European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 6, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 25 racing Roundup japanese to dominate up racing the 1988 formula one world driving championship reaches the half Way Point this sunday with the running of the British grand prix at Silverstone and it has been obvious almost from the Start of this year s Campaign that either Alain Prost or his Mclaren Honda teammate Ayrton Senna will take the honors. In our annual new year predictions column i january we said that the Frenchman Prost would win a third world title this year and at the moment he s Well on his Way. His Only opposition comes from his brazilian teammate Senna and that is Strong opposition indeed. At the French grand prix last sunday pros scored his fourth Victory of the season in a Brilliant performance on his Home grounds. Along with his win before a highly enthusiastic French audience he started from pole position and recorded fastest Lap of the race. You can t do better than that. Senna mean while placed second for another Mclaren  has three wins the Mclaren team shutting out All opposition with seven victories in seven out Ings. It would not be difficult to predict that Mclaren will win every race this season which makes Foran unheard of situation in grand prix racing. Last week the French sports newspaper l e quite sharply criticized the Mclaren domination charging that it was harmful for Auto racing and adding enough is enough. Part of the Charm Tofau Gosport is its glorious uncertainty. But Are the Mclaren going so fast that they Are in the processor leaving death in their Wake killing formula one racing to that we would say no  formula on grand prix racing will survive and next year will present an entirely different situation with Allen Gines being non Turbo. But it should be noted certainly that the Honda domination May continue unless the european manufacturers can match the japanese in engine design brilliance. For example Honda is already working on a new3.5-liter v10 engine for next season and has Given Mclaren a Dummy v10 for design and Chassis development purposes. So if the normally aspirated v10 proves Superior As the 1.5-liter v6 Honda Turbo has proved then the opposition can Only be pitied. You May also have noticed that in Ameri can Simsa sports car racing Geoff Brabham has won five races in a Row aboard his Nissan Ftp beating the Best that the North american porsche and Jaguar teams can Field. If Nissan should eventually enter formula one racing and Challenge Honda then Toyota would probably come in an the japanese would take charge of formula one racing. But that would certainly not destroy it. In fact it could improve it. Until now european manufacturers have always been the lords of formula  but no longer. One need Only look at Mclaren Honda s total domination this season and the Williams Honda team s domination in 1986 and 1987 As Well. The Mclaren Honda cars Are not killing for Mula one racing As the French newspaper fears. It is rather up to the european manufacturers to Geton with it and Start competing with the japanese. Turning to rallying the italian Lancia team clinched the 1988 world rally championship for manufacturers with its recent Victory in the United states the Lancia Delta has placing first second fifth and sixth in the Olympus rally at Tacoma Wash. The american round was the seventh in this year s 11-event series. Winning the Olympus rally for Lancia was Mik Biasion of Italy while another italian Lancia Driver Alex Fiorio finished five minutes behind Totake second. Third was the american rally Champi on John Buffum who drove an Audi Quattro. With its american Victory Lancia clinched the manufacturer s Crown with 137 Points. On its Way to the title Lancia won at Monte Carlo Sweden Portugal East Africa Greece and the United states. Its Only loss was to Ford in the rally of Corsica. The driving championship remains open Biasion leading with 80 Points to Fiorio s 57. Biasion has scored four victories for Lancia this sea son the other two recorded by Markku Alen off Inland the swedish round and Bruno Saby of France at Monte Carlo. Next up on the schedule is the rally of new zealand on july 9-12. In motorcycle racing defending Cham Pion Wayne Gardner of Australia Honda has finally broken into the Victory column with Back to Back wins in Holland and Belgium and he no trails the american rider Eddie Lawson Yamaha in the Battle for the 1988 Crown. Lawson Worl Champion in 1984 and 86, placed second in both Holland and Belgium and while he holds a 34-Point Lead Over Gardner that Lead is anything but  eight races to go and a Victory Worth 20 Points Gardner has an excellent Opportunity tomake things interesting. The Cal Forman Wayne Rainey who rides a Yamaha for the Kenny Rob erts team is in third place. Rainey has scored Points in All nine races run so far this season but instill without a Victory. So he is overdue. We wrote recently about another California rider Allan Scott the Only american who is com Peting in the 125cc world championship division. Scott who rides a Honda on a private entry basis did very Well in last sunday s belgian grand prix at spa Franco Champ. He placed sixth and this is a Superb achieve ment for a Privateer. Scott now has a total of 13 world championship Points to his credit. The next round is the grand prix of Yugoslavia at Rijeka on july 17. Where to go this weekend the Brit ish grand prix eighth round in the 1988 formula one world driving championship will be staged sunday at the Silverstone circuit in