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MotoGP - Sachsenring: So with Iannone on the qualifying sidelines now, in addition to Pedrosa and Lorenzo, there are 12 riders bidding to claim a Q2 berth.
After the first competitive runs, Corti's 1m23.148s is comfortably quickest.
After the first competitive runs, Corti's 1m23.148s is comfortably quickest.
IndyCar - Toronto: The early morning start doesn't appear to be agreeing with the Indy Lights drivers, who are halfway through their qualifying session. Title contender Sage Karam walled his car in the opening minutes, and a couple of minutes ago Zach Veach hit the Turn 1 wall, bounced off and took out Peter Dempsey. Those two were provisionally second and third on the grid at the time.
Green flag
MotoGP - Sachsenring: Iannone has suffered a dislocated right shoulder in that crash earlier, and Q1 is now underway.
MotoGP - Sachsenring: We've now got a very short break - about 10 minutes - before first qualifying starts.
Checkered flag
MotoGP - Sachsenring - results: 1 Rossi; 2 Bradl; 3 Marquez; 4 Crutchlow; 5 Bautista; 6 Espargaro; 7 Hayden; 8 Smith; 9 Dovizioso; 10 Aoyama.
Stopwatch
MotoGP - Sachsenring: Rossi puts in a late flier to go fastest on a 1m21.978s - that's a marker laid down before qualifying, and then some.
Stopwatch
MotoGP - Sachsenring: A couple of stellar laps from home rider Bradl, who is the new benchmark. 1m22.046s - then a 1m22.059s - put him 0.2s clear of the rest.
MotoGP - Sachsenring: Rossi pops the sole remaining factory Yamaha up into third - so the top three are now covered by jut 0.051s.
Stopwatch
MotoGP - Sachsenring: It's getting feisty at the top of the times. Crutchlow jumps to first on a 1m22.280s, then Marquez wrests it back with a laptime of 1m22.238s.
Crash
MotoGP - Sachsenring: Andrea Iannone is down at Turn 1 and receiving medical attention in the gravel. Marquez leads the way at present on a 1m22.285s ahead of Crutchlow and Bradl.
Green flag
MotoGP - Sachsenring: The fourth MotoGP practice session is underway.
Checkered flag
Auto GP - Mugello: 1 Karthikeyan; 2 Giovesi; 3 Ghirelli; 4 Campana; 5 Sato; 6 Visoiu.
Auto GP - Mugello: Karthikeyan moves into P1 just seconds before the chequered flag.
Breaking news
MotoGP - Sachsenring: Next up is MotoGP FP4, with qualifying following very swiftly afterwards. Missing both, though, is Dani Pedrosa - and his participation in the race is also in doubt.
Honda's championship leader awaiting the results of medical checks at Chemnitz hospital after that horrible practice crash.
Full story here.
Auto GP - Mugello: A change of provisional pole. Kevin Giovesi breaks into the 1m34s. The Ghinzani newcomer enjoys a 0.3s margin over Ghirelli.
Checkered flag
MotoGP - Sachsenring: Session ends, and there's no movement on the front row - though Miller does jump up to fifth right at the last to dump Vinales to the last spot on the second row. Rins takes pole position then for tomorrow's Moto3 race.
Results: 1 Rins; 2 Salom; 3 Oliveira; 4 Folger; 5 Miller; 6 Vinales.
Results: 1 Rins; 2 Salom; 3 Oliveira; 4 Folger; 5 Miller; 6 Vinales.
Auto GP - Mugello: Track activity has begun to pick up as the qualifying session enters its final 10 minutes.
Ghirelli remains on provisional pole, albeit 0.4s off his Friday pace, ahead of Sergio Campana and Narain Karthikeyan.
Ghirelli remains on provisional pole, albeit 0.4s off his Friday pace, ahead of Sergio Campana and Narain Karthikeyan.
MotoGP - Sachsenring: ...and a problematic session for Vinales - who has struggled for outright pace all weekend so far - runs wide at Turn 1 and skates across the gravel.
Auto GP - Mugello: Meindert van Buuren is enjoying some traffic-free motoring. The Dutchman is the only car on track.
MotoGP - Sachsenring: Five minutes to go and Salom, who had edged closer to provisional polesitter Rins on his last effort, has an engine problem and pulls off track. Folger has recovered from his earlier off and has just bumped Maverick Vinales down to fifth.
Auto GP: Vittorio Ghirelli has demoted Campana from top spot. Former Formula 1 driver Christian Klien lies eighth as the entire field has pitted.
Auto GP - Mugello: A third of the way into the half-hour session, local hope Sergio Campana is in provisional pole. The Ibiza Racing driver is 0.2s clear of Karthikeyan.
Stopwatch
MotoGP - Sachsenring: 15 minutes to go and having lost top spot to Salom, Rins has lowered the bar further - 1m27.300s with his latest effort. Miguel Oliveira is up to third.
Auto GP - Mugello: Super Nova International drivers Vittorio Ghirelli and Narain Karthikeyan are pole favourites after finishing 1-2 in both of Friday's test and in free practice.
