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IndyCar - Pocono: So after all that hilarity, Castroneves leads under caution from Pagenaud and Karam. Montoya is fifth, Dixon tenth, and Rahal 16th.
IndyCar - Pocono: Power had to take a sharp angle out of the pits to avoid Dixon's crew directly ahead of him, and was caught out by the slippery concrete. He is rescued by the Penske crew and gets restarted without losing a lap.
IndyCar - Pocono: Will Power has spun in the pits!
Crash
IndyCar - Pocono: Contact between Hawksworth and Kimball. Hawksworth was low, got loose, and then spun in front of Kimball, who punched into the side of him. The pair were waving angrily at each other before their cars had finished sliding.
That prompts a massive rush on the pits as soon as pitlane opens. There could be a chance here for Rahal to make up some lost ground.
That prompts a massive rush on the pits as soon as pitlane opens. There could be a chance here for Rahal to make up some lost ground.
United SportsCar - Virginia: Tandy crosses the line to take his and Pilet's third straight win in the GTLM class, and a dominant outright victory here.
Kaffer closed back up to Bamber on the very last lap but the Kiwi held on to claim second in a Porsche one-two.
Bell takes the GTD win in his Ferrari.
Kaffer closed back up to Bamber on the very last lap but the Kiwi held on to claim second in a Porsche one-two.
Bell takes the GTD win in his Ferrari.
IndyCar - Pocono: So after all of that, Montoya is now running fourth, and Rahal's slow stop plunged him back to 20th.
IndyCar - Pocono: Castroneves, Sato and Vautier are the last to stop, and Pagenaud cycles back into the lead ahead of Hunter-Reay and Kanaan.
IndyCar - Pocono: Pagenaud currently leads a Penske 1-2-3-4 .. and then pits. Castroneves inherits P1 ahead of Power.
IndyCar - Pocono: The Andretti trio pit next time around, along with a cluster of others, including Rahal - who has a problem! The RLL team had a glitch with the fuel nozzle, and he was stationary for almost 30s.
IndyCar - Pocono: Kanaan and Newgarden pit from P1 and P2, leaving Ryan Hunter-Reay to take the lead ahead of team-mate Munoz and Wilson.
IndyCar - Pocono: That Montoya/Rahal battle didn't amount to anything, but there's been a bit of action up ahead of them: Kanaan has taken the lead.
IndyCar - Pocono: Montoya is now right behind Rahal, who is running in seventh.
Green flag
IndyCar - Pocono: Restart
United SportsCar - Virginia: The GTD class also features in this race, and the category win had been a race-long scrap between the Ferrari of Townsend Bell and Bill Sweedler and the Audi of Christopher Haase and Dion von Moltke.
But reliable Audi driver Haase has just gone off into the grass and had to pit to have his radiator cleared, dropping him down the order.
But reliable Audi driver Haase has just gone off into the grass and had to pit to have his radiator cleared, dropping him down the order.
IndyCar - Pocono: Word on the street is that it was an equipment failure during Hawksworth's stop, rather than human error. Still, they shouldn't have released him in the first place.
IndyCar - Pocono: So the current order is Newgarden leading from Wilson, Munoz, Kanaan and Dixon. Rahal is in P8, Pagenaud in P11, Power in P13, and Montoya in P14.
Meanwhile, replays of Hawksworth's stop suggest that he was released before his left-rear guy had finished fitting the wheel.
Meanwhile, replays of Hawksworth's stop suggest that he was released before his left-rear guy had finished fitting the wheel.
Yellow flag
IndyCar - Pocono: And now we've lost Bourdais, whose rear snapped out and sent him up into the wall. That was weird.
IndyCar - Pocono: (It goes without saying that the missing wheel is also bad news for Hawskworth)
United SportsCar - Virginia: With more than two hours done and less than 40 minutes to go, we're into the final quarter of this race.
Edwards has brought the #24 BMW in for its third pitstop, increasing Tandy's margin to 26 seconds with his mate Bamber now making it a Porsche 1-2.
Behind the Ferrari and the #24 BMW is the other Z4 of Dirk Werner. It has shed its rear bumper and now has the two Corvettes for company.
Edwards has brought the #24 BMW in for its third pitstop, increasing Tandy's margin to 26 seconds with his mate Bamber now making it a Porsche 1-2.
