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DTM - Moscow: This could have been a pivotal weekend in the 2013 DTM title chase. Here's the full story of how Mike Rockenfeller capitalised when Bruno Spengler was tripped up in Russia:
Moscow DTM race report
BTCC - Snetterton: Tasty battle between Shedden and Jordan ends with Shedden being tapped wide at Oggies and losing places.
And leader Plato slows! Turkington leads.
And leader Plato slows! Turkington leads.
Green flag
BTCC - Snetterton: And the race gets under way again, with Plato heading the field.
Griffin was hit by Nye at Riches, which left the Focus in the gravel.
Griffin was hit by Nye at Riches, which left the Focus in the gravel.
Yellow flag
BTCC - Snetterton: Griffin goes off and brings out the safety car.
BTCC - Snetterton: So the order at the end of lap one is Plato, Turkington, Tordoff, Shedden, Jordan and then the two Motorbase Fords.
Lights out
BTCC - Snetterton: Race two gets under way and Plato grabs the lead, with Turkington getting inbetween the battling MGs.
BTCC - Snetterton: The cars are heading out for race two. Sam Tordoff will again be starting from pole, but now he has 45kg of ballast to cope with.
BTCC - Snetterton: Dan Welch was rather unhappy with the actions of Rob Collard in the first BTCC encounter.
Father John - rallycross legend and team principal - has been to the officials about the opening-lap incident which saw Welch spin to the back of the field. Here's what Welch Sr had to say:
"We have seen the Clerk of the Course with our point of view. He has cameras with many angles and they will make an informed decision. Dan had just overtaken Matt Neal on the first lap and Rob Collard was maybe a bit unnecessary."
Collard finished 10th, Welch recovered to 17th.
DTM - Moscow: Championship points: 1 Rockenfeller, 94; 2 Spengler, 67; 3 Paffett, 57; 4 Vietoris, 56; 5 Farfus, 48; 6 Wickens, 45; 7 Ekstrom, 38; 8 Wittmann, 33; 9 Werner, 26; 10 Hand, 26.
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DTM - Moscow: Mattias Ekstrom, when asked about whether he deliberatley finished behind Rockenfeller to help his title fight:
"The DTM is about having some friends. The titles I won I had some help from Mike. I knew if he had a trouble-free race today then I wasn't going to fight him."
So there you go then.
"The DTM is about having some friends. The titles I won I had some help from Mike. I knew if he had a trouble-free race today then I wasn't going to fight him."
So there you go then.
DTM - Moscow: Abt team boss Hans-Jurgen Abt denies team orders were used, but does say this...
"It's about doing the best job for Audi today. Eki did a great job."
Cryptic. But you get the picture.
"It's about doing the best job for Audi today. Eki did a great job."
Cryptic. But you get the picture.
Checkered flag
DTM - Moscow - result: 1 Rockenfeller; 2 Ekstrom; 3 Farfus; 4 Tambay; 5 Paffett; 6 Green; 7 Hand; 8 Werner; 9 Scheider; 10 Vietoris.
Trophy
DTM - Moscow: Mike Rockenfeller wins for the second time in 2013. Ekstrom makes it an Audi one-two while Farfus denies the marque a clean sweep of the podium.
DTM - Moscow: Rockenfeller starts his last lap.
DTM - Moscow: Remember what we said about Tambay's tyres? It's turning out to be true. The Audi man is right on Farfus's tail and narrowly misses taking the final podium spot with three laps to go.
No DRS any more, you'll remember. Its use is banned once the pit window closes.
No DRS any more, you'll remember. Its use is banned once the pit window closes.
DTM - Moscow: Tambay pits from the lead as the pit window closes. He exits in fourth place behind Farfus, but will have fresher rubber, so might just be able to do something about the Brazilian.
DTM - Moscow: Paffett gets by Green for fifth at Turn 1, but not without rubbing bodywork with his countryman and former team-mate.
Both, you may remember, won the McLaren AUTOSPORT BRDC Award earlier in their careers.
