Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

[lars strom]

Bob Hering USA in the #3 Molinari/Saffa/Johnson V6 RS 2.448 liter cross-flow.

Steve Pinson UK is driving the #4 Cougar/Carlsberg/Johnson V6 RS 2.448 liter cross-flow. @STEVERINO

[lars strom]

My #1 AKAI/Burgess/Evinrude CC on the way to victory in Nottingham, UK.
#52 John Hill close behind me.
Holme Pierrepont row boat stadium was perfect for boat racing.

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[STEVERINO]

Bob Hering USA in the #3 Molinari/Saffa/Johnson V6 RS 2.448 liter cross-flow.

Steve Pinson UK is driving the #4 Cougar/Carlsberg/Johnson V6 RS 2.448 liter cross-flow. @STEVERINO

Probably the roughest race i drove in Bob Hering in the no 3 molinari submarined about 1 hr into the race lying in 3rd place and his outfit was a 18ft marathon boat the no 4 boat Steve Pinsons outfit knocked the bottom through after 50 minutes.All the omc outfits had bent prop shafts and not many spare gearcases the Mercury outfits had as many as 4 gearcase swops over 2 days of racing the fastest boats spent that much time out of the water a ON 2.0 Mercury outfit driven by Peter Inwood nearly won the race for the last 30 mins of this race he had no prop blades left and the rescue boats were as fast as he was but Tom Percival was give 1st place.

[lars strom]

Renato in his #165 UIM OZ class Molinari..This is one of his first Evinrude F1-V8 boats from 1981.
Italmarine was the Italian Evinrude distributor. OMC did not take over the distributorship in Italy & Spain as they did for the rest of Europe 1977.
Filtri Tecnocar is a Italian maker of filters for gas & diesel engines.

[lars strom]

Some color pictures, the first one is from Brodenbach, Germany. (the first ever F1-V8 race)
Its Fabio Porta holding #161 Carlomaria Colombo of Italy.
Renato's boat in the back ground.



In the picture below you can see #6 Andy Bullen in his Burgess/Evinrude V6 CCC inside Renato.
This is probably from Nottingham 1981



The next two below is probably from the Holland GP 1981. Not 100% sure.

[lars strom]

By far the largest boating/party weekend in Sweden starts now..

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Another great sponsor for the F1-V8 series 1981/82.
This is #10 Tom Percival in his Hodges/Johnson V8

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The first picture is from Leon, Spain 1982

#10 is Tom Percival, #12 Fransios Salabert and #11 Bob Spalding.
All three are racing Velden boats with Johnson F1-V8 power.
Yes, I was there racing F3 very successfully.



Next picture below is from beautiful Como, Italy.

#11 Bob Spalding driven his Velden/Johnson V8








Sponsor competition in Bristol 1982..
The Bristol program above.




A Formula 1 car and Tom Percival in a Formula 1 F1-V8 boat having fun in Nottingham, UK above.





#11 Bob Spalning and his Velden Racing/Johnson F1-V8 above.

[lars strom]

In my opinion JPS is probably the most famous motorsport sponsor.



Bob Spalding & Tom Percival Velden Racing/JPS/Johnson V8



#12 F. Salabert in a Velden Racing/JPS/Johnson V6 3 liter looper, fuel injection. Not sure who is next to him..#11 or 12 in the picture above.






You can see all three JPS boats above in Como, Italy 1982. Note..#10 Tom Percival is now using a Hodges.



#10 Tom Percival Hodges/JPS/Johnson V8 1982




#10 Tom Percival Velden Racing/JPS/Johnson V8





#11 Bob Spalding Velden Racing/JPS/Johnson V8

[lars strom]

The Gold Racing was run by Cees Van Der Velden, Holland

A three F1-V8 boat team and the drivers was #1 Velden, #2 Arthur Mostert & #3 Francois Salabert.
Much more coming soon..!!
The last picture is my wife Carina in a Benson & Hedges/Gold Racing shirt.

[lars strom]

I am trying hard to get everything as correct as possible. The way I remember it.
There was two boats already 1983 with Benson & Hedges as their sponsor.

