European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday december 31, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 21 racing Roundup prediction for 87 proof encore with the Start of a new year Well also Start another world championship formula one racing season and with new year predictions in order Well make ours by saying that Alain Prost of France will win a third straight world driving championship. If Prosl docs so hell become Only inc second Driver in the modern racing Era since 1950 to achieve thai status. The Only Man with three lilies in a Row and four in a Row As Well is Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina who won inc world driving championship five times his first in 1951 and then following with four straight in 1954, 55, 56 and 57. Three Drivers have won the Lilc three limes Australia s Jack Brabham in 1959, 60 and 66, Scot land s Jackie Stewart in 1969, 71 and 73, and aus iria s Niki Lauda in 1975, 77 and 84. Prosl who will be 32 in february has a Good Chance of making in three in a Row in his Mclaren tag porsche and it s possible that he eventually could top Fangio s record. Bui Ihal s a rather far out possibility. One record thai Prosl is almost car lain to break in 1987, however is Stewart s career total of 27 grand prix wins. Last year at this time we predicted Hal Brazil s Nelson Piquet would Lake the 1986 Lille and he came close. So did his Williams Honda teammate Nigel Mansill of England. Both Piquet and Mansill will be lop con lenders again and if the Williams Honda cars remain As Strong in 1987 As they were during the 86 season then the logical bet would be on either one of these Drivers. Bui Prost As his retired cd teammate Keck Ros Borg always emphasizes is in a class of his own and we think Hal inc Frenchman has the skill momentum and ambition to win a third Slraight world championship. And a Bil of Luck will help Loo As it always docs in racing. Regarding formula one racing the official grand prix Calendar for the 1987 season was released recently by the federation internationale thu spurt automobile i Isa in Paris and ins Ladof an 18-Racc schedule As originally planned Only 17 grand prix races will take place. The proposed grand prix of Europe Al the Lucr Burgering in Ger Many has been dropped by fisa. Eleven races of the 17 on the Calendar will Lake place in Europe so if you want to see some formula one grand prix racing action during the 1987 season you la have ample Opportunity. The official 17-race schedule As released by fisa. Is As follows april 12, Rio de Janeiro Brazil May 3. San Marino Imola Italy May 17, spa Franco champs. Belgium May 31, Monaco june 14. Montreal Canada june 21, Detroit Mich. July 5, la cast Lect Paul Ricard circuit France july 12. Silverstone England july 26, Hocken him. Germay aug. 9, Bud Apcel Hungary aug. 16, Zell wig Austria sell. 6, Monza Nlaly sell. 20, Estoril Portugal sept. 27, Jerez do la fro Nicra Randy Barnett Spain oct. 18, Mexico City nov. 1, , Japan nov. 15, Adelaide Australia. At their Paris meeting the fisa officials also finally got around to declaring Finland s Juha Kankkunen the 1986 world rally Champion that decision made possible by scratching the re sults of the italian san remo rally. Fisa officials said they voided the san Mcmo rally because the stewards had been wrong to Dis qualify Kankkunen s Peugeot team for alleged use of illegal Bodywork. Peugeot had appealed that ver dict earlier and had won the Appeal. But fisa delayed making a decision on the Driver situation and at the end of the final round the . Olympus rally in Washington Finland s Markku Alan he drives for the italian Lancia team led Kankkunen for the championship. Then with fisa voiding the san remo round Alen lost to his countryman Kankkunen when his Points for his san Mcmo Victory were withdrawn. In our opinion the fisa decision was the Correct one but it should have come much earlier at the same Lime Peugeot won its Appeal in november. It was simply not fair to keep the two Drivers in sus Pense about the championship. For Peugeot the season ended happily with both the rally constructor s title and Driver s championship won for the second year in a Row. The French firm has now withdrawn from world championship rallying because its group b cars can no longer compete under the new rules which ban the super fast group b machines. Ironically Kankkunen is leaving Peugeot to join Lancia for 1987, and his teammate will be Alan. Lancia is preparing group a cars for the 1987 Campaign which opens with the Monte Carlo rally on Jan. 17. The 1987 world rally championship schedule As announced recently by fisa is As follows Jan 17-23, Monte Carlo feb. 13-15, Sweden March 10-15, Portugal april 16-20, East Africa safari Kenya May 7-10, Corsica French round May 30 june 4, acropolis Greece june 25-29, Olympus Washington .a. July 11-14, new zealand aug. 2-9, Argentina aug. 26-30, 1,000 lakes Fin land sept. 22-26, Ivory coast oct. 11-17, san remo Italy nov. 22-26, Rac Britain. The rally focus at the moment is on the ninth annual Paris Algiers Dakar Marathon rally which starts new year s Day from the Versailles Palace grounds near Paris and ends 22 Days and 7,600 Miles later at Dakar. Termed the world s longest and toughest mar athon the Paris Algiers Dakar rally is open to cars trucks and motorcycles the combined entry list Topping the 500-Vchicle Mark. Among top entrants arc three heavily modified Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 cars the Peugeot firm deciding to enter three of its obsolete group b models As they can no longer be used in world championship rallying As noted. The