European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 26 the stars and stripes tuesday april 19. 1988 Unser or. Wins at Long Beach b Makr. Harris Long i Rall Calif. A Al Unser or. Flural Maria Andri i knew the quickest Uay ice the from so the youngster Jum followed inc master. Unser trailed an Doctu through the first 10 turns on the first Lap of sunday s Toyota grand i m of lout Beach. He slipped by an the 1 Ith and last turn and showed that he nol and Clit would be Hitman Bobcat. Unser was delayed briefly by a lire problem hut there was no Way anybody could keep his Chevrolet powered March from eventually running away with the i Lap l5s.65-Micracc, when 1 Gol the Start i did h was awesome,11 said Unser 26, a second generation indy car Driver. I just followed Mario. He limed the Start just right and so did i. Then when Mario did t run off with it like i though he would i decided to gel past him any Way i Unser caught Arne Rytti. Locked his brakes and put his car into a four wheel skid As be slipped inside andr clip s Lola Chucy Rolcik on the Only hairpin turn on thei ight 1,67-mile Seaside Cir Iii. It was a bit Chancy the red haired Driver from Albuquerque. N.m., said. Hut i got away with it. I really did t want to stay behind Mario like t had done inc Lasi couple of years in Fin Ishing second in the race inc last to years. Andretti had practically owned this colourful temporary course until sunday winning three of the previous four indy car raws Here All of Ihm from the pole As Well As making a formula one race Here in 1977. The Only year Andretti did t win the indy car event in 1986. His son Michael did. I took Aboul 10 laps to be sure now Quick my car Unser said. I started out making some Small mistakes that slowed me a. Little but Mario was t catching me. Right then i figured out maybe got me a Rice car Here. The elder any Impi fell off the Pace after lugging one of the Concrete barriers lining he course flattening a lire. He later Well out of the race with a broken clutch. U Riser Bush a Lead of nearly 17 seconds Over Andretti by Ian 19, when Scott Hray Lori s spin in the hairpin brought out the Only full course caution Flag of the Al Unser or. Runs ahead of the pack an his a id an easy Victory that broke Mario Andretti s Hotd on the Toyota grind prix. Day. All the leaders filled Unser fell Back to sixth place during the Stop when his Crew stripped Hie lug Nul on inc left rear tire while changing in. I built up a Lead and it vanished be cause of thai Long Stop Unser said with a shrug but in just made me work harder. Thank goodness the car was working Good enough to overcome the pit Crew could t change the left rear again because of the lug Nul prob Lem and then decided against changing the other i rec during Unser s Only other scheduled Stop. There was almost no Wear and the car was just right Unser said there was no reason la change a Unser. Who picked up his fifth indy car Victory All on Road courses beat second place Bobby Rahal s Lola Judd across the finish line by one Lap and 3j.4s3 seconds. And that margin came despite Unser s Quick unscheduled Stop on Lap 86 for a splash of fuel. I Jusi wanted 10 make sure Unser said me averaged �3.655 Mph in winning $91,160 for his first Victory since the 1986 season finale at Miami. In the last 20 laps sunday Albuquerque based car owner Rick galls who re hired Unser this year after a three year absence tried to gel Unser to ease off because of the big Lead. He was talking to me on the radio and said of you got 20 seconds on Sully Danny Sullivan now. You can slow Down " Unser said. I said i am running slow All 1 can say is it s Chevy horsepower and the car was perfect All Gatlos was rewarded with Only his second indy car Victory and first since Unser won for him at Portland. Ore., in 1984. Sullivan who started from the pole position in one of the heralded new Pensec pci7-Chevroicls, battled Unser for a while. But Unser chased him Down and retook inc Lead on Lap 42 and simply pulled away. Sullivan eventually was sidelined by engine failure and learn male Rick cars slowed Early by a fuel metering problem finished eighth four laps off the Pace. Raul to Csc fourth on sunday leads the cart Driver standings with 22 Points heading into the Indianapolis 500 on May 29. Unser and inc elder and Ritli arc lied for second with 21 Points Fol Lowed by Michael Andretti with 20 and Kevin Cogan 1 9. Lakers celtics stumble again on the Road b the associated press the los Angeles lakers and Boston celtics have been the Only iwo Aba teams to hit the Road with any Success this season. Lately the Road has been hitting Back. The lakers who be had their troubles away from the forum for the last month dropped their fifth straight Road game by losing to Houston 127-119. The celtics who along with the lakers Are the Only iwo Aba teams Over .500 away from Home this sea son lost their second Road game in three Days falling to Washington Ja-92. In other Aba games sunday it was Chicago 105, Milwaukee 97 Denver 133, Dallas 122 and Portland 122, Sacramento 112. Rockets 117, liners 119 lot Angeles May have caught the rockets at a bad Lime. Two nights earlier Houston blew a 20-Noint Lead Ina n2-125 Osslo Denver we showed everyone How Well we could play in the first Scalf against Denver and How bad in the second half rocket Forward Rodney Mccray said. Today we wanted to show inc fans How Good we could play for an entire the Victory broke Houston s eight came losing in rack to the lakers. The iwo clubs could meet in the second round of the playoffs. We had a Challenge with this team said Center no Roundup Akcam Olajuwon who Ted Houston with 38 Points before fouling out we were mentally prepared and you have to be prepared for every game. Magic Johnson had 19 Points 10 rebounds and 12 assists for his i2 h triple double this season and the 95lh of his career. Balls i 98, Cut los 92 the celtics who were burned in Cleveland Friday night overcame an 1 a Point deficit in inc final period Only to be oui scored 7-0 in the final l ii Jim Paxson s jumper gave Boston a 92-91 Lead. But Brit Malcic put the bullets Back in front and Darrell Walker Ihnn stole the Ball from Robert Parish and drove for a Layup and a 95-92 Lead. The Victory Washington s first it St meetings with the celtics this season moved the bullets into a tic with new York for la final two Eastern division play off spots. Moses Malone Hail 24 Points for Washington and Jei Majoric 23. Larry Biro topped five Boston starters in double figures with 23 Points As the celtics Bench produced Only 11 Points. Bulls 105, Bucks 97 Chicago Rode a 44-Point Effort by Michael Jordan to its fifth ii Reighl Victory while handing the slumping Bucks their fourth straight toss and Ninon in 11 games. Jordan scored 15 Points in the final Quarter As the bulls rang up their 48h Victory their most since 1973 74. And pulled into a lie with Aila la for second place in the Central division four games behind Detroit nuggets 133, Mavericks 112 the nuggets the Aba s hoi Tecsi icam. Got 31 Points from Alu English and a triple double by fal lever to win for the Mth time in their last 15 games. Lever had 29 Points. 19 rebounds and 13 assists Lor his Lelih triple double As seven nuggets scored in Dou ble figures. Jay Vinceni had All 20 of his Points in the second half is the first place nuggets moved i
