European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday december a 19b7 the 3taps and stripes Page 25 racing Roundup of was All Lancia in 87 rally scene the 1987 motor sports season came to a close last week with the 35lh running of the Rac Lombard rally the Ijeh and final round in the world rally championship. The 1987 rally season proved a highly successful one for the italian Lancia learn and its Drivers with Finland s Juha Kankkunen successfully defending his ilk find winning the British event Tor Lancia with relative Case leading from Slart to finish. The finn won his first world rally Crown Asl year while driving for he French Peugeot Cam. The 28-year-old Kankkunen. Who also won the . Rally in the state of Washington tins year and finished nigh in other events clinched the 1987 world rally driving title with an even 100 Points. All lop three places in this year s Campaign were Cap lured by Lancia Drivers with Massimo Biasion of Italy following Kankkunen Biasion scored 94 Points and Finland s Markku Alen placing third with so Points. Lancia whose Drivers have campaigned aboard Lancia Delta of four wheel drive cars this year has thoroughly dominated the 197 scene the Dalian cars winning eight of the 13 rallies on the world championship Trail and Lancia clinching the manufacturer s Crown practically Al mid season. Lancia won the opening Monte Carlo rally Ihnn continued with victories in Portugal Greece the United states Argentina Finland Italy and Britain. An interesting note regarding Uncial s 1987 Campaign involved its team imposed limit of seven rallies per Driver. The italian Biasion completed his seventh rally in october when he won the san remo round in Italy his final Points total read ing 94. So he had to sit out last week s 1,600-mile British Rac event while the finns Kankkunen and Alen both with 80 Points were Able to compete in the Rac their seventh rally of the 1987 Campaign. Biasion meanwhile attended the Rac rally i i a Spectator obviously hoping that the finns would fail to lop his Points total if the finns had a breakdown or finished in the lower ranks then Biasion would be Home free. Alen. Who has never won the world title during his Long rallying career obliged Biasion by finishing fifth after Accident delays. But ican Kunen breezed through to win the Rac his Victory Worth 20 Points for a total of 100 to Biasion s 94. Ii was close but hat was thai. So for Italy s Biasion it s a Case of wait til nest  it must have been difficult indeed for an italian team to keep an italian Driver out of the Rac rally especially when Biasion was so close to the title making for an All italian car and Driver championship situation. It had to be extremely Juha Kew Lynnen. 1987 rally Champion tempting because the seven rally Rule was Lancia s own and it would have been easy to break. But Lancia played it strictly fair with its Drivers and deserves commendation for thai. Looking ahead the 1988 world championship rally season opens a Cal month with Llie Monte Carlo rally this classic run to begin on Jan. 16 and end on Jan. 22. The Monte Carlo rally is one of the oldest continuing motor sports events in the world. The others arc the 21 hours of la mans endurance race for sports cars and the Indianapolis 500-mile race. For the Monte Carlo rally the cars will leave from five cities with the German Slart set once again for the spa of bad Homburg North of Frankfurt. As in past years Well have details on the bad Homburg Stan and the rally As inc event rears. Other cities hosting the Start arc Barcelona Lausanne Switzer land pcs Trier.  and Monte Carlo itself looking briefly at formula one racing the englishman Jonathan Palmer has renewed his contract with the Tyrrell team for a Cal season this announcement made last week by team owner Ken Tyrrell. Palmer 31, who drove for the German Zak sped team in 1986, was the top Driver in the normally aspirated engine class this season his performances in the Tyrrell Ford car gaining him inc Jim a talk cup. I he Tyrrell team Ais win tic Colin Fli apanian team trophy in the non aspirated class. Palmer s Best finish this season was i fourth place in the aus Renlian grand prix. He also placed fifth in Monaco and f . Tyrrell said the team s second or tvs a for 1988 would not he announced for several weeks. The englishman Martin Brundle who formerly drove for Tyrrell then joined Tak Speed for inc 1987 season is leaving Zak Speed alter a disappointing season his Only finish in the Points being a fifth place in the san Marino grand prix. Brundle apparently will leave formula one rating to join the Twat Jaguar team in sports car racing a Cal year the two Jaguar