Hamilton in a class of his own at Sochi Snoozefest.

Hamilton cruises to victory as Rosberg's title hopes fade in a cloud of Pirelli smoke.

F1 journo super excited by race. via WTF1

Let's be honest, the most entertaining thing about the inaugural Russian GP on the Sochi Autodrom was following Twitter feeds making fun of Putin and Bernie.

Fernando Alonso's sybilline declarations post race were far more interesting than following Hamiltons "brilliant" drive cruise from flag to flag.

The Sochi track might most charitably be described as horrid.   It may have presented some challenges to the drivers but the spectating was just painful, it was almost impossible to distinguish which corner was which as cars raced in that concrete lined gulag.

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It might have been more interesting had Nico not gone up in Pirelli smoke in the first turn. This forced him into an immediate pitstop to get rid of his now square tires.    That he was then able to go from DFL to 2nd using the same tires for 52 laps is just a measure of Mercedes's superiority over the field.

Barring an unlikely string of mechanical failures on Lewis' car, Nico can kiss the championship goodbye at this point.   Mercedes decided it would side with Hamilton after the incident at Spa and since then it's been one mistake after another for Rosberg.

Williams looked close-ish but it really was not, Hamilton was just cruising.

Toro Rosso only did well early on because they had no gas in the cars.   The plan to have Vladimir Putin take his shirt off mid race and ride a bear across the track causing a safety car and precipitating a Kvyat win, sadly did not pan out.

After the race Putin seemed very interested in how much weight Lewis loses during a race.

Alonso kept things interesting, albeit outside the car, telling SkySports Ferrari si the team that he loves and that when the dust settles "you will say it was obvious he would do that".  Later he told NBC's Will Buxton that he will not be in a Mercedes powered car next year.

Obviously, Fernando is a master level troller of the media.

2014 FORMULA 1 RUSSIAN GRAND PRIX

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	53	1:31:50.744	1	25
2	6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	53	+13.6 secs	2	18
3	77	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	53	+17.4 secs	3	15
4	22	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	53	+30.2 secs	4	12
5	20	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren-Mercedes	53	+53.6 secs	11	10
6	14	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	53	+60.0 secs	7	8
7	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-Renault	53	+61.8 secs	6	6
8	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing-Renault	53	+66.1 secs	10	4
9	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	53	+78.8 secs	8	2
10	11	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	53	+80.0 secs	12	1
11	19	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	53	+80.8 secs	18
12	27	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	53	+81.3 secs	17
13	25	Jean-Eric Vergne	STR-Renault	53	+97.2 secs	9
14	26	Daniil Kvyat	STR-Renault	52	+1 Lap	5
15	21	Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber-Ferrari	52	+1 Lap	13
16	99	Adrian Sutil	Sauber-Ferrari	52	+1 Lap	14
17	8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	52	+1 Lap	15
18	13	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus-Renault	52	+1 Lap	21
19	9	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham-Renault	51	+2 Laps	16
Ret	10	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham-Renault	21	Brakes	19
Ret	4	Max Chilton	Marussia-Ferrari	9	Retired	20

Note - Hulkenberg, Magnussen, Chilton, Maldonado dropped 5 grid places for unscheduled gearbox changes. Maldonado also dropped 5 as remainder of 10-place penalty for engine change at last round