WRC Catalunya, Motegi MotoGP, DTM finale
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In LMP2, Kane ducks out of third place to make his fifth pitstop. That leaves Menezes as the last man out there to have still only pitted four times, which suggests he has almost certainly been saving fuel. The Signatech man is currently circulating in second, 9.9s adrift of race-leader Alex Brundle's G-Drive. Senna is now up to third, with Sean Gelael running consistently in fourth for ESM after team-mate Giedo van der Garde had to serve a penalty for pitlane speeding.
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WEC
In GTE-Pro, the two Fords swapped around just before the last round of pitstops, but normal service has since been resumed with Andy Priaulx in #67 now back ahead of Stefan Muecke in #66. The rest of the pack run two-by-two, with James Calado in the #51 Ferrari leading team-mate Davide Rigon, then the two Aston Martins of Marco Sorensen in #95 and Darren Turner in #97. Of small consolation to Aston is that Paul Dalla Lana leads the GTE-Am class, although his margin over the #83 Ferrari of Emmanuel Collard is inflated by the fact that he has yet to come in for a fourth stop.
WRC
As ever on a Sunday, there's a different running order and, with a large main WRC field this weekend, we won't have Ogier on the stage for a while yet (around half an hour). The 12-mile Pratdip stage, this weekend's 16th stage, is underway though, with Eric Camilli and Jari-Matti Latvala both on the road.
MotoGP
Espargaro is now all over the back of Dovizioso. This has been the Suzuki man's best weekend of the campaign, he's largely lived in the shade cast by team-mate Vinales. If Dovizioso and Espargaro start to battle, it could help Lorenzo.
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MotoGP
Vinales is a lonely fifth, 1.5s behind team-mate Espargaro, with Crutchlow a further 1.5s in arrears. Crutchlow is on the harder front tyre, which could help him in the second half of the race.
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Barbera has crashed at Turn 1 on his factory Ducati. He's trying to remount as well.
MotoGP
After winning at Aragon last month, Marquez was pretty insistent that he would not win the title at the first opportunity here. But with 75 points left over the last three races, if things stay as is, he'll be 77 points clear of Rossi. If Lorenzo stays second, he will be 71 behind Marquez, and the only remaining - and very outside - contender.
MotoGP
Rossi has remounted his Yamaha, but his chances of winning the title are over as he rides back to the Yamaha garage.
MotoGP
Rossi is out. He has crashed at Turn 10.
MotoGP
Marc VDS Honda's Jack Miller, we missed him earlier as an injury returnee, has crashed at Turn 1.
LMP1
At half-distance in Fuji, let's take stock of the top six, with the championship-leading Porsche #2 playing catch-up after a nose change.
LMP1
1 di Grassi
2 Sarrazin +10s
3 Webber +17s
4 Buemi +36s
5 Lieb +1 lap
6 Imperatori + 8 laps
The #7 Audi has completed only 36 laps and is rooted in 32nd position after an MGU failure, while the troubled Kolles is also in the garage.
LMP1
1 di Grassi
2 Sarrazin +10s
3 Webber +17s
4 Buemi +36s
5 Lieb +1 lap
6 Imperatori + 8 laps
The #7 Audi has completed only 36 laps and is rooted in 32nd position after an MGU failure, while the troubled Kolles is also in the garage.
MotoGP
Riders news, there's a bit. Bradley Smith is back but expecting a tough afternoon on his Tech3 Yamaha given his knee injury. Andrea Iannone is still out, replaced on the factory Ducati by Hector Barbera, who is in turn replaced at the Avintia team by debutant Mike Jones, the reigning Australian Superbike champion.
Yamaha is running its test rider Katsuyuki Nakasuga as a wildcard, and Honda's Hiroshi Aoyama is also out there, but as an injury replacement for Dani Pedrosa, who crashed during practice on Friday, and has now had surgery on his broken collarbone:
Yamaha is running its test rider Katsuyuki Nakasuga as a wildcard, and Honda's Hiroshi Aoyama is also out there, but as an injury replacement for Dani Pedrosa, who crashed during practice on Friday, and has now had surgery on his broken collarbone:
MotoGP
Here's how they'll line-up, with Valentino Rossi on pole for the first time since his home race at Mugello in late May: 
MotoGP
Riders are on the grid at Motegi for MotoGP's Japanese Grand Prix, the race starts in a little over 10 minutes.
