SAO PAULO -- Lewis Hamilton topped the second practice session for the Brazilian Grand Prix as the Mercedes and Red Bull drivers failed to improve on their best times from the morning.Nico Rosberg closed the gap to his title rival to just 0.030s as both drivers used a new set of the soft compound tyres to set their times. Rosberg was marginally quicker in sectors one and two but lost 0.090s to Hamilton in the final sector to slip behind over the course of the lap. Hamilton was roughly 0.4s slower than his best time in FP1 while Rosberg was 0.175s off his best effort from the morning.The slower lap times of the Mercedes drivers were mirrored by the Red Bulls, with both Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen finishing the session behind the two Williamses, which improved in FP2. Just 0.067s split Valtteri Bottas in third and Ricciardo in fifth, with local hero Felipe Massa splitting the two in fourth. But Ricciardo was over 0.5s off his FP1 time while Verstappen was nearly a second off his morning effort.Both Ferraris improved in the afternoon, but only after switching to the soft compound for the first time this weekend. Sebastian Vettel held a 0.045s advantage over Kimi Raikkonen, despite Raikkonen setting the faster first sector of the two cars. Raikkonen was under investigation by the stewards at the end of the session after cutting across into the pit lane in front of Carlos Sainz midway through the session.Force Indias Nico Hulkenberg was a further 0.252s off in ninth ahead of the McLarens of Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso, who were split in 0.132s. Alonso pulled to the side of the track with a technical issue and was told to jump from the car by his engineer, suggesting a possible ERS problem. 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Even though injuries have forced head coach Mike Sullivan to shake up his lines. Even though Crosby insists he hasnt made some sort of conscious decision to pepper the opposing net.You can call it whatever you want, Crosby said.Just dont call it luck.You dont get puck luck (that many) times, teammate Patric Hornqvist said. I just think hes in the right spot at the right time.Over and over and over again.The games most creative player is in the midst of a rebirth at 29, a renaissance that coincided with Sullivans arrival last December. Its a union that has propelled Crosby to some of the finest hockey of his career. He captured the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP last June after the Penguins won their fourth Stanley Cup title and he hardly looked weary from a shorter than usual summer while captaining Team Canada to a remarkably easy stroll to the gold medal in the World Cup of Hockey in September.The player who appeared on the other side of his prime a year ago has reclaimed his spot as face of the sport and appears in no mood to give up the mantle anytime soon. Not that Crosby wants to talk about it. He figures hes just doing what hes always done.Im in the same spots, the same areas, said Crosby, who is putting the puck on net 3.5 times per game, just a slight uptick from with his usual average. When you think its going in you tend to shoot a little bit more because you feel good, you believe its going in ... When youre struggling a little bit, you feel you need to bring it closer or pass up a shot and make a pass. I think thats normal for everybody. Thats pretty common.Crosby never met a teammate he didnt like to set up, but maybe he is finally getting a little selfish. It wasnt always that way.Playing against him in the past, I would try to make sure I was taking away passing lanes from him, said forward Eric Fehr, who spent nine years facing Crosby while skating for Washington before signing with Pittsburgh in 2015. You dont really expect him to pull up and shoot. You see him coming down in aa 3 on 2 youre expecting him to lay it in somewhere.dddddddddddd I think thats changed him a little bit and that makes him tough to defend.The proof came Monday night against Ottawa. Crosby and Hornqvist broke in on the rush in the first period and even though Hornqvist had a step on the defender, Crosby ripped a wrist shot over Craig Andersons blocker instead.Then there are the things Crosby does that are nearly impossible to defend, instances when his ability to read a play before it happens puts him a split second ahead of everyone else on the ice. His team trailing by a goal as the seconds ticked down against New Jersey last month, Crosby stood calmly off to the side during a scramble in front of the net, let things sort themselves out then picked the puck out of a sea of bodies and casually flipped it over goaltender Keith Kincaide to send the game to overtime.Last week against Dallas, the athlete who once homered while taking batting practice at the home of baseballs Pittsburgh Pirates stunned everyone by trying to bank a shot in off Stars goaltender Antti Niemi from behind the net. When the puck bounced off Niemi and right back to him, Crosby swatted it out of midair . The puck smacked off the middle of Niemis back and into the goal.Only a few players in the league can bank those in and its always the same guys, Hornqvist said. If you have the skill, might as well do it.Its the type of thing that is happening for Crosby more and more and seems to represent his career coming full circle. Hes only led the NHL in goals once, when he poured in 51 in 2009-10. He was on his way to doing it again the following year when he a hit to the head in the 2011 Winter Classic against Washington sent him on a nomadic path back that robbed him of the better part of two seasons. Some wondered if the magic would ever return in full.Its also why the concussion he suffered in an early October practice raised so many alarm bells. Yet he preached calm instead of panic as he recovered, then went out and scored in his season debut against Florida as if to tell everyone to relax. It also started a run that shows no signs of slowing down.Theres no really great way to describe it, he said. You just hope it keeps going in.---This story has been corrected to delete a reference to a crosscheck to Crosbys head in the 2011 Winter Classic. ' ' '