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BTCC Event 6 Snetterton

Jason Plato and Gordon Shedden were the winners of today’s three Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship races at the high-speed Snetterton circuit in Norfolk. Plato won both races one and two and with chief rival Matt Neal experiencing mixed fortunes it means the Chevrolet driver has turned an eight-point deficit into a 20-point lead over his Honda rival as the BTCC heads for its next round at the world-famous Silverstone circuit in Northamptonshire in a fortnight’s time (Sunday 22 August).

Plato led both the day’s first two races from start to finish – despite his Silverline Chevrolet Cruze being laden with 36kgs of success ballast in race one and then the maximum 45kgs in race two. He also set the fastest lap in both to ensure he took a pair of maximum scores. Neal, meanwhile, retired from race one with a puncture and could only manage ninth in race two.

In race three, Neal’s team-mate Shedden was gifted a clear run to victory when early leader James Nash’s Triple Eight Vauxhall Vectra span off the track. Neal took third to give the Honda Racing Team a 1-3 result with Plato backing up his two earlier wins with fifth. Shedden’s result, following fourth and eighth places in races one and two, keep him third in the overall standings and he has in fact closed to within just four points of Neal.

Auto Mundial 32-10

It's the conversation you hear in every office - if you won the lottery, what would you buy first - so here's our list, which sadly doesn't include a Caribbean island in case we don't quite win that much. Spend, spend, spend - we're still throwing away cash like there's no tomorrow, and in case you're lacking inspiration, our news headlines this week are all about lottery winners' cars.

In the show this week:

NEWS

BMW X6

FISKER KARMA

BENTLEY MULSANNE

EMOCEAN CHARM 27

MV AGUSTA

IRC Madeira - HLTS International Sound and Commentaries

Freddy Loix took victory on Rali Vinho Madeira, which finished in Funchal last Saturday (7 August), after going fastest on 14 of the 21 all-asphalt special stages that formed round eight of the 2010 IRC season.

What was all the more remarkable about his performance in his works Skoda Fabia S2000 Facelift, was the fact he was recovering from a dislocated shoulder, sustained when he fell off his motorbike a fortnight before the rally. He received several painkilling injections to numb the pain as he charged to his second victory in as many starts in the IRC this year.

Motorsport Mundial 32-10

Welcome to the program where the British Rally championship competes on stages in Wales, the The World Motocross championship holds its ninth round in Latvia while the Ferrari challenge has two races in Valencia Spain. The three-point-five litre World series by Renault is in Hungary.

Auto Mundial 31-10

We start this week with the news headlines, followed by an unusual story of elegance and luxury - we're at a lakeside renaissance villa for a concours showing of some of the greatest cars ever made. Then it's business as usual as Mini gets a mini facelift and Mini E turns boy racer with some success - and we end with a double bill from the most prolific and successful race car maker of all time.

In the show this week:

NEWS

CONCOURS D'ELEGANCE VILLA D'ESTE

MINI COOPER

MINI E RACE

PORSCHE 911 GT3 HYBRID

PORSCHE 911 GT2 RS

United Autosports at the 24 hours of Spa

United Autosports scored a stunning top-three GT3 rostrum finish on the American-owned team's 24 Hour race début when Mark Blundell (GB), Zak Brown (US), Eddie Cheever (US) and Richard Dean (GB) steered their Audi R8 LMS home into third place in the annual and historic Spa 24 Hours this weekend (Jul 31-Aug 1).

The Leeds (GB)-based team's "sister" Audi of Emil Assentato (US), Stefan Johansson (Sw), Alain Li (F) and Mark Patterson (US) added to United Autosports' superb achievement by finishing fourth in class, the team's brace of R8 LMS GT3 sports cars claiming ninth and 10th overall in the 40-car field.

A power steering issue on the #68 Audi of Blundell/Brown/Cheever/Dean, just four hours from the finish with Cheever poised to re-take the class lead, cost them a possible GT3 victory following a lengthy pit-stop for repairs.

At one-quarter distance, the #68 and #67 United Autosports cars were placed fifth and 10th in class respectively – the latter surviving two harmless spins. Cheever's 128min stint saw him remain on "slick" dry weather tires, the American reveling in the treacherously slippery conditions as rain fell in varying degrees of intensity which saw the #68 hovering just outside the top-three.

