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BK
01-08-2003, 05:03 PM
I am finally going to do something I've been promising my friend Massimo Scotti I'd do for a long time......I've finally found some spare time to edit the images he's sent me over the past year and post them to Scream and Fly.

For those who don't know, Massimo Scotti is the son of legendary 70's OMC Factory driver Cesare Scotti.

For more on the life of Cesare, check out the Scream and Fly feature I wrote awhile back on my hero, Cesare Scotti - http://www.screamandfly.com/screamandflymagazine/Scotti.html

The following pictures are not in any particular order. I'll try to identify the ones I can........

Enjoy!

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This is from an Italian race called "100 Miles of Po Delta"

Massimo wrote: "Cesare won the race in 1974 and in 1973 he won in Boretto Po against the hydros and F1, driving a Super Strangler."

BK
01-08-2003, 05:04 PM
I believe this is from the same race.....1969

BK
01-08-2003, 05:06 PM
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BK
01-08-2003, 05:10 PM
Here is Cesare Scotti receiving the award in Auronzo Italy, 1973......

BK
01-08-2003, 05:11 PM
Cesare being awarded the gold medal:

BK
01-08-2003, 05:21 PM
Massimo wrote me, saying:

Hi Val,
we got a long tradition of the endurance races: Ferrara (100 Miles of Po Delta: attached the image of the circuit of this year), Como (100 Miles of Lario) and Boretto Po.
Many pictures of old races has been taken in Ferrara: the endurance races were a must for Renato and Cesare. They looked forward the match against the big hydros and the big Inboards. I would like to send you the image of circuit of July 2002 without Cantando, Guido and all OPC on the field...alas.
Yes Cesare and Renato were involved by the Intenational Circuit, but when they could...
Cesare started in Boretto Po for the Marathon of Two Bridges (wonderful Trophy) in 1973 for the first time.
A few winners:
1970) Giorgio Molinari, 120 km/h
1971) Carlo Rasini (codriver of Mr.Bill in Paris 71), 129 km/h;
1972) C.Rasini, 136 km/h
1973) Cesare Scotti (Super Strangler engine), 150 km/h
1974) Augusto Panzeri (Scotti/Evinrude). I don't know the average speed.



Massimo also wrote:
Dear Val,
I'm very busy, not like Cesare in 1974: he run the two international circuits of F1 anf F3.
On August 25, he drove in Auronzo (second behind Velden and ahead Spalding and Renato), on September 1 at Lake Castelgandolfo (the summer residence of Popes near Rome: fifth in spite of V6 problems), on September 8 in Sabaudia for F3 (at south of Rome: he was third) and 15 at Pavia for F3 (the famous disqualification: he could be the first F3 World Championship).
Cesare was the # 1 F1/F3 Evinrude European driver and he tested the new engine solutions.
Roger Jenkins was the #1 F3 Johnson European driver.
They drove practically the same OMC 70 hp in Milan 74.
Roger run with a famous Johnson Stinger 75 hp (photo #2) both in Sabaudia (European Championship on August) and in Pavia (World Championship on September) and in Paris as well.
Cesare after Sabaudia, third ahead Karl Pafel with his light hydroplane 850 cc ( engine built coupling two Konig OB) and Roger Jenkins, waited for a new special engine from U.S.A. to assemble with a new F3 Scotti Craft.
The rig Scotti/OMC was fantastic, one second over Roger for lap, whereas he lost one second in Sabaudia.
Rotary or not it was a matter of a particular and mysterious motor, who knows it...
Have a great weekend,
Massimo

Here are the photos attached to that letter:

Cesare F3 1974

BK
01-08-2003, 05:29 PM
Roger Jenkins F3 1974

BK
01-08-2003, 05:30 PM
Jimbo McConnel F3 1974

BK
01-08-2003, 05:35 PM
Koblenz -- 1973
One of the boats blowing over was Cesare -- the other was Renato?? I think?

BK
01-08-2003, 05:41 PM
Massimo even has Cesare's APBA card......

BK
01-08-2003, 05:44 PM
Here's what the Scotti Factory in Fagetto Lario Italy on Lake Como looked like back in 1972.....

BK
01-08-2003, 05:47 PM
A young Massi listens to the wisdom of his boat-builder father....

BK
01-08-2003, 05:50 PM
Lake Como today....

BK
01-08-2003, 05:56 PM
Here's some info on the above pic:

Hi Val,
In Como great time and weather for the races, even if only 40 boats on the field.
The golden era of powerbot racing has passed away.
The pic features the winner, Tullio Abbate jr., driver of F2 UIM World Championship.
The boat was an Abbate Inboard Unlimited, the same driven to the win by his father last year: average speed 120 m.p.h with the ferries crossing the circuit.
Second has been an Offshore built by Fabio Buzzi: a very
strange boat V bottomed.
I would be on the field: the race get a great tradition close to the lovers of powerboat, like once Parker in USA.
Have great days !
Fondly,
Massi

BK
01-08-2003, 06:01 PM
Many of these racers competed at Windemere in England -- famous for speed records. Also at The Bristol Embassy Grand Prix.

Here are a few pictures from that time frame......