Behind the Ferrari and the #24 BMW is the other Z4 of Dirk Werner. It has shed its rear bumper and now has the two Corvettes for company.
Yellow flag
IndyCar - Pocono: Jack Hawksworth's left-rear wheel has fallen off, and that's not good news for the drivers that hadn't yet pitted: Pagenaud, Power, Castroneves, Karam and Montoya.
IndyCar - Pocono: A bunch of other cars follow suit ... and we have a caution!
IndyCar - Pocono: Rahal, meanwhile, is creeping backwards: he has fallen to ninth.
Newgarden is pitting from the lead; Pagenaud moves into P1.
Newgarden is pitting from the lead; Pagenaud moves into P1.
IndyCar - Pocono:Mann is back in the pits, where she is joined by Stefano Coletti, who is stationary in his box while the KV crew stand around with their hands on their hips looking at his car.
Montoya is still making progress, and is now in P15, just behind Karam. Up front, it's still Newgarden leading from Pagenaud.
Montoya is still making progress, and is now in P15, just behind Karam. Up front, it's still Newgarden leading from Pagenaud.
Josef Newgarden, Pocono
United SportsCar - Virginia: The rest of the GTLM cars have now made their second pitstops.
Tandy is back in the leading #911 Porsche, but the out-of-sequence BMW of Edwards has jumped up to second.
Tandy's Le Mans-winning team-mate Earl Bamber stayed in the #912 in that last stop and has just made a rather forceful move on the Fisichella Ferrari, which is now in the hands of Kaffer and been shoved down to fourth.
Tandy is back in the leading #911 Porsche, but the out-of-sequence BMW of Edwards has jumped up to second.
Tandy's Le Mans-winning team-mate Earl Bamber stayed in the #912 in that last stop and has just made a rather forceful move on the Fisichella Ferrari, which is now in the hands of Kaffer and been shoved down to fourth.
IndyCar - Pocono: Or maybe we spoke too soon - it sounds like she actually had a gearbox problem that may have resolved itself.
IndyCar - Pocono: Looks like we might have our first DNF: Pippa Mann's Coyne car is crawling along with smoke coming out of its rear.
IndyCar - Pocono: The current order is Newgarden, Pagenaud, Castroneves, Wilson and Power.
IndyCar - Pocono: It has been a conservative start from Rahal, who has dropped a couple of places to seventh and is currently trying not to be taken out by Carlos Munoz. Montoya has made some early progress and has climbed to 16th.
Green flag
IndyCar - Pocono: Finally! And this time Castroneves is swamped at the start. Newgarden has jumped into the lead from fourth.
IndyCar - Pocono: And the second start is waved off for the same reason. Not sure what Castroneves is trying to do here.
IndyCar - Pocono: The first start is quite rightly waved off - Castroneves took off at Turn 3.
United SportsCar - Virginia: The BMW team is trying a bit of an alternative strategy with the #24 Z4.
Luhr pitted just 20 minutes in - that was 10 minutes before the competition - and stayed in the car.
He's since been in again and handed over to co-driver John Edwards. That's dropped the car from third to eighth and last in GTLM.
Luhr pitted just 20 minutes in - that was 10 minutes before the competition - and stayed in the car.
He's since been in again and handed over to co-driver John Edwards. That's dropped the car from third to eighth and last in GTLM.
IndyCar - Pocono: It's also worth noting that two of those Penske driverss that are starting up front - Helio Castroneves and Will Power - are still championship contenders themselves.
Championship battle aside, it's also going to be interesting to watch a few people trying to come through the pack: Charlie Kimball was fast in practice but crashed in qualifying, so will start in a spare car on the back row alongside Stefano Coletti (who crashed in practice and failed to make a qualifying run).
Both of the hometown heroes are also starting from deep on the grid: Marco Andretti is in P22; Sage Karam is sharing the 10th row with Montoya in P20. Also in that mix is oval specialist Ed Carpenter, whose awful 2015 season continued when he qualified 21st.
Championship battle aside, it's also going to be interesting to watch a few people trying to come through the pack: Charlie Kimball was fast in practice but crashed in qualifying, so will start in a spare car on the back row alongside Stefano Coletti (who crashed in practice and failed to make a qualifying run).
