Question, wasn't Merc insisting on a max of something like 80 boats and didn't the rules change the next year to whatever that number was?Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
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Question, wasn't Merc insisting on a max of something like 80 boats and didn't the rules change the next year to whatever that number was?Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
Naaa..willabee...Mercury was playing a game about everything in the Paris 6 hours race.
If I remember right the limit was 80 boats already 1973..I payed a heavy price for the max 80 boats that year..My entry form came to late...
Please click and read my 1973 Paris 6 hour story below..!!
"My entry form for the race had arrived to late..!!!
The Race Chairman Mr. Blodinaire told me I could not race"
My first Paris 6 Hours 1973 was a disaster..
http://svera.se/blogg/paris-6-hours/...as-a-disaster/
The article doesn't say anything about a maximum number of boats. It says the entries were restricted to classes ON, SE & S3 and that those classes totaled 78 entries for the 73 event.Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
Somewhere in the back of my noggin I seem to recall the number of entries being the issue of debate in 75. This was prompted by Scotti's accident the previous year. They were already there, doesn't make much sense to spend the kind of money it takes to get a team from Oshkosh to Italy and on to Paris just to play games. I don't think they had any engine issues. They had won 74 with the T3 and the T3 they brought in 75 was probably 100 horses stronger than the 74 version. I don't think the rotary bothered them anymore because they now had something as "big". Didn't they go on to win at Amsterdam and Windermere after pulling out of the Paris event?
Mercury was always the outboard factory trying to tell the French how to run the very popular six hour race.
One year it was safety, next time to many entry's, OZ class or not the OZ class..No V8 etc. etc.
The rotaries could have raced in the OZ class 1974..BUT Mercury was successful banning the OZ class 1974..OMC had to race in a what they called a experimental class..
The funny part is that the distributor for Mercury in Sweden did the same thing with the famous Roslagsloppet race outside Stockholm
Mercury was lobbying hard to stop the Offshore Z class I was running with a OMC 235..Mercury was successful and the Z class was stopped in the name of safety..
Only N..max 2 liter..
The stock OMC 235 was to fast and dangerous to race in the famous Roslagsloppet..!!!
What did not make sense was Mercury Sweden was running ads in Sweden saying that the Merc stock 2 liter 175 hp was as fast as the OMC 235
The picture show my Z class Argo Cat with the Evinrude 235..(1978)..The class in Sweden Merc made illegal in the famous Roslagsloppet..
Note..The UIM Offshore Z class was production outboards max 3 liter.
The UIM Offshore N class was production outboards max 2 liter.
Willabee..please take your time and read this..
Paris 6 Hours 1978 started in Finland for me..!!
http://svera.se/blogg/paris-6-hours/...inland-for-me/
Lake Havasu 1970 Complete story with pictures and result.
http://svera.se/blogg/lake-havasu-19...es-and-result/
[QUOTE=lars strom;2620298]Willabee..please take your time and read this..
Paris 6 Hours 1978 started in Finland for me..!!
http://svera.se/blogg/paris-6-hours/...inland-for-me/[/QUOTE
first met Angelo Vassena at Chasewater around 1962/3, he was working for the Carniti brothers in Oggiono. He lent me a 50hp Carniti motor to play with, I had always run Mercury before.
was surprised how quick that thing was, it always sounded like a bag of nails in an empty biscuit tin, but boy did that thing have "grunt".
Ran it in a few races and when it didn't break, it won, had 3mph over the Merc, but it did have reliability problems.
Took the motor back to Oggiono one time and Angelo asked me to help him translate all the Carniti workshop manuals into English, which turned out to be a mammoth task and took me well over a week. During that time Angelo took delivery of a new BMW, the first one I had ever seen, amazing car for that time.
so for the next two years I had a free Bristol boat from Charlie Sheppard, and a free on loan Carniti From Sergio Carniti.
As I said before, if I finished a race, I won, and in 1966 I won the British championship.
Only time I didn't win was Malaga when I set the boat up totally wrong and wound up fifth.
Angelo was racing the only known version of the two liter ON Carniti in Paris when the power head detached and threw itself overboard.
He was a UIM commisioner and a highly respected member of the Italian federation, Am proud to be able to say, he was a very good friend of mine.
Yes Jackie..Angelo Vassena is one of the absolute best. I called him in Italy two years ago and we talked for hours.
This picture is a from a few weeks ago when all the successful Italian powerboat people meet in Como.
Angelo to the left..Renato to the right.
Jackie. Were you running the 44in 50 in the UK? If so what class was it in over there? I spent the majority of my racing time running 44s in SE and later SD. I still love those old motors.
By the way I was just looking at a YouTube video of a rebuild of a 2 rotor rotary. I don't think I would have the patience to build one of those things.
I ran in the UIM EU CLASS,!! flatties to begin with, then V bottomQuote:
Originally Posted by 2us70
They've always been a jig saw puzzle anyway.
have dined at Renato's table on numerous occasions, had my first taste of Palma Ham there, Renato,always made the Pasta from scratch, beat the flour and water, rolled it out and cooked it at the table.Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
Angelo and Mrs Molinari always made me very welcome, it was a huge table and the whole family would eat lunch together . Happy memories.
Looks like Renato is getting more than his fair share of pasta!!!
the get together used to be at the castle in Casale Monferrato , drivers would be flown in by helicopter.
In line six Carniti Racing Outboard/Angelo Vassena Paris Six Hours 1969/70
Click below for story and pictures..
http://svera.se/blogg/in-line-six-ca...-hours-196970/
I started out in APBA SE also in flat bottoms then v bottoms and tunnels.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Lassie, I take my hat off to you, I thought I had a fair smidgin of know how when it came to 60/s70/s boat racing, you have the piccies to prove it. That's not to say you are always right, au contraire, I knew Msr, Bladinaire quite well and I can tell you categorically that man could not be bought, either by Mercury or OMC.
He was MR. Paris six hours, he fought the authorities to stop the barges as the speeds increased, he flew the flag for powerboating when it seemed impossible to get the race run at all, and would fight the UIM to get his point across. Did not speak English, but expected anyone who raced in France to understand French!! He was flexible and would listen, if anyone took the time to speak to him, he always had a translator to hand .
Thanks Jackie..I came in pretty late..first time 1973 an forward in a bigger scale.
The CEO for OMC, France was a Swede..His name was Ove Jansson and a good friend of mine.
Ove was pretty informed about what was going on with Mr.Blodinaire and the Paris Six Hour race in the late seventies/early eighties