10 Things You Might Have Missed From Last Weekend's Motorsport Action

In what was a slightly quieter weekend of motorsport - which included Nascar and MotoGP - here are 10 things you might have missed:

1. Can anyone stop him?

Marc Marquez’s domination of the 2014 MotoGP season continued at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with the Spaniard making it 10 wins out of 10 races in the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix.

Marquez started from pole position but dropped to fourth after a poor start. He soon made up the positions, joining Valentino Rossi at the front of the field. Jorge Lorenzo joined the scrap, creating a three-way battle for the lead. He eventually overtook both drivers at the same corner to take the lead and finished two seconds ahead of Lorenzo, with Rossi in third.

2. Crashes galore

There were plenty of crashes during the MotoGP Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix weekend as you can see in the video above.

Following a close battle for the win at Watkins Glen International on Sunday, A.J Allmendinger took the Cheez-It 355 victory from Marcos Ambrose and Kurt Busch.

He led 30 laps and became the 12th different driver to win in the Nascar Sprint Cup series this season. It was an action-packed race that was red flagged at one point following a huge crash between Ryan Newman and Michael McDowell.

As well as the big smash mentioned above, there were also several other crashes and incidents during the Cheez-It 355. Jimmie Johnson was tapped into a spin in the closing stages on the restart. Most of the field managed to avoid him but several cars weren’t so lucky further back.

Denny Hamlin span at turn seven and hit the sand barrels that cover the start of the pit wall, while Alex Kennedy made contact with Reed Sorensen and hit the wall.

Marcos Ambrose may have lost out to A.J Allmendinger for the Nascar Sprint Cup win at Watkins Glen, but he did at least come home victorious in the Nationwide series race on Saturday. Despite an early run-in with Kyle Busch, he stormed to the front and held off Busch in the final laps to take his fourth win at the track in the series. Joey Logano came home in third.

J.J Yeley was far from happy after crashing out of the Nascar Nationwide race at Watkins Glen, following contact with Trevor Bayne.

Petter Solberg took victory in last weekend’s World RX of Canada, leading from start to finish at the wheel of his PSRX Citroen. He became the first driver to win a round of the FIA World Rallycross Championship outside of Europe as well as to take multiple victories. Anton Marklund and Timur Timerzyanov finished second and third respectively.

8. United SportsCar Championship tackles Road America

The TUDOR United SportsCar Championship was in action at Road America for the Continental Tire Road Race Showcase over the weekend. The Prototype class was won by the No. 5 Action Express Racing Corvette DP of Christian Fittipaldi and Joao Barbosa. In GTLM, the No. 62 Risi Competizione Ferrari F458 Italia of Giancarlo Fisichella and Pierre Kaffer took victory.

Meanwhile the No. 94 Turner Motorsport BMW Z4 GTE of Dane Cameron and Markus Palltala won the GTD class, and the No. 8 Starworks Motorsport ORECA FLM09 of Renger van der Zande and Mirco Schultis won in Prototype Challenge.

Earlier in the year Lewis Hamilton went head-to-head with Ken Block at the Top Gear Barbados festival. Over the weekend, Mercedes AMG Petronas posted this awesome video from the event.

Last weekend marked the mid-way point of the F1 summer break, with the sport returning to the track at Spa-Francorchamps from the 22-24th August. Drivers have been sharing what they have been up to, while teams have been keeping their social network accounts alive as the factories close for the mandatory shutdown.

Been having a relaxing break. Beach, sun, lots of food & a couple fresh beverages