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The 2015 Indianapolis 500

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WRC - Portugal: Kubica finishes the stage, 5.6s ahead of Evans.

"After the landing we had an alarm," says Kubica. "I hope it's OK."
WRC - Portugal: Paddon joins Kubica by beating Evans' first split time. Paddon is 0.2s quicker than Kubica.
WRC - Portugal: Haydon Paddon also joins the stage, which leaves the battle for sixth up next. Sordo is 5s ahead of Ostberg entering.
WRC - Portugal: Kubica is through the split, and he's up. 2.3s up on Evans, both are in the new-spec Fiesta.
WRC - Portugal: Kubica and Paddon are into our stage, as Prokop finishes 3.8s down on Evans' benchmark.
WRC - Portugal: Prokop will be next through the stage. He's scored points in every rally he's entered so far this year, and is leading the privateer runners here.
WRC - Portugal: Al Qassimi has finished the stage, 22s down on Evans. If only the rally results were decided on the Fafe jump, because he'd be leading so far.
WRC - Portugal: Martin Prokop is into the Fafe stage. Khalid Al Qassimi is 10.4s down on Evans at the split.
WRC - Portugal: Neuville is through, 1.9s slower than Evans.

He's slower than the team that want him in their car next year.
WRC - Portugal: Evans takes it easy over the jump, he finishes the stage in 7m02.4s. That's faster than he was this morning.
WRC - Portugal: Neuville is the next man through the split, only 0.5s behind Evans. that's better than this morning's run for the Belgian.
WRC - Portugal: This really is one of the classic stages in world rallying. Evans is tackling it with relish in his 35th WRC rally.
WRC - Portugal: Evans is through in 2m58.5s, just as Neuville begins the stage.
WRC - Portugal: Ogier and Latvala are 13th on the road, so there's a few cars to come through before the leaders attack the stage.
WRC - Portugal: The first split is just over 2 miles into the stage, so it will be a fast and furious finish. The famous Fafe jump positioned near the stage end.
WRC - Portugal: Here we go, Elfyn Evans is into Fafe, our final stage.
FR3.5 - Monaco: The live timing has changed again and Rowland is reinstated in sixth.
WRC - Portugal: Just a few minutes to go until our Rally Portugal decider.

Latvala leads by 10.4s over Ogier. Kris Meeke is in fourth after a broken anti-roll bar on the last stage, 16.7s behind Andreas Mikkelsen.

Ostberg may be the man to watch further back, he's 5s off Sordo in sixth.
FR3.5 Monaco: Jazeman Jaafar scores his maiden FR3.5 win at Monaco.

1 Jaafar; 2 Stoneman; Dillmann; 4 Orudzhev; 5 Fantin; 6 Panis.
FR3.5 - Monaco: Nyck de Vries has tagged Roy Nissany into a spin at the Rascasse. Both are well down the order.

Rowland has just passed Aurelien Panis at the second section of the Swimming Pool but the timing system is now showing Rowland a lap down in 12th, rather than sixth place.

We have had a few glitches with the timing this weekend, but it's possible Rowland has been penalised or rejoined at the restart a lap down.
FR3.5 - Monaco: As Jaafar opens up a 1.5s lead over Stoneman, Rowland is carving through the field.

The Briton was 14th on the restart on lap six, 10th on lap seven and is now ninth on lap eight.
FR3.5 - Monaco: The field have got underway behind the safety-car.

The top-six is: Jaafar; Stoneman, up from fifth; Dillman; Orudzhev, who qualified ninth; Faintin in fifth and Panis.
FR3.5 - Monaco: The timing does not appear to have stopped because of the red flag, with the race time showing 24 minutes remaining and counting.
FR3.5 - Monaco: Bonifacio manages a wave to the crowd as he is stretchered away.
FR3.5 - Monaco: A neck support has been fitted to Bonifacio who is sitting with his back to the tyre wall at the accident scene, and a stretcher is on hand.

The Brazilan appears to be talking to the medical team.

Both cars have been removed.
FR3.5 - Monaco: Van Buuren hit Bonifacio's rear into Sainte Devote, his car became lodged with front wheels on top of the Draco machine and rear wheels dragging behind.

