European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 09, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 9, 1991 v the stars and stripes a a a Page 25 v a racing Roundup f-1face new rules for 91 with this first column of the new year lets take a Quick look at Rule changes that will affect formula one grand prix racing this season. The Start of the 1991 Campaign is not far off. Its Only two months away with the United states hosting the opening round on March 10 at Phoenix. Meeting in Paris last month the filtration internationale Dii sport automobile Fis announced changes that will involve safety As Well As the championship Points system. On the safety Side fisa said sanctions will be voted against Drivers who a a misbehave or who deliberately flaunt the rules. This comes As a result of serious a Driver misbehave or that occurred last season. In another change this one an apparent move to alleviate the a Early stage crash syndrome a fisa has ruled to ban backup cars for Drivers involved in accidents within the first two laps. Previously Drivers involved in such accidents would Rush run Back to the pits and leap into backup cars. But no More. From now on you race what you started with and if your car can to continue you can to either. We doubt if this approach will make much difference where the elimination of accidents is concerned. Drivers normally done to crash on purpose. Furthermore the Driver who is at fault usually eliminates two or three others who Are blameless. So the new Rule will probably cause More harm than Good. In the championship Points situation fisa has decided to drop the a Best ll-out-of-16 results ruling in the 16-race world championship series. From now on every race will count for Points. This seems fair enough because the Driver with the most Points will win the title. The Only problem Here is that wins Arentt taken into any special consideration and its possible that a Driver could become Champion without scoring a grand prix Victory. The �?oll-out-of-16 rules was instituted to favor race winners and that appeared of when it was first applied. It motivated a Driver to win or at least to not just go for the Points. But it has become apparent that it is unfair to Force Drivers into dropping their hard earned Points or making five of the 16 grand prix races a a disposable ones. A we still think the simplest and Best system for deciding the world driving championship would be one that is based on total grand prix victories. If two Drivers were tied at seasons end with four wins each after 16 races lets say then the highest number of second place finishes would decide the title and so on. That seems fair enough. Randy Barnett is amp a Roberto Moreno Nick Firestone one subject not addressed by fisa at its Paris meeting last month was the celebrated Ayrton Senna Alain Prost affair. The world driving Champion Senna got off without so much As a financial Fine warning or reprimand for his actions in Japan. After the celebrated first Lap. Accident Between Prost and Senna in the japanese grand prix it was our Contention that Senna deliberately crashed into Prost from behind thus clinching the title on the spot. With such former world champions As Jackie Stewart Mario Andretti and Niki Lauda All agreeing that the Accident was unquestionably Senna a fault it Only re Iri forces our original position. Although Senna won the title he won it on a a foul a and both a severe Fine and reprimand were due from the sports world governing body. Instead nothing was done  another dangerous season of a Dodge pm car racing. If Senna can get away with it Why not the next Guy during the holidays one of the top driving jobs in formula one racing went to the personable brazilian Roberto Moreno who will join his Friend and countryman three time world Champion Nelson Piquet this year on the Benetton Ford team. Moreno who like Senna once drove in the american Dan partels formula Ford racing series completed the 1990 season for Benetton after Alessandro Nannini was severely injured in a helicopter Accident. Nannini by the Way is recovering rapidly his severed right Arm Healing Well doctors reattached it after an 11-hour operation. Nannini reportedly has full feeling except m his fire Gertis and May even be Able to drive a race car again. The brazilian Moreno filled in for Nannini in Japan and Australia finishing second arid seventh respectively in impressive drives. So the italian sponsored Benetton team will Field an All brazilian driving lineup this season and Moreno has his Long awaited drive with a top team. He a quite deserving of it. The thoroughly revamped Lotus team has announced the signing of Finland Smika Hakkinen for the 1991 season. Hakkinen who won the British formula 3 championship last year is the prot<sg6 of Keke Rosburg the Only finn to win a formula one world driving title. Lotus will run two cars in the 1991 Campaign but the second Driver has yet to be named. Last season we noted the Progress of american Driver Nick Firestone who was enjoying his first year behind the wheel of a single seater