WEC opener, BTCC, WTCC and World RX
By: Matt Beer
Summary
Status: Stopped
In GTE Pro, it's an AF Corse one-two with the #71 Ferrari of Rigon leading the #51 Ferrari of Bruni.
Neal becomes the BTCC's sixth winner in six races this year as he leads Shedden home for a Honda one-two at Donington. Tordoff fends off flying WSR team-mate Collard for third, with Sutton fifth.
The #51 Ferrari has now made its final stop and is secure in second in GTE Pro. Not bad considering it had to serve a three-minute penalty.
The #78 Porsche of Camathias, currently second in GTE Am, has slowed and is crawling back to the pits.
Neal gets a great run out of the Old Hairpin and sweeps around the outside of Tordoff as they head up the hill to take the race lead.
The #7 Audi's lead is now 9.2s over the #2 Porsche. The #6 Toyota is in third but too far behind to be a threat.
Tordoff is storming away in the lead now, with Goff down to third as Neal pounces on him. Just past half-distance.
Leading harder-tyre runner Collard is up to sixth now.
Leading harder-tyre runner Collard is up to sixth now.
And Bachler's #88 GTE Am Porsche has suffered a front-right suspension problem. He was second in class.
Brands race three winner Adam Morgan is spat into the Old Hairpin gravel. He's quite a way in but not impossible this will prompt a safety car.
Now the WSR BMWs have escaped very slightly from the two Hondas behind. All the frontrunners are having to be careful to look after their soft tyres at this point.
Race leader Tordoff now has Goff and Neal right on his tail for the lead in the final Donington BTCC race.
Goff is very keen to make it a WSR BMW one-two. Neal insists that he does so via the grass. Goff can live with that, and he's through.
Tordoff pulls a relatively massive lead by Redgate (for a BTCC start at least). Matt Neal is up to second ahead of Jack Goff, and first corner carnage is limited to a spinning Mark Howard.
Jani in the #2 Porsche, which is in the lead as it has yet to make its sixth stop, bangs in the fastest lap of the race - a 1m40.303s.
The World Touring Car Championship has also been in action today, where Jose Maria Lopez won the second race in a dramatic encounter at the Slovakiaring.
There's a battle on for third in LMP2, with the #26 ORECA of Berthon under pressure from the #31 Ligier of Derani.
Albuquerque has doubled his lead in P2 over Richelmi, but the chasing Signatech ORECA is on two-stint old tyres. The roles should be reversed after the next round of stops when it will be the RGR/Morand Ligier that's on the older Dunlops.
Mick Schumacher is in action this weekend in the German Formula 4 championship, and the Prema Powerteam driver took victory in the final race of the day at Oschersleben.
The youngster - son of Michael - managed fourth place in both the first and second races but held on to win the third encounter.
The next round of the series is at the Sachsenring in May.
The youngster - son of Michael - managed fourth place in both the first and second races but held on to win the third encounter.
The next round of the series is at the Sachsenring in May.
The #7 Audi leads by 12.3s from the #2 Porsche. The gap ebbs and flows but little sign of Jani mounting a serious attack at the moment. But there's still just over 90 minutes to go.
The #44 Manor ORECA has been given a five-second stop/go penalty for speeding in the pitlane. Graves is currently driving that car.
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The #2 Porsche pits from the lead. Dumas will had the car over to Jani. This will allow the #7 Audi of Fassler back into first place.
The #5 Toyota is being repaired in the garage, but the damage from the tyre is extensive so it's going to be some time before it heads back out.
Jonny Adam takes victory in the British GT opener at Brands Hatch. Seb Morris debuts with a podium in the Bentley behind Joe Osborne's BMW Z3 GT3
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