European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday september 28, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 25 racing Roundup proof songs in another 86 finish after his Victory in the belgian grand prix tale last month Brazil s Ariton Senna had what appeared to be an unbeatable Lead in the run for the 1988 world driving championship. Senna had won seven races and his belgian Voclo by was his fourth in a Row. Even his Mclaren Honda teammate Alain Prosl had Given up saying , it s Losi. Ayrton has won the world championship. There s nothing else to this was a surprising Concession from Prosl Aman who can never be counted out but there it was. Prosl had Given up. But then came the italian grand prix in Monza where both Mclaren failed to score for the first Lime this season. That race obviously lifted the Frenchman Frost s sights and Shook Senna s spirit As Senna lost that race when he crashed with Only two laps to on the Agenda was the portuguese grand prix at Estoril a race that saw a revitalized Prost capture pole position and go on to Victory. Every win that Prost Racks up is a record and his Portu Guese Triumph last sunday was the 33nj of his , meanwhile finished a lowly sixth and the title continues to elude s All a Bil similar to the 1986 season when the englishman Nigel Mansell driving a Williams Honda appeared to have the title wrapped up. But he failed in inc mexican grand prix then came the famous Tiro explosion in inc final round at austra Lia that ended Manset s championship dreams. With Hansel out of the action. Prost went on to win that amazing race and the 1986 Crown. Going into sunday s Spanish grand prix at Jerez do la Frontera Prosl now leads for the championship Wilh is Points to Senna s 76, but the Rule dictate thai Only the Best 11 results from the 16 race will count and Senna has a Strong advantage counts his 81 Points from 11 races but Senna s 76 Points come from Only 10 races. So Senna canard ail nine Points if he wins sunday in spam and he can then add eight Points if he wins in Japan or Australia discarding the one Point he received for his sixth place in Portugal. Prosl meanwhile can add Points Only by winning because he has Only victories and second place show Ings on his record this season. A Victory in Spain for instance would net him Only three Points throwing out a second place Worth six Points and adding a win Worth nine. Still Prost is far from out of it Wilh the 1986season being the Busl example of a come from by Hind world litle. We predicted a third world driving Crown for Prosl at the Start of this season but Senna has been the Superior Driver this year and he should come through. But in racing you never know. Its the time of year when championship Are being decided and in the United slates cart and year series Danny Sullivan is the Leader but not by a big margin. Sullivan who won last sunday s 200-mile race at the Pennsylvania International race Way leads former . Champion Bobby Rahal andal Unser or. For the Crown with two race remaining. The Pennsylvania race provided some Good new for porsche Wilh Teo Fabi placing fourth in the March porsche and leading the race briefly. Next year porsche plans to go with a porsche Chassis and engine and to be fully competitive and win a the curb urging last sunday meanwhile the porsche factory won its final group c sports Carrack with Germany s Hans stuck taking the Check ered Flag in the fifth and final round of the wort super cup Competition. Stuck in a porsche 962 a beat Oul his countryman Jochen Mas who was curving a Sauber Mercedes. The porsche firm recently announced its withdrawal from sports car racing to concentrate on its cart efforts in the United Stales so porsche we tout on a winning note at the curb urging. The Worth super cup driving title meanwhile was won by the Frenchman Jean Louis Schlaser of he Sauber Mercede learn while the Marque title went to the private entry Josl Ponche team. Continuing with championships the australian Driver Geoff Brabham can Clinch the ims driving Crown this weekend with a either a Victory in the Columbus Ohio Camel Ftp race or by Fin Ishing ahead of Denmark s John Nielsen who pilots a Jaguar xjr-9.Brabham, who scored eight straight victories in his Nissan Ftp Zyx this season saw his Streak Cometo an end at the recent round in san Antonio. Tex., when he lost out to the porsche 962 driven by Price Obb and James Weaver the san Antonio race marked the first time this season thai Brabham Nissan failed to finish the car going out with a Bro Ken cd join Brabham s eight race winning Streak covered nearly six months and his loss in Texas marked the first time since inc 12 hours of scoring in March that Bis Nissan was not in Victory Lane. In rallying the new wheel drive Toyota Colica Turbo scored its first major Success in Cyprus and gave warning to Lancia that the 1989 world championship rally season will be a hard fought one. Sex world rally Champion Bjorn Wald card of we Den took the Lead on the first Day of the three Day Cyprus event and remained in command from that time rally was an european championship round and the italian Driver Fabrizio Tabalon in a Lanci adelta integrate finished second to Clinch the euro Pean title. Welshman David unwell in who won Las year s Cyprus rally placed third in Audi Quattro while Waldegar s Toyota teammate Kenneth Enk son also of Sweden placed fourth. Meanwhile in the recent african Ivory