DTM driver Martin Tomczyk won his first title this weekend and a handful of other Red Bull racers got closer to winning their own championships...
Home, sweet home
It looked for a while as though Citroën's Sébastien Ogier would win the Rallye de France-Alsace by a country mile – and then up stepped MINI's Dani Sordo.
Frenchman Ogier had built up a seemingly unassailable nine-second lead before Sunday morning. But in the first few stages of the final day Sordo had almost halved that margin, creating a nervy finale for Ogier. But he managed to hold off Sordo's challenge and is now just three points behind championship leader and fellow countryman Sébastien Loeb, who was forced to retire here.
Sébastien Ogier wins the Rallye de France-Alsace | © Citroën Sport Photos After his impressive chase, Dani Sordo finished second. It was the Spaniard's second podium finish on tarmac this season and his future with the MINI team looks very bright indeed, the team coming so close to a maiden victory after only a handful of rallies entered.
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Red Bull's MotoGP riders do battle in Grand Prix of Japan
Red Bull riders Casey Stoner, Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso were involved in a thrilling MotoGP in Motegi, Japan, this weekend.
Having led for much of the race, Casey Stoner ran off the track after hitting a bump on the back straight and gifted the lead to the day's fastest man, Dovizioso. Unfortunately for the Italian, though, a ride-through penalty for jumping the start ensured he couldn't do better than fifth come the end of the race. Stoner eventually climbed back to third and thanks to an impressive victory by Spain's Pedrosa, the Aussie rider remains 40 points ahead of Jorge Lorenzo, who finished just a few seconds behind Pedrosa.
Japan's Red Bull rider Hiroshi Aoyama finished in a respectable ninth.
Dani Pedrosa rejoices in Japan | © GEPA pictures/ Gold and Goose
Casey Stoner, Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso do battle/ © GEPA Pictures/Gold and GooseMoto2
He didn't manage to win the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday but Red Bull's Moto2 rider Marc Márquez took the world championship lead from Stefan Bradl with a second-place finish. Andrea Iannone dominated the race to win his third grand prix of the Moto2 season, with Márquez getting out in front just once, on lap eight.
Marc Marquez leads the pack in Japan | © GEPA pictures/ Gold and Goose
Glory for Schlieri and Morgi
As the FIS Ski Jumping Summer Grand Prix draws to a close, Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer took his first victory of the competition in front of his home fans at Hinzenbach, but it was his Austrian team-mate Thomas Morgenstern who built an unassailable 620pts in the lead of the standings to win the FIS GP overall, despite only finishing sixth this weekend.
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Bad luck continues for Rea
After a miserable injury-hit season in World Superbikes, Jonathan Rea was hoping to make amends at Magny-Cours on the Castrol Honda, and sealed pole for both races one and two in France. But a false start and crash in race one was followed by a retirement with mechanical failure from the front on the spare bike in race two to compound the Northern irishman's misfortune. Carlos Checa (number 7 in back of shot) sealed the SBK title after his 13th win of 2011 in race one, then revelled in yet another victory in the second race.
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Audi they do that?
It was smiles all round for Audi as DTM went abroad to Valencia, the manufacturer taking a 1-2-3-4-5-6 result. Number one was the delighted Mattias Ekström (left), but even more pleased was Martin Tomczyk (right), whose third place sealed his maiden DTM title.
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