European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 5, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 25 racing Roundup porsche signs Miami Winner Wollek Frenchman Bob Wollek who teamed with Italy s Paolo Barilla to win last sunday s Miami grand prix in a porsche 962, will drive for the porsche factory team this season. In making the announcement porsche said Wollek will replace the belgian Ace Jacky icky who recently announced his retirement from full time sports car racing. Wollek will team with Germany s Jochen mass while the second factory porsche car will be driven by the defending Long distance racing champions Hans stuck of Germany and Derek Bell of England. Mass who fractured his shoulder in the International race of champions at Daytona last month when his Camaro hit the Wall is expected to recovery in time to partner with Wollek for the opening championship race. That will be on april 20 at Monza because the nugello Italy opener scheduled for april 6 has been cancelled. For the Veteran sports car Driver Wollek his appoint ment by porsche fulfils a lifetime ambition. He has been racing private entry porsche cars for Many years and As a Privateer has won the porsche cup six times. This makes him the most successful Driver in the 16 year history of the porsche cup awards. During the 1984 and 85 seasons Wollek drove for the italian Lancia team. Continuing on the sports car scene England s Derek Warwick and Rome based american Driver Eddie Cheever Are expected to Lead the two Jaguar team in this season s world championship Campaign with the no. 2 Jaguar to be driven by Italy s Gianfranco Brancatelli and Frenchman Jean Louis Schlesser. Warwick was with Renault in formula one racing last year and Cheever drove for Alfa Romeo but both Renault and Alfa have left grand prix racing and Warwick and Cheever Are out of work in that Field. Cheever however is the conditional no. 2 Driver on the formula one Tyrrell team that drive depending on sponsorship. Regardless the fact that Warwick and Cheever will be working for Jaguar is Good news indeed. Both Are first rate Drivers and Jaguar which returned to world championship Long distance racing last year could do Well this season. Looking briefly at formula one racing the brazilian Ayrton Senna set fastest time in the recent tire and Chassis testing sessions at Rio de Janeiro Bra Zil site of the grand prix season opener on March 23 less than three weeks from now. Senna in the new Lotus Renault 98t, was nearly a second quicker on the Jacarepaqua track than his coun Tryman Nelson Piquet who checked out the new Wil Liams Honda few 11. Third fastest was Italy s Michele Albreto in a Ferrari 156 while fourth was his team mate Stefan Johansson. Defending world Champion Alain Prost of France proved fifth fastest in the Mclaren tag porsche. Senna who turned a time of 1 minute 26.39 seconds Over the 3.1-mile circuit was the Only Driver to get into the 1 26 bracket. Along with Lotus Williams Ferrari and Mclaren other teams testing at Rio included Ligier Brabham Benetton Tolema Narrows and ram. The most prominent outfit missing at Rio was the Beatrice Lola Haas Usa team which has been hit by delays with the new Ford v6 Turbo engine. The Long awaited Ford Turbo has been plagued by electronic fuel system problems and the engine May not be ready for the first few races. The new car and engine however have been tested on the Ford company s Boreham track in England with Ford reporting positive results. Beatrice Lola s regular Drivers Patrick Tam Bay of France and Alan Jones of Australia did the testing. On the motorcycle front please note that the Spanish grand prix opening race in the 1986 world championship Road racing Campaign will be held on May 4 and not april 27, As listed in last week s Cycle Calendar. The Spanish up will be staged on the Jarama circuit North of Madrid. Up Cycle riders meanwhile received some Good news this week when the International motorcycling federation reported from Geneva Switzerland that it will increase total prize Money for the next two seasons by about one third. The increase of More than $53,000 will take the form of increased travel reimbursements. The federation said it will make a particular Effort to Aid private racers who Are not supported by manufacturers. The increase will be distributed among All five racing classes and about a third of it will be paid out this season and the rest in 1987. Also on the Cycle scene we have two items of local interest one regarding a racing school and the other a Bow motorcycle club. Let s look at the racing school first. Cortez Lawrence who organized the Usa bad motorcycle performance school last year and staged two successful outings has announced the dates for this year s sessions. Three sessions Are planned All in Germany and they Are As follows nuer Burgering May 26 and july 14 and Bockenheim sept. 19. Classes begin at 8 . And continue throughout the Day. The sessions will feature at least five hours of track time along with classroom lectures and Riding demonstrations. Proper techniques for braking cornering and acceleration Are taught along with preparing to travel safety at racing speeds. The school is a non profit organization with its primary goals those of enhancing motorcycle safety and improving rider ability. We were on the scene at one of last year s sessions and we can recommend the school highly. For full details on enrolment costs necessary equip ment etc., write Cortez Lawrence . Box 1581, Apo 09130 or Birke Strasse 7, 6753 Eckenbach West Germany. The phone is 06303-4943. And now to the Bow Cycle club. Tim Shaffer a Bow biker of Long standing writes in to say the Bow motorcycle owners of America by whoa 15,000-Mcmber owner s club has about 100 