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WRC - Germany: If you're just joining us and need to catch up with the opening loop of Rally Germany stages, here's the full recap:
Rally Germany Friday morning report
Rally Germany Friday morning report
GP2 - Belgium: Almost all cars are out on track, only Nasr, Quaife-Hobbs, Takuya Izawa and Tom Dillmann are not running, as well as the stranded car of Coletti.
Green flag
GP2 - Belgium: Cars are back out on track with less than four minutes remaining.
Nasr will not go back out and finishes practice no higher than P13.
Nasr will not go back out and finishes practice no higher than P13.
GP2 - Belgium: With seven minutes remaining the top 10 are as follows:
1 Leal
2 Cecotto
3 Marciello
4 Berthon
5 Vandoorne
6 Canamasas
7 Coletti
8 Richelmi
9 Evans
10 Quaife-Hobbs
1 Leal
2 Cecotto
3 Marciello
4 Berthon
5 Vandoorne
6 Canamasas
7 Coletti
8 Richelmi
9 Evans
10 Quaife-Hobbs
Red flag
GP2 - Belgium: Red flags are out as Coletti gets out of his stranded Racing Engineering entry.
His session is over, and he currently sits in seventh.
His session is over, and he currently sits in seventh.
GP2 - Belgium: Coletti has a spin and brings out the yellow flags. He goes wide and touches the gravel to spin onto the track.
WRC - Germany: Big change in WRC2 on SS3 and a bit of heartbreak for Citroen and France.
Chardonnet has lost over two minutes with a power steering problem, and that puts Sousa into the lead.
Continuing the shake-up, his main rival is now ex-Junior champion Pontus Tidemand (who's been racing in World Rallycross with Mattias Ekstrom's Audi project this year). He's up to second in class now on his WRC return, 2.1s off Rally Azores winner Sousa.
Al-Attiyah and Tanak are third and fourth, a further 5.7s and 11.2s back respectively.
Chardonnet has lost over two minutes with a power steering problem, and that puts Sousa into the lead.
Continuing the shake-up, his main rival is now ex-Junior champion Pontus Tidemand (who's been racing in World Rallycross with Mattias Ekstrom's Audi project this year). He's up to second in class now on his WRC return, 2.1s off Rally Azores winner Sousa.
Al-Attiyah and Tanak are third and fourth, a further 5.7s and 11.2s back respectively.
GP2 - Belgium: Simon Trummer sets a purple sector 1 with a 33.8s sector time... his fastest time is 0.9s off Leal's quickest time.
GP2 - Belgium: Conor Daly has set green times in the first two sectors as he looks to improve on 26th position. His Lazarus team-mate Berthon currently lies in third.
WRC - Germany: It's going to take a while before all the other classes and local runners are through before we can figure it out properly, but Kubica's mishap is likely to drop from from his previous ninth place to somewhere around 60th or 70th overall.
Not that he'll be looking at overall placings at all now. His focus will be on figuring out why that mistake happened and learning from it.
Not that he'll be looking at overall placings at all now. His focus will be on figuring out why that mistake happened and learning from it.
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GP2 - Belgium: Leal goes top with a 1m57.877s - 0.1s quicker than Cecotto.
GP2 - Belgium: Nasr has won the most races this season with three. Before this year he had never taken a GP2 victory, despite being in title contention for much of 2013.
Vandoorne, Arthur Pic, Palmer, Cecotto, Coletti, Evans and Richelmi have also won this year.
Vandoorne, Arthur Pic, Palmer, Cecotto, Coletti, Evans and Richelmi have also won this year.
GP2 - Belgium: Championship leader Palmer and challengers Nasr and Vandoorne are in the pits.
Leal meanwhile improves in the first two sectors.
Leal meanwhile improves in the first two sectors.
GP2 - Belgium: Jon Lancaster and Takuya Izawa both improve in the second sector.
Breaking news
WRC - Germany - SS3 summary:
* Latvala pegs Ogier back with a stage win, keeping the lead gap at 1.9s
* Meeke and Sordo jump to third and fourth overall
* Mikkelsen has an impact that damages a wheel but doesn't quite give him a puncture
* Kubica goes off the road and loses four minutes
* Latvala pegs Ogier back with a stage win, keeping the lead gap at 1.9s
* Meeke and Sordo jump to third and fourth overall
* Mikkelsen has an impact that damages a wheel but doesn't quite give him a puncture
* Kubica goes off the road and loses four minutes
GP2 - Belgium: No one on track at the moment is setting an improved time - only 10 cars are on track.
GP2 - Belgium: The top 10 after 15 minutes then is as follows:
1 Cecotto
2 Leal
3 Berthon
4 Vandoorne
5 Canamasas
6 Coletti
7 Raffaele Marciello
8 Richelmi
9 Evans
10 Adrian Quaife-Hobbs
1 Cecotto
2 Leal
3 Berthon
4 Vandoorne
5 Canamasas
6 Coletti
7 Raffaele Marciello
8 Richelmi
9 Evans
10 Adrian Quaife-Hobbs
GP2 - Belgium: Artem Markelov is the only driver currently not set a time below two minutes. His team-mate Mitch Evans is ninth, 0.4s off the quickest time.
