11.   Texaco Inc. and auto racing champions Mario and Michael Andretti have joined to form Andretti Petroleum LLC, a gasoline distributorship in northern California.

12.   The four-time Indy car racing series champion is hardly the first athlete to use celebrity status to sell.

13.   And he is only one point away from his dream of becoming the Formula One auto racing champion.

14.   Juan Manuel Fangio, five-time world racing champion, died early Monday, his family reported.

15.   Racing champion Emerson Fittipaldi fractured his lower back in an ultralight plane crash and escaped death only because the aircraft fell in a swamp, a doctor said.

16.   The fiancee of racing champion Chris Vincent of Colchester, Vt., was killed in December during a snowmobiling trip in northern Vermont.

17.   Former triple world motor racing champion Jackie Stewart, poised to return to Formula One as a team owner, has given himself five years to win the championship.

18.   World motor racing champion Michael Schumacher is to leave Benetton and drive for Ferrari next season it was announced here Wednesday.

19.   Steering failure was blamed for the death of three-time World motor racing champion Ayrton Senna, according to experts.