European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday May 27, 1086 the stars and stripes Page 25 Ujj vow by or rim itt a _ _ fisa can t impose rallying safety by Randy Barnett motor sports writer russelshe1m, Germany the Powers that control Toto report won t eliminate formula of car and use formula three cars because of Elio do angclis1 death in a testing Accident but in a sense that s what they re doing to 1 speaking was Tony fall a former lop. Ranked rally Driver who is now the head of opel s motor sport division. Fall was discussing the drastic changes that Are taking place in world championship. Rallying new rules and revisions thai were written practically overnight by Jean Marie Balestre the president of the federation do non a to Hio bite Fis i the Ajsa manifesto was issued the Day following the deaths of Finland s Henri Toivoncn and his it Liun Amer can co Driver Sergio Creslo in a crash during the corsican rally no one will deny that changes arc necessary to Cut speeds and to make ral lying Silfer said fall but everyone directly involved in rallying and that includes the Drivers arc unhappy about the Way the rules and revisions were curried on i quickly and without consultation with us the fisa revisions written by a Istre within a time period of 24 hours inc current group b curs Peugeot 205 Turbo and Lavicia s4, for example by the end of he season and create a new world championship beginning in i9s7, this championship to be contested by group a curs 5,000 must be made with u horsepower limit of 300. The group a cars arc slower than the group b whose Turbo engines develop up to 500 horsepower but Many rally experts think that the croup a cars will eventually be just As fast and that nothing will really be gained where safety is concerned. Many other revisions and rules such is shortening rallies also came out of fisa s directive. Fall who with other rally Bosses con fronted pales re at a manufacturers commission meeting last week in Paris said that he and Many other rally team leaders agreed with inc Audi representative who said fisa was trying to pin the blame on the car people instead of the organizers who after All Are responsible for safety measures. In the Wake of recent developments Audi announced last week that it has withdrawn from International rallying the problem at Portugal where three spectators were killed and Many injured was in organizational problem. Fall said. The High Speed stages set up in in area where there was a sea of people. That special stage never should have been had " the rally experts contend that even allow car would have killed spectators lit Portugal As Here r was no control of the people what Soever in the stage where the Accident occurred. The main com plaint from the rally people involves the precipitate action by fisa whose re visions will Cost manufacturers Mil i Lions of dollars but. Tony fall not necessarily make rallying any safer. people also contend that if consulted they could have made the existing cars slower and safer rather than having officialdom simply ban the cars. Stability rules and regulations arc set up to cover at least two seasons and a car manufacturer decides to invest Money and go rallying on the basis of those rules. When they Are changed overnight As in this Case the manufacturer is left hold ing the the result of All this fall said is Audi s withdrawal Peu Gool planning to take Legal fiction Austin Rover facing a pullout Nissan taking no further action on development of a rally car. And on and on. It makes our Job very difficult. We no before the Board of directors and persuade them to spend Money to go rallying. They agree invest a Tot of Money and then before the Carsner even built the rules Are changed. Ford s new rs100 group b rally tar is a Good example Here Ford working Over time to build the required 200 cars and now out of world championship action by the end of this season because of the fisa directive. " opel had planned to use the new four wheel drive a Flacil cars As rallied in the Paris Dakar in the proposed new s class next season but Thul class also was can celeb by the fisa edict. Where the 1987 world championship is concerned opel can use its group a a Dett that is currently being rallied in the German National championship. It s ready and Well develop it further for next year s Campaign fall said. Discussing other subjects during an interview in Nis motor sports office at the opel Headquarters fall supports the theory that Moio Spons should always him to be More entertaining and that its rules should be simple. Radelt being prepared by Ope for the 1987 season in a new croup a Competition. Fall likes to use Bill France the car of Lascar racing in America us an example of n free Wheeling approach to motor sports us entertainment. Me keeps the technical rules simple fall says and makes certain Iha cracks Are exciting through Liberal use of the Yel Low Flag the cars close up under a Yel Low caution Flag. And if the firm a the Money it can go racing Imil not be plagued by endless technical rules or great expenses Tike building 2110 