Checkered flag
WRC - Germany - SS3 results:
Stage times:
1 Latvala 12m48.1s
2 Ogier +0.2s
3 Meeke +5.5s
4 Sordo +9.2s
5 Neuville +11.8s
6 Hirvonen +13.2s
Overall leaderboard:
1 Ogier
2 Latvala +1.9s
3 Meeke +24.0s
4 Sordo +28.6s
5 Mikkelsen +31.4s
6 Ostberg +31.7s
Stage times:
1 Latvala 12m48.1s
2 Ogier +0.2s
3 Meeke +5.5s
4 Sordo +9.2s
5 Neuville +11.8s
6 Hirvonen +13.2s
Overall leaderboard:
1 Ogier
2 Latvala +1.9s
3 Meeke +24.0s
4 Sordo +28.6s
5 Mikkelsen +31.4s
6 Ostberg +31.7s
GP2 - Belgium: Leal goes second quickest with his first flying lap, setting a purple sector 3 time.
GP2 - Belgium: Carlin's Julian Leal is the only driver yet to set a competitive time.
Cecotto meanwhile goes quickest by 0.2s.
Cecotto meanwhile goes quickest by 0.2s.
GP2 - Belgium: Nathanael Berthon in the Lazarus entry goes quickest with a 1m58.291s.
GP2 - Belgium: Sergio Canamasas jumps to first ahead of Palmer and Nasr.
GP2 - Belgium: Stephane Richelmi goes quickest and is the first driver into the 1m58s with a time of 1m58.689s.
WRC - Germany Meeke will also be pretty chuffed to be through Moselland. That's the stage where electrical gremlins ruined his mega, Sebastien Ogier-beating 2008 run in a Clio. Then three years and 200 metres up the road, his Mini was silenced with an electrical problem as well. Not this time though.
Please (please, please) don't let him have any kind of electrical trouble second time through. That would be just too weird.
Please (please, please) don't let him have any kind of electrical trouble second time through. That would be just too weird.
GP2 - Belgium: Johnny Cecotto Jr has set a 2m13.980s to go quickest.
Palmer is 0.01s behind in second.
Palmer is 0.01s behind in second.
GP2 - Belgium: Jolyon Palmer has won two races so far, and stacked up another six podium finishes to top the championship.
Green flag
GP2 - Belgium: Green flag waves and the session begins.
Almost all the drivers go out immediately as they battle to get the best track position for a flying lap.
Almost all the drivers go out immediately as they battle to get the best track position for a flying lap.
WRC - Germany: Sordo is fourth quickest, just behind Meeke, and that's where he goes overall as well. Great effort.
WRC - Germany: Waiting for Sordo again now, his pace on the splits is in a similar range to Mikkelsen and Neuville.
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WRC - Germany: Kubica completes the stage with a wobbling front left wheel, just over four minutes off the pace.
"We went off, I was not holding enough steering and I lost the line a bit and by the time I recovered it was too late," he explains.
"We were stuck and fortunately the spectators helped us."
"We went off, I was not holding enough steering and I lost the line a bit and by the time I recovered it was too late," he explains.
"We were stuck and fortunately the spectators helped us."
GP2 - Belgium: The 45 minute practice session will begin shortly as the cars prepare to hit the track.
Crash
WRC - Germany: Kubica's trip off the road has cost him about four minutes. He seems to be running fine now.
GP2 - Belgium: Pirelli tyre selection this weekend is hard and medium for what is the longest track layout on the GP2 calendar.
WRC - Germany: That was a superb time from Meeke. On a rally where Ogier and Latvala's rivals have been struggling to get within 10s per stage of them, Meeke was only 5s down.
The only other man in a similar range so far is Neuville, who slotted in fourth quickest in the i20 rebuilt after yesterday's shunt.
The only other man in a similar range so far is Neuville, who slotted in fourth quickest in the i20 rebuilt after yesterday's shunt.
GP2 - Belgium: GP2 is in action this weekend at Spa-Francorchamps. It's the eighth round of the season, and sees the series back after the summer break.
Stoffel Vandoorne won the last race in Hungary for the ART team, and the Belgian driver will be looking to build on his third position in the championship at his home circuit.
Carlin's Felipe Nasr is second, 43 points adrift of championship leader Jolyon Palmer in the DAMS entry.
Stoffel Vandoorne won the last race in Hungary for the ART team, and the Belgian driver will be looking to build on his third position in the championship at his home circuit.
Carlin's Felipe Nasr is second, 43 points adrift of championship leader Jolyon Palmer in the DAMS entry.
WRC - Germany: After that spin on SS1 this morning, Meeke is now making rapid progress. Third quickest on SS3 now, that's brought him ahead of Mikkelsen and Ostberg into third overall.
Crash
WRC - Germany: Kubica has been off the road early on this stage. He seems to have got going again with assistance from spectatrs.
WRC - Germany: Mikkelsen completes the stage OK, but with signs of a bit of an impact on one of his rear wheels. He was concerned it might have given him a puncture but it seems fine.
The Norwegian is 14.3s off Latvala's pace up front.
The Norwegian is 14.3s off Latvala's pace up front.
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WRC - Germany: Latvala looks and sounds like a man who is pushing very hard in this fight.
"It's a good time, but it's not easy. I feel it's slippier this year than it was last year.
"Some places are very difficult to get a feeling of what the grip is actually like.
"There was some dirt, but it was not as bad as the previous stage."
"It's a good time, but it's not easy. I feel it's slippier this year than it was last year.
"Some places are very difficult to get a feeling of what the grip is actually like.
"There was some dirt, but it was not as bad as the previous stage."
By: Matt Beer, David Evans, AUTOSPORT staff, Gary Watkins, Dan Cross, Charles Bradley, Kevin Turner
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