European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Racing Roundup heading for season s Home stretch As we enter the final stages of the 1990 racing season its time for a rundown on the major championships so lets take a look at How things stand at the moment. Two titles have already been decided with californian Wayne Rainey clinching his first 500cc world Crown in motorcycle racing and Mercedes taking its second straight championship in world sports car racing. But the world sports car driving championship remains open with three Drivers a All from Mercedes a still in the running. With Mercedes winning six out of seven rounds this year that comes As no Surprise. Jean Louis Schlesser of France the defending Champion and Mauro Baldi of Italy Are tied at 45 Points each while the Veteran German Driver Jochen mass has 39 Points. Mass of course is the sentimental favorite with two races to go a the Canadian and mexican rounds. In the formula one world driving championship meanwhile brazils Ayrton Senna Mclaren Honda is enjoying a 13- Lead Over Frenchman Alain Prost Ferrari and while Senna has a definite Edge he needs to win this weekends italian grand prix at Monza to gain a genuine  with five rounds to go no one is counting Prost out yet by any Means and like last year this one could go Down to the wire. The Mclaren Honda team meanwhile leads big for the formula one manufacturers cup with 96 Points to Ferrari a 63.�?� a a in the United states a1 Unser jr., who drives a Lola Chevrolet is Well on his Way to winning his first . Cart indy car championship. With four victories in a Row and four races remaining he has 168 Points to Rick Mears 120. Mears who has signed on again for the Roger Penske team drives a Penske Chevrolet. Michael Andretti Lola Chevrolet is third with 115 Points followed by Bobby Rahal Lola Chevrolet with 114 and Danny Sullivan with 105. Emerson Fittipaldi the defending cart Champion is sixth with 100 Points. Fittipaldi like his teammate Mears has renewed his contract with the Penske outfit for next season while Sullivan is out. Penske is dropping his three car team format for next season so Sullivan May join texan Jim Halls new Lola Chevrolet organization. Sullivan who will Complete six years with the Penske team at seasons end won the indy 500 for Penske in 1985, the cart championship in 1988, and has won a total of 11 races for the team so  a a while on the subject of cart indy car racing cart announced its 16-race schedule for 1991 last week and plans its opening race for March 17 at the surfers Paradise circuit near Brisbane Australia. The race would be the first championship Auto racing teams event Ever to be held outside North America. While announcing plans for the australian race cart also reported that it will drop the Detroit grand prix round which it took Over from formula one racing in 1989. Uncertainty Over the future of the downtown Detroit Street circuit due to planned construction in that area prompted the cancellation. You can count on fisa the governing body of world motor sports to oppose the australian opener. In the past fisa has taken extreme Steps to keep Randy Barnett indy car racing out of markets that it considers the Domain of formula one grand prix racing. And along with the fisa opposition australian environmentalist groups in the surfers Beach area Are also fighting the cart proposal. These groups charge that the race will affect their Quality of life cause a drop in property values and destroy a Bird Sanctuary. So the Outlook for carts australian opener is not exactly  a a returning briefly to the various championship chases Dale Earnhardt is closing in on Points Leader Mark Martin in Lascar racing. Martin now has 3,169 Points and Earnhardt has 3,143 after his most recent Victory at Darlington . Seven races remain in the run for the Winston cup championship. In the Simsa sports prototype series australians Geoff Brabham who drives for Nissan leads there while his teammate Chip Robinson is a close second. Brabham with five victories so far this season is the defending Simsa Champion. Only two races remain in the series. There a Only one round to go in the International German touring car championship and its set for oct. 14 at Bockenheim. Neither the venezuelan Johnny decotto Bow nor Germany a Hans stuck Audi figured High in the results at the Nair Burgering last sunday so decotto and stuck will have their showdown at Bockenheim. The venezuelan leads stuck by 18 Points going into the Bockenheim finale. But the popular stuck always does Well at Bockenheim and hell have enormous crowd support in his All out quest for the German Crown. In the  a penultimate round last sunday Emanuele Pirro of Italy won the first race in a Bow m3, and stuck saudi teammate Walter Rohrl won the other  a a in world championship rallying the Toyota team and its Star Driver Carlos Sainz of Spain Are making All the news. While Lancia of Italy has ruled the rally scene for the past several seasons it is meeting a severe Challenge from the Cologne based Toyota team. Toyota a Sainz who won the most recent round in Finland aboard a celica Gt-4, leads big for the world rally driving title while Toyota trails Lancia by Only 13 Points in the Battle for the world championship for rally cars. Only three rallies remain so it will be close in the rally car division. Sainz however has All but clinched the world rally driving championship. He leads with 115 Points while his nearest rival a Lancia Driver Didier Auriol of France a has 67 Points. Sainz has been Brilliant All year rekindling the spark for the Toyota team and winning in Greece new zealand and Finland As Well As placing second in Monte Carlo