ROUNDUP : PANIS WINS MONACO GRAND PRIX.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Olivier Panis of France captured a wet and wild Monaco Grand Prix  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. on Sunday after pole-sitter and two-time defending champion Michael Schumacher crashed on the first lap. Damon Hill, winner of four of the first five races this season, also went out of the race when his Williams-Renault blew an engine while comfortably ahead and Jean Alesi dropped out with tire troubles while also seemingly on the way to victory. It was the first career victory for Panis and the first for Ligier-Mugen-Honda since 1981, when Jacques Laffite of France won the Canadian Grand Prix This article is about Formula One race. For other uses, see Canadian Grand Prix (disambiguation). The Canadian Grand Prix (known in French as the Grand Prix du Canada) is a Formula One auto race held in Canada since 1967. . ``I'm delighted to win for Ligier,'' Panis said. ``That's what I am here for and that's what they wanted.'' Panis said his team's strategy paid off. ``We did a bold strategy at the start, running with a full tank,'' Panis said. ``That means when I went in we didn't put in fuel, just for tires.'' The race ended after 75 laps because of the two-hour time limit for Formula One races. The wet track slowed times by more than 20 seconds a lap for most of the first 25 laps of the scheduled 78. Drag racing titles: Joe Amato, John Force, Jim Yates and Dave Schultz won professional titles at the NHRA NHRA National Hot Rod Association NHRA Northland Human Resource Association NHRA National Human Resources Association NHRA Nursing Home Reform Act NHRA National Hospice Regatta Alliance NHRA National Heritage Resources Act (South Africa) Mopar Parts Nationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown, N.J. Amato won in Top Fuel, Force in Funny Car, Yates in Pro Stock and Myers in Pro Stock Motorcycle Pro Stock Motorcycle, formerly known as Pro Stock Bike is a drag racing class that is the two-wheeled equivalent of Pro Stock. It has been a feature of NHRA drag racing since the 1980s when it was added to the professional class structure and has since spread around the at the seventh event in the 1996 NHRA Winston Drag Racing Series. Superbike The term Superbike is used to describe sport bikes with displacement of around 1000cc. Superbikes have have lightweight frames and are powered by high performance engines. Their design is more focused on race track performance than rider comfort. challenge:Defending series champion Miguel DuHamel held on to a two bike-length lead in the final laps to win the AMA (Automatic Message Accounting) The recording and reporting of telephone calls within a telephone system. It includes the calling and called parties and start and stop times of the call. Powerade Superbike Challenge at the Homestead Motorsports Complex. After mounting an aggressive late race charge, series leader Doug Chandler was second and Larry Pegram third in the clean race that had more than six changes in second through sixth place. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Olivier Panis of France celebrates his victory in the Monaco Grand Prix by spraying champagne. Associated Press |
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