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Things have been a bit bike-dominated so far this morning, but if you feel the Yamahas, Ducatis and Hondas need some more wheels, it's not long until IndyCar practice begins in Baltimore and the World Endurance Championship stirs in Brazil.
Stopwatch
Jorge Lorenzo
MotoGP - Silverstone: Lorenzo is not messing about this afternoon. His first flying lap is a 2m02.734s, which is sub-lap record pace and 0.4s clear of Marquez's initial effort.
MotoGP - Silverstone: Aleix Espargaro is currently third on the CRT-leading Aspar Aprilia, a second and a half off Lorenzo's flying pace.
MotoGP - Silverstone: As Pedrosa, Bautista, Hayden and Dovizioso get up to speed, Espargaro starts sliding back down the top 10.
MotoGP - Silverstone: Halfway through the session, Lorenzo and Marquez's early times have held up as the bencmarks.
Here's the current order:
1 Lorenzo; 2 Marquez; 3 Pedrosa; 4 Bautista; 5 Hayden; 6 Dovizioso; 7 Crutchlow; 8 Espargaro; 9 Smith; 10 Rossi.
Here's the current order:
1 Lorenzo; 2 Marquez; 3 Pedrosa; 4 Bautista; 5 Hayden; 6 Dovizioso; 7 Crutchlow; 8 Espargaro; 9 Smith; 10 Rossi.
MotoGP - Silverstone: Rossi is working his way forwards, using the hard tyre he's jumped to fourth place now.
MotoGP - Silverstone: As we go into the final minutes, Marquez gets down to within two tenths of Lorenzo.
Crash
MotoGP - Silverstone: Our first shunt of the day, as Bryan Staring falls and limps away from his bike.
MotoGP - Silverstone: Looks like a quiet end to the session, less than a minute to go and none of the frontrunners on quicker laps.
Checkered flag
Jorge Lorenzo MotoGP 2013
MotoGP - Silverstone: Chequered flag, and it is indeed Lorenzo who seals top spot and ends day one on top.
MotoGP - Silverstone - free practice two:
1 Lorenzo; 2 Marquez; 3 Pedrosa; 4 Bautista; 5 Rossi; 6 Crutchlow; 7 Dovizioso; 8 Smith; 9 Bradl; 10 Hayden
1 Lorenzo; 2 Marquez; 3 Pedrosa; 4 Bautista; 5 Rossi; 6 Crutchlow; 7 Dovizioso; 8 Smith; 9 Bradl; 10 Hayden
IndyCar - Baltimore: It's sunny. It's slightly humid. The air smells of crab cakes. And there's an old-school baseball stadium just over there. We must be in Baltimore. And in a couple of minutes, IndyCar will be on track for its first session of the weekend.
Green flag
Moto2 - Silverstone: Friday's final Moto2 practice session is underway.
Scott Redding boosted hopes of a Silverstone home win when he topped this morning's first session, although title rival Pol Espargaro was just 0.059s down the road.
Redding also had good news for the home fans on Thursday - if you missed it, he confirmed his long-awaited progression into the premier class next year with the satellite Gresini Honda squad.
Scott Redding boosted hopes of a Silverstone home win when he topped this morning's first session, although title rival Pol Espargaro was just 0.059s down the road.
Redding also had good news for the home fans on Thursday - if you missed it, he confirmed his long-awaited progression into the premier class next year with the satellite Gresini Honda squad.
Green flag
IndyCar - Baltimore: Green flag.
Yellow flag
IndyCar - Baltimore: And an immediate yellow flag. This happens so often that we need a special logo for it. It looks like Bourdais is in the run-off.
Moto2 - Silverstone: Ten minutes in and it's as close as you like. Nakagami leads the way at present, but Zarco, Espargaro and Redding are all within 0.4s of the Kalex Honda rider.
Green flag
IndyCar - Baltimore: Back underway. Actually, the session restarted a couple of minutes ago, but we were busy chatting and missed the green flag.
Noteworthy this weekend is the first IndyCar appearance by Stefan Wilson in the #18 Dale Coyne entry, a car that has been driven by approximately 9,000,002 other people this year.
Noteworthy this weekend is the first IndyCar appearance by Stefan Wilson in the #18 Dale Coyne entry, a car that has been driven by approximately 9,000,002 other people this year.
IndyCar - Baltimore: The early session leader is Tony Kanaan, and ...
Moto2 - Silverstone: Rabat deposes Nakagami at the head of the timesheets. Zarco, Espargaro and Redding are still next up, but the latter has been joined in the top six by compatriot Danny Kent, who is also the last man in the 2m08s bracket.
Red flag
IndyCar - Baltimore: ... and we have a red flag. Stefan Wilson is off at Turn 5.
WEC - Interlagos: Le Mans feels like a long time ago - the WEC has burst back into life after more than two months of inactivity here at Interlagos.