coast rally which was a round in the world championship for Drivers Victory went to Frenchman Alain Ambrosini in a Nissan 200 so. Where to go ibis weekend the Spanish grand prix for formula one cars ugh round in ihc16-race world driving championship will be staged sunday on the new 3.2-mile circuit at Jerez de Lafron Iera in Southern Spain Jerez is near Rota and Cadiz. Practice is scheduled from 10 to 11 30 am. On Friday and saturday Wilh qualifying set from i to 2 . On both Days. The grand prix of 72 laps 188 Miles will Start at 2 30 . Ii is the final round i Europe this year. The final race in the pm Lotus european series u also on sunday s program at Jerez along with a Renault Turbo race. A taped version of the Spanish grand prix will be shown sunday on Germany s second program Adf beginning at silo . While the race will be featured live on Cable station Rel plus beginning at 2 15 . In Germany there will be racing on saturday an sunday for touring cars formula 3 cars. Formula Renault and other categories. The cars will race on the Short 1.6-mile course. On the nor Burgering. Meanwhile there is a Long distance racing program on the combined circuits. This even is scheduled from 8 . To 5 . Sat urday with another racing program on the new Cir Cuit scheduled for All Day sunday. In England the final rounds in the British formula 3 championship. The rdc sports car championship and the British Louring car championship will be staged sunday on the Sil Yantone circuit near Northampton. Races for historic it cars Are also on the program. The Snetterton circuit near Norwich meanwhile will hold races on alunday for classic motorcycles Wilh sunday s program featuring championship car drag racing the Hanau Auto Racine association Kara will hold ils season finale on sunday at inc Gie Belstadt Airfield with some50 entries of cars and cycles. Two Kara and two German National championships will be decided in this final race of inc season. The Gates open at 9 30 ., registration deadline is 11 ., trials Start Ai 12 30 . And final eliminations at 1 30 . Racing will continue until about 5 . Tickets which Are Good for both the racing Andice Driver pit area Cost 12 Marks for adults Aboul 16.50 while children under age 12 will be admitted free. The Gie Belstadt Airfield is just South which is located eight Miles South of Wurzburg on National route b19. Truck racing the brands Hatch circuit Southeast of London will Host the 12lh round in the International truck grand prix racing series on Sun Day with practice and qualifying heats scheduled for saturday. Motorcycle racing the 19th annual Augsburg and a races for All classes of cycles will beheld sunday on the Augsburg Mulhausen Airport Cir Cuit. All events Are rounds in the German National championship and these races arc the next to last on the German championship Calendar. All leading German rides Are entered and i reformer 250 and 350cc world Champion Toni Mang who is retiring from racing will make a Farewell Nde during sunday s program. Practice and qualification races will be held on Marks for adults about so and i Marks for Young sters about $3.80. The lick is Are also Good for visits to the paddock area where the riders and cycles Are based. Stano Zool vanishes from Safe steroid scene1 by Darrell Christian Seoul South Korea a scratch another Safe steroid from the sports scene. Ben Johnson in All likelihood took the popular pills called Stano Zool with him into track exile. Johnson the world s most infamous fastest human was t the first olympian in Seoul 10 be caught using the steroid but he was the one who blew its cover. He was stripped of his Gold medal an world record in the Sqq Meler dash after Lac a of the drug were found in his Post race urine Sample. And that says the chief medical offi cer of the . Olympic committee. Should be enough 10 convince athletes once and for All that Stan Zolot is not the steroid they might have thought it has been in the past. It int any More said or. Robert Voy. It s like Cherest of them. It was difficult to detect up to a year and a half ago. Now it s easy to find and we re finding More of h. This will end Stano Zool is a water based steroid taken orally that according to a . Olympic committee brochure stays in the body up to six weeks not the eight months for fat soluble types that Are injected that made it in particular favor with athletes who wanted an extra Edge and thought they could fool olympic Labo increases muscle mass and muscle strength Voy said. Big Muscles make faster Muscles in Johnson s Case it was fast enough to run the 100 in a blurring 9.79 seconds. Johnson was the third Gold Medali stand seventh person Overall caught for banned drugs in be seen about 15 positive cases of this drug in the last two or three years said or. Robert Dugal a Canadian Mem Ber of the Ioc medical commission who runs the Ioc accredited lab set up for the Montreal olympics in 1976. Siano Zool is the generic name exam Ples listed by the soc include Winstral ands Tromba. Manufactured in the United state and several european countries it is a prescription drug thai Dugal said should be used medically in very very specific cases of one or two types of is one of the most dangerous anabolic steroids because its effects can Lead to a number of disturbances of the liver including cancer Dugal said. Television of Lynks Abc average by it. &30 us 3 Tad 10-30 my wednes Day men in Cage at 1230 jul. Stand a
