Nico Rosberg grasped an early advantage in the race for the 2016 Formula One world championship, as the Mercedes man triumphed at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on Sunday. Rosberg and his team-mate Lewis Hamilton, who finished in second, had to fight back in this absorbing race after blistering beginnings from Ferrari drivers Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen. The former finished in third, while the latter was forced to retire with his car engulfed in flames. Elsewhere, it was a momentous day for the Haas team, who picked up points on their first-ever race day, with Romain Grosjean finishing in sixth. McLaren’s Fernando Alonso was involved in an awful crash early in the race, although the Spaniard remarkably walked away fr...

Kyle Busch was a blown tire, an empty tank of fuel and a lap away from history in Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. Busch was en route to his fourth consecutive win—a feat never accomplished in the Xfinity Series—before a cataclysmic final lap that ended with Austin Dillon taking the checkered flag.  Dillon and Busch were among three drivers to have the lead after the white flag waved, as Daniel Suarez also looked to be in prime position for the win just after Busch blew his right-front tire.  But Suarez ran out of fuel on the backstretch, allowing Busch to reclaim the lead while limping into Turn 3, with Dillon surging from behind. The two bounced off each other ...

Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg may have secured yet another front-row lockout in Formula One qualifying, but the end result was overshadowed by the process in the newly bespectacled eyes of their boss. "Rubbish," was how head of Mercedes motorsport Toto Wolff felt about the new qualifying format, used for the first time at this weekend's season-opening Australian Grand Prix, per Sky Sports' Matthew Morlidge. And he wasn't the only one. Former grand prix driver Johnny Herbert told the same source how the elimination-style system was "embarrassing" for F1, while Red Bull team principal Christian Horner went a step further, claiming those behind the regulation change "should apologise" and "address it immed...

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and its new aero package takes to Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, Sunday for the Auto Club 400. New package or not, it has been business as usual for the series through four races, with Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Brad Keselowski and Kevin Harvick picking up wins. Granted, the much-talked about aero packages have created some thrilling finishes, and some would point out the small sample size means a reduction in cautions. Possibly, though the event in California will put any budding theories to the test while the old guard jockeys for position in the standings. Before the spectacle gets underway, here is everything to know.   Viewing Details Where: Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California...

Reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton secured his first pole position of the new Formula One season, the 50th of his career, beating Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg to the top starting spot at the 2016 Australian Grand Prix.The controversial new qualifying format was introduced on Saturday, and while the first session produced the fireworks Formula One's chiefs were undoubtedly hoping for, the final session showed exactly why fans aren't happy with the new system―Hamilton and Rosberg both spent the final minutes in the pit lane, per Byron Young of the Daily Mirror:Under the new rules, an elimination clock is introduced after a few minutes into every session, with the slowest car dropping out of qualifying every 90 seconds. Only eight...

The Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne, Australia, will provide the aesthetic backdrop to the first race of the Formula One season, as some of the world’s finest drivers go in search of glory.Lewis Hamilton is set to be the man to beat again, as the Mercedes star begins his quest for his fourth world title. His in-house rival Nico Rosberg is set to represent the biggest threat to a successful term, although Ferrari pair Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel will also fancy their chances of getting in the hunt.The Australian Grand Prix is always one of the standout events on the sporting calendar and can set the tone for the rest of the campaign for the drivers involved. Here are the men on the grid at the start of the 2016 term, the key v...

Austin Dillon made a last-lap pass of sorts Friday to claim the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California.   Dillon turned in the fastest lap at 38.200 seconds to surpass Kevin Harvick by 0.031 seconds just before the timer expired in the third and final round. The driver of the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing machine was visibly excited after claiming his second career pole and first since the 2014 Daytona 500, as shown by NASCAR: Jeff Gluck of USA Today noted Dillon took a page from Cam Newton’s book in his celebration: Here is a look at the result of Friday’s results: Harvick, who considers Fontana his home track, having grown up in Bakersfield, California, 150 m...

The 2016 Formula One season started off with a splash—literally—on Friday in Melbourne, Australia. Rain throughout both free practice sessions severely limited the amount of running by all teams, building the suspense for qualifying on Saturday. After weeks of cautioning that we couldn't really tell much about the running order from pre-season testing, everyone was hoping Friday practice would start to answer some questions. The wet weather put paid to most of those hopes. Any Ferrari fans (or just fans pining for a championship not decided by the summer break) hoping to see the Italian team close the gap to Mercedes at the front of the grid will be discouraged by the practice times we did see, though. On a drying track in the ...

World champion Lewis Hamilton topped the timesheets in both practice sessions ahead of the Australian Grand Prix on Friday. The conditions were not ideal as the rain came down in Melbourne, but the Englishman reveled in them while many of the other drivers struggled. Read on for a recap of the day's action.    FP2 Recap Here are the standings from the second practice session: Mercedes had mixed fortunes in the afternoon's action at the Australian Grand Prix on Friday with Hamilton going fastest but Nico Rosberg crashing. The rain once again caused problems as it had in the morning's running. Rosberg fell victim to the wet as he crashed at Turn 6, driving into the wall and losing his front wing, per Formula One: Meanwhile, H...

World champion Lewis Hamilton topped the timesheets in both practice sessions ahead of the Australian Grand Prix on Friday. The conditions were not ideal as the rain came down in Melbourne, but the Englishman reveled in them while many of the other drivers struggled. Read on for a recap of the day's action.    FP2 Recap Here are the standings from the second practice session: Mercedes had mixed fortunes in the afternoon's action at the Australian Grand Prix on Friday with Hamilton going fastest but Nico Rosberg crashing. The rain once again caused problems as it had in the morning's running. Rosberg fell victim to the wet as he crashed at Turn 6, driving into the wall and losing his front wing, per Formula One: Meanwhile, H...