Standings: Sebastien Loeb 66, Petter Solberg 44, Markko Martin and Marcus Gronholm 42, Carlos Sainz 40, Francois Duval 31, Mikko Hirvonen 18, Janne Tuohino 16, Harri Rovanpera 14, Daniel Carlsson and Gilles Panizzi 6 etc.

Report provided by Reuters

  OWRS

Tag, You're It!

Alex Tagliani has won an Indycar race. For the 32 year old Canadian it has been a long time coming. Great things have been expected of him since joining the Player's/Forsythe team back in 2000. Last year an overflowing Forsythe squad saw Tagliani being 'sold' off to Paul Gentilozzi's rookie Rocketsports Racing squad. The Rockets have learned their lessons quickly and tactics put Tagliani into a position to win, and 'Tags' did the rest.

Sebastien Bourdais topped the sheets after qualifying to start from pole position alongside Herdez driver Ryan Hunter-Reay. The renaissance of Jimmy Vasser continued to place the '96 champion in third place alongside Bruno Junqueira ahead of Forsythe pair Patrick Carpentier and Paul Tracy. Tagliani was way back in thirteenth in the eighteen car field and looking a rank outsider.

Bourdais got the jump at the start to lead a fast starting Vasser but Junqueira was quickly back into second. Hunter-Reay, trying to recover quickly got wide off a left hand sweeper at the back of the track and hit Vasser just after rejoining the circuit as the two turned into the following right hander. Hunter-Reay spun to the inside of the corner while Vasser spun backwards and away into the outside sandtrap leaving the following Patrick Carpentier nowhere to go but into Vasser, eliminating the Canadian. With the yellows out Hunter-Reay was bump started and fled the scene with Vasser limping back to the pits.

This left the Newman-Haas cars out in front and running away, with Tracy next followed by the impressive Oriol Servia and A.J. Allmendinger. The NHR pair was quickly brought back to the field by a brief yellow for a Roberto Gonzalez off. The race went green again on lap 14, and a lap later a few teams, having crunched the numbers decided there was a risk wroth taking by pitting at lap 15. If a yellow followed quickly, a pitstop could be saved on the big six kilometre circuit. So Justin Wilson led Tagliani, Gaston Mazzacane, Alex Sperafico and Mario Haberfeld to the pits. Out on the track, Bruno Junqueira fell into the turn one sandtrap leaving those teams who had called the cars into the pits grinning widely.

The leaders headed pitwards, but there was a big advanatge for those who had gotten in early. When the field settled again Tracy led from Tagliani with Wilson next ahead of Rodolfo Lavin and Haberfeld. Tracy though was back into the pits on lap 23 leaving the early stoppers filling the top positions. Again luck would be with the Tagliani group as just as Tags, Wilson and Haberfeld stopped a second time the yellows flew with Gaston Mazzacane in the kitty litter near the end of the lap.

Again Tracy led at the restart only to be forced to give it up a few laps later for his stop and Tagliani led once more. The frequent yellows were having an effect and race officials announced that all compulsory stops had to be completed by lap 44 with a projected finish around lap 49. Tagliani and Haberfeld stopped on lap 40 with Lavin hanging on until lap 42. Tracy and Hunter-Reay were the last to stop with Tracy's stop going all wrong, a broken rattle gun costing bulk time for the Canadian.

Tracy exploded from the pits intent on making up time but Junqueira, who had been delayed several times after his early off was not behaving like a compliant backmarker and Tracy hit the back of the Brazilian, while Allmendinger's passing attempt on Tracy went wrong causing the car to stop over the back of the track bringing out a yellow, and a drive through for Tracy.

The race was restarted on lap 46 with just two laps to go with Tagliani leading Lavin from Bourdais, Haberfeld, Dominguez and Hunter-Reay. Hunter-Reay was quickly past his teammate while Haberfeld threw away fourth, diving into the sand.

