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The 2015 Indianapolis 500

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Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: Senna has a pitlane speeding penalty. He's down in 15th anyway, so not a significant factor in the race overall.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: Lap 29 was a bad one for Heidfeld, who dropped from fourth to sixth after being passed by Duval and Piquet.
WRC - Portugal: Meeke finishes the stage 3.7s slower than Ogier - which means the gap between them in second and third overall is down to exactly the same amount.
WRC - Portugal: Mikkelsen finishes the stage 4s slower than Ogier, and Meeke is 3s off the champion at the last split now.

Still looking alright for Latvala though - he's seven tenths quicker than Ogier halfway through the stage.

Mikkelsen is content that things are going OK and he's driving well, it's just that Ogier is flying. They're no 4.5s apart in third and fourth.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: Piquet uses his fanboost to pass Sarrazin for sixth place. Sarrazin looks to be in trouble on energy, with less than those around him.
WRC - Portugal: Ostberg reports that the problem is a broken sensor, and there's nothing that can be done until he's back to service tonight so he's stuck with the problem.

That will probably mean he falls back to eighth behind Paddon. And just when he'd got the handling sorted too...

"It's a shame as the car is so nice to drive now, it would've been nice to have a clean loop. Maybe tomorrow."
WRC - Portugal: Ostberg finishes the stage 21s down on Ogier, doesn't look like the lack of boost could be fixed before he started.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: We've now got a four-car train from fourth through to seventh, with Heidfeld leading Duval, Sarrazin and Piquet.
WRC - Portugal: Ogier reaches the stage finish, relieved that he got away with no damage from hitting a rock he found on the line.

At the last split he was 4s quicker than Mikkelsen and set to cement his third place.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: D'Ambrosio is chipping away at di Grassi's lead, but there's no doubt that the Brazilian is playing it safe up front and is not worried about losing a few tenths here and there given his advantage is still 10.627s.
GP2 - Monaco: Stanaway leads Marciello by 3.5s on lap 17.

The closest battle on track is the fight for P15 between Rene Binder and Artem Markelov, who were side-by-side on the run up to the Massenet.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: Heidfeld is now under serious pressure for fourth place from Duval.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: Abt passes Trulli. That means Trulli is now down in 17th place after starting on pole.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: Up front, Di Grassi is dominating this. Lead is just over 10 seconds over d'Ambrosio.
WRC - Portugal: Ogier is looking good on the splits on this stage too. He's 2s quicker than Mikkelsen, who he took third overall from last time out, on the middle split.

But Meeke - who currently holds second overall ahead of Ogier - is giving him a good fight and is fastest of all at split one.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: Drive through penalties for both da Costa and Duran. Da Costa is up to seventh after starting on the back row, but will lose that. Duran is at the back anyway in a battle-scarred car.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: With all of the stops completed, here's how the top 10 looks:

1 Di Grassi
2 D'Ambrosio
3 Buemi
4 Heidfeld
5 Duval
6 Sarrazin
7 Da Costa
8 Piquet
9 Vergne
10 Bird
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: Piquet has pitted and he comes back out in eighth place.
GP2 - Monaco: The first three are reasonably spread-out, while fourth man Canamasas is seven seconds in arrears of third-placed Sirotkin.

Norman Nato has been handed a 10-second penalty for making contact with Haryanto on the first lap.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: D'Ambrosio emerges from the stops in second place having jumped Buemi.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: Pic also stayed out, actually, but he's not a factor.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: Everyone else heads into the pits to change cars, except Piquet who can push on for another lap.
GP2 - Monaco: The battle for fifth is closely contested. Just 1.3s covers Julian Leal, Arthur Pic and a pacey Alexander Rossi.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: The pitstops have started. Trulli and Sarrazin have both headed in.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: Da Costa is doing a good job. He started on the back row but is now up to 10th having passed Bird.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: D'Ambrosio is giving Buemi a very hard time for second place now. Not far off the first of the stops for car changes now.
GP2 - Monaco: Canamasas makes a great pass for fourth on Julian Leal down the inside at Sainte Devote on lap seven.
WRC - Portugal: Straight down the road to the 16-mile Marao stage, which Al Qassimi has just launched into. The charging Ogier will be next on the road.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: D'Ambrosio passes Heidfeld for third.
GP2 - Monaco: We're back running under green. Marciello locked-up into Sainte Devote to allow Stanaway to extend a 0.9s lead.

Sirotkin is third, ahead of Leal who is under pressure from Canamasas.

Arthur Pic is sixth, ahead of championship rivals Rossi and Vandoorne.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: Piquet Jr is having a decent race. He has climbed to seventh, but has a little more battery power left compared to those around him.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: On lap 10 of 33 now and Buemi is under pressure for second from Heidfeld. D'Ambrosio is also in that battle. Up front, di Grassi has checked out.
GP2 - Monaco: The virtual safety-car has been deployed. Norman Nato appeared to make contact with Rio Haryanto at the hairpin. Haryanto's car has been craned away.

Earlier, Zoel Amberg and Johnny Cecotto Jr made contact on the run to Massanet.
WRC - Portugal - SS11 summary:

* Ogier goes quickest and takes third overall from Mikkelsen

* Latvala edges his lead over Meeke back up to 8.9s
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: Di Grassi's lead is now 11 seconds over Buemi. Trulli is plummeting down the order and is now outside of the top 10 after being passed by Bird.
WRC - Portugal - SS11 results:

1 Ogier 11m43.0s
2 Latvala +2.8s
3 Mikkelsen +4.1s
4 Meeke +5.6s
5 Tanak +7.2s
6 Paddon +11.6s

Overall leaderboard:

1 Latvala
2 Meeke +8.9s
3 Ogier +16.3s
4 Mikkelsen +16.6s
5 Tanak +53.3s
6 Sordo +1m14.0s
7 Ostberg +1m15.7s
8 Paddon +1m20.3s
GP2 - Monaco: Stanaway beats Marciello away from the line to take the lead.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: Trulli is dropping back rapidly. He has also lost places to Heidfeld, d'Ambrosio and Liuzzi to run sixth.
Formula E - Berlin Tempelhof: Di Grassi's lead now up to over nine seconds, but Buemi has just used the fanboost to take second from Trulli.
GP2 - Monaco: Carlin driver Marco Sorensen did not set off with the rest of the field at the start of the formation lap.

The Dane was down in 25th on the grid, but was able to start after assistance from his mechanics.

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

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