Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

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Lots of fun and great friends last night.
A few pictures.

Lars Strom is with Carina Strom and Dean Loucks.

Beautiful Skater 388 with lots of horsepower at Performance Boat Center.
https://www.performanceboatcenter.com/default.asp…

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Waiting for the Green flag..!!
I think this is London GP and I am somewhere there in my #8 Burgess/Evinrude.
Thanks Kevin Cushion

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BRIG

The long awaited beautiful new Eagle 6.7 is at display at the Marstrand Boat show
Welcome to the BRIG dock.

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We are going boating today but staying away from the Shootout area.

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Interesting picture.
This is Roger Jenkins in Liege, Belgium 1984. (not sure who the pretty girl is)
Roger did switch from Burgess to Hodges for this race. If you look close you can see the Hodges rear boat cowling.
Thanks Richard Rushen.

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Unique picture..
Roger Jenkins driving a Hodges F1-V8 boat 1984.
Of course with Carlsberg Beer as the sponsor and Evinrude V8 power.

Here is a race picture.

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Killer shot!

Nuttin but air.

Here is a race picture.

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A standard production pontoon with an Evinrude 200HP G2 just run 59 MPH at the LOTO Shootout

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Ben Robertson just did a 143 MPH run in a Fountain 42 at the LOTO Shootout — at Lake Of Ozarks Osage Beach Mo.

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The Liege, Belgium F1-V8 / F3 race history.

I raced here two times 1982 in the F3 class and had great success with a victory.
Well..I was also watching the F1-V8 race same time/year and did see the really bad Cees Van Der Velden crash. Hard to believe Cees recovered from the crash and was back racing 1983. (See info first picture)

1983 I raced the F1-V8 class in Liege in my #8 Burgess/Aspen/Evinrude V8 and crashed really bad at the same place as Cees crashed the year before. Nose dived wide open and ended up at the hospital. I was lucky and recovered for the next race in London after David Burgess repaired my boat.
I told my self..I am not going to race in Liege anymore..no matter what.

The 1984 F1-V8 race in Liege, Belgium was a disaster..
We lost a great friend and racer Tom Percival. We was racing for the same sponsor a few times 1984. (International Travel Card)
I was not at the race but here is a quote from Zoe Trumper about Percival's accident with Bocca..

" The Liege race course on river Meuse was a course that nearly every driver detests, its turbulent water impossible to predict. It proved too much for Bocca, the popular young driver hooked on the course with Percival close behind. The English man hit the side of Bocca's boat and flew into the bank. He did not regain consciousness and died the following day"


The second picture is Tom Percival in his #10 Hodges/Evinrude V8 just before the accident in Liege, Belgium 1984
The third picture is Tom's boat after the accident. You can see Roger Jenkins in the boat.

Percival was a great gentleman and the perfect spokesperson for our sport. Gone way the early.

Thanks Richard Rushen for the pictures.

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More from Liege, Belgium 1984

Bob Spaldings #11 Molinari/Nashua/Johnson V8.
You can also see Roger Jenkins behind his racing truck with the new Hodges/Carlsberg/Evinrude V8 inside.
The OMC racing truck next to him. I think it is Jim Brackenfield and an OMC Belgium technician.
Thanks Richard Rushen for the picture.

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The Martini/Evinrude F1-V8 team 1984

Team Renato Molinari in Liege, Belgium 1984
#19 Kicco Vidoli
Thanks Richard Rushen

#19 Kicco Vidoli driving for Team Molinari in Liege, Belgium 1984.

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The 1984 start of the F1-V8 race in Liege, Belgium.
The #12 Molinari/Castrol/Evinrude boat is Bocca and it looks like Roger Jenkins and Tom Percival is having a slow/bad start.
The crash between Bocca and Percival is just minutes away.

Picture by Barry Trindall.

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OMC tried to sell outboards through Good-Year too, in the 1950's. Good-Year Sea-Bee's.

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