Locked together, the pair hurtled down the escape road where van Buuren was launched terrifyingly high into the air.

Bonifacio is out of the car but was being attended to by marshals in apparent shock.
FR3.5 - Monaco: Chaos!

At Sainte Devote on lap 1, Rowland outdragged Jaafar to lead by half a car length but couldn't pass on the outside.

Vaxiviere hit Rowland, who has slowed. Both Strakka cars and de Vries were stuck on the outside of the corner.

AVF's Celis went into the escape road as team-mate Visser spun.

Celis has then crashed massively at the Swimming Pool, but an even bigger accident has occured bettween van Buuren and Bonifacio on at Sainte Devote on lap two.
FR3.5 - Monaco: The field has arrived in the Formula 1 pitlane, having travelled down from its perch above the Monaco Country Club some 3km away.

Third-qualifier Matthieu Vaxviere will be particpating in his maiden Monaco FR3.5 race, after sustaining a back injury in a crash at Monaco last year.
BES - Silverstone: The times are tumbling in Q3: Bortolotti, Mardenborugh, Mardenborough, Estre, Siedler and now Vanthoor have all topped the session so far.
FR3.5 - Monaco: To recap, Fortec twins Jazeman Jaafar and championship leader Oliver Rowland occupy the front row for this morning's race.

Jaafar is shooting for his maiden win in the series, and needs to put a pair of avergae getaways in round one at Motorland Aragon behind him.
WRC - Portugal: The final power stage, which will decide the rally winner, is up at 11:08 BST.
WRC - Portugal: So here's the latest news from an eventful SS15:

Jari-Matti Latvala extends his lead by 2.6s, increasing his overall lead to 10.4s over Sebastien Ogier with only the powerstage remaining.

Andreas Mikkelsen extends his lead in third over Kris Meeke, form 0.4s to 16.7s as Meeke struggles with a broken anti-roll bar.

Mads Ostberg slashes the gap to sixth-placed Sordo to just 5s.

WRC2 leader Nasser Al-Attiyah loses time, as Esapekka Lappi steers the new Skoda Fabia R5 through Vieira do Mindo 41s faster. The lead overall is 13.8s.
FR3.5 - Monaco: Repairs are underway to the barrier on the outside of Sainte Devote after an accident on lap seven of the Porsche Supercup race.

The racing line appears to be covered in cement dust, but a motorised sweeper is at work.
BES - Silverstone: Graf is quickest in Q2 for the Rowe Merc squad on a 2m02.717s, which puts him seventh.

Bueno has gone eighth in his BMW Team Brazil entry and Brito ninth in the sister, while Soulet has dropped to 10th in the second M-Sport Bentley.

The rest of the top 10 set their times in the opening 15-minute session.
WRC - Portugal: Maurin will take a 15.3s lead over Lefebvre into the power stage, as Maurin was 26.5s quicker on that test.
WRC - Portugal:Pontus Tidemand is only 1.9s slower than team-mate Lappi and 39.1s quicker than Al-Attiyah.

Tidemand is a safe third, but fourth will likely change hands on this stage, as Julien Maurin is quicker in the stage than erstwhile fourth placed man Stephane Lefebvre. Pacenotes could be to blame for Lefebvre's loss of time.
FR3.5 - Monaco: The Formula Renault 3.5 cars and support vans have adopted their traditional assembly point on the Boulevard du Larvotto public road before driving in convoy down to the Formula 1 pitlane.

It's a good opportunity to witness drivers' varying final preparations ahead of the race, which is due to start at 11.10 local time.
WRC - Portugal: WRC2 leaders are in and second placed man Esapekka Lappi takes 41s out of Nasser Al-Attiyah's lead.

The gap overall is down to 13.8s, although that's a big asks. Lappi admits he doesn't know the Fafe stage as well as Nasser.
WRC - Portugal: Here's the rally order overall going into the final stage:

1 Latvala 3h23m50.1s
2 Ogier+10.4s
3 Mikkelsen +26.8s
4 Meeke +43.5s
5 Tanak +1m48.9s
6 Sordo +2m21.8s

By: Matt Beer, Jack Benyon, Mitchell Adam, Mark Glendenning, David Evans, Edd Straw, Peter Mills, Gary Watkins, Glenn Freeman

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