Tagliani ran out the last lap taking a well-driven victory ahead of Lavin who was also having his best ever result. Bourdais took third with Hunter-Reay in fourth despite his misadventures. Dominguez was next ahead of Servia and Wilson with Vasser recovering to eighth. Bourdais now has a huge 47 points lead over Junqueira with Tagliani now into third place, within eleven points of the Brazilian and three ahead of Tracy. Next is a return to Canada for the third and final time at the Montreal street circuit Champ Car shares with Formula One.

Result of Champ Car World Series, Round 8 of 15, Grand Prix of Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, United States:

Pos  Driver               Car
 1.  Alex Tagliani        Rocketsports Racing Lola-Ford
 2.  Rodolfo Lavin        Forsythe Championship Racing Lola-Ford
 3.  Sebastien Bourdais   Newman Haas Racing Lola-Ford
 4.  Ryan Hunter-Reay     Herdez Competicion Lola-Ford
 5.  Mario Dominguez      Herdez Competicion Lola-Ford
 6.  Oriol Servia         Dale Coyne Racing Lola-Ford
 7.  Justin Wilson        Mi-Jack Conquest Racing Lola-Ford
 8.  Jimmy Vasser         PKV Racing Lola-Ford
 9.  Michel Jourdain Jr   RuSport Lola-Ford
10.  Guy Smith            Rocketsports Racing Lola-Ford

Standings: Sebastien Bourdais 213, Bruno Junqueira 166, Alex Tagliani 155, Paul Tracy 152, Patrick Carpentier 141, Ryan Hunter-Reay 139, Jimmy Vasser 127, Mario Dominguez 126, A.J. Allmendinger 116, Michel Jourdain Jr and Justin Wilson 107 etc

Report provided by Reuters

  NASCAR

Gordon Dominates Brickyard 402.5

Jeff Gordon led 124 of the 161 laps (yes, 161) and took his fourth victory in the Brickyard 400. But it almost didn't happen after running over debris late in the race, the same debris costing Kenseth a top three as he finished sixteenth. A 36th place finish for Jimmie Johnson after an engine failure saw his point lead over teammate Jeff Gordon slip to 97 points, though with only five rounds until the chase begins this is not a great problem, as if standing stay the same the gap will be reduced to just five points anyway.

Casey Mears and Ward Burton lined up on the front row, these two making contact as they entered turn one after the start, and again in turn two, Mears taking the lead as Elliott Sadler moved past Burton into second, Earnhardt Jr demoting Burton another place before the lap was over. Meanwhile Jeff Gordon was on the move, starting eleventh but up to seventh after two laps. Lap three saw a change in the lead as Sadler took Mears into turn three. The first caution wasn't far away, coming out on lap five after Jason Leffler pounded the turn three wall thanks to a flat right front tyre, the result of earlier contact with the wall in turn one.

Back to green on lap nine, Sadler leading the way as Jeff Gordon continued his move forwards, taking fifth at the restart, fourth a lap later, third on lap twelve and second on lap fifteen . Meanwhile Mears was heading the other way, fading outside the top ten. Tony Stewart spun exiting turn two without hitting the wall to bring out the second caution on lap 24, which saw the field head for the pits. Sadler led Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Jeremy Mayfield and Mark Martin (Martin taking only two tyres) out the other end, the race returning to green on lap 27, Jeff Gordon taking the lead into turn one a lap later.

Another caution wasn't far away though, coming out on lap 31 after Ryan Newman worked Jimmie Johnson loose off turn three, Johnson spinning, again no damage. Back to racing on lap 33, Jeff Gordon and Sadler leading the way from Mayfield and an impressive Matt Kenseth. A flat left front tyre for Tony Raines brought out the next caution on lap 44, the field pitting at this point. Jeff Gordon, Sadler and Dale Jarrett took two tyres and led the field out of the pits, Kenseth took four and was fourth out just ahead of two tyre Robby Gordon.

Back to racing on lap 49, Kenseth losing two places on that lap to Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart but his tyre choice eventually paid off, moving up to third by lap 65 as Jeff Gordon and Sadler edged away at the front. Kasey Kahne wasn't having an easy day, getting loose side by side with other cars and then eventually kissing the wall, forcing him to pit and putting him a lap down after being in the top ten. Another flat left front tyre, this time for Sterling Marlin, brought out the next caution on lap 69.

