Hamilton needs a Russian hat-trick

SOCHI, Russia: Triple title holder Lewis Hamilton is the main Formula One driver to have won the Russian Grand Prix and, with Mercedes colleague Nico Rosberg on a super hot winning streak, needs to keep it that route on Sunday. 

The Briton will be drudging level out on May Day, the worldwide laborers' vacation, to deny his German opponent a seventh progressive win and fourth of the game's longest ever season. 

Hamilton won the inaugural race around the 2014 Winter Olympic Park and returned last October to rehash the accomplishment after Rosberg had secured post position however then resigned with a throttle disappointment. 

While that triumph set Hamilton up for the title, which he took in Texas two weeks after the fact, Sunday's race has been moved to the Russian national occasion space with the 2016 title still in its early stages. 

Hamilton is as of now 36 focuses behind Rosberg keeping in mind he is unrealistic to be conveying any Mayday trouble flags the Briton is in unequivocal need of a track turnaround. 

"There was bounty experiencing my head after China, as you'd expect," he said subsequent to beginning that third race of the season at the back of the lattice and completing seventh. 

"Be that as it may, after so long, encounter has taught me to stay quiet and continue pushing advances when I get thumped back. I've been here before a couple times now. 

"Affliction is a piece of the voyage," he included. 

"There are loads of positives to convey into the following fight. 

In the case of nothing else, I know after these initial few races that I can in any case surpass." 

Rosberg has not needed to do a lot of that as of late, driving from post in Shanghai furthermore getting a charge out of agreeable wins in Australia and Bahrain. 

Hamilton was likewise on for a cap trap of wins in Bahrain and China, having won both races there in 2014 and 2015, and Rosberg denied him both. 

In any case, the German stays careful about what may happen. 

"I could never have expected the initial three weekends to go the way they have," said Rosberg. 

Both Mercedes drivers can hope to be pushed hard by Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen however they likewise need to stress over Red Bull's Australian Daniel Ricciardo and neighborhood legend Daniil Kvyat. 

With flawless planning, Kvyat completed third in China for his second vocation platform appearance after Ricciardo had qualified on the front column. 

Conditions are relied upon to be fine all weekend, with temperatures of around 18 degrees Celsius.