■FORMULA ONE
No progress on budget cap
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said no agreement was reached between Formula One teams and FIA president Max Mosley in talks on Friday over a planned budget cap. The Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) met with Mosley after Ferrari threatened to pull out of the series following the FIA president’s plans to introduce a voluntary team budget cap of US$60 million starting in 2010. “We had a very long, productive meeting,” Di Montezemolo said. “FOTA will have another meeting tomorrow to discuss and then we will meet Mosley again.” Mosley said “little progress” was made. All 10 F1 teams attended the three-hour meeting at Monaco Automobile Club.
■SOCCER
Onieva to quit Real election
Candidate Juan Onieva will reportedly withdraw from Real Madrid’s presidential election, boosting the chances of former president Florentino Perez regaining control of the club. Local media said yesterday that Onieva will officially withdraw tomorrow, just four days after announcing his participation in the poll of some 65,000 club members. Onieva’s prospective vice president, Carlos Gonzalez, quit the campaign on Friday because of what he said was the poor quality of Onieva’s presentation of his candidature the previous day. The withdrawal of Onieva, a sports business consultant and former club vice president, would leave Perez as the only candidate.
■RALLYING
Latvala leads in Sardinia
Ford’s Jari-Matti Latvala and Mikko Hirvonen secured the top two places in Friday’s opening day of the Rally of Sardinia. Latvala finished in 1 hour, 24 minutes, 15 seconds after six stages. Hirvonen was 39 seconds back. Citroen occupied the next three places with Sebastien Loeb third, Petter Solberg fourth and Evgeny Novikov in fifth.
■CYCLING
Trussov wins fifth stage
Nikolai Trussov of Russia won the fifth stage of the Volta of Catalunya on Friday, while Alejandro Valverde of Spain retained the overall lead. Trussov, cycling for the Katusha team, finished the 201km leg between La Seu d’Urgell and Torredembarra in 4 hours, 28 minutes, 58 seconds. Thor Hushovd of Norway, who won Monday’s first stage, was second. Fabio Sabatini of Italy finished third. Valverde leads by 15 seconds over Daniel Martin of Ireland.
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