Somewhat bizarrely, with the tyre letting go at the start of the backstretch, Marlin chose not to pit when he got around to turn four, continuing around for another lap. Sparks from the car rubbing on the ground had now lit a fire in the left front wheel well, eventually causing Marlin to abandon ship at turn two as the flames and smoke became too much. The rest of the field pitted, Sadler beating Jeff Gordon out ahead of Kenseth, Jarrett and Stewart, who had recovered well from his earlier spin. Meanwhile Kahne got the 'lucky dog' pass and was back on the lead lap.

The race restarted on lap 73 but was immediately back to caution as cars went left and right at the bottom of the top ten before they got to turn one. Rusty Wallace and Scott Riggs were first to spin, and in the mess Terry Labonte, Ward Burton and Scott Wimmer were also collected, a couple of other cars suffering minor damage. This caution set a new record for cautions in the Brickyard 400, and we weren't even halfway in the 160 lap event! Some cars down the field pitted but most of the field stayed out. Back to green on lap 79, Jeff Gordon taking the lead back from Sadler two corners after the restart as Stewart took fourth from Jarrett later in the lap, and third from Kenseth a lap later.

Lap 89 and a trail of smoke from points leader Jimmie Johnson's car signalled the end of his day with a blown engine, and another caution period. The field came in for stops, most of the field taking two tyres, Jeff Gordon beating Sadler, Kenseth, Robby Gordon and Jarrett out of the pits. The race restarted on lap 93 but was back under caution four laps later after contact between Kasey Kahne and Brendan Gaughan saw Gaughan immediately suffer a left rear flat tyre, spinning and hitting the turn two wall.

Back to green on lap 102, Jeff Gordon leading the same top five as before, though Sadler dropped from second to fifth three laps later as Kenseth, Robby Gordon and Jarrett moved past him as Sadler struggled a little with the handling of his car. The next caution came out on lap 125 when third placed Robby Gordon suffered a flat left front tyre on the backstretch. Just like Marlin earlier, he passed pit lane the first time past but unlike Marlin he made it back around, though the front left wheel well was on fire. The field pitted, Jeff Gordon leading Kenseth, Jarrett, Mark Martin (who had recovered well from early problems) and Sadler out of the pits, the field with enough fuel to make it to the end.

Back to green once more on lap 129, with Sadler and a recovering Kasey Kahne moving up to fourth and fifth past Martin before the lap was over. At the front Jeff Gordon had a small break over Kenseth with Jarrett third as the laps wound down. Lap 142 and Kenseth made am unscheduled pit stop, taking right side tyres after hitting some debris in turn four and fearing a flat tyre would result. The debris saw the caution come out soon after, as it became clear Jeff Gordon had also hit the debris and had suffered damage to the bottom lip of the right side of the front airdam, Kenseth suffering almost identical damage.

For Gordon it must have brought back memories of Martinsville, when the circuit broke up and he suffered damage that saw a strong second place end up as a sixth place finish. Despite the damage, it was decided it was better to stay on track than pit, the rest of the leaders also staying out but from outside the top ten they headed pitwards. Back to green on lap 147, Jeff Gordon now leading Jarrett and Sadler but it was back to caution again on lap 150 after Scott Wimmer became another to suffer a left front flat tyre.

Back to green on lap 153, Jeff Gordon still holding on ahead of Jarrett and Sadler but once again the caution flew, this time as Brian Vickers and Ryan Newman fought over the same piece of track into turn two, both cars spinning with Newman's car slamming the wall hard. Would the race get back to green before the scheduled finish. As it turned out, we would see the first use of the 'green-white-chequered' finish, instituted before the New Hampshire round a couple of weeks ago to appease fans who had become angry and even thrown things at the cars after yellow flag finishes. Hopefully things would not run on long enough that fuel became an issue though...