Marathon route a new one for this event goes from Versailles into Southern France and Spain where the cars and rally teams will be ferried from Barcelona to Algiers. From there the route goes through Algeria niger Mali Mauritania and Senegal with much of the route featuring some extremely difficult Sahara desert Crossings. Frenchmen Rene Metge and Dominique la Moyne won the 1986 Marathon in a 4-Whecl-Drivc porsche 959 while French rider Cyril Neveu won the Cycle class on a Honda. Metge who also won the Paris Dakar rally in 1984, is in charge of the 1987 event. He succeeds the founder Thierry Sabine of France who was killed in a helicopter crash in the Sahara during the 1986 Marathon. Looking ahead to the new year two racing car shows Are on tap for january and both should be Good ones. In Germany the i8lh International Stuttgart racing and sports car show is scheduled from Jan.24 to feb. 1 at the kills Borg Park Fairgrounds. This show Cut 87 annually features racing cars As Well As specially cars old timers land Speed record cars plus boats and sports equipment. Of special interest to drag racing fans will be a Mercedes 500 Sec funny car which was recently purchased in los Angeles by Rico Anthes a Mem Ber of the Hanau Auto racing Assn. Hara. Antics a top drag racing competitor in Europe plans to race the Mercedes next year in All major drag racing programs. In England meanwhile the British racing and sports car club Buscc will stage its annual the racing car show Jan. 15-18 at the new Alexandra Palace Pavilion in London with daily hours from 10 . To 7 30 . Special features of the show will include displays of current formula one grand prix cars sports cars historic cars engines accessories video shows and Slot car racing. All the leading companies from the world of motor racing will be exhibiting their latest products the organizers say. At this time we would like to wish the read Era of racing Roundup a Happy new year and All the Best for 1987 Tim sum ind stripes College from Page 17 Towson state 79-65 to join the tar Heel sin tuesday night s championship finals at reunion Arena. Purdue which lost for the first time will play Towson state in the Consolation game. With a classic record crowd of 15,605 watching North Carolina 9-1, of the at lactic coast conference dominated the big ten conference boilermakers 7-1, after the first 10 minutes. The tar heels who now have a 3-2 record against Purdue in their All time series built a 25-Point Lead in the second half behind Smith who hit two three Point shots. St. John s 62, Georgia tech 53 new York Reserve malt Brust and Mark Jackson keyed a 10-0 run at the Start of the second half As 10th ranked and unbeaten St. John s Defeated no. 18 Georgia tech to win the Recac Holiday festival tournament for the third straight , led by guard John Johnson s 17 Points took third place by trouncing Rutgers 74-56 in the opening game of the double header Al Madison Square Gar Den. St. Johns 9-0, trailed 29-28 at half time but took advantage of tech turnovers in grabbing a 38-29 Lead. Brust had two steals and one Field goal and set up Jackson for a Basket. Jackson had a steal and another goal during the spree. The redmen had to fight off two Chal Lenges before the the yellow jackets had their three game winning Streak broken and fell to 6-3. Duke 80, appalachian state 50 Durham . Danny ferry scored 12 Points and pulled Down game High ii rebounds to Pace Duke s Romp Over appalachian state for its 19th straight Home Victory. The Blue devils who improved to 7 1, out rebounded the mountaineers 52-24 and forced 28 appalachian state turnovers 19 in the first half. Ferry also had a game High nine assists. The mountaineers who fell to 2-5, went More than 11 minutes in the first half without a Basket and trailed 40-15 at intermission. John Smith who scored Duke s first seven Points of the second half ended with 14.kevin Strickland had 12 and Billy King finished Wilh 10. Jerry Holmes who played Only 21 minutes before fouling out led the mountaineers with 17 Points. Darryl person who hit four of six three pointers had 14 Points. Iowa 105, Cal Irvine 103 Long Beach Calif. De Horton scored five Points in the final 2 06 As no. 3 Iowa rallied from a 12-Point deficit to Edge Cal Irvine to win the Anteater Clas sic tournament. Horton was fouled while scoring on a Strong move to the Basket and Sank the free throw to give Iowa a 101-98 Lead then hit two More free throws with 1 40  the Hawk eyes still weren t Safe. After Irvine s Mike Doktorczyk hit a three Point Basket to Cut the Lead to 105 103, the anteaters got the Ball Back with 25 seconds to go after Iowa s . Arm Strong missed a free throw. But the Hawk eyes Kevin Gamble stole the Ball from Scott Brooks just be fore the Buzzer. Iowa won its third tournament of the year and raised its record to 12-0, match ing the Best Start in school history. The 1943-44 and 1951-52 Iowa teams also won their first 12 games Roy Marble who led i9wa with 28 Points got Only one Basket in the second half after scoring 23 Points in the first which ended with Irvine 5-4, ahead 60 56.armstrong and Brad Lohaus had 20 Points apiece for Iowa including three three Point Field  kept Irvine in the game with his Long Range shooting making six three Point shots and scoring 30 Points. But Iowa limited him to seven Points in the second half. Wayne Engelstad had 18 Points for the anteaters and Joe Buchanan had 16. An sports television College football Bluebonnet bowl Colorado is. Baylor 9 . Wednesday and All american bowl Florida state is. Indiana 2 . Thursday. Radio College football All american bowl Florida St is. Indiana 2 . Thursday