Jerez

A Bonoloto player in Jerez de la Fronta, Spain, has won 1,064,617 euros in Monday's draw, becoming the country's latest lottery millionaire. Spanish media are also reporting recent draws: 82 winners shared smaller prizes in Sunday's draw, and attention is on a 41 million euro Primitiva jackpot still unclaimed. Players are checking results from the October 26 draws across Bonoloto, Primitiva and ONCE games.

Xerez and Cádiz, two rival football clubs from Jerez de la Frontera and Cádiz separated by roughly 40 kilometres, meet again 18 years after their last official encounter. Spanish media are highlighting the revival of an old Andalusian rivalry, with fans of both sides relishing a fixture that had all but disappeared from the calendar.

Attention is returning to Jacques Villeneuve and the 1997 European Grand Prix at Jerez, where the Canadian's title-deciding collision with Michael Schumacher ended both drivers' races. Villeneuve took the world championship that day, while Schumacher was later stripped of his championship runner-up placing and disqualified. German sports media are revisiting it as the day that cost Schumacher considerable public sympathy.

During the second round of Formula 3 testing at Jerez in Spain, Kamato Nakamura set the pace with Italian driver Colnaghi just 0.002 seconds behind. Several other Italian drivers finished inside the top ten, making it a strong session for Italy's prospects heading into the new Formula 3 season.

Twenty-eight years ago today, Williams driver Jacques Villeneuve secured the 1997 Formula 1 Drivers' Championship at the European Grand Prix at Jerez. The title was decided in a dramatic finale after a controversial lap-48 collision with Michael Schumacher's Ferrari, which forced the German to retire while Villeneuve continued to finish third and clinch the crown.