BRIEFLY: PRUETT EARNS POLE FOR TODAY'S U.S. 500.Scott Pruett  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. has had enough good things happen at Michigan Speedway that he wasn't the least bit surprised to win the pole for the U.S. 500 at Brooklyn, Mich. Pruett won a 500-mile race on Michigan's 2-mile, high-banked oval in July of 1995, and led the Marlboro 500 last July until engine failure knocked him out of the top spot with nine laps remaining. ``Our team switched from a Lola chassis to Reynard over the winter, and our engineers did a tremendous job figuring out how to put the exact same setup on the car for this weekend,'' Pruett said Saturday after turning a lap of 233.857 mph to win his third career pole. He will occupy the top starting spot today for the first time since the Detroit race in June 1996. Mauricio Gugelmin Mauricio Gugelmin (born April 20, 1963 in Joinville) is a former racing driver from Brazil. He took part in both Formula One and the Champ Car World Series. He participated in 80 Formula One grands prix, debuting in 1988 for the March team. of Brazil, the fastest driver in practice both Friday and Saturday morning, wound up second at 233.493 in a Reynard-Mercedes. Raul Boesel, another Brazilian and Pruett's Brahma Sports teammate, was third at 232.769 in his Ford-powered Reynard. Gerhard Berger upstaged the Schumacher brothers in qualifying for today's German Grand Prix This article is about Formula One race. For other uses, see German Grand Prix (disambiguation). The German Grand Prix (Großer Preis von Deutschland) is an annual automobile race. and won the pole position for his Formula One comeback. The Austrian missed the previous three Grand Prix races because of sinus surgery. Elliott Sadler overcame sweltering swel·ter·ing adj. 1. Oppressively hot and humid; sultry. 2. Suffering from oppressive heat. swel heat to win the inaugural Gateway 300 Busch Grand National race at Gateway International Raceway Gateway International Raceway is a race track in Madison, Illinois, USA, just minutes from Downtown St. Louis, Mo. It hosts a NASCAR Busch Series event and a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race on a 1. at Madison, Ill., his second straight victory. Buddy Lazier used some artful dodging to outduel Billy Boat and win the VisionAire 500 before 73,039 at Concord, N.C., in the inaugural Indy Racing League The Indy Racing League, better known as IRL, is the sanctioning body of a predominantly American based open-wheel racing series. The League consists of two series, the premiere IndyCar Series event at a track that for decades has stood as the cradle of NASCAR racing. HORSE RACING: Blushing K.D., one of racing's leading fillies, fractured both sesamoid bones (Anat.) small bones or cartilages formed in tendons, like the patella and pisiform in man. See also: Sesamoid in her left front ankle at Monmouth Park in New Jersey, and will race no more. The 3-year-old filly, a leading candidate for championship honors, was given a 60 percent chance of surviving her injury. But her racing career was brought to an abrupt end eight days before her greatest challenge: facing colts next Sunday in the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth for $1 million in prize money and $250,000 in bonuses. BOXING: Hector Lopez of Palmdale won a unanimous 12-round decision over Mark Lewis to retain his NABO NABO North American Boxing Organization NABO National Association of Boat Owners NABO North Atlantic Biocultural Organization NABO North American Basque Organizations, Inc junior welterweight title in Las Vegas. Lopez, who weighed in at 140 pounds, floored Lewis twice in the 11th round. Lopez, who is 36-6-1 with 18 knockouts, won by scores of 119-107 on all three judges' scorecards. Lewis, who also weighed in at 140, fell to 15-3 with 12 knockouts. In a co-feature, Hector Quiroz and Joey Negron boxed to a 10-round draw. |
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