rally cars when Only n few of them Tan be used inaction while fall s Job is almost totally involved with rallying he takes pleasure in opel s recent racing gambit in. The French Louring car . A Rac ing series where apparently Anvil Long it s culled Noscar. Pro ably to resemble Lascar fall says Smil ing and. If the race officials feel cer Tain cars have an unfair engine advantage they just loss n 25-Pound sack of Sand into the Back. It s handicapping just is in horse racing. We asked the French officials if we could Enlar an opel senator with u f 20 horsepower american Chevrolet engine and they said Why not stamped our papers and we were on our Way. Can you imagine that u a Ruce sanctioned by fisa the Point is simple is the main him and these French nos car races Are drawing big crowds Peugeot is in it Audi Inu. There s a Mercedes 190 with a 3-liter engine Mcnaull is in. And now we re in. It s without All inc endless hag gling fait says. Few rules lots of fun Good racing and the fans love in. There were More than 35,000 of them at n month cry race recently a track South of pans. This is a perfect example of sires sing the entertainment value of in the opel rally shop we looked Over one of the new four wheel drive opel Kun Dell prototypes that had competed in he Paris Dakar rally in january. Explaining details of the car s construction and function. Fall said Well win inc i during one of our Pasi visits to write about an opel that would run in Llie East african safari rally tall had said Well win the safari one of these and in js3 opel did so. With Fin land s Ari Virtu non driving there is in reason 10 think thai fall and his opel team will not fulfil the Paris Dakar prediction too. Lendl Evert Lloyd Post French Tennis triumphs Paris a top seeded Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia and defending women s Champion Chris even Lloyd scored straight set victories monday on the first Day of the French open Tennis championships. And the hottest player in Tennis third seeded Steffi Graf won her 21st consecutive Tennis match with a 6-1, 6-0 Victory o or fellow West German Andrea Belzner Lendl shaking off a lingering knee in jury routed Germany s Michael was that 6-3.6-3,6-4. Earlier on the red Clay Center court at Roland Garros stadium. Lloyd looking to defend her Lone grand slam title of 1935, beat French Junior Champion Cocci la Cal mettc6-0,6-1. Another. German teen age Star Wimble Don Champion Doris Becker supported his own no. 3 seeding with a 6-0, 6-3, 6-0 Victory Over Jerome Potier of France and Sweden s fifth seeded Stefan Edberg rallied to beat Shahar pc kiss 6-3,3-6,6-4,6-1. Seeded players had a relatively easy time on a gorgeous Day with Bright Sunshine and ice Jinrui arcs Well Inlo the 80s. Among the men i2lh-Sccdcd Guillermo Vilas of Argentina inc 1977 French Champi on beat Chile s Pedro Robolledo 6-1,6-1,6-4. Among the women sixth seeded Helena Sutkova of Czechoslovakia Defeated Sabina Simmonds of Italy a 6-2 Nimri Sec did a Brickta Sabatini of Argentina beat Japan s Estuko input 6-1, 6-1 Lith seeded Catarina Lundqvist of Sweden Defeated Grace Kim of the United states 6-2.6-1 and Canada s car Ling Bassett the 13th seed beat France s Ca 7-i, 6-3. It was Bassell s first tournament since the death of her father but american Kathy Jordan the ill seed was Unsil by another . Player a Amilte Benjamin 1-6,6-2,6-3, in another upset Louise Field Lopp cd fellow australian Elizabeth Smrtic 6-1.6 i. Also Michelle Torres Defeated fellow american Joanne Russell 6-3, 6-3 and Czechoslovakia s Regina mar Sikova Defeated american Kathy Horvath 6-4,6-1. Four Europe teens qualify for Yaba Bowling tourney ludw1gsburg, Germany four High Choc to age. Bowlers from Europe Bryan Lee Gary Ginter Denise Westgor and Laura Mcanully qualified for the National Young american Bowling Alli Ance championships at Seattle wash., july 17-20, on the strength of impressive showings in the european championships at the Kingpin bawling Center Here Over the weekend. Bryan Lee Bowling out of to Gelwich turned in an eight game Tola of 1509 to win the senior boys scratch championship. Heidelberg s Gary Ginter took these Nior boys Handicap with an eight game total of 819. s Denise Westgor prevailed in the senior girls Handicap group with a 1790 total. The lab a formal Calls for the winners of he girls and boys Handicap division Sand the boys scratch Competition to Advance to he nationals. Their feats qualified Lee. Cine Crand Westgor automatically. Mcanully was added 10 the group be cause the Sembach be Ujco turned in a 1421 scratch series and buro can bowl ing officials decided to add her to he qualifying list. The three Day tournament Drew a Ufi bowlers ranging from 8-year-Olds through High school seniors shape Ron Perenon and Tammy thas is won the Bantam a and Unda boys and Girts lilies respectively. Munich s Chris Conlon took the prep 9-11 boys Crown Simbach s Rebecca Sion lopped the Girts Competition. In Junior 12 m Competition Schwein fun s David Cool captured the Bisy Crown Mahn s Beth Jensen walked off with the first place honors for the girls
