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Silverstone WEC, Ricard WTCC, Donington BTCC

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BTCC - Donington: Plato takes his 83rd BTCC win, with Tordoff second and reigning champion Jordan completing the podium.
WEC - Silverstone: Buemi runs wide on the exit of Club and takes second from di Grassi crossing the line.
BTCC - Donington: One lap to go and Plato has responded to Tordoff's threat with his best lap. Austin still has fastest lap.
WEC - Silverstone: Wurz leads from di Grassi, who has a look into the Arena section. Jani has dropped from third to sixth.
BTCC - Donington: Giovanardi has now moved to the front of a big multi-car battle for seventh.

Tordoff is now really close to leader Plato.
WEC - Silverstone: Five-time Le Mans winner Derek Bell, grand marshal here, waves the cars off the grid to start the formation lap.
BTCC - Donington: Austin now sets the fastest lap on his slicks, but it is probably too late to make an impact on the race.
WEC - Silverstone: The race has been declared wet. That means the cars don't have to start on the tyres on which they qualified.
BTCC - Donington: Jordan passes Turkington into Redgate and Collard passes his BMW team-mate on the exit, so the order is:

Plato, Tordoff, Jordan, Collard, Turkington, Shedden.
WEC - Silverstone: The starting drivers in the factory cars are: #7 Wurz, #1 di Grassi, #14 Jani, #2 Lotterer, #8 Buemi & #20 Bernhard.
BTCC - Donington: And Jordan passes Shedden on the exit of Redgate. Collard, on his own charge, also passes the Honda shortly afterwards.
10:45 WEC - Silverstone: Bit parky here and there's the finest of mists of rain in the air. Rain is forecast.
BTCC - Donington: The BMW is working better now and Turkington slides by Shedden for third. Jordan is also now with them as the MGs continue to lead.
BTCC - Donington: Rob Austin's Audi is the first to come in to switch to slicks, but he has gone more than a lap down.
BTCC - Donington: Despite 45kg of ballast, Jordan is going well and is now up to fifth in his Eurotech Honda Civic. Can he catch the top four?
WEC - Silverstone: Here's the full rundown of events in qualifying yesterday and the complete starting order, as Toyota very narrowly beat Audi to pole:

Silverstone WEC qualifying report and results
BTCC - Donington: Turkington's BMW is clearly struggling and has already slipped to fourth, leaving the order as Plato-Tordoff-Shedden at the front.
BTCC - Donington: Off we go and Plato takes the lead as Turkington's BMW slots into second.
BTCC - Donington: The rain has stopped and the track is drying, but it looks as though the drivers are generally opting to start on wet tyres.
WEC - Silverstone: Maybe it's Porsche's return, the arrival of Mark Webber or just the prospect of a fascinating battle in LMP1 between the manufacturer big guns that's brought the fans piling into the home of British motor racing this morning. Paddock was mobbed pretty early on.
BTCC - Donington: And here are the leading points standings heading into today:

1 Andrew Jordan 47
2 Matt Neal 45
3 Colin Turkington 44
4 Gordon Shedden 40
5 Jason Plato 38
6 Rob Collard 34

Full 2014 BTCC statistics on FORIX
BTCC - Donington: The field heads out onto a damp track for the first race.

The top 10 on the grid is:
1 Plato
2 Shedden
3 Tordoff
4 Turkington
5 Smith
6 Menu
7 Jordan
8 Goff
9 Neal
10 Hynes
European F3 - Silverstone: Already this morning we've had the last of this weekend's three European Formula 3 races from Silverstone.

Despite pre-season predictions that last year's runner-up Felix Rosenqvist would blitz the season, all this weekend's victories went to first-time winners - and two of them were rookies:

Race one: Blomqvist takes maiden European F3 win

Race two: Lotus protege Ocon triumphs

Race three: First victory for Ferrari starlet Fuoco
Welcome to AUTOSPORT Race Centre Live for a packed afternoon of European motorsport action, including...

* Round one of the Toyota vs Audi vs Porsche World Endurance Championship battle from Silverstone

* French hero Sebastien Loeb fighting through the field in the World Touring Car Championship on home ground at Paul Ricard after his pole was disallowed

* Alex Zanardi beginning his motorsport return in the Blancpain Sprint Series at Nogaro

* The reversed-grid Auto GP race from Paul Ricard

* Three spectacular British Touring Car Championship races from a currently very wet Donington Park

And we'll also recap action from earlier in the weekend in European Formula 3, the European Rally Championship and the European Le Mans Series, plus bring you more post-race news from the Chinese Grand Prix.

By: Matt Beer, Kevin Turner, Gary Watkins, Peter Mills, Andrew van Leeuwen

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