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That's also Ganassi's first IndyCar win of the year - which is a particularly remarkable stat given that KV, Dale Coyne and Ed Carpenter Racing all have 2014 victories to their name - three in ECR's case.
It's an appropriate way to round off this brilliant motorsport weekend, and you'll be able to read MARK GLENDENNING's full race report in our news section shortly.
AUTOSPORT Race Centre Live is clocking off for the week now, but live coverage will resume at 4pm next Sunday (August 10) for an American special headlined by MotoGP kicking off its second half of 2014 at Indianapolis, alongside as-it-happens coverage of the Watkins Glen NASCAR Sprint Cup race and United SportsCar from Road America. See you then.
It's an appropriate way to round off this brilliant motorsport weekend, and you'll be able to read MARK GLENDENNING's full race report in our news section shortly.
AUTOSPORT Race Centre Live is clocking off for the week now, but live coverage will resume at 4pm next Sunday (August 10) for an American special headlined by MotoGP kicking off its second half of 2014 at Indianapolis, alongside as-it-happens coverage of the Watkins Glen NASCAR Sprint Cup race and United SportsCar from Road America. See you then.
Checkered flag
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Scott Dixon runs out of fuel ... after he crosses the line. That is his fifth win at Mid-Ohio in the past eight years, and surely his most remarkable. Bourdais and Hinchcliffe will join him on the podium ahead of Munoz and Rahal, while Power's sixth place moves him into the championship lead.
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: If Dixon can hang on, his win from 22nd will be the second-largest recovery in the history of IndyCar/Champ Car road course races. The record-holder is Max Papis, who won from 25th at Laguna Seca in 2001.
WTCC - Termas de Rio Hondo: An ecstatic Rob Huff said the timing of Lada's second place finish in race two, the company's first WTCC podium, couldn't be better. Lada is set to unveil its 2015 car at the Moscow motorshow at the end of August.
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Three laps to go, and no-one can accuse Dixon of trying to save fuel here - he's lapping 0.4s faster than the drivers behind him.
DTM - Red Bull Ring: In Austria, there was a potentially decisive swing in the DTM title battle.
A crazy Red Bull Ring race fell to BMW's championship hope Marco Wittmann, whose path to victory was helped by some very obedient team-mates, as has so often been the case in DTM history.
The result effectively doubled his points lead.
Championship standings after six of 10 rounds:
1 Marco Wittmann 95
2 Mattias Ekstrom 56
3 Bruno Spengler 42
4 Edoardo Mortara 41
5 Adrien Tambay 36
6 Mike Rockenfeller 35
(25 points for a win)
Full 2014 DTM data on FORIX
The top Mercedes man is Christian Vietoris in eighth place on 33 points, but the troubled team might've won today but for some very odd occurrences involving poleman Robert Wickens.
A crazy Red Bull Ring race fell to BMW's championship hope Marco Wittmann, whose path to victory was helped by some very obedient team-mates, as has so often been the case in DTM history.
The result effectively doubled his points lead.
Championship standings after six of 10 rounds:
1 Marco Wittmann 95
2 Mattias Ekstrom 56
3 Bruno Spengler 42
4 Edoardo Mortara 41
5 Adrien Tambay 36
6 Mike Rockenfeller 35
(25 points for a win)
Full 2014 DTM data on FORIX
The top Mercedes man is Christian Vietoris in eighth place on 33 points, but the troubled team might've won today but for some very odd occurrences involving poleman Robert Wickens.
WTCC - Termas de Rio Hondo: The Campos team has confirmed that brake fading problems caused Hugo Valente's double retirement this weekend.
Valente's team-mate Dusan Borkovic picked up eighth place in race two after sustaining a puncture in race one.
Valente's team-mate Dusan Borkovic picked up eighth place in race two after sustaining a puncture in race one.
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Ten laps to go, and Dixon is still miles out in front. The question is whether he has enough fuel on board to go all the way to the end if the race stays green. He's carrying a couple of laps less fuel than the cars behind him.
WRC - Finland: As the IndyCar race rolls into its deciding laps, we'll give you a few end-of-weekend recaps to round off this epic Race Centre Live stint, which began way back on Thursday lunchtime with the start of Rally Finland.
The weekend's headline event featured Jari-Matti Latvala storming away from Sebastien Ogier at home and establishing a 31-second lead, only for brake damage to let Ogier back in again.
The VW duo began the final day only 3.4s apart, and Latvala held on through three extraordinarily tense stages to win by 3.6s.
It was a bigger deal for morale than the title battle though, as Ogier (helped by maximum Powerstage points) remains far ahead.
Note how an excellent third in Finland has boosted Kris Meeke, though.