FP1 has just started, and so far Duval, Davidson and Treluyer are separated by just four tenths at the top of the times.
FP1 has just started, and so far Duval, Davidson and Treluyer are separated by just four tenths at the top of the times.
Green flag
IndyCar - Baltimore: And here we go again.
WEC - Interlagos: Not to forget the other classes, Pla is on top in P2 for OAK, Lietz in GTE Pro for Porsche and series debutant Thiim for Aston Martin in GTE Am.
Interlagos
WEC - Interlagos: Here are McNish, Kristensen and Duval reminding themselves which way the circuit goes last night.
Red flag
Indycar - Baltimore: Debris on the track.
Moto2 - Silverstone: It's now a Pons one-two at the top as Espargaro leads Rabat.
A reminder that Rabat is in a curious situation: he should be helping team-mate Espargaro's title bid right now, but his relationship with the rest of his current garage is not spectacular. So he's leaving at the end of the year... to replace Scott Redding at Marc VDS...
Redding is seventh at present.
A reminder that Rabat is in a curious situation: he should be helping team-mate Espargaro's title bid right now, but his relationship with the rest of his current garage is not spectacular. So he's leaving at the end of the year... to replace Scott Redding at Marc VDS...
Redding is seventh at present.
Indycar - Baltimore: A bit has happened over the past 15 minutes, but an internet outage prevented us from telling you about it. In short: the session is about to end, and Dixon is P1.
Checkered flag
IndyCar - Baltimore: Actually, we lied. Another lag with the internet prevented us from seeing that Will Power was still on the track, and he claimed the top spot right at the end. If this internet doesn't get sorted out, it's going to be an annoying weekend.
Checkered flag
Moto2 - Silverstone: Here's the day's final order as practice two comes to an end.
1 Zarco; 2 Nakagami; 3 Luthi; 4 Rabat; 5 Redding; 6 Espargaro; 7 Torres; 8 Kent; 9 Aegerter; 10 Simeon.
1 Zarco; 2 Nakagami; 3 Luthi; 4 Rabat; 5 Redding; 6 Espargaro; 7 Torres; 8 Kent; 9 Aegerter; 10 Simeon.
WEC - Interlagos: Davidson goes quickest with a 1m22.110s. The significance there is that it's a couple of tenths faster than Wurz's pole time for Toyota last year.
Breaking news
Will Power
IndyCar - Baltimore: Here's the full story and results list from the weekend's opening IndyCar session.
Baltimore IndyCar practice one report
We'll keep filtering all the news from the world's paddocks into Race Centre Live, but our next session updates are a few hours away yet, with second Baltimore IndyCar and Interlagos WEC practice beginning around 7.30pm BST.
We'll have coverage of the start of the European Rally Championship's Czech round too.
We'll have coverage of the start of the European Rally Championship's Czech round too.
Checkered flag
WEC - Interlagos: Toyota ends up quickest with a 1m21.881s for Davidson. That's eight tenths up on the best Audi time set by Fassler. That begs the question, is Toyota back in the game?
Checkered flag
WEC - Interlagos: OAK leads the way in P2, Pla just over a tenth up on team-mate Plowman. Turner is quickest for Aston in GTE Pro with a time six tenths up on Lieb in the Porsche.
Welcome back to AUTOSPORT Race Centre Live for an evening (if you're in Europe) of IndyCar practice from Baltimore, World Endurance Championship practice from Interlagos, European Rally Championship action from the Czech Republic and a bit of NASCAR news from Atlanta.
Breaking news
NASCAR - Atlanta: Early bit of news from the NASCAR Sprint Cup weekend as Kyle Larson is introduced as Juan Pablo Montoya's replacement at Earnhardt Ganassi Racing.
Green flag
IndyCar - Baltimore: I nearly wrote 'Sonoma' instead of 'Baltimore' there. Force of habit. Anyway, second practice has started, with Tony Kanaan again setting the early pace.
Red flag
IndyCar - Baltimore: I was just about to tell you about Josef Newgarden moving to the top, but instead I have to tell you about a red flag for a track inspection. There's just over 30 minutes to go, and a few guys still haven't been onto the track yet. That list includes Scott Dixon and Will Power.
Green flag
IndyCar - Baltimore: OK, we see what the problem was. There was contact in the chicane that resulted in a bit of Oriol Servia's wing being left in the middle of the track. Anyway, it has been cleaned up and the cars are heading back out.
Breaking news
Kyle Larson
NASCAR - Atlanta: Here's the full story of Kyle Larson's promotion to what was Juan Pablo Montoya's NASCAR drive.
Earnhardt Ganassi picks Larson as Montoya replacement
By: Matt Beer, Scott Mitchell, Sam Tremayne, Mark Glendenning, Gary Watkins, Connell Sanders Jr, Peter Mills, Andrew van Leeuwen, Andrew van de Burgt, Dan Cross
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