Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

[lars strom]

No one could make tunnel boat racing more interesting to watch than Greg Foster. Always wide open.
(He reminds me of Barry Woods style of driving)
Great fun friend we sadly lost today.
Thanks for many great memories.
R.I.P my friend.
The picture is from the Havasu Racing reunion 2021.

Katelin Wendt is with Kelly Ireland and 2 others
at The Grove of Anaheim.



Celebrated the life of THE legend, Greg Foster today.
I’ve been to quite a few memorials, but have never seen anything like this one. Over 600 people from all over the world here to celebrate the absolutely insane, crazy, wild life of Fearless Foster. Even managed to fit back into my race shirt that I haven’t worn since I was 13 And had Mason wearing the one from when I was 5 or 6.
What a tribute.

[lars strom]

1978 Evinrude advertising.

[Amberjack1234]

Only raced an SE boat a couple of times at the local Caribbean Club races. Had to get used to driving a smaller cube motor, keeping it revving an on a plane around the corners and lack of acceleration. But it was a fun boat to drive belong to my buddy Andy Wiggers when he would come down to the races in Amberjack

[Amberjack1234]

Blackjack Withrow it was the most bad ass mercury. Mod 50 driver that we had back in those days coming down to the local races at the Marine Stadium and in Florida.

[lars strom]

Cees Van Der Velden in his Velden Racing powered by a Johnson RS V6 3 liter, looper with fuel injection.
1979

[lars strom]

Bob Hering Johnson RS V6 1977
Cross-flow 2.448 litre

[lars strom]

Cees Van Der Velden in his Velden Racing powered by a Johnson RS V6 3 liter, looper with fuel injection.
1979

Lars Strom

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From the BENETEAU boat factory..
#4 Cees Van Der Velden/Tom Posey won the Paris 6 hours 1979 with Beneteau as the main sponsor.
Here he is with the world famous Madame Roux Beneteau..
"The First Lady Of Yachting" she is one tough leader.

[lars strom]

I did race for Beneteau 1979 in Evian, France. That's me in the #56 boat.
I did not get the opportunity to meet Madame Beneteau..

[lars strom]

https://www.beneteau.com/en-us

[lars strom]

The Flyer line


https://www.beneteau.com/en-us/powerboats/flyer

[lars strom]

Greg Jacobsen

Experimental SST-60 at Kankakee. Randy Minch ran an Evinrude and i ran a Johnson. Both with our Karelsen Sport E none capsule boats for an exhibition. Engines were hopped up with cut heads, hand porting and polished crankcases.
They were about 8 MPH faster than the production SST-60 on a capsule boat.

[Mark Poole ModVP]

So on the subject of polished crankcases, maybe I can get a clarification from people who know here. When I was racing 3cyl. V bottoms I built a 49 cu in 75 and hand ported it. While I had the engine apart I polished the inside of the crankcase and I mean it was shiny. Before I put the engine together a couple of people told me that a shiny crankcase in a 2 stroke would be detrimental to the fuel charge as it swirled through the engine. So I went back and bead blasted the gloss off before putting it back together. The engine was a strong runner. But I never did find out who was correct on this subject. Were factory race engines shiny throughout the inside?

[lars strom]

... Were factory race engines shiny throughout the inside?

No..never the ones I raced.

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Cool, the Johnson F1-V8 manual.

[lars strom]

Renato Molinari Stockholm F1-V8 GP 1984.
I guess Renato is checking his Rolex..

[lars strom]

Lars Strom
Back in the early/mid eighties it was a trend by F1 drivers to have a Rolex..Submariner gold was the most popular one.