Lewis Hamilton continued the momentum from his Austin win last weekend by setting the pace in first practice at the Mexican GP, with Nico Rosberg only seventh. Both Hamilton and Rosberg set their quickest laps on the medium tyres but were seven tenths apart on pace. Hamilton, who realistically needs to keep winning over the final month of the season to have a chance of retaining his title, was less than a tenth quicker than Ferraris Sebastian Vettel but Mercedes ominously set their quickest times on the mediums, the slowest tyre in use. Mexican GP talking pointsThere had been just one tenths between Hamilton and Rosberg at the start of the session but the Briton made a big improvement towards the end of his stint on mediums and wound up over half a second quicker than his team-mate with a best time of 1:20.914.Championship leader Rosberg was shuffled down to seventh as the Ferraris (softs), Force Indias (supersofts) and Williams Valtteri Bottas (softs) all made up ground on quicker compounds. Lewis Hamilton says hes just focusing on himself and not title rival Nico Rosberg ahead of this weekends Mexican GP. But Hamiltons pace on the slowest tyre was a warning shot for the rest of the field.As in Austin, Red Bull experienced a low-key P1 with Daniel Ricciardo taking the softs to eighth place, 0.8s behind Mercedes.How Rosberg can win title on SundayBut team-mate Max Verstappens weekend began in troubled fashion as the Dutchman lost half of the session after his rear brakes caught fire.We had an issue with the rear brakes overheating, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner told Sky F1. We had an energy-recovery setting that we were trying that got the brakes a bit out of control and it damaged a couple of the electrical looms. That caused a bit of downtime to get that fixed. Alex Zanardi talks to Marc Priestley about his life changing accident. Watch the full version this weekend during our Mexican GP coverage on Sky Sports F1 Saubers Felipe Nasr caused a mid-session red flag when part of his front wing disintegrated down the straight after breaking it on one of the circuits high kerbs.Mexican GP Practice One timesheet1. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, Medium tyres, 1:20.9142. Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari, Soft tyres, + 0.0793. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, Soft tyres, + 0.1584. Sergio Perez, Force India, Supersoft tyres, + 0.2865. Nico Hulkenberg, Force India, Supersoft tyres, + 0.4956. Valtteri Bottas, Williams, Soft tyres, + 0.5337. Nico Rosberg, Mercedes, Medium tyres, + 0.7598. Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull, Soft tyres, + 0.8139. Felipe Massa, Williams, Soft tyres, + 0.92210. Daniil Kvyat, Toro Rosso, Soft tyres, + 1.30111. Romain Grosjean, Haas, Soft tyres, + 1.58612. Carlos Sainz, Toro Rosso, Medium tyres, + 1.64913. Marcus Ericsson, Sauber, Supersoft tyres, + 1.80914. Max Verstappen, Red Bull, Used soft tyres, + 1.96315. Esteban Gutierrez, Haas, Soft tyres, + 1.99616. Fernando Alonso, McLaren, Used medium tyres, + 2.17517. Felipe Nasr, Sauber, Used supersoft tyres, + 2.17518. Jenson Button, McLaren, Soft tyres, + 2.42819. Kevin Magnussen, Renault, Medium tyres, + 2.64220. Esteban Ocon, Manor, Used soft tyres, + 3.16921. Jolyon Palmer, Renault, Medium tyres, + 3.18322. Pascal Wehrlein, Manor, Used medium tyres, + 3.436Dont miss the Mexican GP on Sunday evening. The race is live at 7pm on Sky Sports F1; Watch with a NOW TV day pass - £6.99, no contract Also See: Whens the Mexican GP on Sky F1? Mexican GP talking points The Formula 1 Gossip Column Watch the race weekend on NOW TV Adam Graves Jersey . World champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia won the gold medal with 237.71 points, Moore-Towers and Moscovitch followed at 208.45 and Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov of Russia were third at 187. Phil Esposito Jersey . 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New York Rangers Jerseys . -- Damian Lillard and LaMarcus Alrdridge were again the go-to duo for the Trail Blazers against the Kings. Big-money sports football and mens basketball were involved in 83 percent of NCAA Division I major infractions cases from 1953 to 2014, according to the first study of its kind released Tuesday. Probation and public reprimand and censure were the most common penalties.Temple Universitys Sport Industry Research Center prepared the study for the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions.The NCAA has never compiled all this data into one place and to run these types of analysis, so to look at all 554 cases under the former penalty matrix, we found it very informative to understand how often a certain infraction was occurring or how often a certain penalty was prescribed, said Jeremy Jordan, the research center director and a study co-author.The release of the study comes three years after the NCAA moved to a system that metes out specific penalties dependent on an infractions magnitude on a four-tier scale. Previously, infractions were considered either major or secondary.The most common infractions over the 61 years analyzed were recruiting inducements (57 percent), impermissible benefits (54 percent) and other recruiting violations (48 percent). The most common penalties were probation (87 percent) and public reprimand and censure (86 percent). Recruiting restrictions were a distant third (50 percent).Jordan said the type of penalty prescribed for certain infractions were predictable, but each case was unique. So penalties could vary depending on factors such as the magnitude of the infraction, how many people were involved and whether the school was a repeat offender or on probation at the time of the infraction.Schools from the so-called Power Five conferences accounted for 40 percent of all major infractions cases since 1953. Jordan said there was no evidence those schools were treated differently in the penalty phase when compared with schools from outside the Power Five.That finding busted a myth, said infractions committee chairman Greg Sankey, commissioner of the Southeastern Conference,Some of the old thinking was that if a well-known school has done something, people got mad so they penalized a small school, Sankey said. Among the autonomy conferences, there are a couple areas where tthe penalties by comparison are more aggressive, more severe, when compared to other aspects or membership sections of Division I.ddddddddddddThe study revealed an atmosphere of compliance in athletic departments that has developed over the past three decades, with 48 percent of violations since 1984 having been self-reported. Prior to 1984, only 9 percent of violations were self-reported.Generally, self-reporting benefited the institution when it came to the penalty phase, the study found. In cases involving football, self-reporting typically led to a reduced length of probation and postseason ban and a lower scholarship reduction.Dave Ridpath, assistant professor of sport administration at Ohio University and president of the board of directors for the Drake Group, an NCAA watchdog, said the conclusions were statistically sound.But you have to look at the whole system, he said.Ridpath said the study only looked at outcomes and not how investigations wind their way to the penalty phase. The most powerful schools are capable of mounting a strong defense, he said, and penalizing big-time football and basketball programs can hurt the NCAA and other stakeholders financially.Ridpath pointed to two cases, saying the NCAA has seemingly been reticent to fully pursue the academic fraud case at mens basketball power North Carolina and that the organization caved to pressure in allowing Ohio State football players to delay the start of their suspensions for selling memorabilia and suit up for the Sugar Bowl after the 2010 season.Oftentimes its trying to work out the best situation that they can for the schools to benefit the (NCAA), Ridpath said. What I often see is if the NCAA has a way out where they dont have to sanction or investigate or have to come very hard with penalties, they will take that with major schools more often than not.Sankey disagreed.I think the information and this research shows that there is a great deal of enforcement activity around maybe the more prominent institutions, he said, which suggests some of those notions might not be exactly on point. ' ' '