As it turned out, fuel was not a worry. Lap 160 and the race restarted, two laps to go. Jeff Gordon got the jump again and he couldn't be stopped, while despite Sadler's best efforts he couldn't find a way past Jarrett. Further back there was drama though. At the start of lap 161, the 'new' last lap, Ricky Rudd was damaged, having clouted the wall. Then on the backstretch fourth placed Mark Martin and sixth placed Dale Earnhardt Jr both suffered flat left front tyres. The race initially stayed green but eventually the thirteenth caution of the day came out, but not before Martin fell to 25th and Earnhardt Jr to 27th. Meanwhile Kasey Kahne ended up fourth just ahead of Tony Stewart despite problems earlier for both drivers.

The irony? Both drivers would have been fine had the new rule not been used, which also ended up seeing the race finish under caution at the end of lap 161. Had the race finished at the end of lap 160 it would have ended under green, the exact thing the new rule was designed to deliver... Quite why the new rule was used is not entirely clear, as it is supposed to be for races unable to be restarted before the scheduled distance, which was not the case at Indy, as the race restarted on the final lap of the scheduled race distance.

Result of NASCAR Nextel Cup, Round 21 of 36, Brickyard 400, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indiana, United States:

Pos  Driver              Car
 1.  Jeff Gordon         Chevrolet Monte Carlo
 2.  Dale Jarrett        Ford Taurus
 3.  Elliott Sadler      Ford Taurus
 4.  Kasey Kahne         Dodge Intrepid
 5.  Tony Stewart        Chevrolet Monte Carlo
 6.  Greg Biffle         Ford Taurus
 7.  Jamie McMurray      Dodge Intrepid
 8.  Kevin Harvick       Chevrolet Monte Carlo
 9.  Bill Elliott        Dodge Intrepid
10.  Kurt Busch          Ford Taurus

Standings: Jimmie Johnson 3095, Jeff Gordon 2998, Dale Earnhardt Jr 2855, Tony Stewart 2761, Matt Kenseth 2738, Elliott Sadler 2674, Kurt Busch 2615, Bobby Labonte 2584, Kevin Harvick 2562, Ryan Newman 2542 etc.

  DTM

Audi's Sports Line

Mercedes-Benz has been held as the weapon of choice for the last 18 months, but ever so slightly Audi's new A4 has chipped away at the perception, with some explaining it away to impressive form of Mattias Ekstrom. At the compact circuit of Oschersleben the floodgates burst open and Audi stormed home for an impressive 1-2 victory, even more impressively without Ekstrom, as six times Le Mans champion Tom Kristensen broke through for his first DTM win ahead of the Abt junior driver graduate Martin Tomczyk.

The weekend always promised to turn the season on its head as Opel took the early honours with their largely resultless Vectras. Veteran German racer Manuel Reuter was fastest on Friday and again in Saturday practice but in qualifying it was series leader Mattias Ekstrom who stepped forward in the Abt A4. Kristensen underlined his teammate's pace to be second with Albers and Paffett keeping Opel (Timo Scheider) back in fifth.

Superpole started with Laurent Aiello, but third out Bernd Schneider was the first to set a quick time, standing until Tomczyk appeared, scorching around in a 1:20.752 that took pole position. Kristensen was best of the rest a tenth shy with Gary Paffett, Schneider, Reuter and Christijan Albers filling the top six. Peter Dumbreck was the best Opel in eighth, the three Opels in Superpole taking the bottom three slots.

The race promised to be a physical encounter when Kristensen and Paffett leaned on each other briefly during the warm up lap. Tomczyk didn't waste his pole position and was smartly away at the start with Kristensen, Albers and Paffett in pursuit. Paffett was quickly past Albers while further back Ekstrom, whose superpole lap had dumped him to seventh was quickly up to Schneider, forcing his way past into fifth place. The top four were already breaking away though.

Race leader Tomczyk led the first group pitwards with Kristensen, Paffett and the Opels of Reuter and Fassler pitting on lap 7. Albers squandered his lead with an off. It was soon worse for Mercedes's senior title challenger as when he exited the pits the following lap, Albers crossed the blend line, rejoining into traffic too early, earning himself a drive through penalty.

