European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 25 racing Roundup German up american riders ready this is a big weekend in motor sports with three major events on tap the Indianapolis 500, the grand prix of Mexico and the motorcycle grand prix of Germany at Hocke Nchim. Today Well look at All three events and let s Start off with Hock in him where West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl will be the honoured guest. American riders continue to dominate the top Soock class in motorcycle racing and at Hock Nheim on sunday you will see them Alfin action. This year s Battle for the Crown is shaping up As a contest be tween California riders Wayne Raincy of the Rob erts Yamaha team and defending world Champion Eddie Lawson of rothmans Honda. Now in his second Soock grand prix season Raincy has a 10-Point Edge on Lawson going into Sun Day s race and if German tradition holds Raincy will win the title. We say German tradition because the rider holding the Lead going into the German grand prix has won the title the past seven years. This year s Campaign is extremely close with the five previous grand prix races producing five differ ent winners. The texan Kevin Schwantz Suzuki won the japanese opener the injured Frank Gardner of Australia Honda won in Australia Raincy won the . Round Lawson won in Spain and the ital Ian Pic Franccsco Chili Honda won in Italy. At Hock Nheim this spread will doubtlessly end with either Raincy Lawson or Schwantz moving into the two Victory column. Practically overlooked in his comeback year is the great american rider Freddie Spencer who missed the last two seasons because of injuries. Spencer who had actually retired from Competition joined Yamaha after three time world Champion Lawson moved to Honda. So far the Louisiana Spencer s comeback year has been a dismal one his Best efforts a 14th place in Japan and a fifth place in Spain. A three Lime world Champion Spencer has never won at Hocke Nchim and he has suffered two injuries there in past races. He said recently despite All of my bad Luck at Hock Nheim i still like the circuit and hopefully i la have some Luck there for  it will be a pleasure indeed to Sec Freddie Back in action and Here s hoping he docs Well. He stands 1 7th in the world championship and a Good showing in the German up could put him among the top 10. Going into sunday s race Raincy has 71 Points Lawson follows with 61, Christian Sarron of France Yamaha has 47, Italy s Chili has 39, while the injured australian Kevin Magee Yamaha and the american rider Schwantz arc lied for fifth place with 37 Points each. Another rider to watch is the californian Allan Scott the Only american rider in the i25cc class. Scott a Privateer who rides a Honda stands eighth in the 1 25cc world championship series. Full details times ticket prices Etc on sunday s German grand prix for motorcycles Are Given under where to go this  moving to sunday s indy 500, the front Row there just As last year is filled with three pc Sec Chevrolet cars. There s a slight difference this year however As Only two of the cars Are from the Pensec team while a third one is owned by the Patrick racing team. The Pensec team cars qualified fastest with Rick cars on pole at 223.885 Mph and his Punske team mate Al Unser second fastest at 223.471. The Brazil Ian Driver Emerson Fittipaldi twice world Champion in formula one racing during the 1970s, qualified the Patrick racing team Punske car third fastest at 222.329. Noting Fittipaldi s formula one heritage it s interesting to look Over the indy qualifier list and see just How Many Drivers once raced regularly in Europe. These include Mario andr Clit of course Worl Champion with Lotus in 1978 Danny Sullivan who started in formula Fords then moved to formula 3s and formula 2s and finally to formula one with the Tyrrell team Bobby Rahal another f-2 and f-3 campaigner Randy Lewis who did several formula 3 seasons in Europe before returning to his native California the Scot Jim Crawford Raul Bocskel of Brazil Didier Thys of Belgium Tco Fabi of Italy who campaigned regularly in formula one Fabi qualified the March porsche in 13th spot at indy Randy Barnett Wayne Raincy and Eddie Lawson in 5 l acc ill Lac. Arie Luyendyk of the Netherlands who started in formula acc and the irishman Derek Daly who once drove for the formula one Tyrrell team. With Roger Pensec s Long string of successes at Indianapolis chances arc either Mears or Unser will win sunday but Here s hoping the Flag will fall on either Mario Andretti or . Foyt. Andretti who has won the indy 500 Only once exactly 20 years ago said last year i should win another indy if Only by the Law of  he did t win last year but perhaps the Law of averages will come round sunday. Andretti fifth fastest in qualifying starts on the second Row. Foyt the legendary four time indy Winner who. At age 54, is the oldest Man in the race would like nothing More than to gain a fifth indy Victory before age forces his retirement. Foyl held the record until1987 when Al Unser lied it with his fourth win. If Unser lakes the Check ered Flag sunday and he s