This paper deals with Crouzeix-Raviart nonconforming finite element approxi
mation of Navier-Stokes equation in a plane bounded domain, by using the so-called
velocity-pressure mixed formulation. The quasi-optimal maximum norm error es
timates of the velocity and its first derivatives and of the pressure are derived for
nonconforming C-R scheme of stationary Navier-Stokes problem. The analysis is
based on the weighted inf-sup condition and the technique of weighted Sobolev
norm. By the way, the optimal L2-error estimate for nonconforming finite element
approximation is obtained.