YAS MARINA, Abu Dhabi -- After the Mercedes drivers locked out the front row of the grid on Saturday night in Abu Dhabi, Nico Rosberg remains on course for his first title on Sunday. Sergi Samper Jersey . The W07 Hybrid has shown strong pace over long practice runs, so a clean race should be enough for him to secure the top three finish he needs to become 2016 champion at the chequered flag. The main stumbling blocks along the way will be the start, a collision in wheel-to-wheel combat and the all-important tyre strategy.In 2010 Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber saw their title hopes disappear into the desert night when they pitted at the wrong time and were shuffled behind Nico Rosberg and Vitaly Petrov, who had made an early stop under a safety car period. In the last race before the introduction of DRS and quick-degrading Pirelli tyres, Alonso and Webber got stuck behind the slower cars on better strategies and were unable to overtake.Rosberg is unlikely to find himself in the same position on Sunday night given the pure pace of the Mercedes and the availability of DRS on the back straights, but Red Bulls Daniel Ricciardo could provide a strategy headache after showing strong race pace during practice. Drivers need a speed advantage of roughly 1.1s over the car in front to attempt a passing move at the Yas Marina Circuit, so if Red Bull can gain track position, Rosberg could find himself needing to dig very deep to make a move stick.So what are the chances of that happening? Red Bull has opted to start on the super-soft tyres, which opens up the possibility of a competitive one-stop strategy. Mercedes are expected to two-stop (the fastest strategy on a clear road) but could also force a one-stop from its ultra-soft starting tyre. If Red Bull have a similar race pace to the Mercedes, a one-stop could give Ricciardo -- starting third -- track position ahead of one or both Mercedes, but he will have to defend hard in the closing laps on older tyres.It is an offset strategy, but it is not the fastest strategy, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said of Red Bulls decision to start on super-softs. Our algorithms show the ultra-soft is the better tyre because you cant take the super soft much further, only a couple of laps.I guess Red Bull hasnt got the pace to win on the same strategy and the offset strategy gives them potential. It is a bit of a headache in a same way that Ferraris pace is a headache. Our main objective is being fought out on track, when the lights go green it is all that matters.Perhaps the biggest question of all is whether Hamilton attempts to back Rosberg into the pack to make life more difficult for his teammate.With that in mind, the drivers have the following tyres available to make their respective strategies work:Lionel Messi Barcelona Jersey .C. United of Major League Soccer. United chose the defender in the second round of the 2013 MLS re-entry draft. Munir El Haddadi Barcelona Jersey . -- The Portland Timbers and Real Salt Lake played to a 0-0 tie Saturday night that left the top of the Western Conference standings unchanged.http://www.barcelonafcproshop.com/ . The Australian is competing in his final season in Formula One and still looking for his first win this year. He will look to end Vettels run of six straight race wins on Sunday. Webber, who is fifth in the championship, earned his second pole from the past three races and 13th of his career. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- Injured and unable to play when Miami faced Florida Atlantic a year ago, Hurricanes wide receiver Braxton Berrios remembers leaving the stadium at halftime.Thats about when his teammates showed up.If the 25th-ranked Hurricanes (1-0) need a cautionary tale right now, they may look no further than last years meeting when the Owls dominated long stretches of the first half before Miami took control over the final 30 minutes. The Hurricanes -- an AP Top 25 team for the first time since 2013 -- will be looking for a much more complete effort when they play host to Florida Atlantic (1-0) on Saturday night.These guys present a challenge, Hurricanes coach Mark Richt said.They certainly did last year.FAU outgained Miami 292-231 in the first half of last seasons meeting, trailing only 20-17 at the break. The second half was all Miami, with the Hurricanes outscoring the Owls 24-3 and outgaining them 295-97. Running back Joe Yearby had 243 yards of total offense for Miami, and Brad Kaaya threw for 287 yards.We played terrible, Berrios said. We came out flat. ... Whatever it was last year, that was last year. Were going into there with the right mindset this year.Many of the names FAU will face this year are the same, but the tape of last seasons matchup is irrelevant to Owls coach Charlie Partridge. Miami does plenty of things differently now under Richt and a new staff, so studying the 2015 game too much would be wasted time.And Partridge doesnt want his team to treat this game any differently than any other.Are we excited to play Miami? Of course we are, Partridge said. Its a great opportunity. Were going to have the same excitement level Week 3, Week 4, Week 5. Were focused on Miami because Miamis the mission.---Some things to know going into Saturday night:HURTING MIAMI: The Hurricanes defense is already ailing. CB Adrian Colbert and DT Courtel Jenkins are out this week with knee injuries, though the hope is that Colbert (who had a pick in his Miami debut last week) wwill be back in time for Georgia Tech on Oct. Blank Barcelona Jersey. 1. Also, LB Jamie Gordinier (knee) is out for the season, Miami lost its three leading tacklers from 2015 to rules violations in the offseason, and suspended WR Sam Bruce is now out indefinitely because of a non-football-related injury.KAAYA WATCH: Miami quarterback Brad Kaayas four-touchdown, no-interception outing last week was the first such performance by a Hurricanes quarterback since Kyle Wright threw five TDs with no picks against Wake Forest on Nov. 12, 2005. Kaaya has thrown at least one touchdown pass in 24 of his 26 college games. He was intercepted nine times in 176 attempts (one every 19.6 passes) in his first six college games, and has thrown eight picks in 609 passes since (one every 76.1 passes).PUNTING MATCHUP: FAU punter Dalton Schomp is a field-changer. Schomp led the nation with a 48-yard-per-punt average last season and has at least one 50-yarder in 18 of his 25 career games. Schomps career average is 46 yards per kick; Miamis Justin Vogel is another elite punter, checking in at 43 yards per kick in his time with the Hurricanes. Schomp and Vogel both had 70-plus-yarders in 2015.VERSUS IN-STATE: Miami is 30-2 in non-conference games against in-state schools since 2000. The breakdown: 6-0 against Florida A&M, 5-0 against Florida State (before the teams became ACC rivals, with the Seminoles leading those matchups 9-3), 5-1 against Florida, 5-1 against South Florida, 3-0 against Bethune-Cookman and 2-0 against Central Florida, Bethune-Cookman and FAU.LOCAL BOYS MAKE GOOD: Richt spent part of his younger years in Boca Raton, living not far from what was then a much-smaller FAU campus and graduated from Boca Raton High. Partridge is also a South Florida native, growing up in Plantation -- in between Boca Raton and Miami.---Online: AP College Football website www.collegefootball.ap.org Cheap NFL JerseysCheap NFL Jerseys ChinaCheap Jerseys From ChinaCheap NFL Jerseys AuthenticWholesale Jerseys ChinaCheap NFL Jerseys ChinaNFL Cheap JerseysCheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '
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