#12 Francois Salabert, France in a Johnson V8. (Pretty sure it was a Molinari boat at that time)
#17 Luigi Valdano, Italy Molinari/Evinrude V8
The first picture show the two boats next to my #8 Aspen in Stockholm GP 1983








#17 Luigi Valdano testing props at Idroscalo 1983.
Molinari/Benson&Hedges/Evinrude V8 above.




#17 Luigi Valdano in the London GP 1983.
Molinari/Benson&Hedges/Evinrude V8 above.




#12 Francois Salabert, France in a Johnson V8. Yes..its a Molinari.
This is from Como GP 1983 above.



The last race of the 1983 F1-V8 Series was Milan, Italy and you can see the two Benson & Hedges boats in the line up.
This was also the race when I finally got my first heat victory..!!

https://svera.se/blogg/f1-v8/lasse-s...-heat-victory/

[lars strom]

I am trying hard to get everything as correct as possible. The way I remember it.
There was two boats already 1983 with Benson & Hedges as their sponsor.

#12 Francois Salabert, France in a Johnson V8. (Pretty sure it was a Molinari boat at that time)
#17 Luigi Valdano, Italy Molinari/Evinrude V8
The first picture show the two boats next to my #8 Aspen in Stockholm GP 1983








#17 Luigi Valdano testing props at Idroscalo 1983.
Molinari/Benson&Hedges/Evinrude V8 above.




#17 Luigi Valdano in the London GP 1983.
Molinari/Benson&Hedges/Evinrude V8 above.




#12 Francois Salabert, France in a Johnson V8. Yes..its a Molinari.
This is from Como GP 1983 above.



The last race of the 1983 F1-V8 Series was Milan, Italy and you can see the two Benson & Hedges boats in the line up.
This was also the race when I finally got my first heat victory..!!

https://svera.se/blogg/f1-v8/lasse-s...-heat-victory/

More about Benson & Hedges in 1983..before I continue with the Gold Racing 1984/85.
This is from Como 1983 and starting with the entry list.






The two pictures above is #12 Francois Salabert, France in his brand new Molinari with Johnson V8 power.




#17 Luigi Valdono had a bad day in Como 1983 and crashed his brand new Molinari/B&H Gold Racing with Johnson V8 power.
He was not hurt.

The 1984/85 B&H / Gold Racing season coming soon so please wait with comments

[lars strom]

One more thing about the Benson & Hedges/Gold Racing 1983.

Most of the European F1-V8 races was sponsored by Benson & Hedges/Gold Racing 1983
Not the Stockholm GP because Swedish Tobacco rules, but Champion Spark Plugs was the race sponsor for my home race 1983/84 & 85




The second picture above is from Como May 14/15 1983


The 1984/85 B&H / Gold Racing season coming soon so please wait with comments

[lars strom]

The Gold Racing was run by Cees Van Der Velden, Holland

A three F1-V8 boat team and the drivers was #1 Velden, #2 Arthur Mostert & #3 Francois Salabert.
Much more coming soon..!!
The last picture is my wife Carina in a Benson & Hedges/Gold Racing shirt.

The 1984 B & H /Gold Racing ...

I am not sure how Cees Van Der Velden did it..but he took over the Benson & Hedges/Gold racing sponsorship 1984.
He started a three boat team and Luigi Valdano, Italy was dropped as a team member/driver and replaced by Arthur Mostert
Lots of promotion money was spent and a very impressive F1-V8 race team.
Cees was in charge..the team owner, number one team driver..he also used his race # 1.
All boats was built by Velden Racing.
Cees was a very charming person and great with the media..(especially the female media)..

More is coming soon..!!




The team owner himself above






Old style "Go Pro" camera.




#1 Cees in Stockholm GP 1984.






#3 Francois Salabert in Liege 1984.




#1 Cees Van Der Velden in Liege, 1984

[RogerH]

Some eye candy for the 4th ---- Have a great one!

BTW, I need all the "stuff" that goes under the V8 cover to complete my bucket list #1