Championship standings after eight of 13 rounds:
1 Sebastien Ogier 187
2 Jari-Matti Latvala 143
3 Andreas Mikkelsen 95
4 Mads Ostberg 66
5 Mikko Hirvonen 62
6 Kris Meeke 54
(25 points for a win + 3 for Powerstage)
The weekend's headline event featured Jari-Matti Latvala storming away from Sebastien Ogier at home and establishing a 31-second lead, only for brake damage to let Ogier back in again.
The VW duo began the final day only 3.4s apart, and Latvala held on through three extraordinarily tense stages to win by 3.6s.
It was a bigger deal for morale than the title battle though, as Ogier (helped by maximum Powerstage points) remains far ahead.
Note how an excellent third in Finland has boosted Kris Meeke, though.
Championship standings after eight of 13 rounds:
1 Sebastien Ogier 187
2 Jari-Matti Latvala 143
3 Andreas Mikkelsen 95
4 Mads Ostberg 66
5 Mikko Hirvonen 62
6 Kris Meeke 54
(25 points for a win + 3 for Powerstage)
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: This is turning into a good weekend for Will Power. He's currently sitting sixth and not making a lot of progress in terms of catching the leaders, but the problems for Castroneves and Hunter-Reay mean that as things stand he'll leave Mid-Ohio as the new championship leader.
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Newgarden has been issued a drive-through for running over the airhose in the pits. That's got to be the final nail for what would have been a great result for the small Sarah Fisher team. His misfortune promotes Rahal into the top five.
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: The stops have shaken out, and Dixon has moved back into the lead ahead of Bourdais, Hinchcliffe, Munoz and Newgarden. Dixon is 6.7s ahead of the pack.
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Newgarden pits to the lead, and there is a problem - it looks like the team couldn't get the car up onto its jacks. They managed eventually, but lost a lot of time in the process.
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Dixon pits from the lead, and Newgarden moves into P1.
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Carlos Huertas has been issued a drive-through for blocking Justin Wilson. Those two are team-mates.
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: All the guys making progress right now - Dixon, Newgarden and Power - are on the red tyres. Dixon's progress is being helped by the fact that he's on a lighter fuel load than those behind him.
All that said, Newgarden is now up to second and is lapping 0.5s faster than Dixon is. What was a 3.0s gap a couple of laps ago is shrinking rapidly.
All that said, Newgarden is now up to second and is lapping 0.5s faster than Dixon is. What was a 3.0s gap a couple of laps ago is shrinking rapidly.
NASCAR - Pocono: After some biro scribbling, here's how we reckon the Chase field now looks with four races left before it's set:
Earnhardt: 3 wins
Keselowski: 3 wins
Johnson: 3 wins
Gordon: 2 wins
Logano: 2 wins
Edwards: 2 wins
Harvick: 2 wins
Kyle Busch: 1 win
Hamlin: 1 win
Almirola: 1 win
Kurt Busch: 1 win
Kenseth: 668 points
Newman: 642 points
Bowyer: 617 points
Larson: 595 points
Biffle: 590 points
Currently missing the cut:
Kahne: 589 points
Dillon: 588 points
Menard: 562 points
Ambrose: 541 points
Vickers: 539 points
Stewart: 537 points
Two points to note: That final quartet above were all caught up in today's massive shunt and dropped off the cusp of the Chase pack as a result, and Hamlin, Almirola and Kurt Busch - the final men in the Chase by virtue of having a win - are a long way back in points terms so are definitely benefiting from this year's format revamp.
Earnhardt: 3 wins
Keselowski: 3 wins
Johnson: 3 wins
Gordon: 2 wins
Logano: 2 wins
Edwards: 2 wins
Harvick: 2 wins
Kyle Busch: 1 win
Hamlin: 1 win
Almirola: 1 win
Kurt Busch: 1 win
Kenseth: 668 points
Newman: 642 points
Bowyer: 617 points
Larson: 595 points
Biffle: 590 points
Currently missing the cut:
Kahne: 589 points
Dillon: 588 points
Menard: 562 points
Ambrose: 541 points
Vickers: 539 points
Stewart: 537 points
Two points to note: That final quartet above were all caught up in today's massive shunt and dropped off the cusp of the Chase pack as a result, and Hamlin, Almirola and Kurt Busch - the final men in the Chase by virtue of having a win - are a long way back in points terms so are definitely benefiting from this year's format revamp.
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Dixon's wasting no time up in front - he has already opened a gap of 1.7s. Behind him, Will Power has just moved ahead of Hinchcliffe to claim P6, and Newgarden has just pulled off a great pass to reclaim third from Munoz.
