SAO PAULO-- Nico Rosberg won the Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix for the second year in a row on Sunday and denied Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton a first success in the homeland of his late hero Ayrton Senna.
  Triple champion Hamilton, who has now failed in nine attempts to win in Brazil, finished 7.756 seconds behind for Mercedes's 11th one-two in 18 races so far this season.
  Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel finished third for his 79th podium finish.
  "Yeah guys, awesome," whooped Rosberg after controlling the race from pole to chequered flag.
  He and Hamilton had been separated by less than a second for 10 laps after the first pitstop but the gap then widened.
  "It was a good challenge from Lewis but I was able to control the pace," added the German, who refrained from too much exuberance on the podium out of respect for the victims of Friday's Paris attacks.
  "We saw Lewis dropping off a lot with degradation and that confirmed it was important to take care of the tyres."
  The victory in the season's penultimate race was Rosberg's fifth of the year, second in a row and 13th of his career, and secured the German second place in a championship already won by his British rival.
  "I had good pace, it's just you can't overtake here," said Hamilton, who started on the front row alongside Rosberg but could not find a way past his team mate into the opening corner despite trying hard.
  "I just killed my tyres. It's such a great track but you can't get close enough to race," he added after his planned two stops turned into three.
  The Briton, who clinched his third championship in Texas last month, has spoken much of his wish to emulate triple champion Senna -- who took eight attempts to win his home race -- but he will have to wait another year.
  The harder he tried, the more he suffered from tyre degradation even if he at least set the fastest lap as a consolation.
  Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen finished fourth with compatriot Valtteri Bottas fifth for Williams and securing that team's third place overall for the second year in a row.
  Force India's Nico Hulkenberg was sixth with Red Bull's Russian Daniil Kvyat seventh.
  Brazilian Felipe Massa, who took his last grand prix win at Interlagos in 2008, finished eighth for Williams but was then excluded by stewards for having an overheated rear tyre before the start.
  That lifted Frence's Romain Grosjean up a place, with Max Verstappen ninth for Toro Rosso after some standout overtaking moves by the 18-year-old Dutch rookie in a race short on excitement.
  Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado was 10th for Lotus, despite collecting a five second penalty for banging into Sauber's Marcus Ericsson as he tried to pass on lap 32 of 71.
  Verstappen's team mate Carlos Sainz started from the pitlane after his car broke down on the way to the grid and he then retired on the opening lap.
  McLaren had another miserable afternoon, with little to laugh about after Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso made a joking visit to the podium on Saturday, with the pair 14th and 15th respectively after Massa's exclusion.

SAO PAULO-- Nico Rosberg turned the tables on Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton with the fastest lap in Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix practice on Friday.
  After triple world champion Hamilton had set the pace in the morning with a lap more than half a second faster than the German, Rosberg ended the afternoon 0.458 quicker than the Briton with a lap of one minute 12.385 seconds on soft tyres.
  Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was third fastest in both sessions.
  With both titles already decided, Hamilton having won his third world crown in Texas last month, teams used the morning session to work on developments for 2016 with aerodynamic sensors prominent on bodywork.
  "Times in the afternoon were not showing the real picture as Lewis drove in different engine modes to me," said Rosberg, last year's winner at Interlagos who will be chasing his fifth successive pole on Saturday.
  "He was also very quick today and it looks like we will have a great battle again this weekend," Rosberg told reporters.
  Fernando Alonso brought out red flags early in the afternoon, in what looks like being another difficult weekend for the Spaniard, when his McLaren stopped on the track with smoke coming from the engine.
  Hamilton, who had delayed his arrival in Brazil due to a fever and following a car accident in Monaco in the early hours of Tuesday morning, has never triumphed in Brazil in eight attempts but is hoping to break that run.
  "They've changed the kerbs quite a bit. Before we could abuse them a little bit more but now you need to go around them," he said.
  Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, using the latest specification Renault engine, was fourth and fifth respectively in the sessions.
  Mercedes drew a lot of interest for a prominent bulge on the nose that was rumoured to be an 'S Duct', a device helping to channel air from under the car to the top surface of the front section.
  The car ran in the afternoon in more familiar guise.
  Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen, who was fifth and fourth fastest, saw his rear brakes lock into turn four and he tracked across the mud and gravel without further incident.
  "Overall it was a difficult day," said Vettel who can still finish second overall in the championship. "I tried to do the best I could but maybe I wasn't quick enough. The car was moving around and sliding quite a lot."
  Lotus reserve Jolyon Palmer, who will be one of the team's race drivers next year, was involved in the morning's other moment of near drama when his car was released from the garage into the path of McLaren's Jenson Button who braked.
  Hamilton's return to the track came amid headlines about his party lifestyle with the 30-year-old, whose helmet this weekend carries a tribute to his late boyhood idol Ayrton Senna, recognising he had been overdoing things.
  "Heavy partying and not much rest for a week and a half," said the Briton.
  "I am a bit run down. I have been non-stop and trying to fit training in at the same time and not getting a lot of sleep."