in Good position to do so hell have the record All to itself. Foyl starts on the fourth Row i oth fastest while Unser As noted earlier shares the front Row with cars and Fittipaldi. Go if Foyt wins his will be the most popular Victory Ever scored in the Brickyard s Long history. An to expects to be Able to show the 73rd run Ning of the indy 500 beginning at 5 . Sunday Subj cd to arts providing the program. Now on to Mexico where the fourth round in the world driving championship will be held sunday in Mexico City. If the Mclaren Honda cars finish one two there As in the past two races then one could say without fear of contradiction Hal the 1 9.89 Campaign is Al ready finished. And who would be against a one two going into this race Mclaren Drivers Ayrton Senna of Brazil and Alain Prost of France Are lied for the title with 18 Points each. Senna the defend ing world Champion has his Points from two Victo Ries while Prost has his 18 from three second place finishes. Perhaps englishman Nigel Mansill in the Ferrari can make things interesting in Mexico City on Sun Day but we d hate to bet on it. German television s second program Adf will show most of the grand prix of Mexico live from 1 0 05 to ii . Sunday. In sports car racing the. Private entry Joist Lorsch team shocked Mercedes and Jaguar last sunday in Dijon France with Frenchman Bob Wollock Anil Germany s Frank Clinski winning the second round in the world sports car championship with Case. They won by nearly 40 seconds Over the Sauber mercy pcs driven by Jean Louis Schlusser of France and Jochen mass of Germany. Schlesser and mass had pole position but the Joist porsche took the Lead shortly after the Start and was never challenged during the 300-mile race. Sauber mar codes blamed a variety of tire problems for its poor showing. Another Sauber Marc cacs driven by Maura Baldi of Italy and the Ulster Man Kenny Acheson finished third while Johnny Dumfries of Scotland and Geoff Lees of England drove a Toyota to fourth. The two Jaguar cars failed to finish. After two world championship rounds. Mercedes still leads with 35 Points but the Joist porsche team is closing in with 32 Points. Toyota has 16 Points. Nissan 10 and Jaguar 8. The 24 hours of la mans which would have been the next world championship race has lost title stat us because of a dispute Over television fights be tween the be mans organi cars and the Liili Vii inn inti Matiiw Ili Sci Julaino Liilo a l.\. The  mans race will be held june 10-11 As originally scheduled with All of the lop teams and Drivers entered. Inn it will tint count for championship Points. The next race Good for Points will be the Spanish round at Jarama North of Madrid on june 25. Iii i to go this we Kim in Cier Many the fifth round in the National touring car championship will be staged sunday on the Amis circuit in Berlin with several other races on the program including a National championship for Mula 3 event an opel Lotus German Challenge race and a porsche 944 Turbo cup race. Practice for All categories is scheduled for saturday. On Germany s Nair Burgering. There s a Long Dis Tance race of Louring cars saturday with the race starting at v a-"1 Antl ending about 4 . At Mon a. Italy the fourth round in the Fia historic car championship will he staged saturday and sunday. In Sicily the fifth round in the italian National championship for formula 3 cars will be held Sun Day on the Perusa circuit near Enna. Other races arc also on the program. At zolder Belgium races Are scheduled sat urday and sunday for touring cars. Formula super vec cars historic cars and Renault 5s. With motor Cycle races also featured on the two Day program. Rallying the 38lh International adar Lessen rally will be held Friday and saturday with a total of 113 teams from 10 nations entered. Rally Headquarters will be located in had Llars fold where the two Day event will Start and finish. Length of the rally is 472 Miles with 160 Miles of special stages. Most of the rally route is through Northern Hesse. The rally both a German and european championship event starts at 11 . Fri Day at had la Irsfeld and ends there at 5 30 . Saturday. Motorcycle racing As noted previously in this column the German grand prix for motor cycles will be held sunday with the starting times for the seven race program As follows 80cc. Noon. 11 laps 46 Miles i25cc, i ., 14 laps 60 Miles 250cc. 2 05 . 16 laps 67 Miles Soock. 3 15 ., 19 laps 80 Miles cycles with sidecars. 4 30 . 14 japs 60 Miles Yamaha cup race. 4 40 . April a cup race 5 05 . Official practice and qualifying Are scheduled from 9 . To 4 30 . Friday and from 8 . To 5 20 . Saturday. Ticket prices for race Day Sun Day Range from 5 to 80 Marks. Tickets for Friday s practice Cost 15 Marks while tickets for saturday Range from 25 to 40 Marks. The City of Hock Nheim is located Jum South West of Heidelberg. Motocross the grand prix of Belgium for i25cc cycles will be held saturday and sunday at Borg Loon which is located in Eastern Belgium and just Southeast of  on National route is. Five of America s top Motocross riders Are entered in this event. The Stan and so rift