Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

[lars strom]

A friend of mine in Sweden and his Fjording 18 Evinrude V6 G2.

[lars strom]

Evinrude-Johnson V6 CCC-RS.
Cross-flow..still pretty sexy.

[lars strom]

Time to go fishing.

[lars strom]

Cees Van Der Velden.

I have so many good memories from Cees van der Velden. He was a very interesting person in many ways. Raced for him in both the F3 class and the F1-V8. You did never know what was around the corner hanging out with Cees.
My worst memory was his very bad accident in Liege, Belgium 1982.
Was watching when he crashed his Velden/Johnson V8 wide open. Pretty hard to believe he survived and came back to win another race.
Cees was also a little bit of an underdog compare to Renato and Mr Bill..but man he was a lot of fun..
We all miss you.

[DanUmbarger]

Lars, What kind of HP did the rotaries push out...have never heard their ratings at all.

[lars strom]

Well.. I have heard a few different numbers but more than 250 HP but just under 300HP for the absolute best ones.
Thats extremely good for 45+ years ago now.

http://svera.se/blogg/the-omc-rotary...-40-years-ago/

[Instigator]

Agreed.

I was a huge fan of Mazda’s domination of the GTU class in IMSA road racing until understanding the tech rules as written for the rotaries.
Im still a rotary fan but once you look inside one and how they are classified........

BTW, I have that magazine.
As I recall, part of that story was them calling that motor the first 300 HP O/B.

Could it be the first ever outboard engine with 12 combustion surfaces — Wow!

The technical debate lives on, does this engine have the ethical right to compete in the same class against 6 cylinder engines? The 12 combustion surfaces in totality have more cubic inches, than the 6 cylinders do they not?

[lars strom]

In 1984 Gina Campbell broke the Women's World Water Speed Record at 122.85 mph on a lake in Nottingham in the Evinrude piston engine Agfa-sponsored Bluebird II power boat.

i have been told this Hodges is the same Hodges Roger Jenkins raced in Leige, 1984 in the Carlsbergs colors.
(Rogers last F1-V8 race)

[lars strom]

Here is Roger Jenkins in Liege 1984 with the same F1-V8 Hodges Gina Campbell used above.

[lars strom]

This is Roger Jenkins in Liege, Belgium 1984.
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.

[lars strom]

Team Mercury was spending a ton of money to win Paris 6 Hours 1970..
Well..it did not work out so good..!!..



I can still not believe this..seen this pictures above with all the Merc boats so many times in the cyber world and the Merc boys asking where is the OMC..??
Well..Johnny Sanders/Tom Posey with a Molinari/Johnson Stinger V4 won the big race in Paris..!!

Info about Paris 6 Hours 1970.

[lars strom]

Tim Schroer 1968 13’ Allison-Evinrude 75HP heading to Tavares, FL.

[Capt.Insane-o]

My favorite year cowl design.

[lars strom]

A link to my first Paris 6 Hour race 1973:..

http://svera.se/blogg/paris-6-hours/...as-a-disaster/

[DanUmbarger]

I can't even imagine the kind of water you guys were running in...the only thing I can even compare that to would be running on the Chicago river...but that was only a few laps at a time

A link to my first Paris 6 Hour race 1973:..

http://svera.se/blogg/paris-6-hours/...as-a-disaster/