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IndyCar - Indianapolis: Green flag! Everyone navigates the first few corners safely.
Checkered flag
WRC - Argentina - SS9 results:
Stage:
1 Latvala 22m48.3s
2 Hirvonen +0.3s
3 Ogier +5.7s
4 Ostberg +6.7s
5 Neuville +14.3s
6 Mikkelsen +18.8s
Overall:
1 Latvala
2 Ogier +29.9s
3 Meeke +3m41.2s
4 Mikkelsen +5m42.3s
5 Neuville +6m41.9s
6 Kubica +7m05.3s
Stage:
1 Latvala 22m48.3s
2 Hirvonen +0.3s
3 Ogier +5.7s
4 Ostberg +6.7s
5 Neuville +14.3s
6 Mikkelsen +18.8s
Overall:
1 Latvala
2 Ogier +29.9s
3 Meeke +3m41.2s
4 Mikkelsen +5m42.3s
5 Neuville +6m41.9s
6 Kubica +7m05.3s
IndyCar - Indianapolis: Now we're hearing from Munoz - he tried to move left to avoid Saavedra's car, but simply didn't have enough space.
IndyCar - Indianapolis: We've just heard from ECR team owner Ed Carpenter. Conway managed to avoid the stricken cars in front of him, but in doing so he clipped pitwall and tore off his right-rear corner. Oriol Servia's car has also sustained damage from debris.
IndyCar - Indianapolis: It looks like Montoya did indeed simply stall - he has been restarted, and is now running around in the middle of the pack. Less fortunate is Mike Conway, who his currently in the pits for repairs. It hasn't been a great weekend for the ECR driver so far. We're still under yellows.
Crash
Indianapolis
IndyCar - Indianapolis: Here's a shot from our LAT photographers of the Aleshin/Saavedra part of that violent incident.
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WRC - Argentina: "This is one of my best days," says Latvala, who - as he did earlier in the weekend - then heaps praise on co-driver Miikka Antilla's reading of the notes in the most fog-laded sections.
Our rally leader is a happy man. You can tell because he's being bubbly and analytical all at once.
"Sometimes you get these days... it's a great feeling. And you have to use it in the right way.
"On the previous stage I started to over-drive, and if I'd carried on I would've started to lose time. I knew I had to calm down."
Our rally leader is a happy man. You can tell because he's being bubbly and analytical all at once.
"Sometimes you get these days... it's a great feeling. And you have to use it in the right way.
"On the previous stage I started to over-drive, and if I'd carried on I would've started to lose time. I knew I had to calm down."
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IndyCar - Indianapolis: More from Saavedra: "To not even get a chance because of a fricking electrical thing pisses me off."
Stopwatch
WRC - Argentina: Latvala wins the stage and is 5.7s faster than Ogier, so he's just a tad under 30s in the lead after Saturday's final full-length stage.
IndyCar - Indianapolis: The Aleshin/Saavedra part of that accident looks nastier with every replay. We're still no closer to working out what Montoya's problem was, though.
WRC - Argentina: Ogier says the bumper that's now missing was probably loosened by the tyre blow on the previous stage, and that the air intake is blocked as a consequence too, costing him engine power.
WRC - Argentina: Latvala took more time in the final split - 5.9s up coming into the final section of the stage.
WRC - Argentina: Ogier completes the stage, the car looks battered but mostly in cosmetic ways - and the Frenchman's not concerned.
Yellow flag
IndyCar - Indianapolis: We're under yellows while all the shrapnel on the main straight is mopped up. The current top 10:
1. Hunter-Reay
2. Power
3. Pagenaud
4. Hawksworth
5. Dixon
6. Castroneves
7. Hinchcliffe
8. Rahal
9. Bourdais
10. Andretti
1. Hunter-Reay
2. Power
3. Pagenaud
4. Hawksworth
5. Dixon
6. Castroneves
7. Hinchcliffe
8. Rahal
9. Bourdais
10. Andretti
WRC - Argentina: Is Ogier losing time? He didn't take as much time through split six as he had in the previous ones. And there's damage reported on the Polo...