It was starting to look a long day for Mercedes. Bernd Schneider collided with Peter Dumbreck while emerging from the pits, damaging both cars, but not ending their races. Schneider would recieve a drive through penalty though for ignoring blue flags and would suffer a mechanical retirement just past half distance.

With the first round of stops all but complete, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, who had stayed out, was leading, but it was a brief lead as Tomczyk stormed past. That same lap Paffett stopped for the second time. Tomczyk stuck it out for another four laps, to lap 20, with 22 laps left. He emerged behind Kristensen. As the order settled, Paffett was third, and was being attacked by Reuter, with series leader Ekstrom best of the rest.

Reuter was held back until the last lap but this day the three pointed star was not the car to have and Paffett lost third place to give Opel its best result of the year. First and second though was not in dispute, as Kristensen led home two and a half seconds from Tomczyk. Reuter pulled out three seconds in that last lap over Paffett. Behind Ekstrom, Aiello had a large gap over Timo Scheider with Marcel Fassler taking the final point in a spirited battle with Christian Abt, with Jean Alesi not far behind.

It was a good day to be a fan of the four rings. With the delayed Albers nowhere to be seen in the results sheets, Ekstrom's title chances have firmed. Paffett now appears to be the man to lead Mercedes chances. Paffett sits eleven points behind Ekstrom, and still two behind Albers. Kristensen's win has vaulted him into fourth place while defending champion Schneider continues to slide and has fallen to Tomczyk as well. Scheider is now the best of the Opels in eighth place, a point and a place ahead of Audi's last champion, Opel Phoenix's Laurent Aiello.

Result of Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Round 7 of 10, Oschersleben, Germany:

Pos  Driver            Team
 1.  Tom Kristensen    Abt Sportsline Audi A4 DTM
 2.  Martin Tomczyk    Abt Sportsline Audi A4 DTM
 3.  Manuel Reuter     Team Holzer Opel Vectra GTS V8
 4.  Gary Paffett      AMG Mercedes-Benz C Class
 5.  Mattias Ekstrom   Abt Sportsline Audi A4 DTM
 6.  Laurent Aiello    Team Phoenix Opel Vectra GTS V8
 7.  Timo Scheider     Team Holzer Opel Vectra GTS V8
 8.  Marcel Fassler    Team Phoenix Opel Vectra GTS V8
 9.  Christian Abt     Abt Sportsline Audi A4 DTM
10.  Jean Alesi        AMG Mercedes-Benz C Class

Standings: Mattias Ekstrom 51, Christijan Albers 42, Gary Paffett 40, Tom Kristensen 27, Martin Tomczyk 23, Bernd Schneider 22, Jean Alesi 14, Timo Scheider 13, Laurent Aiello 12, Marcel Fassler and Manuel Reuter 8 etc.

  Formula Three

Premier Premat

The leading category for developing young talent for Formula One for several decades now has been Formula 3 and each year at Zandvoort in the Netherlands, every domestic series in Europe gathers to compete for the unofficial Formula 3 World Cup. In 2004 the Formula 3 Euroseries stole a march on the British Formula 3 runners with ASM Formule 3 sweeping away with the silverware with its drivers completing a memorable 1-2 victory for the team, Alexandre Premat winning from Eric Salignon.

Salignon won the start from the front row and made the early running. The race was interrupted with yellows and a safety car on only the second lap after a collision between Ferdinand Kool and Fairuz Fauzy. From the restart Salignon zoomed away to a big lead only to spin with just four laps to go allowing his fellow countryman through into the win.

Third place was taken by the first of the British Championship drivers, Adam Carroll (P1 Motorsport) with James Rossiter coming home fourth ahead of Lucas di Grassi. The much hyped battle between British series leader Nelson Piquet Jr and Nico Rosberg was claimed by the Finn, who finished sixth to Piquet's eighth, behind Lewis Hamilton and ahead of Formula 3 Euroseries leader Jamie Green.