Dear Val,
Glad to hear from my great american friend.
I get many pics of Wankel-Scotti rigs: Tom Posey/Downard winning at Lake Windermere 73, Mike Downard #23, Johnny Sanders at Paris 74 and Jimbo as well.
Cesare drove a special F3 Evinrude (perhaps a Wankel: the box was a same) in Pavia for the famous 1974 World Championship.
Your Big forum [Scream and Fly]: I like to read the stories there...
Fondly,
Massimo


Embassy Grand Prix 1974

BK
01-08-2003, 06:05 PM
Here's the details from that race.......

(wish I would have looked at this to answer Helmetguru's ON #5 question yesterday....lol)

BK
01-08-2003, 06:09 PM
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BK
01-08-2003, 06:18 PM
Mike Downard 1974

BK
01-08-2003, 06:19 PM
Scotti F-1 - Milan 1974

BK
01-08-2003, 06:21 PM
Paris 1974 - OMC Wankel motor

BK
01-08-2003, 06:22 PM
The Late Great Tom Percival......

South Africa - 1970

BK
01-08-2003, 06:23 PM
Renato Molinari - 1972

BK
01-08-2003, 06:25 PM
Windemere 1973

BK
01-08-2003, 06:27 PM
I think this picture is either from the 100 miles of Po Delta or Windemere...either way, I haven't a clue what this craft is!

BK
01-08-2003, 06:43 PM
Racer Christian Jansson of Sweden would like information on this boat and who the driver might be. If anyone has info, please email him at
christian@janssonsmobilkranar.se


Check out Christian's website -- He's got some cool pictures there too

http://www.janssonsmobilkranar.se/racing/gallery/bosse/index.html

helmetguru
01-08-2003, 10:17 PM
all of those pictures are already on http://www.helmetgraphics.com/scotti.html if anyone would like to view them all on the same page, plus alot more.

the #6 boat is John Gibbs and I already forwarded the info to Christian.

BK
01-08-2003, 10:21 PM
But on here they get some more details on what they're looking at ;)


Also - it's cool to see that today's drivers still honoring the founding father's of tunnel boat racing:

http://www.f1boat.com/history/99_7.jpg

QUICKSILVER
01-08-2003, 11:06 PM
Cool pictures and great history, could you post some of your racing history and boat pictures? I know you have some pictures of events you have been, could we see them?.. Please

BK
01-09-2003, 07:28 AM
You are correct, Quicksilver -- I have boxes and boxes of pictures. I've been dying to post them, but my scanner is currently broken :(

I'm going to mess with it again next week and see what the problem is (I'm pretty sure it's a software glitch with this new Dell I have). This is the fourth scanner/printer/fax to go kaput since I got the Dell!

I did scan some cool stuff a couple of years ago ...

Like this "Wizard" picture.....

BK
01-09-2003, 07:29 AM
another "Wizard" picture

BK
01-11-2003, 02:51 PM
Masssimo just informed me that the previous double blow over pic was not Cesare and Renato -

He says:

"The two boats blowing over are that white of Cees Van der Velden and the pickle fork of Bob Hering. Behind Cees there was Cesare and in front of Bob there was Bob Spalding."

Rotary John
10-31-2009, 07:47 AM
Jimbo McConnel F3 1974
03 is Barry woods, not Jimbo, Paris, 1974

Rotary John
10-31-2009, 07:51 AM
Windemere 1973
Sorry BK, thats Provo, Utah

Mark75H
10-31-2009, 08:38 AM
03 is Barry woods, not Jimbo, Paris, 1974


Must just be the wrong caption/pic combination. The F3 (OE) boat is a British driver #78

jackie wilson
11-06-2009, 11:54 AM
Looks like Freddy, Jimmy, and The Machine gun man, Gators a speciallity. Trimite was Rick Frosts sponsor, so the pic was probably Bristol where Johnny Sanders ran it till it Puked.

Lake X Kid
09-08-2012, 09:23 PM
Masssimo just informed me that the previous double blow over pic was not Cesare and Renato -

He says:

"The two boats blowing over are that white of Cees Van der Velden and the pickle fork of Bob Hering. Behind Cees there was Cesare and in front of Bob there was Bob Spalding."


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Lake X Kid
09-16-2012, 12:40 PM
Massimo Scotti is the son of legendary 70's OMC Factory driver Cesare Scotti.

For more on the life of Cesare, check out the Scream and Fly feature I wrote awhile back on my hero, Cesare Scotti - http://www.screamandfly.com/screamandflymagazine/Scotti.html

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BK,
I would like to know what Massimo remembers in the relantionship between cousins Cesare and Renato. I know Renato's Como shop was on the other side (west side) of Lago di Como, but it seems the relantionship was not as close as could have been.

I was in Como during the 1971 & 73 boat racing season. I know at that time Cesare was in the OMC camp, and Renato was with the Mercury Team, so did that put distance between the cousins or was there more to it. Could Massimo also let me know what the latest is with his uncle Georgio Molinari, how is he doing.

It would be nice to hear from a family member about the dynamic rivaliry --pros & cons-- between the cousins. If Massimo would be kind enough to share his opinions & memories with S&F.

Sincerely, Kid