Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg will look to continue his relentless charge toward the Formula One World Championship at the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend. The German’s impeccable beginning to 2016 continued last time out in Russia, as he raced to another comfortable victory. His team-mate and reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton has a 43-point gap to make up, and you sense he needs to begin closing that advantage with a winning performance in Barcelona on Sunday. Here is a look ahead to the action, all of the key viewing details and the drivers set to be involved in what is always an absorbing few days of racing in Spain. Action can be watched via Sky Sports F1 (UK) and NBC Sports (US)    Rosberg on the Charge Not only ha...

Matt Crafton won the Monster Mile for the first time in his career, winning the Jacob Companies 200 at Dover International Speedway on Friday in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Rookies Daniel Suarez and Christopher Bell rounded out the top three, with Johnny Sauter and Cole Custer finishing fourth and fifth, respectively. NASCAR shared a video of the winning car coming into Victory Lane: After winning the race at Kansas Speedway last week, 18-year-old William Byron was the pole-sitter coming into Friday's race at Dover. Despite leading for more than half the race, he finished 11th after a couple of untimely cautions. The Kansas race saw an ample number of cautions, with the first one coming on the second lap. That wasn't the case t...

World championship leader Nico Rosberg headed Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen in the second practice session at the Spanish Grand Prix on Friday, with his Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton finishing third fastest. Sebastian Vettel and team-mate Raikkonen were faster than Rosberg and Hamilton in the first practice session, but the Mercedes drivers improved in the afternoon when they ran on the soft tyres.  Meanwhile, 18-year-old Max Verstappen was sixth-fastest in the morning behind team-mate Daniel Ricciardo in his first outing for Red Bull following his promotion from Toro Rosso in place of Daniil Kvyat. Read on for a recap of the morning's action in Spain.   FP2 Recap Here is the classification f...

Max Verstappen may have beaten him to a seat at Red Bull Racing, but Carlos Sainz Jr.'s potential Formula One career path has suddenly become much clearer. If he can finish off the career of new Toro Rosso team-mate Daniil Kvyat, and if the might of Ferrari can persuade Daniel Ricciardo to join former sparring partner Sebastian Vettel (a big "if" admittedly), Sainz will be virtually assured of a Red Bull seat for the 2017 season. That is why Sainz was not as disheartened as you might think when he heard of Verstappen's promotion and why the 21-year-old is sensing an opportunity ahead of his home race at this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix. Also planning to reign in Spain are Ferrari, who remain without a win since last September. Vettel retir...

Drivers lacking drive? That appears to be the case, a bit of senioritis for drivers with Chase credentials. Why study when you’ve already graduated? "Clearly, the sport is lacking some motivation once you’ve won a race," Brad Keselowski said in MRN.com’s Pete Pistone’s column. Those are bizarre words coming from Kez, who was aflutter in that debutant way after winning his second race of the season and fourth overall at Talladega Superspeedway a few weeks ago. It’s a long season, and once that win direct-deposits in the bank account, the urgency falls off the vine. And so we go to Dover International Speedway—the Monster Mile*—for the AAA Drive for Autism 400, where Jimmie Johnson has won 10 times an...

For anyone who enjoys the background politics in Formula One, the two weeks between the Russian and Spanish Grands Prix were pure heaven. Red Bull demoted Daniil Kvyat to Toro Rosso, although it wasn't a demotion in Helmut Marko's Bizarro World, per Autobild (h/t ESPN F1's Nate Saunders). Swapping spots with the Russian is 18-year-old Max Verstappen, who will now face even more scrutiny and pressure, as if being the youngest driver in F1 history wasn't enough. Meanwhile, Nico Rosberg is running away with the drivers' championship on the back of four straight victories. However, he has benefited so far from the poor luck and reliability of his Mercedes team-mate, Lewis Hamilton. Eventually the pendulum will have to swing in the oth...

The fifth round of the 2016 Formula One season will take place at this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, where Max Verstappen will make his Red Bull debut. Having established himself as a potential world champion since making his F1 debut at the beginning of 2015, the teenager has been offered an opportunity to show what he can do on a title-winning team after Red Bull ran out of patience with Daniil Kvyat. Following a disastrous performance in his home race, Kvyat has been sent back to Toro Rosso, where he will partner with Carlos Sainz Jr., a driver determined to prove he, like former team-mate Verstappen, is worthy of a place at Red Bull. With a look at how Verstappen and Kvyat will fare for their new te...

Nico Rosberg may be leading the Formula One drivers' standings by a comfortable margin, but after losing the world championship to Lewis Hamilton in 2014 and 2015, the German is taking nothing for granted. After establishing a 43-point advantage over his Mercedes team-mate with victories in the opening four races, both history and the odds are stacked in his favour, yet Rosberg—at the beginning of the longest season in F1 history—remains convinced Hamilton will bounce back from an unfortunate start to 2016. Hamilton's chances of defending his crown are likely to depend on the reliability of his W07, which suffered a number of glitches in recent races in China and Russia. The sheer frequency of the Briton's issues has led to Merc...

It just seems like Kyle Busch has won every race. The reigning Sprint Cup champion has just won three of the 11 races run so far in NASCAR's premier series. Sure, Busch won four Xfinity Series races and the only Camping World Truck Series race he entered. He also won a 150-mile qualifying race before the Daytona 500. It wasn't, however, Busch who made a mockery of the GoBowling.com 400. It was the unfortunate Martin Truex Jr. who led 172 out of 267 Kansas Speedway laps and had the race clinched until something called "a head bolt off the brake," well, broke during a pit stop on the 212th lap. Until Truex Jr. had to pit, he had led 81 percent of the laps. Truex Jr., who wound up finishing 14th, was understandably mournful when he talked to ...

Reigning world champion Jorge Lorenzo secured his first win of the MotoGP season since Week 1, as he dominated the French Grand Prix on Sunday at the iconic Le Mans circuit.  The Yamaha man was a class apart on the day, racing clear from pole position and never looking in danger of being overhauled. His team-mate Valentino Rossi recovered from seventh on the grid to take second, while Suzuki’s Maverick Vinales took a surprise third place. Championship leader Marc Marquez could only muster a 13th-place finish after he crashed midway through the race in a bizarre incident involving Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso; the pair, less than a second apart, both lost balance at the same point in the race without touching one another. ...