European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday june 15.1937 the stars and stripes Page 26 porsche wins impressively at be mans be mans France a a porsche driven by defending champions Hans Joachim stuck of West Germany Derek Bell of Britain and Al Holbert of the United states woo the 35th 24 hours of be mans race sunday in near record breaking style. The porsche 962 driven by stuck Bell and Holbert led throughout the night and finished More than 168 Miles ahead of the second place car. It was the second largest winning margin in be mans history Only a 217-mile Victory in 1927 by a Bentley was larger. The winning entry completed 354 laps Over the 8.41-mile circuit covering 2,977 Miles at an average Speed of More than 124 Mph. Porsche have now won the race seven years in a Row and 12 times Overall. Bell the reigning world endurance Champion moved into second place in All time be mans titles with five. Only former teammate Jacky icon of Bel Gium is ahead of him with six. It s very very Sweet. It s the Best one of them All Bell said. I was very nervous in the final Btl 45, was the Driver at the end and was taken out of his car and hoisted into the air by his Crew and fans just after the 4 . Finish. It was unbelievable How we did against the jags. It was the most vital race for the porsche and me. We finally broke the Jaguar s stranglehold he said. The Jaguar had won the first four races of the world sport prototype championship this season. I was sure we could beat the jaguars because we put the pressure on them last night said stuck. It was five times harder than last second place went to a private entrant porsche 962 driven by Jurgen Lassig of West Germany Pierre Over of France and Bernard do dryer of Belgium it was never in Contention for first place but managed to survive while three jaguars ahead were forced out. Frenchmen Pierre Henri Raphael Yves courage and Herve regout Wen next with a local entrant a Cougar with a porsche engine. It is sponsored by the department of Sarthe the Region of France where be mans is located. Just 15 of the original 48 starters were still running at the end. Ii was the lowest number of finishers since 13 completed the 1971 race. Only 12 were officially classified for finishing 70 . The winning porsche took the Lead after the seventh Lap following a Battle with the jaguars. One Jaguar exiled Midway through the race in spectacular style. Briton win Percy was driving in the famed mul Sanne Kinloc when a left rear tire blew out at3 . Sunday. He was unhurt. It went into Rolls and cartwheels and turning overs said Percy whose helmet scraped along the ground during the crash. The other two jaguars went out of Contention late sunday morning. The one driven by Britain s Martin Brundle left with a cracked Cylinder head. The other with american Eddie Check or and Bra Zilian Raul Boesel was in and out of the pits shortly afterwards with a gear problem causing a 3b-Mimite delay to install a new gear Box. Rams sabers Trade Routs share Csc Lead Ramstein a Germany pro Garne continent sports conference co Leaden Ranu Tein and Span Dahlem took turns battering each other Here sunday to remain deadlocked for the league Lea with 6-2 record. Ramstein did the battering in the first game in route to a 10-3 Triumph but Span Dahlem struck for four rum in the Fin inning of the Nightcap and rolled to a 12-0 Victory behind the seven hit pitch ing of Rusty Jeweh. The Rami wrapped up the first gamely scoring seven runs in the first three innings. They got tone in the opening Frame on singles by George Hull Rosbrugh and Jim Studstill and a Span Dah Lem error added two in the second on Hull s double a passed Ball strikeout an infield out and another Saber error. Air Force baseball Ramstein added two More in the third on a walk Pitcher Danny Woltemath s single and a two run double by Hull Hull went 3 for 4 to Pace the attack and Brugh Studstill Clint Harris and Woltemath All had two safeties. Bully Bolocan and Jewell had two hits apiece off Woltemath 2-1 and Jewell drove in ill three Spang Dahmm runs. Jewell was in Complete control of the Nightcap after his mates provided him with hat four run first inning Cushion. Those runs came on two walks Jewell s rib single and Toay Burl s three run Homer. Spang added two runs in the Sec Ond on singles by Dennis Schrieber and Gardner captures up yanks place 2nd, 3rd Tony Eno and a doable by Bryant Wal Ler. Sembach a a heft Rifah 1-8 Rhein main a Germany the rockets scored twice in few different innings and pounded out 10 hits in the second game to gain i split in this Csc double header. The Fust game wat a Dank pitching Duel Between Simbach i Rocky Graham and Rhein main i Kevin Sorenson Botwright handers turning in Tut bitten. Simbach won the tune in the sixth inning on walk an unfold out and Randy Crawford Angle. A walk. Bob Segreti s single and a passed Ball gave Simbach a 1-0 Lead in the first inning. Rhein main tied the count in the fifth on Edgar Bones double and Dave Jones single. 