learn will Conics both the world sports car championship and the american Simsa racing championship series As noted Here last week. Replacing Brundle on the Zak Speed team will be the you rip German Driver Bernd Schneider of Saar Bruckn. To is the reigning German formula 3 Champion where to go this weekend it s Laic in the season but there s still a Bil of action going on. If you re a Motocross Tan head for Munich where the fifth International Bay Erischor adar to Toeross and Speedway races will Lake place on Friday and saturday evenings in Olympia Hall. Some Filic lop riders from Europe and America will be compel ing aboard 12$ and 250cc bikes. The action begins at 7 . Each evening and continues until Aboul mid night. In England he brands Hatch circuit Southeast of London will stage its a Cal to last event of the 1987 motor sports season with the presentation of the Brit ish rally Cross grand prix the rally Cross Competition planned for All Day saturday and sunday. In Essen Germany the 20th International Essen racing car show featuring racing cars of All types As Well As motorcycles continues through sunday Al the Essen Fairgrounds in Ganiga Park. The daily hours Are 10a.m. Io6p.m, Swiss ski team disappointing austrians open season impressively Cou Mayeur Italy a the first weekend of the i9s7-88 world cup ski season ended As it began with the resurgent austrians celebrating a Victory and be powerful Swiss team wondering what went wrong. The Swiss squad which won 40 of the 64 world cup events and eight of 10 golds in the world Alpine championships was shul out in the three Wom an s and two men s events held in the italian Alps. Swiss officials said a slow Start could have been expected after the triumphs of last season in which Pirmin Zurbriggen and Maria Walliser swept the world cup Overall titles As Well As five specially titles. We Are not worried because the de feats came in two slalom and one super a Jean Pierre Fourier coach of the Swiss women s team said Bui he conceded that his team might suffer a psychological setback if they fail to perform Well next weekend in the first downhill races of the season at Val d is Ere France. The second women s slalom of the sea son on monday produced an unprecedented 1-2-3 sweep by the austrian team. Anita Wachtor finished ahead of teammates Ida lads letter and Ulrike Mair while favorite Corinne so Brood Hauser of Switzerland the defending world cup slalom Champion failed to Complete the second heal. She was Only sixth in the first slalom which was won by Spain s Blanca Ferandez Ochoa. Vachier s first career Victory was the second in As Many races for the austrian women who had Sigrid Wolf claim the season opening super giant slalom on saturday. Incredibly Austria has already matched its Victory total of last year. The Shock of last year led to a wholesale re vamping of the austrian coaching staff and a new training system. Fernandez Ochoa and women s world cup Points Leader male a Svel of Yugo Slavia each failed to finish monday s Sla Lom. Svet who has 40 Points could be passed next weekend since she does t compete in downhill. The men s races also produced unexpected results and perhaps another ital Ian Star in the Mold of former Overall champions Gustavo Thoeni and Micro Gros. Alberto Tom a 20, won the sea son opening slalom and then sunday s giant slalom each in front of roaring italian crowds at a Estrere. Swedish Veteran Ingemar Sec Mark the world cup career Leader with 8s Vic tories finished .09 seconds behind Tomba in the giant slalom. It was the 9sth scoring finish of Stenmark s Ca reer. Switzerland s Zurbiggen and Luxem Bourg s Marc Girardelli who have split the last four men s Overall championships fared badly. They combined to score 13 Points 37 less than Tomba some observers figured thai Girard Sulli and Zurbriggen tapered their Early sea son training in order to Peak for inc win Ter olympics at Calgary in february. But Zurbiggen said that was t the Case. "1 trained As hard As usual he said. The results of the Early races arc often  the american showing Over the Long weekend was Lille Short of disastrous. The Only Points came from Edith Thys of Squaw Valley calif., seventh in the super a. And Heidi Voeller of pit Isfield. Mass., 15th in monday s slalom. The United states lost one of its lop racers when Eva Twar Dokins of olympic Valley Calif suffered a Wason ending injury to her right knee in the first Sla Lom. She is expected 10 be off skis for six months. The american learn was already without 1983 women s Overall Champi on Tamara Mckinney of olympic Val Ley who broke her Righi leg in preseason training and won t return until january