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The boat racing world have lost a great friend and supporter.
Known as "Rulle" Christer Rudolph left us a few month ago.
Rulle decorated race boats and was helping Swedish racers at race tracks around the world for many years
The picture show Rulle as the flag man at the Stockholm F1-V8 GP 1983.
R.I.P. my friend
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SST 100
Not sure about the year but early nineties is a good guess.
2 Liter V4 looper powerhead installed on the racing V8 / 6 inch midsection.
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Evinrude E-TEC G2 Formula 1 – V8 4.5 liter
I strongly believe performance and racing outboards is good to promote and sell more outboards.
The new Evinrude E-TEC G2 is already a great success. Lots of power and best in fuel economy. On top of that the cleanest outboard in the world.
I wish Evinrude took my advice and started a performance division for us that love speed and competition.
After some computer help i came up with this.
The outstanding Evinrude E-TEC G2 Formula One V8.
We added two more cylinders to the current G2 V6 and here it is..
A 4.5 liter very powerful V8, fuel efficient and extremely clean outboard.
Is it going to be reality for racing..probably not but dreaming is what keep many people alive..
A production 400+ HP Evinrude E-TEC G2 4.5 liter V8 is also a must to keep up with Mercury and Yamaha.
http://svera.se/blogg/evinrude-e-tec-g2-formula-1-v8-4-5-liter/
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F1-V8 Molinari/Evinrude two seater.
Photo: Marcello Curioni
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The first year of the V8 series (1981 picture) Roger Jenkins raced a Velden. He did not like the boat and I remember David Burgess did a few modifications and 1982 Roger switched to Burgess.
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This is the very expensive aluminum F1-V8 boat Renato built for the 1982 season. It sank at the first race in Leon, Spain 1982 but Renato won the next race in Como, Italy.
OMC did not like the expensive way of building boats and asked Renato to go back the wood boats for the 1983 season.
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Evinrude Outboards celebrating 75 years 1983.
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I got this picture from Barry Trindall today. Thank you very much.
Pretty sure its from the London F1-V8 race 1983.
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Ben Robertson in the #57 and Cees van der Velden #1.
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Gene Thibodaux in his Second Effort/Johnson V8 1986
Tim Thibodaux
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Rick Frost´s #6 OZ class Burgess/Trimite Paint/Johnson F1-V8 from 1983
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Arthur Mostert in his #2 Velden/Johnson F1-V8 1986.
A sharp eye can see there is no steering wires.
Cees van der Velden started to use hydraulic power steering when he rigged the team boats..
The V8 racing outboard was tough the steer with the old style steering.
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Thanks for a great thread, Lars!
In post number 317, the NAIU #57 is my all time favorite paint scheme on a tunnel boat.
Cheers-
Bob Spalding in the #11 Velden/JPS/Johnson F1-V8 in Lago di Como 1982.
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Thanks for clicking in here SCTQuote:
Originally Posted by SCT
I have hundreds of OMC racing pictures and my plan is to slowly tell all I know about OMC racing here.
Here is one more of your favorite boat.
Ben Robertson is an old friend of mine and I believe he is the best tunnel boat racer ever.
#57 Burgess/Johnson V8
This is the 1984 model of the racing V8 from OMC. A new more rounded engine cowling in the back and a better exhaust manifold.
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One more SCT.
Ben Robertson as always in the #57 and Rick Frost drives the #6. I think the third boat is #1 Cees van der Velden.
Enjoy.
EDIT: I found a few more SCT..coming later.
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Check this one out SCT.
Ben and the paint job you like. Flying the American flag during his victory lap.
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I've seen you post this before Lars. I've always been a fan of his but was never lucky enough to see enough races to have a real opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
You were all heros to me.
Have seen Ben driving many styles of boats and always has has them flying.
A great, current picture of him
on FB flying a Fountain.
Thanks for all your time and effort for this history Lars.
Havent missed a post.
Gary
Thanks Gary,
More Ben from 1985.
