1.   Champion driver Emerson Fittipaldi said Wednesday that a second brush with paralysis will be his checkered flag.

2.   Emerson Fittipaldi has been released from the hospital following back surgery, and the champion driver has returned to his Florida home for a long recovery.

3.   Former world champion driver Nigel Mansell could miss the first two races of the Formula One season because the cockpit of his new McLaren car is too small.

4.   Former world champion driver Nigel Mansell will miss the first two races of the Formula One season because the cockpit of his new McLaren car is too small.

5.   In the four-man bobsled, Harald Czudaj is expected to repeat as champion driver.

6.   World rally champion driver Tommi Makinen crashed his Mitsubishi Lancer car and was forced out of the opening special event of the Sanremo Rally on Monday.

7.   World champion driver Tommi Makinen crashed his Mitsubishi Lancer car and was forced out of the opening special event of the Sanremo Rally on Monday.

8.   Double world champion Formula One driver Michael Schumacher said he was well satisfied with three days of Ferrari tests at the Monza circuit which ended Thursday.

9.   The race is on to sign world champion driver Michael Schumacher, whose contract with Benetton-Renault ends at the close of the season.