England. In timed practice is scheduled from 10 to 11 30 . On Friday and saturday with official qualifying scheduled from 1 to 2 . On both Days. Sunday British grand prix of 65 laps 193 Miles Over the 2.9-mile circuit starts at 2 30 . Local time several other races Are on the three Day program including a British National championship formula3 race on saturday. The Silverstone circuit is located near Towcester Southwest of Northampton. The British grand prix will be shown live Sun Day on German television with the first program Ard starting its coverage at 3 . And the Cable station Rel plus beginning its showing at 3 20 . In Germany the seventh round in the european touring car championship will be staged sunday on the new Nair Burgering with at least 40 cars from Ford Mercedes Bow opel and other manufacturers scheduled to Start. The race will be run in two heats the first of 55 laps at 11 . And the second heat of 56 laps at 3 . The combined distance is 310 Miles Over the 2.8-mile  and qualifying Are scheduled for Friday and saturday. The Nair Burgering is located off the Trier Koblenz autobahn exit Ulmen curb urging. Motorcycle racing in Italy the seventh round in the european motorcycle Road Rac ing championship will be held sunday on the san Tamonica circuit at Misano Adriatico South of Rimini with races for bikes in the 125, 250 and Soock classes. In England there Are races on sunday for Al classes of cycles at the brands Hatch circuit South East of London while the Snetterton circuit near Norwich will Host races for All classes on saturday and sunday. Motocross the sixth round in the Moto Cross world championship for cycles with sidecars will be held sunday at Rothe Thurm Switzerland with practice and qualifying set for Friday and sat urday. The town of Rothe Thurm is located North of Schwiz on Swiss National route 8. The stars and stripes latins Wing a league s ethnic bowl Mannheim West Germany Larry Aquirre a Southpaw junk Bailer pitched a seven hitter and Tistyan Deje sus and Angel Vazquez supplied timely hitting to Pace the latin american All stars to an 8-3 Victory Over the German american league s other All stars Here monday. Aquirre from the Nurnberg pirates used his assortment of slow pitches to thwart the opponents Power hitters. He struck out tw9 and walked two while going the nine inning distance. Dejesus doubled in the latin Ameri cans first three runs in the first  Luzunaris walked Jose Rivera singled and Rafael Merced was hit by pitched Ball to Load the bases for Mann Heim s Dejesus. The latins added single runs in the fifth and sixth on Espada s run scoring single and Francisco Lopez rib double. Vazquez of Mainz doubled in two seventh inning runs and the final one scored on Gregorio Santino s single later in that inning. Dejesus Vazquez and Rivera each went 2-for-4 to Pace the winners 11-hit attack off Garland Diamond of Stuttgart and re Liever Martin Helmig of the Amigos. Diamond worked the first 6 /3 innings fan Ning three and walking four. Helmig Casein to pitch from right Field in the seventh yielding one run. The non hispanics scored in the sixth on Bill Dickman s rib single and in the seventh on Diamond s run scoring hit. The game a first time contest for the a a baseball league followed sunday s 10-4 Northern division Victory in the league regular All Star game at Darmstadt. Mario Andretti captures Cleveland up a j h.9  n bsas4 to i a of u Cleveland a Mario Andretti moved into the Lead when Bobb Rahal fish tailed slightly with 12 laps to go then held off Rahal and Danny Sulli Van by less than one second in sunday s Cleveland grand prix indy car race. Andretti 48, who survived a Brushwitz a Wall four laps earlier passed Rahal on Lap 68 As the two went into the first Straightaway on the Back Side of the 12-turn, 2.48-mile Road course at Burke lakefront Airport. Andretti then benefited from a Battleford second Between Rahal and pole win Ner Sullivan who mane Vered Side beside on the 79th Lap As Andretti briefly widened his Lead to More than two seconds. Rahal fought Back Sullivan s Challe geto claim second. Sullivan was third and Al Unser jr., the Only other car on the Lead Lap was fourth. Andretti s average Speed of 124.295mph, held Down by one full course Yel Low Flag and several cautions on portions of the course was Well off the race record of 128.421 set by Emerson Fittipaldi last year. The Victory was Andretti s second of the year he won the season opening race at Phoenix and the 51st of his indy car career. . Foyt is the career Leader with 67. Belgium All stars earn Florida trip Brussels Belgium the Belgium All stars earned a trip to big league world championships in fort Lauderdale fla.,by winning the european big league base Ball championship on monday. The winners swept through the three team european tournament for 16-18 year Olds undefeated dumping German Champion and tourney runner up Bonn 14-5 and 12-3 Over the weekend an closing with a 4-2 rain shortened Deci Sion Over Ramstein on monday. Earlier the champions had pinned an 11-0 de feat on  Delia was the hitting Star for the Florida bound Belgium team rapping Homer in his 6-for-10 tourney performance. Vince Jackson clubbed two Hom ers and drove in seven runs for Belgium. Winning pitchers for the All stars were Ronnie Gerard who struck out 10 and Al Lowed but one hit in the finale Jackson who fanned 10 and gave up two hits in a six inning stint against Bonn Gary Busco who tossed a 7-inning three hitter in another win Over Bonn and Mario Lopez. The big league world championships scheduled for August 13-20