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IndyCar - Indianapolis: Saavedra: "We followed the [start protocol for the car, and as soon as we released the clutch it went from 11,000rpm to zero."
WRC - Argentina: Kubica treads carefully through that one too and is absolutely delighted to have reached the end of a second full day of rallying without any problems.
Hopefully he hasn't jinxed himself there with the superspecial still to come.
Hopefully he hasn't jinxed himself there with the superspecial still to come.
Crash
IndyCar - Indianapolis: Huge shunt at the start. Saavedra stalls on pole, and most of the field manages to get around before Munoz hits him and bounces to the outside, and moments later Aleshin runs straight into the back of him. Further back, Montoya appears to have stalled as well.
All drivers are already out of their cars and appear to be OK. That's good news for Saavedra and Aleshin in particular - that was a huge hit.
All drivers are already out of their cars and appear to be OK. That's good news for Saavedra and Aleshin in particular - that was a huge hit.
WRC - Argentina: Whopping split from Latvala, 4.2s in the lead!
WRC - Argentina: Hirvonen remains fastest on the stage so far. He was back up to 13th in the overall standings as this one began.
IndyCar - Indianapolis: The cars are just completing their second installation lap, and are forming up for the standing start.
WRC - Argentina Latvala takes two seconds out in split four. Just 0.6s between the two Polos.
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WRC - Argentina: "I took it very carefully," says Mikkelsen. "It's so rough in there and I'm in the middle of nowhere [in the order] now. I tried to manage the risk."
WRC - Argentina: Mikkelsen completes the stage and is only fourth fastest so far.
WRC - Argentina Split three, Ogier and Latvala identical time. Latvala remains +2.6s to the Frenchman.
IndyCar - Indianapolis: Mari Hulman-George gives the command to start engines.
WRC - Argentina: Ostberg gets to the end of the stage and is in pain. He said he hurt his right hand a lot when there was a big kick-back in the steering.
WRC - Argentina: Kris Meeke has tempered his pace notes for this stage after bank-slapping moment this morning.
"We had six-left over crest and the car went a lot more over than I thought and just touched the bank on the outside, that sent the car back into the road. We've changed that note to a four..."
"We had six-left over crest and the car went a lot more over than I thought and just touched the bank on the outside, that sent the car back into the road. We've changed that note to a four..."
WRC - Argentina: Hirvonen is through in 22m48.6s to open the second run of Amboy.
He reports that the level of fog is "not so bad", with one section where there was a lot, some with none at all, and some with an amount "that's fine, it doesn't really disturb you at all."
He reports that the level of fog is "not so bad", with one section where there was a lot, some with none at all, and some with an amount "that's fine, it doesn't really disturb you at all."
WRC - Argentina: Early splits on SS9 suggest Ogier is trimming a couple of seconds out of Latvala's lead.
Long way to go yet though and remember how many twists there were on the previous stage.
Long way to go yet though and remember how many twists there were on the previous stage.
IndyCar - Indianapolis: The cars are lined up on the dummy grid, and we're about five minutes away from the command to start engines.
The sun is out - in stark contrast to yesterday - and it looks like an encouragingly strong crowd of Indianapolis natives have turned up to to get a taste of road course racing. There aren't all that many people in the stand along the main straight, but the grandstand at both the first and final corners and the spectator mounds at Turns 4/5 and 7 are absolutely packed. IndyCar and IMS will be very pleased indeed.
The sun is out - in stark contrast to yesterday - and it looks like an encouragingly strong crowd of Indianapolis natives have turned up to to get a taste of road course racing. There aren't all that many people in the stand along the main straight, but the grandstand at both the first and final corners and the spectator mounds at Turns 4/5 and 7 are absolutely packed. IndyCar and IMS will be very pleased indeed.
Indy
IndyCar - Indianapolis: A lot of Brickyard history in one image: three-time Indy 500 winners Helio Castroneves and Johnny Rutherford and four-time winner Rick Mears at the launch of Castroneves' special Pennzoil Indy livery yesterday.