Both, you may remember, won the McLaren AUTOSPORT BRDC Award earlier in their careers.
DTM - Moscow: Ekstrom pits for the final time from the lead on lap 66 of 74.
Tambay, as expected, takes the lead, but still has a stop to go. Rockenfeller skips past into second. Job done from Audi Sport.
Tambay, incidentally, looks like he's on for about fifth place at the moment, unless he can pick up his pace a little.
Tambay, as expected, takes the lead, but still has a stop to go. Rockenfeller skips past into second. Job done from Audi Sport.
Tambay, incidentally, looks like he's on for about fifth place at the moment, unless he can pick up his pace a little.
DTM - Moscow: The roles are being reversed right now as Rockenfeller is taking time out of Ekstrom. The Swede now has 52 laps on his current set of options while Rockenfeller is six laps into a fresh set of standards.
Rockenfeller is just 22.4s behind. Is this true pace or Ekstrom playing the team game to support his stablemate in the quest for the championship.
Rockenfeller is just 22.4s behind. Is this true pace or Ekstrom playing the team game to support his stablemate in the quest for the championship.
DTM - Moscow: Finally Tambay pits on lap 56, but the Frenchman is delayed on the way in as Wittmann - who has just served a stop/go penalty, attempts to leave the penalty bay at the same time.
DTM - Moscow: Rockenfeller stops for the final time after just 11 laps on that initial set of standards. He drops to third.
DTM - Moscow: Just 22 laps remain as Wickens falls from eighth to 13th with his final stop.
Everyone bar leader Tambay, Ekstrom, Rockenfeller, Werner, Scheider and Wittmann have made all their pitstops.
Tambay is the only man not to have stopped at all - a quite sensational 53-lap (so far) stint on options. He's lapping within a tenth of a second of Ekstrom too.
Everyone bar leader Tambay, Ekstrom, Rockenfeller, Werner, Scheider and Wittmann have made all their pitstops.
Tambay is the only man not to have stopped at all - a quite sensational 53-lap (so far) stint on options. He's lapping within a tenth of a second of Ekstrom too.
DTM - Moscow: Two-thirds distance and the order is 1 Tambay; 2 Ekstrom; 3 Rockenfeller; 4 Hand; 5 Werner; 6 Scheider; 7 Wickens; 8 Farfus; 9 Wittmann; 10 Green.
DTM - Moscow: One lap later and Green is in from fourth. As he exits the pits Farfus sails by, so no change there. He's ahead of Paffett too, so it's very much honours even.
DTM - Moscow: Rockenfeller makes his first stop on lap 44 of 74. A 3.4-second stop is not as fast as we've seen today and, as expected, he exits a couple of seconds behind Ekstrom.
Tambay has taken the lead momentarily, but was 5s behind Rockenfeller before the stops and so is unlikely to gain anything.
Tambay has taken the lead momentarily, but was 5s behind Rockenfeller before the stops and so is unlikely to gain anything.
DTM - Moscow: Ekstrom is now only 25.7s behind Rockenfeller and will almost certainly take the lead when the German stops.
There's a good battle for fourth overall between Green and Farfus, which is interrupted as the Brazilian makes his final stop.
Farfus exits alongside Paffett. The inside for Paffett at Turn 2 becomes the outside at Turn 3 and Farfus just hangs on to what is an actual 10th place.
The battling will have held up both - not to mention Rockenfeller, who is about to lap both. Advantage Ekstrom?
There's a good battle for fourth overall between Green and Farfus, which is interrupted as the Brazilian makes his final stop.
Farfus exits alongside Paffett. The inside for Paffett at Turn 2 becomes the outside at Turn 3 and Farfus just hangs on to what is an actual 10th place.
The battling will have held up both - not to mention Rockenfeller, who is about to lap both. Advantage Ekstrom?
Wehrlein DTM 2013
DTM - Moscow: Bad news for Wehrlein. It's a very long second stop for the Mercedes man and he's dropped way down to 17th.
Spengler now holds 14th spot, although only one man who has not completed his stops lies behind.
