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WRC Germany, GP2 Spa, IndyCar Pocono

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IndyCar - Pocono: Coming up later, we'll be bringing you live action from the IndyCar race at Pocono.

In the meantime, here is a flavour of what to expect after an intriguing qualifying session.

Castroneves on pole, Montoya 19th

Helio Castroneves takes Pocono IndyCar pole 2015

Helio Castroneves takes Pocono IndyCar pole 2015

GP3 - Spa: We've had some excellent GP3 action so far this weekend with a race yesterday and today. For anyone following yesterday, there was predictably quite a few penalties dished out after the race...

Ocon penalised, Bernstoff gets win

This morning, championship leader Luca Ghiotto stole the show

Ghiotto rebounds to beat Ocon at Spa

Luca Ghiotto wins Spa GP3 2015

Luca Ghiotto wins Spa GP3 2015

WRC - Germany: Time for a retro pic to brighten up the lull in action.

It's easy to find some brilliant pictures of Rally Germany through the years, but the event has only been a round of the WRC since 2002.

Was this really 13 years ago? Sebastien Loeb won the first WRC running of the event in a car synonymous with his early success.

Loeb/ Rally Germany/2002

Loeb/ Rally Germany/2002

NASCAR - Bristol: You'd be forgiven for thinking that this year's Daytona 500 winner Joey Logano had multiple race wins this year, but he had to wait until last night to add to his tally.

The Penske driver held off 'Mr Where did he come from' Kevin Harvick to take a win under the lights in Tennessee.

Logano resists Harvick at Bristol

Joey Logano wins Bristol NASCAR 2015

Joey Logano wins Bristol NASCAR 2015

GP2 - Spa:

Sprint race results:


1 Rossi
2 King
3 Evans
4 Vandoorne
5 Markelov
6 Sirotkin
7 Berthon
8 Lynn
BTCC Supports - Knockhill: Tom Oliphant has taken his second lights-to-flag Ginetta GT4 Supercup win of the weekend in Scotland, as the championship leader's great run of form continued.

It was a miserable race for title rival Carl Breeze who was tipped into a spin at the hairpin and could only recover to ninth in a damaged car.
World RX - Norway: We have a very welcome update from Hell (place in Norway) from HAL RIDGE:

Overnight leader at the World Rallycross Championship in Hell, Timmy Hansen set the fastest time of heat three to remain top at the Intermediate Classification with one heat to run.

Mattias Ekstrom won an earlier heat three race and was fastest until Hansen beat his time towards the end. Ekstrom was second in the heat three times to bring himself into the semi-final positions in 12th.

Ekstrom's EKS team mate Anton Marklund was third fastest with Petter Solberg fourth, the championship leader fighting back from a poor heat two time yesterday.

Timur Timerzyanov continues his best event of the year with fifth and is third overall, while PG Andersson was sixth fastest but remains out of the semi-final places.
GP2 - Spa: Rossi crosses the line for his first win! King is second and Evans is third.
GP2 - Spa: Evans finally makes the move past Vandoorne stick with the help of DRS down the Kemmel straight.
WRC - Germany: The power stage is next up, in around 50 minutes.
GP2 - Spa: Evans has DRS down the Kemmel straight but can't quite make it past Vandoorne.

Markelov passes Berthon for fifth.
WRC - Germany: And a quick update:

OGIER delivers a spectacular stage win,beating team-mate Mikkelsen who pushed to hold off Sordo for third. The Frenchman should be taking it easy in the lead!

LATVALA can only manage seventh overall despite closing down the lead gap earlier this morning.

KUBICA pops in a brilliant fifth fastest, one of his best stages of the weekend.

MEEKE was top for most of the stage before the Volkswagens stole it late. He is 1.5s behind WRC2 leader Jan Kopecky in 12th.
GP2 - Spa: Evans is only 0.6s behind Vandoorne after his incident at the Bus Stop chicane.
WRC - Germany: So the penultimate stage finishes like this:

SS20
1 Ogier 10m45.7s
2 Mikkelsen +0.5s
3 Meeke +1.4s
4 Ostberg +2.6s
5 Kubica +3.5s
6 Sordo +3.8s

Overall
1 Ogier 3h26m38.5s
2 Latvala +26.6s
3 Mikkelsen +1m54.4s
4 Sordo +2m11.2s
5 Neuville +2m32.3s
6 Evans +2m51.1s
GP2 - Spa: We're back racing here and Evans was caught napping.

