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Here is some facts about Renato Molinari and the Pavia to Venezia marathon race.
Renato have won the race three times.
First year was 1973..driving an ON class Molinari/Mercury.
Second time was 1978..driving an OZ class Molinari/Evinrude V6 CCC
Third time was 1979..driving an OZ class Molinari/Evinrude V6 CCC
This picture below is Renato Molinari in his #165 Saffa/Molinari/Evinrude 3 liter V6 looper in the Pavia to Venezia marathon race 1978
A 415km long river race and average speed of 187 km/h
The be 100% correct.."In 1978 in a cat of his own design Renato set a speed record in the long distance race from Pavia to Venice of 117.693mph after 2 hours and 14 mins of racing"
Happy Birthday Renato Molinari.
75 years young today.
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Wow!
117 for 2 hrs is smokin!
But in 1978????
Yikes!
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Buddy of mine in Canada had a former John Hill Burgess. That hull lasted forever. No dry rot or deck panel split.Quote:
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Maybe time to move to North Port just north of Port Charlotte..!!
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Francois Salabert.
Nottingham 1981
JPS/Velden Racing/Johnson V6 RS
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F1-V8 racing in Casale Monferrato, Italy 1983.
The #15 Castrol boat next to me (8) is Allan Nimmo in Renato’s former titanium boat.
This was my first year in the F1-V8 series and the second race.
The first one was Como, Second race in Ampolla, Spain was cancelled..so this race was my second race of 1983.
Fabrizio Bocca's dad was one of the race organizers.
(A pretty good river race in the deep woods of Italy)
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A very unique picture.
Thanks
Craig Furnal
The original build of the world record straightaway boat for outboards.
Still the fastest outboard in the world. The Evinrude F1 racing V-8.
https://svera.se/blogg/still-the-fas...f1-racing-v-8/
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Wow.........I didn't know the Bud Davie project started with a Furnal hydro? The record was eventually set with a Karelsen hull. Furnal built some wicked fast F1 tunnels too.Quote:
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He built some kneel down boats too.
Furnal Flyers
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Mike Phillips
That's Gary Garbrecht's DP Motorsports slant nose Porsche sitting in front of the Record Boat next to the launchramp at Second Effort. (No the Porsche didn't have a trailer hitch) I'll be dam, where did that photo come from?https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/e...5/16/1f603.png
UOMO MARE magazine front cover with some nice shots from Paris 6 Hours 1975.
Thanks FoW
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The black ON Class #19 above is Jimbo McConnell/Briggs is using the new 1976 Evinrude 200HP production V6 engine cover.
Was that boat originally from the Molinari / Mercury team fleet? The color scheme sure looks like the boat in a photo from Mercury's catalog when they introduced the T3?Quote:
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