Breaking news
WRC - Argentina: News from Hyundai is that Sordo is now out for the weekend after an inspection of his car.
After all that pushing to ensure he got a seat for Argentina, Sordo's rally barely even got going due to the technical problems he had early on both days.
After all that pushing to ensure he got a seat for Argentina, Sordo's rally barely even got going due to the technical problems he had early on both days.
IndyCar - Indianapolis: The points table is a little more as expected...
Championship standings after three of 18 rounds:
1 Will Power 125
2 Ryan Hunter-Reay 107
3 Simon Pagenaud 92
4 Scott Dixon 87
5 Mike Conway 82
6 Marco Andretti 73
(50 points for a win plus bonuses)
Full 2014 season statistics on FORIX
Championship standings after three of 18 rounds:
1 Will Power 125
2 Ryan Hunter-Reay 107
3 Simon Pagenaud 92
4 Scott Dixon 87
5 Mike Conway 82
6 Marco Andretti 73
(50 points for a win plus bonuses)
Full 2014 season statistics on FORIX
IndyCar - Indianapolis: Not long now until the first Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course IndyCar race begins.
Here's the top of the grid lines up:
1 Sebastian Saavedra
2 Jack Hawksworth
3 Ryan Hunter-Reay
4 Simon Pagenaud
5 Will Power
6 Scott Dixon
7 Sebastien Bourdais
8 Juan Pablo Montoya
9 Tony Kanaan
10 Helio Castroneves
Yes, that's right, a Saavedra/Hawksworth front row...
Here's how that happened:
Indianapolis IndyCar qualifying report
Here's the top of the grid lines up:
1 Sebastian Saavedra
2 Jack Hawksworth
3 Ryan Hunter-Reay
4 Simon Pagenaud
5 Will Power
6 Scott Dixon
7 Sebastien Bourdais
8 Juan Pablo Montoya
9 Tony Kanaan
10 Helio Castroneves
Yes, that's right, a Saavedra/Hawksworth front row...
Here's how that happened:
Indianapolis IndyCar qualifying report
Green flag
WRC - Argentina: The stage is now beginning 13 minutes late. Seems the delay was due to one of the course cars breaking a wheel! It's rough...
WRC - Argentina: Delay at the start of this stage. No information back as to why yet, but drivers are still waiting to go in.
WRC - Argentina: Just a couple of minutes before battle resumes on Amboy.
The surface – especially on the stages around Santa Rosa de Calamuchita – demands a much more aggressive style of driving. The cars have a tendency to bog down in the sand (Ogier: "It kills the speed....") and carrying more speed into the corner is the way to overcome this. But, it's a fine line...
And when you're battling flat-out for victory against someone in the same car...
The surface – especially on the stages around Santa Rosa de Calamuchita – demands a much more aggressive style of driving. The cars have a tendency to bog down in the sand (Ogier: "It kills the speed....") and carrying more speed into the corner is the way to overcome this. But, it's a fine line...
And when you're battling flat-out for victory against someone in the same car...
Elfyn Evans
WRC - Argentina: Slightly overshadowed by this incredibly tense VW battle for the lead is the M-Sport battle for fifth, although to an extent that one's taking place in slow motion as both Kubica and Evans know they have to reach the finish above all else. They're now 20s apart, with Kubica edging away.
Evans enjoyed the faster stages this morning, but the Welshman remains deeply frustrated in his desire to drive faster.
"I'm here to do a job," he said.
In an effort to cheer him up, AUTOSPORT's David Evans offered the following analogy: "My editor told me to write words here, whether I want to draw pictures or not is irrelevant."
That did the trick. Cheered him up no end.
WRC - Argentina: Not long until the next stage. The second pass of Amboy is about a quarter of an hour away, and it's another 40kms.
By: Matt Beer, David Evans, Mark Glendenning, Dan Cross, Marcus Simmons, Peter Mills, Scott Mitchell
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