DTM - Moscow: Rockenfeller's laptimes are dropping off now. Has the German been left on this set of option Hankooks for too long?
Checkered flag
WTCC - Argentina: Chequered flag flies. As it does, Jose Maria Lopez jumps to the top of the timesheets, while Huff's first flyer is good enough for third. Alex MacDowall splits the pair, while Mikhail Kozlovskiy jumps up into fourth - a very rare top 10 for the Lada man.
DTM - Moscow: Mortara confirms his retirement was due to a handling problem with his car. Contact with first Juncadella and then Wittmann are the cause, according to the Italian.
DTM - Moscow: Mortara is out. He's in the garage, his Audi having run slowly with some front-end damage immediatley prior to him pulling in.
Spengler, by the way, is 16th and closing on Juncadella. Points are not out of the question for the champion.
Spengler, by the way, is 16th and closing on Juncadella. Points are not out of the question for the champion.
WTCC - Argentina: Bamboo takes over at the top, as Alex MacDowall and James Nash go first and second. Thompson still best of the rest, while Huff - whose qualifying was ruined by turbo issues - has just started his first flyer.
DTM - Moscow: Rockenfeller, who has yet to stop from the lead on his option tyres, now has third-placed Ekstrom less than 28s behind him, but having stopped once.
With 29s estimated for stops, he's likely to come out behind his stablemate. Will Audi make Eki play the team game?
With 29s estimated for stops, he's likely to come out behind his stablemate. Will Audi make Eki play the team game?
DTM - Moscow: A total of 30 of the 24 laps have been completed as Werner and Paffett stop from third and sixth spots.
Now this could be interesting... Paffett has come out alongside Tomczyk, a man he's had a bit of history with over the past 12 months.
Now this could be interesting... Paffett has come out alongside Tomczyk, a man he's had a bit of history with over the past 12 months.
Yvan Muller WTCC
WTCC - Argentina: For once it's not Yvan Muller fastest out of the box - James Thompson goes top early on with a 1m49.866s. Muller is second though.
Speaking of Muller, his RML team were fined €5000 after technical checks revealed the reverse gear ratio did not match the specified homologation. Muller was unaffected though, meaning he will still start from pole for today's opener.
DTM - Moscow: Spengler had made up a couple of places to lie 19th. He passes Priaulx as the Brit makes his first stop and then forces his way by Mortara, who has now become the first man to pit for the second and final time.
The bad news for Bruno is that he has now been lapped by Rockenfeller.
The bad news for Bruno is that he has now been lapped by Rockenfeller.
DTM - Moscow: Order at one-third distance is 1 Rockenfeller; 2 Farfus; 3 Tambay; 4 Werner; 5 Wickens; 6 Ekstrom; 7 Paffett; 8 Hand; 9 Wehrlein: 10 Scheider.
Green flag
WTCC - Argentina: Green flags, and this morning's 15-minute warm-up is underway. We'll have a five-hour gap until the first of today's two races, which kicks off at 1820 BST (1720 GMT).
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BTCC - Snetterton: Tordoff on his first BTCC victory:
"I knew I had the pace so if I got off the start I'd probably be OK. I was nervous before the start, but this place has always been good to me."
"I knew I had the pace so if I got off the start I'd probably be OK. I was nervous before the start, but this place has always been good to me."
DTM - Moscow: About three quarters of the field have now made their first stops.
The best battle on the field is for 17th between Juncadella and Wittmann.
Incidently, we've just seen a replay of Juncadella being nerfed off at Turn 1 on the first lap by Molina. The rear end of his car has damage, but nothing that ought to slow him down too much.
The best battle on the field is for 17th between Juncadella and Wittmann.
Incidently, we've just seen a replay of Juncadella being nerfed off at Turn 1 on the first lap by Molina. The rear end of his car has damage, but nothing that ought to slow him down too much.
By: Scott Mitchell, David Evans, Mark Glendenning, Sam Tremayne, Matt Beer, Jamie O'Leary, Kevin Turner
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