European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Racing Roundup Senna a first italian win a perfect one brazils Ayrton Senna has finally added the italian grand prix to his string of world triumphs and he a Well on the Way to his second world driving championship. Until sunday Senna had never won at Monzat so Ferrari land a but his first Victory there was a Classy one. As usual he had pole position in his Mclaren Honda the 49th pole of his career then he won the race and set fastest Lap As Well. His performance was perfect and he led from Start to finish. It was Senna a 26th grand prix Victory. He stands third in All time wins trailing Frenchman Alain Prost 43 and Scotland a Jackie Stewart 27. With four grand prix races remaining on the 1990 schedule the brazilian can easily top stewarts Mark. The More than 100,000 Ferrari fans at Monza had entertained Hopes of a classic Duel Between Senna and Prost both of whom started at the front of the 26-car Field. But there was no Duel. Prost did his Best As always but he was strictly outclassed by Senna and the Mclaren Honda car. Whenever Prost would gain a second or so Senna would answer with a quicker Lap. The brazilian was especially Brilliant in traffic passing and lapping Perfec Ayrton Senna other cars with perfect control and without incident. He made no mistakes and even backed off when getting set to Lap Satoru Nakajima a Tyrrell Ford passing him seconds later on the High Speed straight. It was a Superb Victory for Senna and one that he truly deserved. Prost too drove Well but he could not Challenge and had no Choice but to Settle for second a a after the race the Frenchman Prost once again made a move to end the Long standing feud Between him and Senna a feud that started last season. And this time Senna accepted the peace offer with a handshake. A a let a forget what happened in the past a Prost told the winning Senna. A we have the same passion for racing and we Are both relations Between Prost and Senna became hopelessly bad last year when they were teammates at Mclaren Honda and fought it out for the 1989 world title Prost winning it. The Frenchman had cited his difficult co existence with Senna As the main reason for quitting Mclaren and joining up with Ferrari. A it would be Good for Auto racing if Ayrton and i can race the next championship events on a Friendly basis a Prost said. A we have few things in common but at least we have the same passion for Prost trails Senna by 16 Points with four races to go but he said after the italian round that he was not about to give up in his quest for a fourth title. Senna meanwhile said that he was in a better position to win the Crown but was still far from having it wrapped a a the englishman Nigel Mansell will retire from racing at the end of the season and we be Learned from an extremely knowledgeable source that Mansells replacement at Ferrari will be none other than the italian Star Alessandro Nannini currently with the Benetton Ford team. Ferrari needs an italian Driver and Nannini is one of the Best. Although he has not enjoyed a Good Points run with Benetton so far this year he has driven Well. His Best performance came in the German grand prix at Bockenheim where he led for half distance before being passed by the eventual Winner Senna. Now completing his fifth year in formula one grand prix racing Nannini finished sixth in the world driving championship last season and also scored his first career Victory when he won the japanese grand prix at Suzuka. Before joining the Benetton Ford outfit in 1988, Nannini spent two years with the italian Minardi a a with the running of the italian grand prix the 1991 season is rapidly approaching its close. Going into the next round a the portuguese grand prix at Estoril on sept. 23 a Senna has 72 Points Prost has 56 and the austrian Gerhard Berger who partners Senna on the Mclaren Honda team has 37. Fourth is Thierry Boutsen of Belgium Williams Renault with 27 Points while fifth is Nelson Piquet of Brazil Benetton Ford with 24. In the formula one manufacturers cup standings Mclaren Honda leads big with 109 Points while Ferrari follows with 72. Williams Renault is third with 44, while Benetton Ford follows with 40. Other teams with Points include Tyrrell Ford 15 March Judd 7 Lola Lamborghini 6 Lotus Lamborghini 3 and arrows Ford and Brabham Judd 2 Points each. After Portugal comes the Spanish grand prix at Jerez de la Frontera on sept. 30. The grand prix circus concludes its 1990 action with the japanese grand prix at Suzuka on oct. 21 and the australian grand prix at Adelaide on nov. 4.�?� a a where to go this weekend the final round in the european historical car championship series will be staged saturday and sunday on the Salzburg ring in Austria. The circuit is located just East of Salzburg. In England the 15th round in the British formula 3 championship will be held sunday at Donington Park along with the 11th race in the British touring car championship. Other races Are also on the program. Practice takes place on saturday. The Donington Park circuit is located near Derby in Central England. In Germany a Long distance touring car race a the 22nd annual adar Barbarossa prize a will be held saturday on the curb urging with the action going from 8 . To 5 . Another event this one a rally Cross on the rings new rally circuit will be held on sunday from 9 . To 5 . To reach the curb urging take the Koblenz Trier autobahn a48 and exit at Ulmen Nair Burgering. Drag racing a