Result of Marlboro Masters of Formula 3, Zandvoort, The Netherlands:

Pos  Driver             Team
 1.  Alexandre Premat   ASM Formule 3 Dallara F304 Mercedes-Benz
 2.  Eric Salignon      ASM Formule 3 Dallara F304 Mercedes-Benz
 3.  Adam Carroll       P1 Motorsport Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda
 4.  James Rossiter     Fortec Motorsport Dallara F304 Spiess Opel
 5.  Lucas di Grassi    Hitech Racing Dallara F304 Sodemo Renault
 6.  Nico Rosberg       Team Rosberg Dallara F304 Spiess Opel
 7.  Lewis Hamilton     Manor Motorsport Dallara F304 Mercedes-Benz
 8.  Nelson Piquet Jr   Piquet Sports Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda
 9.  Jamie Green        ASM Formule 3 Dallara F304 Mercedes-Benz
10.  Danny Watts        Promatecme F3 Lola-Dome F106/4 Mugen-Honda

  FIA GT

Ferrari's Spa

In recent times Scuderia Italia have dominated the FIA GT series with their Ferrari Maranellos. Last year though at the Spa 24 Hour, the team had to give best to a N-GT class Porsche. This year, Scuderia Italia made no such mistake, and the team of Luca Cappellari, Fabrizio Gollin, Lilian Bryner and Enzo Calderari took a one lap victory over the GPC Giesse Ferrrari 575M of Vincent Vosse, Mika Salo, Fabio Babini and Phillip Peter.

The newer Ferrari led for much of the race, only to cede the lead to the more experienced Scuderia Italia team due to inferior pit strategy and a broken diffuser. Third outright was taken by the first of a trio of Freisinger N-GT Porsches which filled the top five in a remarkable result for the team, taking the N-GT class trifecta. Stephane Ortelli, Romain Dumas and Emmanuel Collard won the class by two laps, thirteen shy of the winning Ferrari.

Coming home in sixth place was the Nurburgring 24 Hour winning BMW M3 GTR V8 of Schnizter ETCC pilots Jorg and Dirk Muller along with endurance race veteran Hans-Joachim Stuck. Seventh was the third of the GT cars, the second Scuderia Italia Ferrari which had been delayed during the night after Stefano Livio crashed into the barriers, forcing a lengthy repair job.

N-GT championship leaders JMB pairing of Christian Pescatori and Fabrizio de Simone had a dreadful race, crashing after just eight laps. Early outright leaders, the Saleen of Uwe Alezen and Michael Bartels was outed with fuel pump failure

Result of FIA GT Championship, Round 7 of 11, Proximus 24 hours of Spa, Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium:

Pos  Drivers                                Car
 1.  Luca Cappellari/Fabrizio Gollin/       Ferrari 550 Maranello
     Lilian Bryner/Enzo Calderari
 2.  Vincent Vosse/Mika Salo/               Ferrari 575M Maranello
     Fabio Babini/Phillip Peter
 3.  Stephane Ortelli/Romain Dumas/         Porsche 996 GT3-RSR
     Emmanuel Collard
 4.  Alexei Vasiliev/Timo Bernhard/         Porsche 996 GT3-RSR
     Jorg Bergmeister
 5.  Sascha Maassen/Lucas Luhr/             Porsche 996 GT3-RSR
     Marc Lieb
 6.  Dirk Muller/Jorg Muller/               BMW M3 GTR
     Hans-Joachim Stuck
 7.  Matteo Bobbi/Gabriele Gardel/          Ferrari 550 Maranello
     Stefano Livio/Miguel Angel de Castro
 8.  Mike Jordan/David Jones/               Porsche 996 GT3-RS
     Godfrey Jones
 9.  Gerold Ried/Christian Ried/            Porsche 996 GT3-RS
     Horst Felbemayr/Horst Felbemayr Jr
10.  Vanina Ickx/Peter Wyss/                Porsche 996 GT3 Cup
     Jean-Francois Hemroulle

