victory have faded further with that error.
Neuville goes half a second quicker through the Powerstage than Novikov to top the times.
Mikkelsen now 13s down on Novikov through the second split. He's been off and damaged the right side and underside of the car.
"We tried everything. The right rear hit a bank and spun us around in fifth gear. We are lucky to be here."
"We tried everything. The right rear hit a bank and spun us around in fifth gear. We are lucky to be here."
Mikkelsen has dropped a lot of time through the first split. He's 11s down on Novikov's benchmark. Perhaps the slippery conditions have caught out the VW driver?
Powerstage is up and running now. Novikov first home in 4m18.5s.
A 12-minute delay to the start of the Powerstage. Organisers double checking the safety of spectators owing to large numbers of fans that have turned out for this one.
WRC - Rally GB Fans still pouring into Wales for the final day of the event. The organisers are now reporting the Clocaenog car park is full. And has been for sometime.
Best bet is to head up to Llandudno, have some fish and chips by the sea and then walk up the hill and onto the Orme for the final stage.
Best bet is to head up to Llandudno, have some fish and chips by the sea and then walk up the hill and onto the Orme for the final stage.
Second run through the Clocaenog Powerstage coming up shortly. Thierry Neuville was fastest through this section on Friday and will be hoping for a repeat.
Sebastien Ogier Rally GB
Overall top 10 after SS18, Penllyn:
1. Ogier
2. Latvala +19.5s
3. Neuville +1m19.9s
4. Ostberg +1m39.1s
5. Mikkelsen +1m41.0s
6. Prokop +7m11.5s
7. Sordo +8m10.1s
8. Evans +10m29.4s
9. Ketomaa +11m30.5s
10. Higgins +12m26.7s
Elfyn Evans re-asserts himself over Jari Ketomaa in WRC 2, beating the misfire-afflicted Finn by three seconds in SS18.
Latavala on the gap to Ogier: "The pace is now fine but we have too much difference to him. I should have started this rally with better speed. I got the spark too late. I can't catch him now without a mistake, but I will keep going until the end. We can't relax."
Latvala goes third fastest through SS18, Ogier only fifth. But just 3s covered the top five so no big changes to the overall order.
Neuville reckons he lost "three, four, five seconds" in that stage. "A mistake from the pacenotes so I had to slow down a lot and put the car sideways to take the corner."
Ostberg still leads the way in SS18 so far, from Mikkelsen, Novikov and Thierry Neuville.
No Robert Kubica or Mikko Hirvonen today of course. Both have retired after crashing out. In Kubica's case, twice!
Mikkelsen drops another seven tenths of a second to Ostberg through Penllyn.
Evgeny Novikov first back after SS18, reporting "nothing special" from the stage from the cockpit of his mud-caked Ford Fiesta.
Mads Ostberg Rally GB
Mads Ostberg came within an ace of taking his first fastest stage time on Rally GB through Dyfnant this morning.
Had to give best to world champion Sebastien Ogier by just 0.2s in the end though.
Still enough to put him up on Andreas Mikkelsen in the battle for fourth overall, though.
Mikkelsen reckoned his spin in SS17 cost him about 10s, which could prove crucial in the final reckoning.
SS18 Penllyn about to get underway in Wales.
With the longest stage of the final day over, Jari-Matti Latvala faces an uphill battle in his fight to overhaul VW team-mate Sebastien Ogier for the lead of Rally GB.
Timing screens have updated in Evans' favour now. He dropped just 2s to Ketomaa in that stage rather than 20.
WRC2 class leader Elfyn Evans has dropped 20s of his 1min lead over Jari Ketomaa according to official timing, though the man himself begs to differ.
Latvala reporting worsening understeer on his VW after making some enforced set-up changes overnight.
Surprise, surprise, Sebastien Ogier leaps to the top of the stage times, just 0.4s quicker than Ostberg, to maintain his overall lead over team-mate Latvala.
Latvala completes SS17 just 0.2s slower than Ostberg. Neuville goes third fastest and says he has to drive "as fast as possible" as he fights for second in the championship.
Ford driver Mads Ostberg sets the fastest stage time so far, 8.5s up on VW's Andreas Mikkelsen. A costly spin has dented Mikkelsen's chances of beating Neuville to third overall as Ostberg moves up to fourth.
By: Dan Cross, Matt Beer, David Evans, Scott Mitchell, Marcus Simmons, Sam Tremayne, Charles Bradley
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