the Hanau Auto racing Assn. Hara will stage its fall nationals season finale on sunday at the Gie Belstadt Airfield with 50 of the fastest drag racing cars in Germany entered. The drag race sponsored by the Wurzburg military Community morale support fund will feature it Street cars Street altered Competition Al Teredo and dragsters. For sundays race the Gates open at 9 ., registration deadline is 11 ., time trials Start at noon and final eliminations at 2 . Gie Belstadt is located about 10 Miles South of Wurzburg on National route 19 a3 autobahn exit Wiir Burg Heidingsfeld. In England the British drag racing association will hold its european finals on Friday saturday and sunday at the new Avon Park raceway. Top fuel dragsters funny cars and other drag racing machines Are on the three Day program. Holders of . Military id cards receive a 20-Perccnt ticket discount. The Avon Park raceway is located about four Miles South of Stratford upon Avon at Long Marston off the b4632 Highway. Truck racing a the seventh and next to last race in the european truck racing championship will be held saturday and sunday at the zolder tar Lamen circuit in Belgium. Zolder is located just North of Hasselt in Eastern Belgium. Motocross a the 44th annual Motocross of the nations will be held sunday in vim Merby Sweden where american riders will be seeking an unprecedented 10th straight Victory. Some 25 nations will take part. Practice and qualifying will be held Friday and saturday. The City of vim Merby is located about 50 Miles East of Hus Kvarna. The next to last round in the world Motocross championship for cycles with sidecars will be held sunday in Mantova Italy with practice and qualifying saturday. Mantova is located Southwest of Verona. The Start and Stripe no from Page 21 beat los Angeles. The loss put another Dent into the dodgers belated drive to catch Cincinnati in the no West. The dodgers dropped to six games behind the reds who were Idle monday. The reds have 23 games to play and the dodgers 21. The dodgers lost despite a pair of Solo homers by Juan Samuel his first since july 24. Giants 7, braves 6 san Francisco a Robby Thompsons Pinch hit bunt single with the bases loaded scored the winning run in the 10th inning As san Francisco rallied from a four run deficit to beat Atlanta keeping the giants slim no West Hopes alive. Thompsons bunt single off losing Pitcher Kent Mercker 4-5 came an inning after the giants tied the game when an apparent game ending base running Blunder turned into the tying run. Steve Bedrosian 8-8 pitched the 10th to pick up the Victory. Botox split with Brewers jays win by the associated press Boston a Dave Parker hit his 21st Home run and Robin Yount continued his climb on the All time hit list As the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Boston red sox 6-1 for a split of mondays twi night doubleheader. The red sox won the opener 5-4 As Luis Rivera keyed a four run fourth inning with a two run double and Greg Harris posted a career High 13th Victory. The split left the red sox four games ahead of Toronto in the East. Yount went 3 for 4 in the first game breaking a tie with Lou Gehrig for 38th place among baseball Sall time hit leaders. He went 2 for 3 in the Nightcap for 2,726 career hits. Tom Edens 4-2making Only his fifth Start of the season and seventh of his career and Chuck Crim combined to out Duel Dana Kiecker 6-8 in the second game. Edens allowed five hits in six innings but Only one run on Mike Marshall a fourth Homer in the sixth. Crim went three innings for his 11th save. In other games monday Blue jays 6, royals 1 Kansas City to. A Toronto chipped a half game off Bostons Lead As Kelly Gruber drove in four runs and David Wells 11-4 scattered four hits Over eight innings. Hector Wagner a 21-year-old right hander who spent the season at class a Memphis lost his major league debut. He gave up six runs a five earned a and 10 hits in 6 a innings. Indians 3-2, White sox 2-6 Cleveland a Eric King got his first win since june 27 and Bobby Thigpen extended his major league record to 49 saves As Chicago managed a doubleheader split. Cleveland won the opener 3-2 when Pinch hitter Carlos Baerga Drew a bases loaded walk from reliever Barry Jones with one out in the ninth inning. Doug Jones 55 got the Victory striking out two with a runner at third in the top of the ninth. Chicago a Carlton Fisk had a Home run in each game giving him 17 for the season and 49 since he turned 40 years old. That tied Fisk 42, with Stan Musial for second place in Home runs by players 40 and Over. Darrell Evans leads with 60. In the Nightcap King 9-4 gave up two runs and five hits in six plus innings. Thigpen worked 22a innings. Tigers 8, orioles 0 Baltimore a Frank Tanana allowed three hits Over seven innings and Lou Whitaker broke an 0-for-25 slump with a Homer and three Bis. Tanana 77 struck out five and did not allow a runner past first base. Rangers 1, Yankees 0 new York a Rafael Palmeiro singled Home the Only run with two out in the 11th inning following an intentional walk to Julio Franco. Mariners 5, athletics 2 Seattle a the mariners became the first team to beat 23-game Winner Bob Welch twice this season As Erik Hanson 14-9 pitched a six hitter and Ken Griffey or. Hit a three run Homer. Angels 3, twins 1 Anaheim Calif. A Dave Winfield and Lee Stevens hit consecutive rib sin Les in the third inning and Jim Abbott 10-12 held the twins scoreless until Rookie Scott Leius first major league Homer in the seventh. F
