Nico Rosberg secured pole position in qualifying for the 2016 Russian Grand Prix as team-mate Lewis Hamilton suffered the same PU issue that hampered him during the last round in China, rendering the Brit unable to take part in the final Q3 segment of qualifying. The German driver topped the times by seven tenths of a second with a lap time of 1m35.417s, leaving the rest of the field unable to pose any sort of threat to challenge the pace advantage of the Mercedes AMG PETRONAS. Hamilton set the initial benchmark in Q1 with a time of 1m36.518s, before team-mate Nico Rosberg took the honours from his team-mate with a time of 1m36.119s. That time from the German was a second quicker than...
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