European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 25, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 25 m racing Roundup the 1989 formula one world driving championship with 16 grand prix races on the schedule gets under Way in Rio de Janeiro on March 26 wit the running of the grand prix of Brazil. With the Turbo engines now history in formula one racing everyone is looking Forward to a far More competitive season than last years when the Mclaren Honda Turbo cars won 15 out of 16 races but if the results of last month s formula one test ing sessions on the Jerez circuit in Spain can be used As a guide the 1989 Campaign could Well be a repeat of 1988. The Only difference would be a Mclaren Honda sweep with normally aspirated engines in Stead of turbos. Even before the Jerez testing it was obvious that the new Mclaren Honda v10 car was extremely Quick. In private testing at Imola Italy during octo ber Mclaren Drivers Ayrton Senna of Brazil and Alain Prost of France were both extremely fast with Senna turning a time that would have been third fastest for last year s san Marino grand prix which is run on the Imola circuit. Honda had five of the new vi0 engines at the Imola testing session three of the engines of differ ent specifications. So the Honda engineers Are Al ready on top with their research and development. But Back to Jerez where Goodyear sup plied a variety of tires for the five Days of testing the Drivers All testing tires As Well As their cars and engines. Goodyear brought some 1,100 tires including 300 of different compounds and construction plus qualifiers. As the Pirelli tire company will also sup ply tires this season qualifying tires will again be necessary. Running at Jerez were Mclaren Ferrari March Benetton Williams and Zak Speed with Only Lotus arrows and Tyrrell missing where top teams Are concerned. Senna the defending world Champion was on hol iday so his place at Mclaren Honda was taken by Ace test Driver Emanuele Pirro of Italy who does All of the private testing for Mclaren Honda in Japan. The Frenchman Prost who was runner up to Senna last year joined Pirro at Jerez. And it was Prost As you might expect who re corded fastest time after the full five Days of testing with a Lap of one minute 22.39 seconds. You can probably guess who turned second fastest time. It was Pirro of course at 1 23.47, exactly 1.08 seconds off Prost s Pace. Third fastest was Mauricio Gugel min of Brazil in a March Judd 1 23.74fourth came the italian Driver Alessandro Nannini in a Ben Etton Ford 1 23.92and fifth fastest was Gerhard Berger of Austria at 1 24,10 in the new Ferrari withv12 engine Power. 9 for comparison purposes Senna had the pole at least year s Spanish grand prix at Jerez with a time of 1 24.067 and this of course was set in a Turbo powered Mclaren. So Prost with a normally aspirated v10 Honda engine was 1.67 seconds under Senna s pole position time of last year. Pirro Gugelman and Nannini were also under Senna s pole time for that matter. So these normally aspirated powered cars Are Quick indeed. N 1989? Randy Barnett but it s obvious that Mclaren Honda cars Are Al ready far the quickest and the final version of the new formula one Mclaren is yet to come. Only the interim Model was used at Jerez. So the Mclaren Honda opposition can look Forward to another hard year. Ferrari meanwhile in testing at both Jerez and in a More recent Outing at Paul Ricard circuit in South Ern France is already having problems extracting enough Power from its vi2 engine. No one wants to see a repeat of the 1988 Mclaren steamroller because Competition Between teams i vital in racing. But at this stage certainly the steam roller appears All set to again flatten everything in its path. And while we re at it Well pick Prost to win his third world championship. It will be a close run be tween Prost and his teammate Senna but we have Hunch that Prost will come through. The . Grand prix now re instated on the Calendar and scheduled for june 4, As noted previously in this column is still without a definite site. Both Road Atlanta and the Laguna Seca circuit near Monterey calif., have been mentioned As possible hosts for the . Round and now comes a third entry Phoenix Ariz. It is proposed that the race be run on the streets of downtown Phoenix and while this would be Fine in january or february anyone who has been around Phoenix during the month of june would veto the idea. It is simply too hot blast Furnace heat fro the desert. Still a committee has drawn up a proposed five year contract with a businessman who Hopes to bring formula one racing to Phoenix this june and decision is due shortly. In other . Racing developments Alfa Romeo has announced its entry into cart indy car racing and has signed Colombia s Roberto Guerrero to do the driving. March will Supply the Chassis As it does now to porsche and Power will come from an Alfa Romeo 2.6 5-liter Turbo v8 engine that is derived from Ferrari. Fiat owns both Ferrari and Alfa so it s All in the family. Guerrero is leaving the Vince Gra Natelli team to drive for Alfa and Tom Sneva is moving to the Granatelli team where he will drive Alola Buick. Meanwhile Chip Robinson of Oldwick n.j., who won the 1987 Camel it championship with the late Al Holbert s porsche team will join