ALGER, Wash. — The battle between Steve Kinser and Joey Saldana for the World of Outlaws championship grew a little tighter Saturday night at Skagit Speedway
Antonio Felix da Costa won round 14 of the Formula 3 Euro Series at Brands Hatch in England, leading the 55-lap race from start to finish.
Alain Menu scored his first victory of the World Touring Car season at Oschersleben, after team-mate Rob Huff was black-flagged while leading. The Chevrolet pair moved into first and second places when pole-sitter Augusto Farfus overshot the first corner following light contact from the Cruzes behind.
Gordon Shedden claimed his fourth British Touring Car Championship victory of the year in the opening race at Knockhill. The Honda driver out-dragged polesitter Alex MacDowall when the lights went out, held a massive slide at the first corner when the pair made contact, and led the whole race.
Gresini Honda has announced that Marco Melandri will leave the team at the end of 2010, with the Italian expected to switch to World Superbikes. Melandri achieved all five of his MotoGP wins and his career-best second place in the 2005 championship with Gresini, which he initially rode for from 2005 to 2007. He then left for Ducati, but had a disastrous season - and then suffered the added blow of the works Kawasaki team withdrawing from MotoGP just after he had signed a 2009 deal with it
Davide Rigon dominated the opening Superleague Formula race of the day at Adria for Anderlecht, after a slow pitstop almost handed victory to Beijing Guoan's John Martin. Rigon's fourth victory of the season - which now puts him level with Chris van der Drift for the most wins in 2010 - has propelled Anderlecht right into the championship mix, with the Belgian club now lying just two points behind second-placed Tottenham after Craig Dolby tangled with title rival Yelmer Buurman of AC Milan. Rigon launched himself out of the final turn at the rolling start and immediately opened up a 1.3-second gap to Martin, who for the second race running had been caught out by the fast-starting polesitter alongside him
Championship leader Toni Elias claimed his sixth Moto2 win of the year at Misano, but the result was overshadowed by a horrific accident in the lead pack involving Shoya Tomizawa, Alex de Angelis and Scott Redding. The incident occurred on lap 12, when the trio were part of a seven-bike breakaway group along with Elias, Jules Cluzel, Simone Corsi and Julian Simon
Hector Barbera has re-signed with the Aspar Ducati team for the 2011 MotoGP season. The 23-year-old Spaniard, who finished runner-up in the 250cc class last season, has finished in the top 10 in five of the 11 races so far this year - his and the Aspar team's first season in the top class.