Green flag
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Lap 43, and there's the restart.
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Getting ready for the restart. Hunter-Reay managed to unlap himself during that caution, but he's stuck down in 17th.
Yellow flag
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Munoz jumped Newgarden during those stops, too. The current top five: Dixon, Bourdais, Munoz, Newgarden and Rahal.
Yellow flag
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Still under safety car, but Dixon has moved into the lead by virtue of having stayed out. He made his most recent stop nine laps ago.
Yellow flag
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: The pits open and everybody except Hunter-Reay, Dixon and Castroneves stop all at once.
Yellow flag
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Sato appears to be off the track somewhere, too. Not sure what that's all about, but it explains why we're still under yellows. Hunter-Reay's car was restarted a couple of minutes ago.
Yellow flag
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Hunter-Reay's bad luck? It just got worse. He was settling into a three-way battle with Power and Montoya when he spun all by himself at Turn 12 and stalled, bringing out the yellows.
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Saavedra pitted a few minutes ago with some sort of problem. We haven't heard what kind, but it appears to be terminal - the KV team is wheeling the car back to the garage, and they don't appear to be in much of a hurry.
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: That penalty has dropped Hunter-Reay to ninth, just ahead of Montoya. The top three now is Bourdais, Newgarden and Munoz.
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Bourdais reclaims the lead at the Keyhole, and Hunter-Reay's misery is compounded with a drive-through for pitlane speeding. He serves his penalty immediately. This could be a disaster for the Andretti driver.
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: Bourdais pits from the lead, and hands P1 to Ryan Hunter-Reay ... who makes his own stop next time around, and gets back out of the pits ahead of the Frenchman to take the lead.
Checkered flag
NASCAR - Pocono: Earnhardt fends off a very determined last-lap challenge from Harvick and wins at Pocono for the second time in two months.
Cue screaming.
Logano is third, then Bowyer, Biffle and Gordon.
Cue screaming.
Logano is third, then Bowyer, Biffle and Gordon.
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: A driver to watch at this point is Montoya, who started from near the back, pitted during the caution, and is now running seventh and lapping faster than the leaders.
NASCAR - Pocono: Harvick is still pushing Earnhardt as they head onto the final lap.
Gordon somehow managed to lose a place to Biffle.
Gordon somehow managed to lose a place to Biffle.
Green flag
NASCAR - Pocono: Harvick gives it a good go, but Earnhardt flies around the outside at Turn 1 and holds the lead.
No progress from Gordon, he stays fifth.
No progress from Gordon, he stays fifth.
NASCAR - Pocono: Order for the restart:
1 Earnhardt; 2 Harvick; 3 Logano; 4 Bowyer; 5 Gordon; 6 Biffle.
We'll have three laps to go when it goes green.
1 Earnhardt; 2 Harvick; 3 Logano; 4 Bowyer; 5 Gordon; 6 Biffle.
We'll have three laps to go when it goes green.
NASCAR - Pocono: Gordon would have needed to pass three cars and erase a six-second deficit to get on terms with Earnhardt in seven laps. That wasn't going to happen. A yellow and restart throws it wide open again.
This also gives the Dale Jr fans another chance to scream, perhaps this time in frustration as their man had a 3.5s lead before the incident.
This also gives the Dale Jr fans another chance to scream, perhaps this time in frustration as their man had a 3.5s lead before the incident.
IndyCar - Mid-Ohio: More of the cars stuck in the second half of the field are rolling the dice on strategy: we've just seen Hawksworth and Wilson pit, and Dixon has made a second stop. The race is still only 12 laps old.
Yellow flag
NASCAR - Pocono: Caution! Busch has hit the wall with a flat rear tyre.
That's a lifeline for Gordon's victory chance.
That's a lifeline for Gordon's victory chance.
NASCAR - Pocono: Biffle is in reverse now, rapidly losing places. Gordon is getting going and will be passing Biffle for fifth in a moment.
NASCAR - Pocono: Gordon now passes Busch for eighth. But he's got a lot of ground to make up in 11 laps.
Harvick passes Biffle for second, but Earnhardt is now nearly three seconds clear.
Harvick passes Biffle for second, but Earnhardt is now nearly three seconds clear.
NASCAR - Pocono: As Earnhardt makes his escape, Harvick, Bowyer and Logano are trying to catch Biffle for second.
No progress from Busch and Gordon - they're back in eighth and ninth.
No progress from Busch and Gordon - they're back in eighth and ninth.
By: Matt Beer, David Evans, Marcus Simmons, Mark Glendenning, Dan Cross, Andrew van Leeuwen, Kevin Turner, Peter Mills
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