31.   Trailing leader Valencia by three points, Deportivo hosts relegation-threatened Rayo Vallecano Saturday.

32.   Toshiba, which was leading earlier Wednesday, trailed the leader by nine miles, three miles behind second-place Swedish Match.

33.   Vasser teammate Alex Zanardi, who trails series leader Paul Tracy by just three points, had the best qualifying effort of the contenders.

34.   With just five games left in the Serie A, Roma is in second place, trailing league leader Internazionale by three points.

35.   With seven points out of three games, Italy now trails group leader Ukraine by two points.

36.   With one race to go in the series, to be held in August at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Stewart trails leader Bobby Labonte by just five points.

37.   In the rapidly growing mobile telephone market Alcatel trails market leaders Motorola and Ericcson in China.

38.   Eight golfers trailed the leaders by one stroke.

39.   Major, who is trailing Labour leader Tony Blair in public opinion polls, is required to call an election by next April or May.

40.   Mansell was running in third place at the time of the incident, trailing leader Emerson Fittipaldi and second-place Al Unser Jnr.