Weekend review and results round-up
This was a weekend of controversy, upset, and breathtaking action throughout worldwide motorsport, but in the UK in particular - as Britain's round of the GT1 World Championship saw Lucas Luhr and Michael Krumm win the Tourist Trophy in a Silverstone race that saw the top three cars finish absolutely nose to tail after some epic racing to the flag. But the great lead dice was overshadowed by a massive and contentious crash involving Richard Westbrook and Stefan Mucke
There were further fireworks in a wet and spectacular British Touring Car Championship meeting at Oulton Park, where the potentially dominant Hondas lost a race two one-two when Matt Neal took out team-mate Gordon Shedden at the final corner. Jason Plato picked up that win, but it did nothing to ease his fury at what he saw as a lack of performance parity between the engine types.
Elsewhere in the tin-top world, Martin Tomczyk provided an upset by winning the DTM round at the reopened Spielberg circuit in Austria. The World Touring Car Championship was making a highly successful Hungaroring debut in front of a huge crowd, who saw championship leader Rob Huff pull off some successful damage limitation after a disastrous qualifying, but his Chevrolet team-mates Alain Menu and Yvan Muller take the wins.
The Catalunya MotoGP race was relatively flat in comparison - Casey Stoner taking a dominant win that brought him very close to runner-up Jorge Lorenzo's points lead.
The motorsport action
MotoGP: Stoner dominates Catalunya GP
Moto2: Bradl scores another Moto2 victory
125cc: Terol wins after Zarco penalised
GT1: Muller/Enge win qualifying race
GT1: Luhr/Krumm win dramatic TT
DTM: Tomczyk takes Spielberg victory
BTCC: Shedden victorious in wet thriller
BTCC: Plato wins after Hondas collide
BTCC: Jackson wins Oulton race three
F3 Euro: Merhi takes first Spielberg race
F3 Euro: Merhi doubles up at Spielberg
F3 Euro: Juncadella wins final Spielberg race
NASCAR: Keselowski wins on fuel mileage
Superleague: Buurman wins wild Assen opener
Superleague: Tappy beats Martin for Assen win
Superleague: Dolby claims Assen super final win
IRC: Hanninen wins Yalta Rally
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