9 Highlights From Last Weekend’s Motorsport Action

After a busy weekend of motorsport, we’re here to run you through all of the highlights, from brilliant battles to last lap mayhem and huge crashes

Jack Leslie

11 Aug 2015

Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo enjoyed a race-long fight for the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix win. It was spectacular to watch, producing a thrilling conclusion to the race.

2. Marquez the master

Marquez eventually took victory at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with Lorenzo dropping back in the final laps and settling for second. Valentino Rossi and Dani Pedrosa swapped places several times behind, with MotoGP legend Rossi finishing third.

The United Sportscar Championship was at Road America last weekend. It was a crazy race, with a brilliantly chaotic finish – spins, contact and cars off track. Dane Cameron and Eric Curran took victory for Action Express Racing, with Bruno Junqueira and Chris Cumming winning the PC class for RSR Racing.

Nick Tandy and Patrick Pilet were triumphant in GTLM, while Jeroen Bleekemolen and Ben Keating won in GTD for Riley Motorsports.

Joey Logano won the Nascar Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen, after passing Kevin Harvick on the last lap as his rival ran out of fuel. He completed some pretty epic burnouts and donuts afterwards, so many that his car actually caught fire. Fortunately the damage was only minor.

Denny Hamlin suffered a scare when his car’s hood flew up during the Sprint Cup race. He could still see some of the track, but eventually had to pit for repairs.

Kenny Habul was hit hard during the Nascar Xfinity race at Watkins Glen, and his car then set fire when parked in the pits. Awkward.

Logano took a clean-sweep, also winning the Xfinity round. There was drama afterwards when Regan Smith and Ty Dillon were involved in a pit lane fight. Just Nascar things.

All-round legend Guy Martin was leading the Ulster Dundrod 150 Superbike race when he crashed out on the last lap. It was a big accident and he suffered fractured vertebrae, broken ribs and a broken sternum. Despite the severity of his injuries, he’s already discharged himself from hospital, and recently said on Facebook that he’d be "be back at work by Tuesday."

8. VW dominance

The British Touring Car Championship was at Snetterton in Norfolk, after the series’ summer break. Team BMR scored a 1-2-3 in qualifying, and Colin Turkington went on to win the first two races. Jack Goff then scored the reverse-grid race three victory.

Davy Jeanney took victory at the FIA World Rallycross Championship round in Canada last weekend, taking a lights-to-flag win from Marklund Motorsport team-mates Topi Heikkinen and Tanner Foust.