But Vandoorne locks up at the Bus Stop chicane which gives Evans the chance to possibly get on the podium.
WRC - Germany: No such nonsense from Ogier, who pops up FIRST! Where did that come from?

Ogier is 0.5s up on Mikkelsen despite the Norwegian pushing to fend off Sordo.

"I just want to finish," he says. You're not fooling anyone Seb, another rapid time fro the Frenchman who wants to assert his dominance even more.
GP2 - Spa: It looks, on first glance, that Pic dropped it there himself.
GP2 - Spa: The virtual safety car has been deployed so Pic can be retrieved from the gravel trap at Stavelot.
WRC - Germany: Latvala is 3.5s down on Mikkelsen and that's only good enough for seventh on this test.

"I'm still quite happy with the time," said Jari-Matti.
GP2 - Spa: Lynn still can't find a way past Canamasas for eighth after running wide at Les Combes.
WRC - Germany: Mikkelsen is 0.9s up on Meeke, taking the fastest stage time.

The Norwegian perhaps showing how much pace Volkswagen have in the bag there.

"I stepped up the pace a bit as Dani [Sordo] was closing in and we took some time back."

The gap between Mikkelsen and Sordo rises to 16.8s overall there.
GP2 - Spa: Rossi and King, who have been on their own almost the whole race, are under pressure from Vandoorne.

Meanwhile Evans takes Berthon at Les Combes.
GP2 - Spa: Vandoorne passes Berthon at Les Combes, Evans is now desperate to pass the Frenchman.
WRC - Germany: Sordo goes fourth fastest on the stage, 2.4s down on Meeke.
WRC - Germany: Mikkelsen has lost time in the third stint, but is still on course to in the stage and defend his third position from charging Sordo.
WRC - Germany: Latvala and Ogier are slower than Mikkelsen's pace-setting first split. Ogier is 1.2s up on Latvala.
GP2 - Spa: Evans is lining championship leader Vandoorne up for a pass now. The Belgian is trying his best to get past Berthon.
WRC - Germany: Mikkelsen blasts through the second stint 2.4s up on Meeke.

It won't be another fastest time for Evans as he comes through 2.4s behind Meeke. Crucially he loses time to Ostberg, the gap between sixth and seventh will be 11s going into the power stage.
GP2 - Spa: Lynn passes Leal down the Kemmel straight, his fall back has been spectacular here.
WRC - Germany: Mikkelsen's first split is in and he's turned up the wick in light of an impending Dani Sordo charge.

The Norwegian is 1.1s up on Sordo there as the gap before the stage was 13.5s
GP2 - Spa: Leal loses another place, Canamasas is now through Lynn is up next in 10th.
WRC - Germany: Ostberg's time is 1.2s slower than Meeke and good enough for second on the stage so far.
WRC - Germany: Looking at the splits, the cars coming through are making Kubica's time look very impressive. He's currently second fastest and there aren't many drivers going quicker.
GP2 - Spa: Great racing here, the top three are separated by only three seconds!
WRC - Germany: After his turbo problem yesterday, Paddon is only 5s off Meeke and that margin is much better than some of his deficits yesterday.
GP2 - Spa: Lynn hassling Canamasas now, the Spaniard is clearly struggling for grip.
WRC - Germany: Ostberg is pushing hard! The Norwegian was quite a way off Meeke's first split, but in the second he's only 0.9s slower.
BTCC Supports - Knockhill: Dan Cammish took the opening win of the day in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB after pole man Josh Webster spun off having been caught out by a puddle on the drying track.
WRC - Germany: Abbring and Lefebvre are in, both slower than Meeke.

Evans is a tenth slower than Meeke through the first split, ao that's a pretty good marker that Meeke's time is a good one. Evans won this stage earlier today

By: AUTOSPORT staff, Jack Benyon, Scott Mitchell, Mark Glendenning

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