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Last month, in a remarkable comeback from a 2½-year layoff, two-time world Formula One Champion Niki Lauda won the Long Beach Grand Prix. The layoff had been voluntary. The little Austrian simply stepped out of the cockpit one day and announced, "I have lost the desire." Lauda could no longer bring himself to take the car "to the limit, as I am supposed to do." So he quit...
This week the directors will announce whether Borg must qualify for this year's Wimbledon, or whether the five-time champion will be granted an exemption. According to guidelines regulating men's professional tennis, Borg's refusal to play in the nine required Grand Prix tournaments requires that he qualify for each new contest. By threatening not to enter Wimbledon on this condition. Borg has put the Wimbledon elite at odds with ruling barons of the other major championships, and as the drama drags on, the conflicts and virtual anarchy in men's tennis are being "Bjorn...
...Francisco 49er Coach Bill Walsh had in mind for the man who quarterbacked his unheralded team to victory in January's Super Bowl. Still, Joe Montana's famed cool-underpressure should get a pressurized workout at this weekend's pro/celebrity race during the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, Calif. Montana, 25 has been behind the wheel of a Toyota Celica, running practice laps at California's Riverside International Raceway. Among the varied competitors scheduled for the 21.3-mile race are: Actor Robert Hays, Rock Star Ted Nugent, Race Drivers Parnelli Jones and Bobby Unser...
...this weekend the world's top drivers and the whole of the International Circus Show that is Formula One racing set up shop in Nevada for what is officially termed the United States Grand Prix of Las Vegas. While Aldenhoevel may stress that the event has nothing to do with the traditional U.S. Grand Prix, the comparison is inevitable. Meanwhile, 2500 miles east, Franzese is not nearly as pessimistic as Currie regarding the return of Formula One racing to Watkins Glen...
...think a Grand Prix will come back, but it all depends on prize money," he says and reiterates that he feels two million dollars is unreasonable. "I would have to say the Grand Prix weekend is twice as big as any other around here. Everyone misses that...