Active chapters or so called charter clubs. We have three of these clubs in Europe one of which is very american Canadian oriented. It s called left Lane and i Welcome any Active touring motorcyclist to write or Call me for information about our  the left Lane club Shaffer says is primarily concerned with the promotion of personal Contact be tween touring motorcyclists in the european Riding environment and does so through encouragement and support of rallies and get together at various times and places around the continent. The club has no dues no officials no business meetings no rules or regulations. The first of 10 events during 1986 is the International by whoa pc rally and it will be staged from May 1 to 4 near Orleans France with camping rides and other events. For full details on the Bow left Lane club and its 1986 schedule of events write Tim Shaffer Box 485, Apo 09109, or Call him at 06543-2074 Days 06544-401 evenings. Where to go this weekend the major event in Europe this weekend and next for that matter is not a race but an Auto show in this Case the famous Geneva Auto Salon in Switzerland. The show opens thursday and runs through sunday March 16, at the exhibition Center near the Geneva International Airport. It s one of the top automotive shows in the world so if you re in the area Don t miss it. On the Competition scene the 27th Odenwalder div Motocross will be held near the town of Gross Bie Berau Southeast of Darmstadt German with practice on saturday and racing on sunday. The Motos will be staged for bikes in the 250 and Soock classes plus cycles with sidecars. In England the Snetterton circuit near Norwich is holding clubman motorcycle races on saturday and Champion of Snetterton motorcycle races on sunday. Motorcycle races Are also scheduled for sat urday at the Oulton Park circuit near Tarporley Southeast of Liverpool. In Sweden the world championship finals in motor Cycle Speedway ice racing will be staged on saturday and sunday at Stockholm. In the Netherlands meanwhile the opening round in the 250cc world Motocross championship will be held in Ven Ray East of Eindhoven with practice on sat urday and racing on sunday. The stars and stripes w by Klint Johnson assistant sports editor Garmisch Germany John Yirrell of Sembach won the men s open division giant slalom opening event of the Safe ski championships tuesday but he lost a bet to seniors Winner Richard Turk of we Bruecken. Two sodas were the Small but meaningful stakes on who would be fastest Over All for two runs of the 39-Gate course. Turk who is 31 and skis in the 30-to-39 year class because Wei Breucker has a full quota of open racers glided to the seniors title with nearly identical runs of 1 10 34 and 1 10.93 for an Overall Best of the Day total of 2 21.27. Two one tens and change As Turk put it was enough to beat Yirrell s runs of 1 11.78 and 1 12.46 for a 2 24.24 aggregate. Turk skied in the open division in 1985, finishing second in the is to Brian Smith who in t Here this , 23, has been in Europe Only eight months. He s attached to the 601st tac control so at Prem but skis for nearby open is loses bet to Turk Sembach. The Reading mass., skier said some bad weather experience with the Safe team in last month s British forces meet in Cou Mayeur Italy helped him in tues Day s race in which Early starters had to race in dense fog. Cou Mayeur helped me said Yirrell. When i got to the slope this morning and saw the poor visibility it did t bother me. That s because in Italy we raced in some awful  actually Yirrell started 94th of 112 race Sand by the time he raced the fog had left for the Day. But it helped me psychologically he said to know that i could handle any weather conditions be cause i d done it  run he said. I took a Gate wide and Al most stopped. The second run was More physical for me he said. I Felt it in the legs. Naturally it was Micier but also More technical for the top  while Turk was the seniors Victor by a wide margin Yirrell s Triumph was closer. He beat Wiesbaden s Alan Tolifson by 3.65 seconds Overall. Tolifson took second with runs of 1 12.57 and 1 15.32. Third place in the open division and a remarkable award for consistency went to Jeff Johnson of Sembach who clocked 1 14.60 twice for a 2 29.20 total. Fourth and fifth places in the open were taken by Tim Marsano of Rhein main and Danielle Gere of Memminger. Gambler Smith also fell in the Safe is last year. Rhein main s Steve Carter the comeback skier in this race won the Mas ters Over 40 race ahead of Larry Earle of Wiesbaden and Hans Gazecki of Norve Nich. Carter Short and Crafty As Ever cruised to a 2 39.56 time on runs of 1 17.57and 1 21.99. I was More cautious in the second run. See Yirrell on Page 26 correction  � v . Wei win. I Ciuci i Cvecic i . Turk s psych up is to leave the open Rac Turk finished nearly 11 seconds ahead of the dates of two Bowling tournaments ers in his powdery Wake. Runner up Dick Baird of Ramstein who the american Bowling Congress european the pressure on me is to finish ahead of clocked 2 32.22. In third place was Steve All Star and the women s International the open Guys said the Spring Valley Benson of Wiesbaden in 2 33.02. Bowling Congress european All Star n.y., native. He said that in both runs Graham Smith the 1984 seniors is were incorrectly reported  a mistake on his second run that Champion blew out of a Gate in the first run both Are scheduled for Ramstein. The surprised his seniors rivals and All the open and could not make up enough time in the Abc meet begins May 1 and runs through skiers starting behind him. Second heat. He finished fifth behind Mark May 6. The wisc tourney starts May 7 i made a big error at the top of that Paxton of Wiesbaden. Known As a Gate and runs through May 9