Breaking news
European F3 - Norisring: "This can't be real. I finished eighth…"
Those were the words of a bemused Euro F3 winner Tom Blomqvist. Here's the impact those penalties - imposed on 12 drivers - had on the race result.
Blomqvist inherits win amid penalty chaos
Green flag
Auto GP - Mugello: Qualifying for this afternoon's opening race at Mugello is go.
Breaking news
DTM - Norisring: The DTM has set a 2017 deadline for itself, Super GT and the as-yet unnamed DTM America series running to a common technical rules package.
Present were ITR chairman Hans Werner Aufrecht, Super GT's Masaaki Bandoh, Grand-Am's Ed Bennett, Gerd Ennser of the DMSB and Yoshiki Hiyama of the JAF.
Here's the full story.
Present were ITR chairman Hans Werner Aufrecht, Super GT's Masaaki Bandoh, Grand-Am's Ed Bennett, Gerd Ennser of the DMSB and Yoshiki Hiyama of the JAF.
Here's the full story.
Stopwatch
MotoGP - Sachsenring: Alex Rins goes to Moto3 provisional pole, on a 1m27.587s - and Jack Miller slots into second, squeezing ahead of Salom.
European F3 - Norisring: Interestingly, Felix Rosenqvist was not among the drivers penalised. So if Mucke Motorsport wins its appeal, he will be declared the race winner and take at least 15 points out of Marciello's championship lead.
What is it about the Norisring and F3?
What is it about the Norisring and F3?
Crash
MotoGP - Sachsenring: Jonas Folger shunts at the Turn 11 'Waterfall' - almost a carbon copy of Cal Crutchlow's incident in MotoGP practice yesterday. He walks away.
MotoGP - Sachsenring: After the initial flurry of times, Luis Salom is on provisional Moto3 pole - though there is more than 30 minutes remaining. He's 0.009s quicker than Vazquez at present.
European F3 - Norisring: New race one result is: 1 Blomqvist; 2 Tincknell; 3 Rudersdorf; 4 Cheever; 5 Marciello; 6 Zeller; 7 Lynn; 8 Auer; 9 Serralles; 10 Sims.
12 drivers have all been given 20-second time penalties in lieu of drive-throughs for improving sector times under yellow flags.
These include on-the-road winner Marciello, Lynn, Auer, King, Lewis, Wolf, Serralles and Cassidy.
12 drivers have all been given 20-second time penalties in lieu of drive-throughs for improving sector times under yellow flags.
These include on-the-road winner Marciello, Lynn, Auer, King, Lewis, Wolf, Serralles and Cassidy.
Green flag
MotoGP - Sachsenring: The green flag flies and the Moto3 pole battle is underway.
European F3 - Norisring: To add to the bemusement going on here, the backboard on the press-confernece stage fell on Blomqvist as he was delivering the answer to his first question.
Blomqvist had finished eighth on the road, by the way, with Tincknell 11th and Rudersdorf 14th (before Rosenqvist was taken off the timesheets).
Blomqvist had finished eighth on the road, by the way, with Tincknell 11th and Rudersdorf 14th (before Rosenqvist was taken off the timesheets).
While we try to make sense of events at the Norisring, we slip back into practice and qualifying mode until late afternoon now.
First up is Moto3 qualifying at the Sachsenring, then the equivalent Auto GP session at Mugello - and our first bit of Stateside action from today in the form of Indy Lights qualifying in Toronto.
First up is Moto3 qualifying at the Sachsenring, then the equivalent Auto GP session at Mugello - and our first bit of Stateside action from today in the form of Indy Lights qualifying in Toronto.
European F3 - Norisring: All this chaos, of course, is from the same venue that in 2012 brought you the infamous race with no winner.
Breaking news
European F3 - Norisring: This is weird... Up on the stage in the hospitality village come... Tom Blomqvist (1st), Harry Tincknell (2nd) and Andre Rudersdorf (3rd). Tom and Tincks look like they've just become unwitting victims in a Dom Joly sketch. There have been tons of penalties and exclusions, we'll bring you full story ASAP.
European F3 - Norisring: Consternation with the sweaty journos who've just discovered that the post-race press conference is not in the media centre, but on a stage somewhere among the concession stands. Of course, that's where the media are, isn't it? We've all just been standing around all morning waiting for Earth, Wind and Fire to turn up rather than reporting on any motor racing... As a result, we'll not be able to bring you any comments from drivers for a short while.
Breaking news
Auto GP - Mugello: The Auto GP World Series has presented a proposal to teams that would see it return to the WTCC package next year, on which it ran exclusively in 2012.
The series is set to continue featuring an eight-round calendar. Should teams agree to the proposed calendar, there is likely to be an increased number of long-haul races. Events in Japan, Shanghai, Sonoma and Argentina are being evaluated.
European F3 - Norisring: So as it stands that's Marciello's championship lead up to 52.5 points over Rosenqvist pending the Mucke Motorsport appeal.
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