Corsica and Argentina. When the spaniard won the recent 1,000 lakes rally in Finland he became the first non scandinavian Driver to do so in the events 40-year history. And that a quite an achievement. A Story about Sainz that we like concerns Sweden Sove Andersson manager of the Toyota team. He was quite upset when the top finnish Driver Juhu Kankkunen quit Toyota at the end of last season to return to Lancia. The finn had won the driving Crown in 1986 and �?T87 when he was with Lancia and he had Given up on Toyota last year. As noted Andersson did not take Kankkunen a departure lightly but now with the newcomer Sainz dramatic Impact on the rally world Andersson says a it appears obvious that Lancia got the wrong  a a where to go this weekend the grand prix of Italy 12th round in the 16-race run for the world driving championship will be held sunday with the Start set for 3 . The race will be of 53 laps 192 Miles Over the 3.6-mile Monza circuit. Untamed practice for formula one cars will be held from 10 to 11 30 . On Friday and saturday while official qualifying takes place from 1 to 2 . On both Days. Supporting races Are also on the program. The track is located just outside the City of Monza which is North of Milan. German televisions second program Adf will show the race live beginning at 2 50 ., while the satellite station eur sport will begin its program at 1 30 . And repeat its grand prix telecast at 10 30 . In other action the seventh round in the european historical cars championship will be held saturday and sunday in most Czechoslovakia. The City of most is located Northwest of Prague and near the czech East German Border. In Zand Voort the Netherlands there is racing sunday on the Zand Voort circuit for opel Lotus cars Renault 5s, touring cars and formula Fords. Practice and qualifying take place on saturday. Motorcycle racing a the 10th and next to last race in the super Bike world championship series will be held sunday at the Bugatti circuit in be mans France. Other Bike races Are also on the program. Practice and qualifying take place on Friday and saturday. The super Bike race on sunday will be of two heats with the first heat starting at 11 . And the second heat at 3 . A combined ticket Good for All three Days costs 120 francs about $24 while a single ticket for sunday costs 110 francs about $22. In Germany there is racing on saturday for historical and Veteran motorcycles on the 1.6-mile Short course of the Bockenheim grand prix circuit. The earliest cycles entered Date Back to 1920. Practice takes place from 8 . To 1 25 ., and the races �?13 in All a Are scheduled from 1 30 to 7 . The City of Bockenheim is located Southwest of Heidelberg off autobahn a5 and a6. On Germany a Nair Burgering the 12th round in the German National Road racing championship for 80 and 125cc cycles will be held sunday along with trophy races for 80, 125, 250 and 350cc bikes plus other categories. To reach the Nair Burgering take the Koblenz Trier autobahn a48 and exit at Ulmen Nair Burgering. Motocross a the 27th International Gail Dorf adar Motocross will be held saturday and sunday for 500cc bikes. The town of Gail Dorf is located on German National route 19 Between Schwabish a mind and Schwabish Hall. Another German Motocross this one a German trophy round for 250 and 500cc bikes plus cycles with sidecars will be held on saturday and sunday at gab Lingen which is located Northwest of Augsburg. The stare end stripes drops to no. 10 in a rating Nebraska by Rick Warner a football writer Tom Osborne was pleased with ne-13-0 Victory Over Baylor. But apparently weren to impressed with Necor huskers performance. M resp the the opening Victory saturday Nebraska fell three spots to no. 10 in the associated press College football poll. It  the biggest drop of any top 25 team. Nebraska a defense was dominant against Baylor the com huskers of struggled and failed to score a until the final minute of the Sanie. Still the co huskers received one first place vote in this weeks nationwide Survey of 60 sports writers and broadcasters. Miami which starts its season at Brigham Young on saturday got the most first place votes 27 and remained no. 1 with 1,444 Points. Notre Dame which meets Michigan in its opener on sept. 15, stayed in second with 20 first place votes and 1,421 Points. Auburn and Florida state tied for third with 1,304 Points although the seminoles led 7-4 in first place votes. Florida state which trailed Auburn by 43 Points in the preseason poll gained ground on the tigers even though neither team has played a game. Michigan and Colorado switched places with the wolverines moving up to no. 5 and the buffaloes falling to no. 6 after tying Tennessee 31-31 in the pigskin classic on aug. 26. Southern Cal moved up two spots to no. 7 after beating Syracuse 34-16 in the Kickoff classic. Tennessee which received one first place vote remained no. 8 after clobbering Pacific 55-7 and Clemson Rose one notch to no. 9 following its 59-0 rout of Long Beach state. Illinois is 11th, followed by Texas a amp a Alabama Virginia Arkansas Brigham Young Pittsburgh Ohio state Urcla and Washington. Rounding out the top 25 Are Penn state Michigan state Oklahoma Houston and West Virginia. No teams fell out of the rankings but there was some minor shuffling in the order. Texas a amp a climbed one spot to no. 12 after beating Hawaii 28-13 and Virginia which overpowered Kansas 59-10, moved up a notch to no. 14. By stayed at no. 16 after Downing Texas Elpaso 30-10, Pitt Rose one spot to no. 17 following a 35-3 Victory Over Ohio University and West Virginia remained no. 25 after beating Kent state 35-24. The other ranked teams have yet to play a game