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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. 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. 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Barcelona hosts third-division side Cartagena in the return leg of their round-of-32 tie after winning their first meeting 4-1.DENVER -- Troy Tulowitzki homered early, then doubled to start a two-run rally in the eighth inning that sent the Colorado Rockies over the Milwaukee Brewers 6-5 on Sunday. Michael Cuddyer, Dexter Fowler and Corey Dickerson also homered for the Rockies, who salvaged a split of their 10-game homestand. Yuniesky Betancourt and Norichika Aoki homered and Carlos Gomez had two hits and scored twice for the Brewers. The Rockies had hoped to stay in the thick of the NL West race when they resumed after the All-Star break against the three worst teams in the NL. Instead, they lost three of four to Miami and were in danger of losing the series to Milwaukee before coming back against John Axford (4-4). Trailing 5-4, Tulowitzki led off with a double down the third base line and scored on Cuddyers double down the first base line. One out later, Nolan Arenado hit a go-ahead single. Rex Brothers got the final three outs for his seventh save. The Brewers took the lead in the eighth when Gomez doubled and Betancourt homered off reliever Matt Belisle (5-5). It was one of five home runs hit in the thin air at Coors Field. The Rockies trailed 3-1 when Dickerson led off the sixth with his first career homer. One out later, Cuddyer hit his 17th to right to tie it.dddddddddddd Fowlers two-out homer off reliever Michael Gonzalez in the seventh gave Colorado a 4-3 lead. It was his 12th of the season. Jhoulys Chacin was in line for the win before Betancourts homer in the eighth. Chacin allowed three runs on eight hits and struck out four in seven innings. Tulowitzki gave the Rockies a 1-0 lead in the first with his 19th home run of the season off starter Donovan Hand. The Brewers tied it in the second on a bases-loaded infield single by Jeff Bianchi. Aoki made it 2-1 in the third with his sixth homer, and Bianchi gave the Brewers a two-run cushion with an RBI single in the fourth. Hand was making six innings, his longest outing of the season in just his fifth start. He allowed three runs on eight hits and didnt walk a batter. NOTES: Brewers SS Jean Segura was given the day off after getting hit in the right forearm with a pitch Saturday. Manager Ron Roenicke said Segura is fine and he just kept him out for rest. ... Rockies OF Carlos Gonzalez (sprained right middle finger) was out of the lineup for the third straight day. ... Colorado LHP Jorge De La Rosa (10-5) will start Monday in Atlanta. ... Milwaukee RHP Kyle Lohse (7-7) will open a four-game series at the Cubs on Monday. ' ' '