Simsa Champion Geoff Brabham this season in the Nissan Ftp ext Turbo team. The australian Brabham won 9 of 14 races with the Nissan last year to capture the ims title. The porsche club of America Ger Many Region is opening its 1989 Calendar of events with a do it yourself technical session with the ses Sions to be divided into two porsche engine groups air cooled and water cooled. Areas to be covered include Basic maintenance inspections and common problems. The session will be held on feb. 12 a sunday at the Bosch garage in Biebrich near Wiesbaden with the Start set for 12 30 . The deadline for Atten dance reservations is feb. 6, and those interested should phone Jerry l. Pearce at 06122-12948 or Ray Wingo at 06122-51410 evenings for reservation Sand All other information. The porsche club is now in its 26th year and along with technical sessions the club stages slalom rallies and other events throughout the year. Porsche car owners interested in joining should Call membership chairman Mike Steffen at 06131-696325 of fice or 06132-87488 Home or write him at Mainz army depot Box 11, Apo 09185 or Tal Strassl 3g,d-6507 Ingleheim. Where to go this weekend the eighth International Frankfurt main adar ice Speedway motorcycle racing program will be staged this week end and if you Haven t seen top line ice riders going All out on their Spike wheeled machines then Check this one out. It is highly exciting stuff. The races will take place on saturday and sunday at the Frankfurter Weissport anlage ice Oval at Rathweg near the East Park take autobahn exit Frankfurt Ostor if in town use Streetcar lines 13and 18. The Frankfurt event is one of four Quarter final qualifying rounds in the motorcycle ice Speedway world championship. The program at Frankfurt begins on Friday with practice from 2 until 5 ., while racing starts at 7 . On saturday under the floodlights and continues until about 1 1 . The racing on sunday starts at 2 30 . And ends about 6 30 . Both saturday and sunday programs will feature 20 heats of four laps each on the Oval ice circuit with 16 of the world s top motorcycle ice rider competing. The riders come from Sweden the soviet Union Finland Austria Czechoslovakia Switzerland and West Germany. The top entrant is Erik Stenlund of Sweden the defending world Champion. Juri Iva nov world Champion in 1987, is the top rider fro the soviet Union. The specially designed Soock ice racing bikes shod with heavily spiked tires develop about 60horsepower. Tickets for either saturday or sunday Range from 18.50 Marks about $10 to 40 Marks about$22. _ one Quarter final round has already been staged in Italy another will be held this weekend in Gote Borg Sweden along with the round in Frankfurt while a fourth round will be staged in Berlin on feb. 11-12. The semifinals will be held on the weekend of feb. 18-19 at Deventer in the Netherlands and at Zinzell Germany near bad re Chenhall in Bavaria. The world finals take place March 4-5 at Alma again the soviet Union. The stars and stripes Bolton denies game throwing charge r a t or a it i a a n a _ _ Wolf pack sex Bennie Bolton. Had a bad game Raleigh . A Bennie Bol ton a former North Carolina state University basketball player thinks that he not Charles Shackleford is the tar get of teammates suspicions that a Wolf pack player threw an Mcaa tournament game in 1987 to avoid a drug test. But Bolton insisted he did t throw the game which was the last of his col lege career. And he said he doubted that Shackleford or any other member of the team did. When i heard the Florida game mentioned and they said a player threw it i just naturally looked at myself Bolton said referring to Nusu s 82-70 loss to the University of Florida in the first round of the tournament. I had a bad game and threw a lot of bad passes told the news and observer of Raleigh. In the game which was played at Syra Cuse University Bolton had four turn overs. Shackleford then a Sophomore had three turnovers. The allegation that some players think a teammate threw the Florida game reportedly will be contained in the Book personal fouls by Peter Golenbock scheduled for release next month according to the Book s dust jacket. In an Abc sports report aired sat urday during the halftime of the . State North Carolina game sources said Shackleford was identified in the Book As the player suspected of throwing the Florida game. Shackleford now playing professionally with the new Jersey nets has been unavailable for comment referring All Calls 19 his agent attorney Salvatore . Difazio reached monday described the allegation that Shackleford threw the game As preposterous and  hell he probably should t have even played Difazio said. His leg had been in an air cast for the three Days before the game. He had an ankle that was swollen about twice the Normal size. He could t even practice and he still went out and got his averages in a fairly Low scoring game. That sort of statement is outright is and anyone who knows very much about the sport or who saw any of that game should realize  in the 1987 loss to Florida shackle Ford scored 12 Points and led his team in rebounding with eight. In the same game Bolton was the team s leading scorer with 20 Points. He also had four re Bounds. His average that season was 15 Points and 4.1 rebounds a game