CARDIFF-- Netherlands enjoyed a 3-2 friendly win away to a weakened Wales on Friday with Arjen Robben proving the match-winner with two goals from his lethal left foot as they put their failure to reach Euro 2016 to one side.
  Robben twice re-established the visitors' lead in the second half, after a battling Wales -- who have reached their first major tournament since 1958 with a place in France -- had manfully stayed in the encounter despite being outplayed.
  Bas Dost headed the Dutch in front after 32 minutes before Joe Ledley equalised and Wales's Emyr Huws then pulled the hosts level again after Robben had danced into the area to score.
  Robben then struck the winner in the 81st minute after racing clear to slot calmly into the net.
  The Netherlands came into the game still reeling from missing out on next year's European Championship having finished fourth in Group A with four wins from 10 games.
  The contrast in mood with Friday's opponents could not have been starker as Wales celebrated their achievement in qualifying for the finals before an enthusiastic Cardiff crowd.
  The home fervour was dampened, however, after 32 minutes when Daryl Janmaat lofted a cross to the far post and the towering VfL Wolfsburg striker Dost rose high to direct a downward header past Wales keeper Wayne Hennessey.
  At that point it looked like it could be a long evening for Wales, deprived of star turns Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey, as the Dutch piled forward with plenty of attacking firepower.
  Hennessey was forced to turn a shot from Quincy Promes over the bar as the Netherlands turned the screw, until Wales were handed a route back into the match with a penalty when Terence Kongolo was penalised for handball in first-half stoppage time.
  Joe Allen's spot kick was parried but Ledley followed up to steer the rebound into the far corner.
  The Dutch were back in front within 10 minutes of the restart, however, as Robben produced his trademark finish, dashing up the right flank before cutting on to his favoured left foot and curling the ball powerfully into the net.
  Huws typified the battling spirit Wales showed in their Euro qualifying campaign to grab another equaliser after 70 minutes, directing a header past keeper Jasper Cillessen.
  Robben, however, had the final word when he ran through a static Welsh defence to finish low past Hennessey.

  NEW JERSEY- - Rex Ryan's homecoming was a victorious one -- barely.
  The Buffalo Bills raced out to a 19-point third quarter lead on Thursday before withstanding a furious rally by the New York Jets to hang on for a 22-17 victory at MetLife Stadium.
  The Bills won their second in a row to improve to 5-4 and moved into the thick of the AFC wild card picture in their first year under Ryan, who coached the Jets from 2009-14.
  The Jets (5-4) have lost three of four.
  The Bills led 12-3 at the half and extended the lead to 22-3 in the first seven minutes of the third quarter when quarterback Tyrod Taylor threw a 26-yard touchdown pass to running back Karlos Williams and kicker Dan Carpenter booted a 29-yard field goal.
  But the Jets pulled within five on a pair of touchdown passes by quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick -- a 14-yarder to Brandon Marshall late in the third quarter and a 31-yarder to Eric Decker midway through the fourth quarter.
  The Bills went three-and-out on their next possession and prepared to punt from their own 28-yard-line. But punter Colton Schmidt dropped the snap and was swallowed up by several Jets as he recovered it at the Bills' 13-yard-line with 5:12 left.
  But the Jets could not take advantage.
  Running back Chris Ivory gained eight yards on first down before losing a yard on second down. A short pass to Decker lost a yard on third down and Fitzpatrick's fourth down pass into the end zone sailed over the head of tight end Kellen Davis.
  The Bills punted with less than a minute left, but Fitzpatrick's next pass was picked off. Ryan responded by pumping his fist so hard his hat fell off.
  Running back LeSean McCoy gained 112 yards on 19 carries for the Bills.
  Fitzpatrick was 15-of-34 for 193 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions.
  Ryan jogged out of the tunnel at to a chorus of boos from a sparse, late-arriving crowd just priot to kickoff.
  The boos grew a little louder a few minutes later, when the captains -- including Bills linebacker IK Enemkpali, who was released by the Jets after slugging quarterback Geno Smith in a locker room altercation Aug. 12 -- went to midfield for the coin toss.
  The Jets and Bills then went out and played the type of sluggish, offensively-challenged game that only Ryan could love. The two teams combined for 12 first half possessions, only two of which yielded more than one first down.
  The Jets took a 3-0 lead when new kicker Randy Bullock capped a 10-play, 76-yard drive by booting a 29-yard field goal with 4:01 left in the first quarter.
  The Bills took the lead by scoring nine points in nine seconds late in the second quarter. A 47-yard field goal by Carpenter tied the game with 5:47 remaining.
  Jets wide receiver Devin Smith fumbled the subsequent kickoff and safety Duke Williams picked up the ball and raced untouched into the end zone for a 19-yard touchdown.
  Carpenter's 41-yard field goal with three seconds left extended the lead to 12-3.