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Gene Thibodeaux from Texas also drove with the same paint scheme.Quote:
Originally Posted by SCT
This is his #5 Velden/Johnson F1-V8
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In looking at all the pictures of these V-8 powered boats I notice that they all seem to be built with very little aero lift.
Yes you are correct 2us70. They did not have much lift. Less than one inch from front of the tunnel to rear. Sometimes closer to half an inch.
Francios Salabert of France in his #3 Velden Racing/Johnson F1-V8 -1985
Photo credit -Unknown
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In the beginning the builders were all over the place on aero. When they got it wrong it was spectacular. It seems like it took a while for the builders to understand that these boats were really wings with their surfaces slightly out of alignment.
Well..you must make it to the famous finish line to get the trophy.
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Ready to race..
I think it is Barry Woods in Bruges, Belgium and Barry was always ready to race wide open.
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Rick Frost drove to victory in Toledo late 1985.
#6 Velden/Johnson V8
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Pretty nice and powerful line up. The US Formula 1-V8 series.
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More from Toledo 1985.Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
Not a points race for the World series but $50.000 price purse made it interesting
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Lasse Strom is doing propeller testing in his #8 Burgess/Aspen/Evinrude F1-V8
The picture is from Tollare outside Stockholm, Sweden 1983.
This Burgess F1 boat built by David Burgess was brutal..
The boat it self was built from strong thin plywood, and the boat cowling was thin fiberglass. Empty boat before rigging was around 210 kg/463 lbs
Batteries, fuel tank, steering and seat around 50 kg/110 lbs
A total of 260 kg/573 lbs.
The Evinrude F1-V8 two stroke 3.5 liter 450 hp purpose built race engine including power trim/lift pump and prop. was around 250 kg / 551 lbs.
Complete ready to race without fuel 510 kg / 960 lbs.
There was none what so ever safety just a brutal race boat with a top speed over 140 MPH / 225 km/h.
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One more picture from Auronzo, Italy 1976. The ON World Championship race.Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
Velden was by far the fastest boat with his OMC 2 liter looper V6 and won the first heat over Renato.
I was there watching and here is my comment....
"This was also the first and only time I did see Renato Molinari "play dirty tricks", well not really Renato but his second boat driven by Zoppi I think his name was.
Zoppi sank Cees VD Velden in his #11 Velden /Johnson V-6 on "purpose" by running in to his boat just in front of us at the far end of the race course.
Velden sank and Molinari ended up winning both OE and ON. Well..not really in a proper way in my opinion"..
Even the Italians, who are normally very patriotic, booed at the prize giving when Renato Molinari went to collect his trophies.
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More Paris 1973.Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
A few picture of the second place #21 Tom Posey/Barry Woods in the Scotti/Johnson 2 liter V6 cross-flow.
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Evinrude Offshore World record.
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Paris 6 Hours
In my opinion the best boat race ever..
I was part of this great race 11 times..first time was 1973….last race was 1986 when my brother Lennart and I won F-3 with a Burgess/Evinrude CC..
When you tell people about boat racing in Sweden, Italy, USA, England, South Africa etc.
they maybe listening..but when you tell them you raced 6 hours on the river Seine..
Next to the Eiffel tower, in the center of Paris.. they always want to know more..
The race course seen from the Eiffel tower..
Click here for my first Paris race…!!
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I heard one popular driver say it was the only motor/class that ever scared him.Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
I also remember thinking in that era, everyone was trying to come to terms w/the power/potential of that motor. As far as what type/size hull to build, where to put the weight etc.
Looking at the old pixs from the day I remember thinking it looked like they started at 17/18' and were at 20/21' at the end.
I have a friend that has one on a sub 500 lb STV and Ive ridden in the back of that boat a couple of times and I think "brutal" is an accurate term.
Hi Lasse I would agree with you about this race it was always such a large well supported event sometimes 90 boats I first raced there in 1970 you would have loved it when they had the barges running the water would drop 4 or 5 ft and rise up again after you passed the barge all this at 90mph with a full fuel load.Quote:
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Thanks STEVERINO,Quote:
Originally Posted by STEVERINO
My first Paris 6 hours was 1973 and at that time the race was run without barges but I raced (and won) Rouen 24 Hours 1975 with barges running during the race. Even night time.
