WRC Argentina, Indianapolis IndyCar, Pau Euro F3, Spanish GP supports

IndyCar - Indianapolis: Those who subscribe to the idea that spinning is a natural by-product of seeking the limit would find some ammunition in this session - four of the current top six have been off the track at some point this morning.

IndyCar - Indianapolis: Another spin, this time from Dixon ...

... and just as we're about to hit 'post', Power goes into the grass for the second time. It looks like the rain is starting to pick up again.

IndyCar - Indianapolis: Sebastian Saavedra overshoots into the escape road. No harm done.

Meanwhile, Power has just done his fastest lap of the morning and jumps up to third behind Hawksworth.

IndyCar - Indianapolis: A couple of teams are tweeting that it is raining again in pitlane, although it looks OK from our safe, warm, dry vantage point in the media centre. We do hope we get to see an onboard of the save that Graham Rahal just made, though - it's rare that you see someone sawing that hard at the wheel on a straight.

Pagenaud is back to P1, by the way.

GP2 - Barcelona: The top six in qualifying:

1 Richelmi 1m29.293s; 2 Palmer +0.128s; 3 Coletti +0.221s; 4 Marciello +0.357s; 5 Nasr +0.405s; 6 Evans +0.410s.

Esteban Ocon

European F3 - Pau: If Verstappen is a grand prix star of the future, as we suggested a little earlier, so too must be Esteban Ocon, who aced him in the second free practice session.

These two guys were getting a lovely drift on through Parc Beaumont, which is continuous turning before flicking it into the Foch chicane - a bit like Coram at Snetterton on acid.

The season's other star rookie, Antonio Fuoco, looked pretty glum after free practice. He binned it after just 10 laps, meaning he faces a massive uphill climb to get himself into contention. Track familiarity is vital here, and he'll be starting first qualifying with a very tough task.

Another problem for Fuoco is that he's in the ultra-competitive odd-numbered group, where he'll go up against Felix Rosenqvist, Lucas Auer, Tom Blomqvist, Jordan King, Riccardo Agostini, Felix Serralles, Antonio Giovinazzi and Nicholas Latifi, all of whom were in the top 13 in free practice.

The even numbers will almost certainly be topped by Ocon and Verstappen, with Jake Dennis and Ed Jones likely not too far adrift.

Rosenqvist looked pretty glum about the split before free practice, but if he maintains this morning's form that should guarantee he splits Ocon and Verstappen and earn a place on the front row.

IndyCar - Indianapolis: Another trip through the grass, this time from Will Power. He rejoins the circuit immediately and presses on.

IndyCar - Indianapolis: Rookie Jack Hawksworth goes to P1.

GP2 - Barcelona: No improvements yet...

GP2 - Barcelona: Still time for just about everybody to have another shot at pole. DAMS duo Richelmi and Palmer have called it a day.

IndyCar - Indianapolis: 20 minutes remain, and the only driver yet to set a time is Graham Rahal. Scott Dixon and Juan Pablo Montoya have just completed their first laps of the morning.

GP2 - Barcelona: And here comes Raffaele Marciello, who moves up to fourth, ahead of Nasr.

GP2 - Barcelona: Tio Ellinas moves up to sixth in the final three minutes.

GP2 - Barcelona: No improvement by Daly, who appeared to have been impeded by GP2 returnee Tom Dillmann on the last lap.

GP2 - Barcelona: Conor Daly is going like the clappers at the moment. The Lazarus driver currently sits in 26th.

IndyCar - Indianapolis: Actually we lied - Briscoe is off at Turn 6. Looks like he made it all the way through the gravel to the tyre barrier. He's fine, and from what we can see his car has escaped significant damage as well.

GP2 - Barcelona: And here comes the rest of the field with under eight minutes remaining. Will anyone beat Richelmi's time of 1m29.293s?

GP2 - Barcelona: Trummer is running solo at the moment in the final 10 minutes of the session. The Rapax driver is clearly trying too hard and is 0.5s down already through his current lap.

IndyCar - Indianapolis: Backing up what we said a couple of minutes ago, AUTOSPORT's twitter feed has suddently filled with rooster tail photos taken by baffled Indianapolis natives.

Meanwhile, all but six cars are now out on the track, although Pagenaud remains the benchmark at 1m23.6144s. That's about 13s slower than Dixon went in the dry yesterday afternoon.

GP2 - Barcelona: The Belgian doesn't improve and remains sixth. The only other car out on the track at the moment is Simon Trummer, who is currently in 22nd position.

WRC - Argentina: Sordo makes it to the end of SS3, and is so far reluctant to talk to reporters...

Now he's regained his composure and confirms that a turbo issue is what has cost him so many minutes over those two stages.

GP2 - Barcelona: Final lap of this stint for Vandoorne, will he make any improvement?

IndyCar - Indianapolis: Another spin, this time from Bourdais. No harm done, and he rejoins the track and continues on.

GP2 - Barcelona: ...and not too shabby in the third. He goes sixth with a 1m29.904s - 0.611s off Richelmi.

GP2 - Barcelona: Pressure on McLaren-backed Vandoorne to reap the rewards of a clear track. He's quick in the first two sectors...

IndyCar - Indianapolis: Only 10 drivers have ventured out so far, with Pagenaud the current pace-setter. It looks like the rain has stopped, so presumably the bulk of the field are happy to let these guys dry the track a little. Seems smart, although it might end up biting them if they're faced with a wet track for qualifying later today.

WRC - Argentina: Ketomaa manages to get to the end of the stage and reports that he had a puncture first of all, then had electrical problems while trying to restart.

GP2 - Barcelona: And the ART duo have pretty much got the track to themselves at the moment.

GP2 - Barcelona: Ten minutes completed and Richelmi leads the way ahead of DAMS team-mate Palmer. Nasr is third, with Mitch Evans and Alexander Rossi completing the top five.

IndyCar - Indianapolis: Rooster tails down the main straight at Indy. That's not something you see often around these parts.

GP2 - Barcelona: The ART cars of Takuya Izawa and Stoffel Vandoorne remain in the pitlane. Looks like they're going to go out when everyone else has finished their first runs...

WRC - Argentina: Ketomaa was a brilliant sixth overall as well as leading WRC2 after SS2, but he's stopped on SS3.

Nasser Al-Attiyah has just come through when Ketomaa was expected, and reports that the Finn was parked 10km from the end and looked like he had damage on his car.