7th at from Page 23 r1jeka, Yugoslavia up Wayne Gardner of Australia shrugged off the effect of a hand injury to increase i Lead in the Soock world championship when he woo the yugoslav motorcycling Ennd prix sunday. Gardner Riding a Honda docked 46 minutes 30.64 seconds for 30 laps totalling 123.070 Kilometres. He now has 73 Points in the Chase for his int world i tie. American Yamaha riders Randy a Moia and Eddie Lawson second an third in the championship landings also finished second and third in the race. Mamola clocked 46 33.07, and Lawson came Home in 46 43.86. Gardner injured his hand during prac Tice saturday on the Robnik track out Side Rijeka. But be was comparatively Lucky. In an another practice Accident american triple world Champion Freddie Spencer broke his left Collarbone and was ruled out of racing. Gardner was in the Lead for almost the entire race except for spells of a few seconds on three or four occasions when Lawson briefly headed him through curves. The australian s Honda always no pred quicker on the straights with nine More laps to go Lawson gave up chasing Gardner and dropped to third place while Mamola took second position and closed up to Challenge the Leader. But it was All in vain the austra Lian withstood the pressure on a hot and Tunny Day. In the 2socc class Venezuela s double world Champion Carlos Lavado 31, rid ing a Yamaha scored his first grand Pri win this season when he covered the ids Kilometre race in 41 24.76. He had a comfortable advantage of nearly five seconds Over Italy s Loris Reggiani who clocked 41 29.71 on an Alphua. Reinhold Roth of West Ger Many Riding a Honda finished third in 41 30.66 and look the Lead in the world championship standings with 53 Points. Anton Mang of West Germany finished seventh in 41 36.62 minutes on his Honda and dropped to second place inthe standings with 52 Points. In the soc class world Champion Jorge Martinez of Spain opened a comfortable in Point Lead in the championship standings by Riding his Derbi to Victory. Loomed. However the 26lh group had other ideas. Mike Fox scored on a Penally kick to finally get the generals on the scoreboard and a minute later Christian Haling converted off1 a Comer kick feed from Kenneth dest the defences continued to sparkle but Fox was Given another penalty kick in the 85th minute and once again convened. Setae conquered Berlin 3-1 in Sun Day s other same. The Lions got two goals from Chris Clementson in posting their second win in three tournament Gomes Johnny Kildow got the other tally. Clementson gave the Host team a 1-0lead with an unassisted goal in the 38th minute of action and Kildow came through two minutes into the second half. Berlin averted a shutout in the 62ndminute when Lorenzo Holder booted a Rolando Avila feed past Mathew Hill. Five minutes later Clementson tallied from eight meters out to wrap up thes Etaf Triumph. That was his fifth goal in the tournament. Becker defeats Mayotte to gain final London a Boris Becker find ing his touch in a High Quality final set came from behind to beat Tim Mayoue of the United slates 4-5, 7-6. 6-1 sunday to reach the final of the j300.000 Stella Artois Grais coun championships at Queens club. In the championship match on Mon Day put Back 24 hours because of rain thai has plagued this Wimbledon tuneup event Becker will play another Ameri can Jimmy Connors. Connors going for his first tournament title since october 1984, beat Pat Cash of Australia 7-6, 6-4 in the other semifinal played saturday. Becker two time defending Wimble Don Champion was Given a severe lest by Mayolle who beat him in the quarterfinals last year on the Way to winning this title. The rematch was interrupted twice by rain but the Tennis got belter and better after each resumption and reached a Peak in the final set when Becker gained one crucial break and held off Mayotte s spirited efforts to break Back. Secreti had two of Sembach j six hit Sand Jones had three of Rhein main i. The rocket scored twice in the first fourth fifth and sixth innings of the Nightcap to Post their second Victory of the year. The first two tallies came on singlet by Bones and Brad. Tipton tip ton Ideal of second and a hit by Jones. Two Enron a late throw on a fielder s Choice play and Jerome Manie s Ingle produced the fourth inning tallies and doubles by Bones and Tipton and Vianie Franco s single brought in the fifth in Ning runt. The but two came on three Erron and Sorenson j Tingle. Simbach got its run in the fifth on an error Graham s hit a walk and an in Field out Rhein main s Csc record is 2-6, while Sembach s is 3-5. Hillesheim splits with rangers in a a league Hillesheim Germany the Illes Heim Angels backed Peter Ghighi s pitch ing with 13 hits in the Nightcap for a 11-4 Victory Over Mainz and a German Ameri can league split with the rangers sunday. Mainz won the opener 3-4 behind the seven hit pitching of Peter Wolfgang and the 3-for-3 hitting of Mike Vasquez who had two doubles and a triple. In the Nightcap a Biraghi allowed jus three hit in going the distance. He struck out seven. Anthony Ivy went 4 for 5 and Bob Breedon 3 for 4 to spark the Angels at tack. Juan Rodriguez broke a slump with a second inning single to Start the Ules him scoring. The split left Hillesheim with a 3-7 re Cord and Mainz with a 4-4 Mark. Mannheim 8-6, Stuttgart 5-11 Heilbronn. Germany the Mannheim Amigos and Stuttgart Blue sox went for the big innings in their respective scored three times in toe first inning of the opener fell behind when Stuttgart got four in the Bottom of the inning but won the game with three again in the Jordan paced the Amigos with two hits in addition to going the route Fortis third straight win. Stuttgart chalked up six runs in the first inning and three More in the second to put the second game away first inning markers came on sin Gles by Darrell Bostick Eric Rivera and Mark Charleston an error and double by Greg Brown and Mike Oiada. The second inning tallies came on two walks Brown s double and a Mannheim throwing error