With 6hr 25m gone Dean, who had qualified 10th in class on Thursday evening and who had begun the race, was up to third in the #68 (9th overall) with Johansson, who qualified the #67 Audi 13th, eighth as heavy rain fell.

The #68 Audi enjoyed a relatively trouble-free night apart from a puncture and lay third (eighth overall) in the 16th hour in contrast to the "sister" #67 Audi which endured a more eventful night. Assentato visited the gravel trap at Les Combes twice, the second resulting in a Safety Car to retrieve the Audi (0115hr), Li suffered a harmless spin, Patterson contacted a backmarker necessitating an 11mins pit-stop for bodywork repairs (0324hr) while Johansson had a puncture (0445). Despite these dramas, Li was sixth (14th overall) at 0800hr.

Blundell swept the #68 into second place (sixth overall) during the pit-stop phase shortly before three-quarter distance (1000hr) prior to his own scheduled stop, with Patterson placed fifth (12th). But the honor of taking the GT3 class lead (fifth overall) for the first time fell appropriately to United Autosports' Chairman & Co-Owner Brown 19hrs into the race (1100).

With four hours remaining, Cheever and Assentato lay second (sixth overall) and fourth (10th) in class but moments later Cheever in the #68 Audi and poised to re-take the GT3 lead, Cheever controlled a massive "moment" exiting the high speed Eau Rouge, a power steering issue diagnosed after two subsequent pit-stops costing 43mins and dropping the #68 to third in class (ninth overall) – one place ahead of the "sister" car – with three hours remaining.

WTCC Brno HLTS International Sound and Commentaries

British drivers won all today in Brno as Rob Huff took his first victory of the season for Chevrolet in Race 1 and Andy Priaulx scored BMW's 50^th WTCC win in Race 2.

These results, joint with the bad luck that hit Yvan Muller and Gabriele Tarquini, meant a big leap forward in the championship classification for both, Priaulx and Huff. 

In Race 1, Huff claimed a lights-to-flag victory despite a short safety car period interrupting proceedings. He crossed the line ahead of reigning world champion Gabriele Tarquini and his teammate Alain Menu.

In Race 2, BMW Team RBM's Priaulx came from fourth on the grid to take an extra special victory at the place where he scored his first win for BMW back in 2003. Colin Turkington finished second after holding off the charge from Menu, who obtained his second podium finish of the day.

Yvan Muller did not score this weekend and remained on 199 points with Tarquini (who retired in the second race) now just 5 points adrift on 194. Priaulx lies third, only 16 points behind the leader, whil Huff is fourth and reduced his gap to 32.

Darryl O'Young, the young rookie from Hong Kong, dominated the Independents' category taking two wins. He has now closed the gap in the standings to Sergio Hernández who still leads. O'Young and Michel Nykjær shared victories in the Rookie Challenge that is now led by Fredy Barth.
The championship will resume after the summer break for rounds 15 and 16 at Oschersleben, Germany on September 5.

Motorsport Mundial 31-10

In this episode this years VLN series continues on the awesome Nordschleife in Germany, Elite League Speedway with Wolverhampton taking on Peterborough. The World Supermoto championship holds it first round at Castelletto Di Branduzzo while DTM tackles its only road circuit of the year on the Norisring in Germany.

Auto Mundial 30-10

Another collection of desirable cars this week and family cars don't get any more desirable than the new Alfa Giulietta or any more collectable than the limited-edition 8C Spyder. And then we have a pair of SUV's at opposite ends of the price, brand and quality segment, or so you might think - and a look at a car only footballers can afford - if they want it, that is.

In the show this week:

NEWS

ALFA ROMEO GIULIETTA

ALFA ROMEO 8C SPYDER

BMW X5 35i X-DRIVE

BENTLEY SUPERSPORT

HYUNDAI SANTA FE

Pre-German Grand Prix interview with Adrian Sutil

Force India driver Adrian Sutil gives his thoughts ahead of his home race in Germany, reviews his most successful season in F1 so far and takes a look back at how he got started in motorsport. Also available in the feature is rights-free footage of Adrian on track, shots from the 2008 Force India launch in Mumbai, India, and from his earlier racing career.