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Shane van Gisbergen has moved to within touching distance of a maiden Supercars crown after sharing the spoils with teammate and title rival Jamie Whincup at the Auckland Supersprint.The Aucklander split a pair of one-two results, with Whincup to keep his 148-point championship lead intact with just four races remaining in the season.The Red Bull Racing duo were untouchable at Pukekohe Park, locking out the front row of the grid and the top two positions on the podium all Saturday, showing the dominance that has earned them yet another teams championship.The first race was a procession.Whincup jumped pole sitter van Gisbergen off the line and wasnt headed as van Gisbergen settled for runner-up.The second was a fight.Determined not to let a second pole position slip, van Gisbergen resisted Whincups aggressive moves to rapturous applause from his home crowd.It was pretty distracting, I had some dude down the back straight counting down the laps and I was trying not to get flustered, he said.Its always a nice feeling to win at home.Whincup made three strong efforts in the opening laps to overtake van Gisbergen, with the pair taking high-speed corners and the home straight side-by-side on lap three.Each time the Kiwi responded, and Whincups challenge was effectively over on lap 18 when he missed his apex at turn five and was forced to take evasive action.I had a bit of a crack. Its great to be able to race hard and fair, Whincup said.At the end of the day there were plenty of happy Kiwis on the hill.The results mean the championship will come down to the final weekend even if Whincup slips in the shower on Sunday morning, with van Gisbergen unable to gather a lead big enough to win the title in front of his home crowd.But with 450 points to play for in Auckland and the season-ending Homebush meet, the 27-year-old needs only to finish sixth in the final four races to claim a maiden championship.Whincup has vowed to take the championship fight to the wire, saying theres no point that he would give up on a seventh title.Well go right through to the last lap on Sunday at Homebush, he said.The days biggest incident happened in race one, when Chris Pither sent Jason Bright off the track at 180km/h.Bright careered through the grass and hit the wall leading to the pit lane entry.He walked away from the crash but unsure of whether his Commodore will be repaired in time to finish the New Zealand meet.I copped a pretty big whack in the right rear. 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The Supreme Court of India has passed an order that limits the BCCIs financial freedom and power until the board and its state associations comply with the Lodha Committees recommendations.In a 25-page order issued on Friday, the court directed the BCCI not to distribute funds to its state associations until they submit affidavits stating compliance with the recommendations to the court and the Lodha Committee in two weeks. The order was passed by a three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of India TS Thakur and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud.The court also asked BCCI president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke to meet the Lodha Committee before November 3. They were required to submit an affidavit of compliance in the court by December 3, elaborating on the recommendations already implemented by the BCCI and what it had done to persuade the state associations to adopt the recommendations. The court scheduled the next hearing for December 5. In another significant decision, the court asked the Lodha Committee to appoint an independent auditor to verify the BCCIs accounts. The Lodha Committee was also asked to set a threshold value for various contracts the BCCI enters into, and all contracts in excess of that amount would need the committees approval. The next major contract for the board is the IPL broadcast deal, set to be finalised on October 25.Ive always maintained that we have the highest respect for judiciary. We have welcomed the Lodha Committee recommendations, we more than welcome them because we have nothing to hide, Thakur told Sportstar after the order came out. Im very optimistic in my approach and I am sure some of the issues that we have requested for a re-look will be addressed. We are not fighting against anyone. All I have been saying is that there is confusion regarding certain recommendations. I am sure a dialogue can be had in the interest of the game.Fridays order is the second one issued this week by the court, after an interim order on October 17 in response to the Lodha Committees status report, which had recommended that the BCCI office bearers be superseded and a panel of administrators be appointed because the board was impeding the implementtation of the court-approved recommendations.ddddddddddddIn its order the court noted that there was substance in the status report. It also said the BCCI was in breach of the July 18 court order that had approved the majority of recommendations in the Lodha Committees report and asked the board and states to implement them in four to six months. Implementation of the final judgment of this Court dated 18 July 2016 has prima facie been impeded by the intransigence of BCCI and its office bearers, the court order said.The court said that at this stage it was refraining from approving the Lodha Committees suggestion to supersede the BCCI office bearers because the board had said in a submission to the court that it would make every genuine effort to persuade the state associations to comply with the recommendations.The BCCIs position had been that it could not implement the Lodha Committees recommendations without a majority of its state associations agreeing to do so. The key recommendations the board said the states were reluctant to accept were the one-state-one-vote policy, the age cap of 70 for administrators, and the limit of three, three-year terms with cooling-off periods in between for office bearers.The court order put the states under pressure to comply by cutting off their funding. The BCCI shall forthwith cease and desist from making any disbursement of funds for any purpose whatsoever to any state association until and unless the state association concerned adopts a resolution undertaking to implement the recommendations of the Committee as accepted by this Court in its judgment dated 18 July, the court order said. A state was to receive funds from the BCCI only after the resolution, signed by its president, was submitted to the committee and the court.The court said it had taken cognisance of the argument raised by the boards legal counsel Kapil Sibal, who had said the BCCI would demonstrate to the Lodha Committee how it had already fulfilled some of the recommendations. The court asked the committee to verify whether there had been full compliance. ' ' '