Both of the hometown heroes are also starting from deep on the grid: Marco Andretti is in P22; Sage Karam is sharing the 10th row with Montoya in P20. Also in that mix is oval specialist Ed Carpenter, whose awful 2015 season continued when he qualified 21st.
United SportsCar - Virginia: It's an all-GT USC race at Virginia, and we're almost exactly halfway through the 2 hours 40 minute encounter.
Le Mans 24 Hours winner Nick Tandy led from pole position in his #911 Porsche 911 before handing over to co-driver Patrick Pilet at the first pitstops.
Pilet has opened up a 15-second lead over the Ferrari of Pierre Kaffer and Giancarlo Fisichella, with Lucas Luhr third in his BMW.
Le Mans 24 Hours winner Nick Tandy led from pole position in his #911 Porsche 911 before handing over to co-driver Patrick Pilet at the first pitstops.
Pilet has opened up a 15-second lead over the Ferrari of Pierre Kaffer and Giancarlo Fisichella, with Lucas Luhr third in his BMW.
Nick Tandy, Patrick Pilet Porsche 911
IndyCar - Pocono: Not far away from the green flag for what promises to be an intriguing encounter at the 'Tricky Triangle'.
Juan Pablo Montoya has led the entire championship up until this point, but a couple of bad weekends (a mechanical failure at Iowa and a unluckily-timed yellow at Mid-Ohio) have allowed Graham Rahal to close to within just nine points.
To make the Colombian's job harder, he has qualified back in 19th, while Rahal will start from fifth. Scott Dixon, who is third in the points, will start from mid-pack.
On the other hand, Montoya's three team-mates are starting from grid positions 1, 2 and 3, so right from the green, Rahal is going to have three hostile Penskes to deal with.
All in, there are 10 drivers still in mathematical contention for the title, although today's race could well whittle that number down before the double-point finale at Sonoma.
Juan Pablo Montoya has led the entire championship up until this point, but a couple of bad weekends (a mechanical failure at Iowa and a unluckily-timed yellow at Mid-Ohio) have allowed Graham Rahal to close to within just nine points.
To make the Colombian's job harder, he has qualified back in 19th, while Rahal will start from fifth. Scott Dixon, who is third in the points, will start from mid-pack.
On the other hand, Montoya's three team-mates are starting from grid positions 1, 2 and 3, so right from the green, Rahal is going to have three hostile Penskes to deal with.
All in, there are 10 drivers still in mathematical contention for the title, although today's race could well whittle that number down before the double-point finale at Sonoma.
WRC - Germany: Here's our end of rally report, with an excellent day for Volkswagen and Sebastien Ogier.
Ogier gives VW first Rally Germany win
Switch over to our dedicated F1 Live service now, with the Belgian GP from Spa starting in just over 30 minutes. With the new starting rules, it's sure to be a cracker.
Get yourself back over to RCL for some 'tricky triangle' action at 1930 BST, IndyCar from Pocono.
Ogier gives VW first Rally Germany win
Sebastien Ogier, VW, WRC Germany 2015
Switch over to our dedicated F1 Live service now, with the Belgian GP from Spa starting in just over 30 minutes. With the new starting rules, it's sure to be a cracker.
Get yourself back over to RCL for some 'tricky triangle' action at 1930 BST, IndyCar from Pocono.
Checkered flag
BTCC - Knockhill: Collard wins, Jackson just holds second from Priaulx with Tordoff quickly catching those battlers in fourth.
Shedden holds fifth, while Neal pips Austin on the final lap for sixth.
Looks like it'll be Jackson and Austin on the front row for race two.
Shedden holds fifth, while Neal pips Austin on the final lap for sixth.
Looks like it'll be Jackson and Austin on the front row for race two.
BTCC - Knockhill: Last lap. Collard's got this one. Can Priaulx get second?
BTCC - Knockhill: Great move from Tordoff! He passes Austin down the back straight and drives round the outside of Shedden for fourth.
Looks like the BMW's hard tyres are working much nicer than its rivals' softs.
Looks like the BMW's hard tyres are working much nicer than its rivals' softs.
BTCC - Knockhill: Change for second - Priaulx is bumped wide by Jackson exiting the hairpin and Collard gets ahead of his team-mate.
Tordoff's back ahead of Neal.
Tordoff's back ahead of Neal.
By: AUTOSPORT staff, Jack Benyon, Scott Mitchell, Mark Glendenning
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