David Nicholson Hirst: Has Rosberg won a straight fight (exclude Street race) yet? Nope. Going way overboard that Rosberg is winning.

Phil Tutty: it would be a brave man who squirts Putin with the champers.

Peter Wanyonyi: Interesting body language from Lewis in the corner all alone. You feel for him. Not a word with his team-mate, not even a glance.

M Nasir: Rosberg really means business this year.

Lewis Hamilton speaking on the podium: "It was not the easiest first corner but all races have been the same. I'm really happy for the team and I got the points. With the overtake Kimi I don't think he was expecting me. With Valtteri he didn't seem to defend so it was quite easy. There wasn't a doubt in my mind I could win it - I had the pace. But I had a problem again so had to back off. I wasn't at full throttle down the straights."

So has does it feel to have 100 points on the board a 43-point lead in the world championship?

A delighted race winner Nico Rosberg says in the podium interviews: "It's been an awesome weekend, the car has been fantastic. Very, very happy."

Asked about his fast pace towards the end, he added: "I just like to keep going for concentration. If I slow down, that's when you make mistakes. Keep banging them out."

And his team-mate?

"A great job for Lewis to come up to second so quickly from 10th."

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The champagne flows. Hamilton is not exactly full of beans, but he takes a shot of bubbly to the face with reasonable grace and humour.

I'm glad you asked Arabelle.

Rosberg is now joint second in consecutive wins (7) with Schumacher and Ascari.

Vettel has the record with nine.

Rosberg hops onto the top step and launches into a fist-pump-jump combo. Pure joy from the German, whose national anthem plays.

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James Stevenson: You'd certainly have to make Rosberg favourite for the title now. Long way to go of course. But favourite for sure.

Joanna Harran: Some well deserved points for Fernando at last!

Phil Slocombe: Magnificient drive from Lewis to finish 2nd after starting 10th; Niki called it.

Not many words between Hamilton and Rosberg as they wait to go out on to the podium.

This translator scenario reminds me of that episode of Friends when Monica dates an ambassador.

Am I allowed to talk about Friends episodes?

Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff tells Radio 5 live's Jennie Gow that it was choppy on board the three-star ship.

He said: "We had rough seas. Again, Lewis had a worry - a water leak and we had to bring the car home. And Nico had an engine worry as well. It wasn't plain sailing."

You win an F1 race and who should be waiting to congratulate you? President Vladimir Putin of course.

Rosberg, Hamilton and Raikkonen all get very firm handshakes.

Putin's translator asks Nico - "do you like it here?"

Rosberg jumps out of his car and delivers a celebratory punch into the camera lens.

Is this the knockout blow from the German?

He leads Hamilton by 43 points in the drivers' championship.

After receiving congratulations from Mercedes technical boss Paddy Lowe over the team radio, race winner Nico Rosberg responds: "Thank you Paddy, awesome weekend, thanks everybody - everything worked really, really well this weekend."

First points of the season for Renault, with Magnussen seventh.

First points of the season for McLaren, with Alonso sixth and Button 10th.

"Excellent drive. We've finally done it in Russia," comes the message from Mercedes engineer Tony Ross to Rosberg.

Bottas in fourth and Massa in fifth - the 49th top-five finish of his career.

Jack Nicholls
Radio 5 live Formula 1 commentator

You can't knock Nico Rosberg. A superb drive - it's going to take a lot now for Lewis Hamilton to wrestle the championship away, even though we are only four races into this season.

Hamilton follows, with Raikkonen in third, the position he started this race.