WRC

Sebastien Loeb stretched his winning run to a third straight rally victory as he took an ultimately-comfortable first place in Turkey. The world champion hit the front when Citroen Junior driver Sebastien Ogier fell back with a tyre problem on Saturday afternoon, and then escaped from the pack today.

Petter Solberg and Mikko Hirvonen both hoped they could keep the pressure on Loeb this morning, but were left short of time to do so when two stages were cancelled due to poor road conditions after overnight downpours - and then cost themselves time with mistakes.

F1

Jenson Button took his second victory of the year by controlling a hectic, wet Chinese Grand Prix. The reigning world champion once again benefited from an early tyre call - this time staying out on slicks in the rain while most pitted for intermediates – and showed his class again from the front.

Even when a safety car period eradicated the lead his tyre gamble had earned him, he kept his head in tricky conditions and even stretched away from McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton in the closing stages when it came down to who had looked after their tyres the best.

But far from being a race of nursing the cars home, for close to 90 minutes it was frantic stuff as the weather once again played havoc with Formula 1.

By AutoSport