Standings: Luca Cappellari and Fabrizio Gollin 62, Matteo Bobbi and Gabriel Gardel 48.5, Fabio Babini and Phillip Peter 40 etc

N-GT: Stephane Ortelli and Emmanuel Collard 66, Sascha Maassen and Lucas Luhr 55.5, Fabrizio de Simone and Christian Pescatori 36 etc

  Briefs

• Supporting the Spa 24 Hour, the European Touring Car Championship made its Belgian stopover and witnessed the Schnitzer BMW team return to the top of the points table as wins for both Dirk and Jorg Muller pushed them past Andy Priaulx in the race for the championship. The ETCC was joined by a grid of cars from the German DMSB Produktionswagen Meisterschaft, which runs to similar regulations to fill a bumper 35 car field which saw great racing.

  The first race saw Jorg Muller jump to the lead from Dirk Muller only to lose the lead a lap later as the pair raced away to take the 1-2. Priaulx was in third for much of the race only to lose it to SEAT Toledo driver Jordi Gene. Autodelta Alfa Romeo lead driver Gabriele Tarquini was fifth ahead of Antonio Garcia who picked up the spot after Kurt Mollekens had an engine failure on the last lap.

  Augusto Farfus led the field away for race two after an engine failure on the warm up lap for Frank Diefenbacher saw him lonely in front of the field. After the end of the long Spa opening lap Jorg Muller had climbed to second with Tarquini next ahead of Priaulx and Garcia. Farfus and Muller fought fiercly for the lead with damage forcing Muller to drop to third while the stewards gave Farfus a drive through penalty. This left Tarquini leading from Priaulx but Muller was quickly back in the lead with Dirk Muller catching the battle and forcing his way through into second. Garcia climbed into third by race's end with Tarquini fourth. Priaulx finished fifth after a late race collision with Mollekens (seventh) and Tom Coronel (sixth).

  Standings: Dirk Muller 86, Jorg Muller 83, Andy Priaulx 81, Gabriele Tarquini 66, Fabrizio Giovanardi 46, Antonio Garcia 43, Augusto Farfus 29, Jordi Gene 23, Frank Diefenbacher and Tom Coronel 19 etc

  Upcoming Events Calendar

• August 14 - International Formula 3000 Championship, Round 8 of 10, Hungaroring, Hungary
• August 15 - NASCAR Nextel Cup, Round 22 of 36, Watkins Glen, New York, United States
• August 15 - Indy Racing League, Round 11 of 16, Kentucky Speedway, United States
• August 15 - Champ Car World Series, Round 9 of 15, Denver Street Circuit, Colorado, United States
• August 15 - Le Mans Endurance Series, Round 3 of 4, Silverstone 1000, Great Britain
• August 15 - V8 Supercar Championship Series, Round 8 of 13, Oran Park Raceway, New South Wales, Australia
• August 15 - British Formula 3 Championship, Rounds 17 & 18 of 24, Silverstone, Great Britain
• August 20 - World Rally Championship, Round 10 of 16, Rallye Deutschland, Germany
• August 22 - World Motorcycle Championship, Round 10 of 16, Brno, Czech Republic
• August 22 - NASCAR Nextel Cup, Round 23 of 36, Michigan International Speedway, United States
• August 22 - Indy Racing League, Round 12 of 16, Pikes Peak International Raceway, Colorado, United States
• August 22 - American Le Mans Series, Round 7 of 9, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, United States
• August 22 - British Touring Car Championship, Round 8 of 10, Brands Hatch, Great Britain
• August 28 - International Formula 3000 Championship, Round 9 of 10, Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium
• August 28 - NASCAR Nextel Cup, Round 24 of 36, Bristol Motor Speedway, Tennessee, United States
• August 29 - Champ Car World Series, Round 10 of 15, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Quebec, Canada
• August 29 - All-Japan Formula Nippon Championship, Round 6 of 9, Mine, Japan
• August 30 - British Formula 3 Championship, Rounds 19 & 20 of 24, Thruxton, Great Britain
• August 30 - European Formula 3000 Championship, Round 6 of 10, Donington Park, Great Britain