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WORLD WRAP: Martin lands maiden US win

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WORLD WRAP: Martin lands maiden US win

Anthony Martin

Anthony Martin

US F2000

Australian Anthony Martin surged to his maiden victory in the opening race at the Indianapolis road course for Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing.

Team-mate Parker Thompson settled for second and extended his championship lead with Brazilian Victor Franzoni completing the podium.

Martin converted victory from pole, which he inherited after fellow Australian Luke Gabin (JAY Motorsports) had his time disallowed when he failed to acknowledge the chequered flag.

Their compatriot Jordan Lloyd finished fourth.

Thompson clinched the final race to extend his Championship lead after beating Franzoni with Gabin third.

Lloyd, the inaugural Australian Formula 4 champ, finished fifth.

The next round is at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis on May 27.

Patricio O

Patricio O’Ward

Pro Mazda Series

Jake Parsons backed up his maiden podium in the Pro Mazda Series with a sixth in the final race.

Patricio O’Ward maintained his unbeaten form, clinching his fourth straight victory, in the final race.

O’Ward beaten Aaron Telitz by 4.7s with Will Owen third.

The next round is at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis on May 27.

Alessio Lorandi

Alessio Lorandi

European Formula 3

Ben Barnicoat held tough to win a rain-hit opening race at Pau.

The HitechGP driver beat home the Prema Powertrain pair of Kiwi Nick Cassidy and Maximillian Gunther.

George Russell made it a HitechGP double when he won the second race by a 2.8s margin.

Russell beat Sergio Sette Camara (Motopark) with Callum Ilott (Van Amersfoort) third.

In the signature Pau Grand Prix, Alessio Lorandi outlasted a defiant Lance Stroll to win the 25-lap affair by .4s.

Lorandi, 17, did a splendid job of holding on after taking the pole after Stroll had put him under sustained pressure.

Russell managed to hold Illott out to take the final podium spot.

The next round is scheduled for the Red Bull Ring from May 20-22.

Norman Nato

Norman Nato

GP2

Norman Nato produced a stylish victory to break the ice in the Formula 1 feeder category.

Nato blasted past polesitter Pierre Gasly in a feature race which produced three Safety Car periods.

The Racing Engineering driver beat Nicholas Latifi (DAMS) while Gasly (PREMA Racing) held on for third.

There was drama in the final race when Antonio Giovinazzi suffered a bad crash and suffered a leg injury.

Alex Lynn (DAMS) won the race which finished under the Safety Car.

The Williams F1 test driver Lynn beat the consistent Pierre Gasly while Jordan King (Racing Engineering) completed the podium.

New Zealand’s Mitch Evans endured a difficult weekend finishing feature race in 12th and the sprint race in 14th position.

GP2 moves to Monaco for the next round from May 26-28.

Alexander Albon

Alexander Albon

GP3

ART Grand Prix driver Charles Leclerc strolled to a convincing victory in the opening heat.

The Ferrari test driver Jake Hughes (DAMS) could not fight back and finished second ahead of Nirei Fukuzumi, Leclerc’s team-mate.

In the second race Alexander Albon beat Oscar Tunjo with Antonio Fuoco claiming third in the lap 17 lap affair to claim his maiden victory in the series.

The next race is at the Red Bull Ring from July 1-3.

Mathias Ekstrom

Mattias Ekstrom

World Rallycross Championship

Mattias Ekstrom has claimed a second successive victory in the World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy at the Kapaza event in Belgium.

A week after winning at Hockenheim, the DTM star lowered the colours of Sebastien Loeb (Team Peugeot-Hansen) and Petter Solberg.

The EKS driver progressed with three maximum scores from the four qualifying rounds.

Loeb’s second place represented his best rallycross finish while Solberg has conceded the lead in the championship for the first time in more than a year. The former WRC champion is five points behind Ekstrom.

The championship moves to Lydden Hill for the British round on May 27.

Tom Sykes

Tom Sykes

World Superbike Championship

Tom Sykes recorded a stunning win from pole at the recently resurfaced Sepang circuit.

Sykes proved too strong for reigning champ and fellow Kawasaki rider Jonathan Rea while Ducati’s Chaz Davies completed the podium.

The second heat was taken by Honda’s Nicky Hayden, with the former MotoGP rider claiming his maiden win in World Superbikes.

Hayden controlled the race run in wet conditions to beat Davide Giugliano (Ducati) and with Rea third.

Race 1 winner Sykes finished eighth.

Blancpain GT Series - Endurance Cup Round 2: Silverstone, Race2016 © 2016 Musson/PSP. All Rights Reserved.Blancpain GT Series

Dominik Baumann, Jazeman Jaafar and Maximilian Bunk took a slender victory at Silverstone.

The 83-lap race saw the Mercedes-AMG GT3 take a .9s win over the WRT Audi R8 LMS of Dries and Laurens Vanthoor and Frederic Vervisch.

The three-hour affair saw Laurens Vanthoor bridge the gap on the Mercedes after the final stops.

Supercars star Shane van Gisbergen finished sixth in the Garage 59 McLaren McLaren 650S GT3 he shared with Rob Bell and Colm Ledogar after starting 12th.

Queenslander Liam Talbot was running second in class in the Kessel Racing Ferrari he was sharing with Marco Zanuttini and Vadim Gitlin but engine problems late saw them drop out of contention.

Australian Nissan PlayStation GT Academy winner Matt Simmons finished his second international race seventh in class after another encouraging performance.

Competing in the #22 Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3, Simmons and his co-drivers Romain Sarazin and Sean Walkinshaw crossed the line 22nd outright and seventh in the Pro/Am class.

It was a promising display after the car had qualified 35th outright and 14th in class.

The Queenslander made up a number of places early and was pleased with his initial performance.

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