Here is a story I did 10 years ago about that.
Our SE class Victory in the Rouen 24 hours 1975
This was my first race as an Evinrude factory driver for OMC 1975
The racing season in Europe normally starts with the Rouen 24 Hours, but I was invited to South Africa earlier 1975 and drove the famous BP 200..(PB 200 story here)..http://svera.se/blogg/racing-historier/1975-2/
I was not crazy about being part of the Rouen race but it was part of my contract with OMC
I flew to OMC in Belgium a week before the race to help out rigging the boat.
Important for me to have power trim buttons and some other things my way.
The rules said three drivers per boat and OMC recommended using two OMC test drivers who where my size.
Two SE class Clerici boats was prepared at the OMC factory. One for me and one for Roger Jenkins.
Roger was a fun man to hang out with..strong personality and Roger was in racing to win..but so was I.
We installed head lights and other “funny things” on the boat. Racing non stop for 24 hours means driving at night in the darkness and the commercial barge traffic
was in business 24/7.
When we got there, it was a lot of boats and most of them were thick fiberglass cats run by local French people.
The next surprise was that the race was run clockwise
around the island!!!!
I was not used to right hand turns but raced and won the 2-hour of Duvnäsviken, Sweden the year before.. that was my only experience with right turns in boat racing.
As usual in France were all info in French only, and I understood nothing of what was said at the driver’s meeting, which lasted over an hour.
Paul Kalb..the new racing boss for Europe did not understand anything either but told me that I was responsible for the entire race planning.
Paul wanted me to start the race and hopefully drive the last hours to finish the race.
My plan was 2-hour shifts because lots of incidents happen in the pit.
The Clerici boat turned poorly when heavy but to many stops with 1.5 hour shifts.
We were out testing a number of times at practice..the waves from the commercial barge traffic was bad bad..but one side of the island the water was little bit smoother.
Well remember that famous Leif “Honken” Holmqvist of Sweden drove a V-bottom boat in the SD class and he came and asked me about the crazy water conditions.
His Volvo Penta powered V-bottom behaved strangely on the rough side of the island.
The start was sometime during the middle of the day and lots of boats took off at the same time. I got a great start and was one of the lead boats but on the other side of the island..all the heavy fiberglass cats came flying by in the extremely rough water.
Wow, I needed to slow down and save the equipment for the last hour instead of try to lead in the beginning of the race. Next thing in my head was..I am pretty stupid to be part of this 24 hour race.
Time for cruise control, we refueled and changed drivers a few times in daylight before it got dark, cold and rainy…!!
One of my shifts in the middle of the night went well .. but the next one like 4 a clock in the morning began with a flying experience from a big wave that I could not see on the back of the island.
I landed on top of one another race boat..the driver of that boat was OK but his boat sank..
that was good for me because I could get back to the pit .. where we took the boat out of the water..
Repaired the damage and replaced the gearcase/ propeller and then we went back on the water to race further into the darkness…!!
At dawn we were a few laps behind Jenkins and the other SE class leaders.
Jenkins now disappeared from the race..his time for trouble and had to spend sometime on the trailer for repair.
Now there was a chance for us to win, so I drove like a mad man for the last hours of the race.
A Rouen 24 Hours SE class victory was now reality..extremely fun and a perfect start as a factory pilot for Evinrude.
After the race we return to the OMC Bruges to rig a new Burgess boat for the OE/Formula 3 World Championship race in Aix-les-Bains also France.
Lars mega crash at the OMC factory 1975..click below for that story.
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Me and my wife Carina is going to be on the road a few days. We are fulltiming in our motorcoach and next stop is Kentucky Lake to visit friends. So probably no posts during our traveling.
I have not completely updated the thread after my picture mistake but are doing so ASAP.
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Looks like the #20 & #21 Scotti's are the same boats OMC used to introduce the rotary earlier that year?Quote:
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