Nico Rosberg will look to continue his incredible start to the 2016 Formula One season with a fourth straight win, while Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton hopes to keep his perfect run at the Russian Grand Prix alive. Only two Formula One races have been held at the Sochi Autodrom, and the reigning world champion won both of those contests. He’s yet to get the better of Rosberg in 2016, however. The German has now won six straight races dating back to last season and is the clear favourite to win this year’s title. If Hamilton is to catch Rosberg, Sochi would be a good place to start. Here’s a look at the list of drivers for the Russian Grand Prix: Sky Sports will carry full coverage of the race for UK viewers, while Amer...

Nico Rosberg impressed in the first free practice session for the 2016 Russian Grand Prix as he set the fastest time on Friday morning.  The Mercedes driver is bidding to make it four wins out of four this season and extend his lead over team-mate Lewis Hamilton in the drivers' championship. Read on for a recap of Friday's action.   FP1 Recap Here is how the classification shaped up after the first session in Russia with every driver able to set a time, per Formula One: A number of drivers found themselves spinning on the track with Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel both having difficulty at Turn 15 as their cars struggled for grip in the cool conditions early in the session: Hamilton did a similar pirouette at Turn 2, but it d...

Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton impressed in free practice for the 2016 Russian Grand Prix, as the former set the fastest time on Friday morning and the latter in the afternoon session.  The German is bidding to make it four wins out of four this season and extend his lead over team-mate Hamilton, who is eager to make up lost ground in the drivers' championship. Read on for a recap of Friday's action.   FP2 Recap Here are the standings for the second free practice session, per Formula 1: Sebastian Vettel raced out of the traps to set the pace but encountered technical problems with his car just half an hour into the session: That allowed Hamilton to steal in and pip the German to the top of the standings with a la...

After the spectacular comes the steady. Max Verstappen was all-action upon his arrival in Formula One last year, but the Toro Rosso driver has shown a slightly different side to his game across the opening three races of 2016. The teenager is one of just six drivers to score points in every grand prix thus far, and Verstappen hopes consistent points will lead to the prize of a more competitive seat next season, revealing his determination to challenge for podium finishes in 2017. Should Verstappen earn a promotion to Red Bull at the end of this season, as expected, Daniil Kvyat is likely to find himself searching for alternative employment. But as he prepares for his home grand prix, the Russian believes his performances alongside...

Nine down...a long way still to go. Nonetheless, with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season now officially one-quarter completed, a clearer picture is beginning to emerge of which drivers and their teams are most likely to battle for the championship come November. The last four races have been won by Joe Gibbs Racing drivers, with Kyle Busch winning back-to-back at Martinsville and Texas, while Carl Edwards took the last two on the short tracks of Bristol and Richmond. Throw in Denny Hamlin's victory in the season-opening Daytona 500, and JGR Toyotas have captured five of the first nine races. About the only bump in the road so far for JGR came when Edwards applied the bump-and-run technique to nudge Busch out of the way and take the win at ...

After opening the season in Australia, Bahrain and China, Formula One returns to Europe for the third running of the Russian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton won the first two races at the Sochi Autodrom, but his Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg, has opened the 2016 season with three straight victories (added to the three races he won to finish 2015). Meanwhile, Ferrari and Red Bull are lurking, should the Silver Arrows slip up. F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone made headlines again for saying he thinks Russian president Vladimir Putin should be in charge of Europe, per the Guardian's Anushka Asthana and Rowena Mason. That is no surprise, though, as Ecclestone has long supported Putin, despite Russia's invasion of Ukraine and human rights abuses, amo...

April showers bring May (horse)powers. Talladega Superspeedway puts the super speed in superspeedway. Velocity vectors will hit 200-plus mph as the restrictor plates bolt on for the GEICO 500. Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be the favorite to win this race riding his beloved No. 88 Amelia. We said the same thing heading into Daytona Beach, but Amelia failed to touch down in Victory Lane. Now with a new makeover, he and she attempt to regain control of this plate track. Rick Hendrick, owner of the No. 88 car (and three others), needs to see one hit VL because he can’t—one presumes—take Joe Gibbs Racing any longer. Hendrick can’t even. Or maybe, better yet, he’s thinking: You can have the sprint. I’ll take the fal...

The fourth round of the 2016 Formula One season will take place at this weekend's Russian Grand Prix at the Sochi Autodrom, where Ferrari are hoping to get their stuttering campaign back on track. Still without a win after the opening three races, the Italian team are reportedly set to intensify their hunt of two-time world champions Mercedes, with Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen likely to be armed with an upgraded engine. The decision to introduce an update to their power unit at this early stage of the season carries a high element of risk, but could the potential rewards outweigh the possible pitfalls? We've referred to our crystal ball to come up with five bold predictions for F1's third visit to Russia, including the contrasting ta...

When Carl Edwards wins a Sprint Cup race, a feat achieved in consecutive weeks now, it seems like a triumph of truth, justice and the American way. As Edwards performs his familiar backflip—one cannot help but wonder if one day, he will be too old for such nonsense and disaster will ensue—one half expects flowers to bloom amid the garden of empty seats that greet almost every NASCAR winner these days. If NASCAR were baseball and Darrell Waltrip were Vin Scully—and, boogity, boogity, are they not—then Edwards would be a two-out pick-me-up in the bottom of the ninth. NASCAR needed that clutch hit from Edwards, who bumped teammate Kyle Busch's Toyota out of the way on the final lap at Richmond International Racewa...

Only three races of the 2016 Formula One season have been completed, but it seems Ferrari are already beginning to panic. After witnessing Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen run into each other at the beginning of the recent Chinese Grand Prix, Ferrari chairman Sergio Marchionne told Sky Sports' James Galloway how the "clock is on" for the team to return to winning ways. Despite challenging Mercedes in Australia, Bahrain and China, Ferrari are without a victory since September 2015, and Vettel is already some distance from the summit of the drivers' standings. And in response to their slow start, the Prancing Horse are reportedly set to fast-track an engine upgrade to this weekend's Russian GP in a move that could make or break their campa...