Mercedes and Nico Rosberg cruised to an easy victory at the 2016 Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix. The German team and driver leave the Middle East with 100 per cent records and healthy leads in the championships, having won both of 2016's races so far. Ferrari were again the best of the rest; though Sebastian Vettel retired on the formation lap, Kimi Raikkonen had more than enough pace to finish second ahead of Lewis Hamilton's damaged Silver Arrow. Daniel Ricciardo was again fourth for Red Bull, while Haas and Romain Grosjean continued their incredible start to the season by crossing the line in fifth—just over two seconds clear of Toro Rosso's Max Verstappen. Further down the field, Mercedes customers Williams and Force India had dis...

Nico Rosberg claimed his second victory of the 2016 Formula One season in Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix at the Sakhir circuit. After starting from second on the grid, the German moved into the lead at the first corner and led almost throughout, claiming his fifth win in succession and extending his early lead at the top of the drivers' championship. The trials and tribulations endured by Lewis Hamilton, whom Valtteri Bottas hit at the first corner, and Sebastian Vettel, who failed to even start the race, made Rosberg's evening easier than it might otherwise have been, with Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen emerging as the Mercedes driver's biggest threat in the desert. On a day Romain Grosjean continued Haas' strong start to life in F1 and McLaren-Hon...

Kyle Busch landed his first win of the season and his first win in 33 tries at Martinsville, this time in the STP 500. "This is going to be one of the most meaningful wins for him up to this point," Fox analyst Jeff Gordon said after the race. Tick, tock, tick, tock, goes Busch's new grandfather clock. It was a race that saw some drivers fall like rocks and others rise and grind, baby. Everything from wheel hops to a selfless act, from hard sinks on the outside lane to a nearly victorious run by an unlikely driver, Martinsville had it all. Read on for a short-track version of the winners and losers.Begin Slideshow...

Formula One is too predictable these days, right? That has been a common complaint over the last two-plus seasons of Mercedes domination. And that may be true at the top of the grid, which looks pretty much as expected so far in 2016: Mercedes are out in front, and Ferrari (when their cars are running) are a bit behind but clearly second-best. If you look at the constructors' standings following Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix, though, there are a couple surprises just below those top teams. Red Bull, expected to struggle with their TAG Heuer-badged Renault engines, are third and debutants Haas, the first brand-new team in six years, are fifth. Given Red Bull's championship pedigree, Haas' performance is probably the bigger surprise. ...

All afternoon long, Kyle Busch owned Martinsville Speedway. He pushed his car to the front of the pack, built multisecond leads and appeared to be running away with an easy win Sunday.    Then a late caution put everything on hold. Luckily, Busch had the car to complete his dominant showing. The driver of the No. 18 Toyota Camry led 352 of the 500 laps in the 2016 STP 500, earning his first win of the season after a series of close calls. The defending Sprint Cup champion had four top-five finishes in the year's first five races but had finished no better than third before Sunday's action. At one point Busch was dominating the race to the point that Joe Gibbs Racing was posting memes: AJ Allmendinger came through with by far his ...

Marc Marquez went top of the MotoGP World Championship standings thanks to a sensational victory at the Argentina Grand Prix on Sunday. The Spaniard produced a commanding display from start to finish to hit the top of the podium, with last week’s winner, Valentino Rossi, taking the runner-up spot and Dani Pedrosa coming in third after a dramatic twist in the dying embers of the race. Here's a look at the full results from an entertaining Grand Prix in Santiago del Estero:   Marquez came a disappointing fifth in Qatar last time out, but he looked keen to make up for it straight from the off as he flew off the line. Valentino Rossi, Andrea Dovizioso and the 2014 world champion were jostling for position early on, with Marquez righ...

Nico Rosberg cruised to victory at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday with a commanding performance from the outset at the Bahrain International Circuit. World champion Lewis Hamilton started in pole position for the race, but he quickly found himself jostling with the pack and could only come through in third place. Kimi Raikkonen was left to fly the flag for Ferrari after Sebastian Vettel suffered engine failure in the formation lap, and he did so well by coming in second behind Rosberg. Here's a look at the final results from a dramatic race in the Middle East, per Formula 1: Hamilton was looking to make it three Bahrain Grand Prix victories in a row, but a collision on the very first corner with Valtteri Bottas put him on the back foot a...

Kyle Busch led 352 of 500 laps to capture his first checkered flag of the season in Sunday afternoon's STP 500 at Martinsville Speedway.  The win was the second of the weekend for the defending Sprint Cup champion, who also visited Victory Lane in Saturday's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Alpha Energy Solutions 250, and his first Cup-level win at "The Paperclip" in 31 tries.  Busch takes home one of Martinsville's iconic grandfather clocks, awarded to the winner of each major race on the track, for his efforts. A.J. Allmendinger, who ran consistently in the top 10 all afternoon and made a strong push for the lead in the closing laps after a late caution, came up just short and finished second. Kyle Larson, Austin Dillon and Bra...

Come Saturday evening at the Australian Grand Prix, on a day Lewis Hamilton eased to his 50th career pole position despite a rule change intended to put an end to Mercedes' run of front-row lockouts, the final nails were being pounded into the coffin of Formula One's new, elimination-style qualifying format. Or so we thought, anyway. As you would expect of a regulation change confirmed less than a month until the start of a new season, the overhaul of qualifying—which gained the "unanimous" approval of the F1 Commission, per the FIA's official website—had failed spectacularly.  And for once, those within the paddock—notorious for their conflicting priorities and regular acts of selfishness—were in complete...

Kyle Busch picked up his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory of the season Saturday at Martinsville Speedway, as he led 123 laps to take the checkered flag in the Alpha Energy Solutions 250. Busch held off Truck Series points contenders John Hunter Nemechek and William Byron, as well as fellow Sprint Cup regular Kyle Larson, who led 79 laps en route to a fourth-place finish. Here is a look at the top-10 finishers, with full results available at NASCAR.com: While Busch is the second-winningest truck driver in the history of NASCAR, Saturday marked his first career win at Martinsville in any series. Busch doesn't figure in to the Truck Series standings, but following the Alpha Energy Solutions 250, Nemechek finds h...