Sport in Short: Motor Sport

THE FRENCH Formula One drivers, Olivier Grouillard and Erik Comas, and the former world sportscar champion, Jean-Louis Schlesser, in an open letter to their sports minister, Frederique Bredin, have urged him to act to save top motor sports events in France threatened by the tough new laws on tobacco advertising. Last week the Paris-based international motor sports federation, FISA, struck the French Grand Prix off next year's world championship calendar, after failing to secure guarantees that cars and equipment would not be seized before the race.