racing car he raced in the competitive pm Lotus eur series championship and drove for pm motor sport the English based team directed by the Brothers Peter and Sean Thompson of Ireland. Firestone whose previous racing experience was limited to the off Road variety did Well As the season progressed and at the end of it he won the a most improved Driver award. This award is vol cd by members of the european formula Drivers association Edda. Along with winning the a most improved Honor Firestone closed out the 1990 season by returning to the United states and scoring fourth place in his Oval racing debut at Phoenix. The Phoenix race was the final round in the Sac formula Ford 2000 championship. A a a it was a fantastic experience a Firestone said a and i would like to Sec someone like Barrich Llo racing on ovals  he was referring to Rubens Barrich Llo of Brazil who at age 18 won the pm Lotus eur series championship for 1990. In Only his second season of racing Barrich Llo won six of 11 pm Lotus races during 1990, and he will move into formula 3 this season. Firestone will return to Europe for a second season of pm Lotus racing with the pm team. The american Dan Partl whom we mentioned earlier is the director of both Edda and the pm Lotus Europe pics. The 15-race championship opens april 1 at zolder Belgium. The stars and strips deserves his fire by John Maher the Austin american statesman buddy nobody misses you. Until his tuesday firing the cantankerous Dallas Cowboy hater buddy Ryan had Hopes he would remain the head coach of the Philadelphia eagles the team that was supposed to Challenge the san Francisco 49ers for the right to go beat up on some acc team in the super bowl. He wanted to stay on As the Boss Osmul to talented Randall Cunningham a even though he benched his Star quarterback briefly in the third Quarter against the Washington redskins to let Jim Mcmahon Waffle three incompletion in the neighbourhood of some blanketed Eagle receivers. But nobody could survive for Long in the nil going 0-3 in the playoffs with the kind of Talent the eagles have had. On tuesday Ryan whose five year contract is expiring was gone. That a almost reason enough to keep the usually tedious and unproductive instant replay process. An apparent Fumble by the redskins Earnest byner was returned by Philadelphia defensive Back Ben Smith and was first signalled As a touchdown. That could have been the play that turned the game around for the listless eagles and commentary ended the teams rap of not being Able to win the big one. But the play was correctly overturned and the game proceeded the Way it deserved to a with a better prepared Washington team rolling All Over Ryan a eagles 20-6. Buddy steam it turns out was far better at knocking out Cowboy quarterbacks like Troy Aikman than at stopping an offence when it counted. The eagles were far better at winning Bounty bowls against Jimmy Johnson steam than they were at capturing playoff games. They were Best at bullying mediocre teams in Little games. The trash talking eagles were the Miami hurricanes without any championships Ryan the inventor of the bears feared 46 defense once looked like he could be Jerry Glanville with a clue. Instead he turned out to be Glanville without any free football tickets for Elvis when he became a head coach after his split with the bears Mike Ditka Ryan offered the Brief Hope of being a breath of fresh air in a Stuffy sport. Instead he became a blowhard. He spoke his mind but there was never much on it except that Nasty Brand of take no prisoners football that has become All the rage these Days. Quot it a when Ryan was with the bears he created the most  the league had Ever seen. With his Odd formation and his blitzing linebackers Ryan a defense was As far ahead of the league As the Dallas cowboys offence was in its Early computerized Days. At Philadelphia Ryan built a team into a playoff team but that a no spectacular feat. With the Way losers pile up draft picks it takes a really bad organization to stay Down forever. Even the Green Bay packers Detroit Lions and new York jets show occasional flashes of Promise. Rebuilding Isnit that hard in the nil. Staying on top is and cashing in during the Short Span of years when you have super bowl Talent. The Houston oilers know Only All too Well How hard that can be. That a Why they had to dump Glanville last year when that team had stagnated. That a what happened to Ryan a eagles who staked their claim to being the a Fly a outlaw team when they faked like they were killing the clock Only to throw a touchdown pass against Tom Landry a cowboys to run up the score. On saturday the eagles  find a hideout no matter what they did. Former Philly Boss buddy Ryan. A cold 0-3 in playoffs this was the team that was supposed to have the rest of the nil running scared even if Ryan had somehow wangled a new contract he would be trying to live Down last saturdays loss until he won a super bowl. This one was strike three. Now that he a gone buddy Isnit missed. His departure just Means there a one less poor sport and bully in football