While there have been some great races over the weekend, the World Rally Championship & Indycar Championship meetings at Catalunya in Spain and Homestead in USA were overshadowed by two fatalities. For more on this, go to http://www.crash.netwww.crash.net . Here are the results from Catalunya.

Catalunya Top 8
1: Sebastien Loeb/Daniel Elena (Kronos Citroen) 3h22m1.7s (Benefitted from Fords turbo problems)
2: Dani Sordo/Marc Marti (Kronos Citroen) +48.2s (1st WRC podium for the reigning JWRC champion who has canned his JWRC title defence. Just as well, he is good in a WRC car)
3: Marcus Gronholm/Timo Rautainen (Ford) +1m45.8s (Lost 2 minutes with turbo problems at the end of Day 1. Could have won this rally.)
4: Alex Bengue/Caroline Escudero (Peugeot) +2m1.9s (Showed competititve pace and career best result)
5: Jan Kopecky/F. Schovanek (Skoda) +2m57.2s (Beats his career best finish from last years event and gives the Fabia its best finish)
6: Francois Duval/Patrick Pivato (Skoda) +3m37.8s (Brilliant result after being confirmed to get support from Skoda)
7: Petter Solberg/Phil Mills (Subaru) +3m48.2s (Suffered grip problems till later in the rally)
8: Stephane Sarrazin/Stephane Prevot (Subaru) +4m36.4s (Subarus asphalt ace struggles)

Best Brits
15: Matthew Wilson/Michael Orr (VK Stobart Ford) +17m57.4s (Lost a wheel on stage 14 and missed final 2 stages but classified under SupeRally rules)
19: Kris Meeke/G. Patterson (Citroen) +25m7.7s (Crash into Latvala on stage 4 ruins chance of victory but Meeke fights back to 3rd)
23: Steve Perez/S. Harris (Ford) +28m7.8s
29: Stuart Jones/C. Parry (Mitsubishi) +31m40.9s
41: Simon Hughes/C. Mole (Ford) +50m29.2s

Retirements (I think Ill run through drivers on retirements)
1: T.Curtis (Unknown)
2: Gareth Machale (Off on stage 1)
3: Aaron Burkart (Off on stage 2 and accident)
4: Barry Clark (Off on stage 2 and accident)
5: Xavier Pons (Off on stage 12)
6: Luca Betti (Retired on stage 12)
7: J. Pressac (Retired on stage 12)

WRC Drivers Championship (Round 4/16)
1: Loeb (36)
2: Gronholm (27)
3: Sordo (14)
4: Stohl (11)
5: Solberg (10)
6=: Carlsson & Gardemeister (6)
8=: Atkinson, Bengue, Galli, Sarrazin & H. Solberg (5)
13=: Kopecky & Radstrom (4)
15=: Duval, Katajamaki & Machale (3)
18=: Hirvonen & Pons (2)

WRC Manufacturers Championship (Round 4/16)
1: Kronos Citroen (44)
2: Ford (42)
3: Subaru (31)
4: OMV Peugeot (21)
5: VK Stobart Ford (10)
6: Red Bull Skoda (

JWRC (Round 2/9)
1=: Andersson & Prokop (10)
3=: Beres, Casier & Sandell (
6=: Aava & Meeke (6)
8=: Kosciuszko & Valousek (5)
10: Pinomaki (4)
11: Rautenbach (3)
12=: Kara & Zachrisson (2)
14: Tirabassi (1)

Next weekend sees round 3 of the Formula 1 Championship at Albert Park in Melbourne, Australia. Live broadcasts of qualifying and race day are on in the early hours of the morning but they will be broadcasted again around lunchtime/early afternoon on Saturday and Sunday respectively.