LMP2
Of course there's plenty more action further down the field, with a tight battle raging between Richard Bradley and Gustavo Menezes - who will drive the Porsche 919 Hybrid in the end of season rookie test - over fourth position. Roman Rusinov currently leads the class for G-Drive, 29s ahead of Lewis Williamson in the Strakka open-top and Filipe Albuquerque third for RGR.
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No, is the emphatic answer. The second-placed man is 4.3s slower than team-mate Paddon - that's puzzlingly slow.
Can Sordo make it three improvements in a row?
Paddon is now through and quicker still - by a further 0.1s.
David Evans
The service park for next year’s Rally of Spain will be even noisier once Ferrari World opens. This rollercoaster thing is the centerpiece of the new section of the PortAventura theme park. I’m rubbish at estimating the height of rollercoasters, but this one must go vertical for 50 metres or so (add or take away 25 metres for an accurate reading…). Admiring it with Kris Meeke, the Citroen star said: “Sure, come on we’ll give it a rattle next year.”
Watch this space.
Watch this space.
WRC
Jari-Matti Latvala and Craig Breen have been fairly evenly matched all day, and are dead level to a tenth over the first split. Breen was 13th overall after SS13, with Lorenzo Bertelli firmly in his sights. Latvala has a little more work do to, back in 19th position.
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An SS14 update from the disappointed Dani Sordo, who has lost the lead to Sebastien Ogier: "We still have understeer. We tried to drive a little slower to see if that improved the grip but we made a small mistake in the last split. I tried to do my best and I am happy with my driving but okay, I am very disappointed to lose the time."
WRC
Jan Kopecky suffered a puncture in SS13 and has lost 20s of his WRC2 lead to Pontus Tiedmand. Could it be game on again? Teemu Suninen sets the quickest time, 4.2s up on Tiedmand.
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Two men recovering from problems earlier in the rally are going well further back on the stage. Jari-Matti Latvala retired with suspension problems yesterday and lost more time with a puncture on SS12, but he completes the stage second quickest, two seconds off Ogier's time. Craig Breen was just a tenth slower than Latvala through the opening split and sets the seventh quickest time so far - despite complaining that the car was too soft and bouncing around the road.
Stopwatch
Neuville has come through with a 11m18.2s, 3.9s down on Ogier. Crucially, Sordo was level-pegging with Ogier at the second split.
DTM
So that means Wittmann leads by 17 points heading into tomorrow afternoon's finale. But with only 25 points up for grabs, it's still a very tall task for Mortara to triumph. However, after that fightback Mortara certainly carries the momentum into the 18th and final race of the year.
DTM
Molina secures his second win of the season but that race was all about Mortara's recovery to third behind title rival Wittmann. The top six is completed by da Costa, Rockenfeller and Rast.
WRC
Thierry Neuville is the second man through the stage. He's slower than Ogier, but quicker than Paddon, who was just 10.4s behind the Belgian in the battle for third.
DTM
Twenty minutes ago it was all over for Mortara's title bid with him running down in eighth. Now on the final lap, he's third, with Wittmann only extending his advantage by three points.
WRC
Sordo is 0.6s down on Ogier at the first split, as the Frenchman completes the SS13 in 11m14.3s. What can Sordo do over the remainder of the stage?
DTM
Is this the start of the Mortara fightback? Farfus in sixth had no DRS left and it was an easy move for Mortara to get by. Next up is his Audi team-mate Rockenfeller who will surely let Mortara through without any fight.
DTM
Finally, Mortara has made the move. It looked like Glock was going to pass Farfus but he was unable to get ahead and Mortara pounced from a long way back to take seventh at the hairpin.
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Speaking after the stage, Sebasiten Ogier explained that he benefitted from the drier conditions in SS12, which gave him the confidence to push. However, he admitted "I am surprised by the gap I have done because i didn't change the way I drive". 5.2s is currently the gap between the VW and rally leader Sordo.
Stopwatch
After Mikkelsen's demise, Neuville is up to third, but loses 8.4s through the stage to Ogier. Sordo is 1.8s down on the Frenchman through the second split.
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