European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday july 30, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 25 Senna wins nabs driving Lead by Randy Barnett motor sports editor Bockenheim West Germany a brazils Ayrton Senna drove with tactical brilliance Here sunday to win his third straight German grand prix and regain the Lead in the Battle for the world driving championship. Quot it was a very difficult race in this heat a Senna said afterwards Quot but obviously in a Happy with the  the brazilian Ace who drives a Mclaren Honda beat out italian Driver Alessandro Nannini Benetton Ford by 6.2 seconds before More than 100,000 spectators. Third came Senna a teammate Gerhard Berger of Austria 10 seconds off the Pace and fourth was defending world Champion Alain Prost of France in a Ferrari. A Prost who said saturday after final Sia lifting that his Ferrari could not match e Mclaren Honda Power of the High Speed Bockenheim circuit trailed the winning Senna by a big Gap of 40,9 seconds. German grand prix his fourth place finish ended a run of three straight grand prix wins. The tremendous heat played a major role in the race forcing Senna Berger and Prost to make pit stops for tires earlier than they had planned. Senna had taken the Lead at the Start and he remained comfortably ahead of Berger Prost and Proste a Ferrari teammate Nigel Mansell through Lap 15, the one third Mark of the 45-Lap race. Berger and Prost changed tires on that Lap and Mansell went on at High Speed in the Ost curve doing slight damage to his car. Senna meanwhile had extended his Lead Over the Field until pitting just two laps after Berger and Prost had made their stops a it was an extremely Quick visit to the pits for Senna but the Benetton Ford Driver Nannini had moved into a slight Lead by the time Senna sped Back to the track. In one of the Best races of his career Nannini headed the Field until Senna finally zipped by on Lap 34 to regain the Lead and wrap up his fourth Victory of the season and the 24th of his career. _ a ass Muchiel Abrami Brazil s Ayrton Senna leads Mclaren Honda teammate Gerhard Berger during sundays German up. Senna won with Berger third. A i had chosen too soft a tire compound for this race a Senna said a and i was in trouble Early. So i decided to pit for new tires and it was the right Choice. Quot i came out just behind Nannini after my pit Stop so i decided to Trail him not push my engine and just Back off and wait. I knew he had t stopped yet for tires and i knew that his tires would eventually fade if he did no to. So i waited for my time and it came. A my car was reliable and i never had any serious problems although the engine was Down on Power occasionally and this worried me Senna added. Nannini who told the Post race press conference that he was fairly Happy with his second place finish said that his tires were thoroughly worn out at the end. Placing fifth was Riccardo Patrese of Italy Williams Renault and Thierry Boutsen of Belgium finished sixth also in a Williams Renault. Seventh was Ivan Capelli of Italy Leyton House March Judd eighth Derek Warwick of England Lotus Lamborghini ninth Alex Caffi of Italy arrows Ford and 10th, Nicolo Larini of Italy in a Ligier Ford. A starting line Accident involving Emanuele Pinto of Italy Dallara am Philippe Alliot of France Ligier brought out the yellow caution flags during the first two laps of the race. Alliot continued but was disqualified for a push Start and Pirrot a car was heavily damaged. The italian Driver suffered a slight neck injury. The German grand prix was the ninth round in the world driving championship and Senna now leads for the title with 48 Points. Prost is next with 44, and Berger has 29. Nelson Piquet of Brazil who failed to finish Here sunday in his Benetton Ford. Is tied with Boutsen for fourth place both with 18 Points in the championship standings. In winning the 52nd running of the German grand prix Senna drove the 45 laps 189 Miles in 1 hour 20 minutes 47.164 seconds at an average Speed of 141.03 Miles per hour. The next round is the hungarian grand prix in Budapest on aug. 12. Mainz Nellinger West Germany a the Mainz rangers walked to the Tele 5 German american baseball league championship Here sunday. No fewer than 13 batters went strolling As the rangers scored five times in the eighth inning and twice More in the ninth to Post a 12-5 verdict and Complete a two game sweep of the Stuttgart Blue sox in the Best-of-3 series. The rangers won saturdays series opener at Mainz beating Stuttgart 13-5. A it was Mainz second a a league championship. The rangers also won in 1985. The score was deadlocked at 5 when the Northem division Champion rangers came to Bat in the top of the eighth. Mark Hussey opened the eighth with Agerman Arrie rican baseball five single and was forced at second. Then came straight walks and a single by Bill Dickman. Two walks a wild pitch two More walks and . Littleton a sacrifice Fly did the ninth inning damage. In addition to the 13 walks five Stuttgart pitchers were charged with three wild pitches with the loss going to starter Eric Wallig. Mainz took a 1 -0 Lead in the top of the third on a walk an infield out and Littlejohns double but Stuttgart which breezed to the Souther division title tied the count in the fourth on a walk and Bill Vajday a triple. A walk Greg Wolfgang a double another walk a two base throwing error and Rick Serrano a single gave the rangers four runs in the top of the sixth. But starter Fernando Lopez  protect the Lead. Roger Olney a single Vij Day a second triple Jerry Nelsons single and Ranee Guyton a triple evened things for the Blue sox in the Bottom of the inning. Lopez benefited from the Stuttgart Mound wildness in the eighth inning As he notched his 10th win in 12 decisions. Reese Barry came on in the Bottom of the eighth and worked the last two innings holding Stuttgart Hiti Ess. The rangers Victory broke a three year championship skein by the Mannheim Amigos who have won the title eight times in the league s 12-year history. The other two titles went to Wiesbaden in the league s first season and to Giessen in 1986.kmc Downs Belgium 5-2 on Mills Eiff 4-hitter by Rob Staggenborg staff writer Ramstein West Germany a Bruce Mills and Brandon Eiff combined for a Jour hitter As the Kaiserslautern military lorm Unity dropped Belgium 5-2 in the Little league european championships Here sunday. Kmic 2-0 remained atop its respective Pool a a draw which features six time defending Champion saudi Arabia usand Belgium 1-1a perennially Tough team. At stake for the Winner is a Tnp to the Little league world series in Williamsport pa., aug. 20-25.european Little league Kmic downed saudi 3-1 in saturdays action vaulting Kmic into an Early favorite role for the Williamsport berth. Eiff loaded the bases in the Bottom of the sixth but escaped unhurt thanks to a pair of fielders choices and a grounder that ended the game. Eric Schmidt came off the Bench to deliver a key rib double that sparked a four run Kmic rally in the top of the sixth inning. James Lowry opened the inning with a double off loser Stephen Sequiera and came Home on Andy Bishops double. Lowry left second base too Early and had to Retreat to third. Brian Huddleston grounded to first base scoring Lowry. Bishop came across on an errant throw to third to give Kmic a 4-2 Lead. Huddleston moved to third on the play and came Home on a passed Ball. Quot we came into this game just wanting to survive a a said Kmic coach Jim play Ford. A i knew i had my no. 2 Pitcher going against their no. 1. A a Belgium is an excellent bal club and we beat them with a total team Effort. I know that sounds like a chichi but every kid i put in contributed. This is one of the Best role playing teams in be Ever seen  Belgium took a 2-1 Lead in the second inning when Ian Boisvert its no. 9 hitter sent a Mills pitch deep Over the right Field Fence. Saudi Arabia 11, Israel 1 seeking to improve on last year s 52-0 annihilation by saudi the israelis were one hit by David Hatchett and Marritt Kain As saudi bounced Back from its loss to Kaiserslautern. Keith Gorka went 2 for 3 with a Dou see Kmic on Page 20