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09-22-2020, 05:04 PM #7501
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09-22-2020, 05:37 PM #7502Screaming And Flying!
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09-22-2020, 06:25 PM #75037000 RPM
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09-22-2020, 06:40 PM #7504
Yes..always very stressful but part of racing back then when clock start was used.
Here is my experience from the race at Lake Geneva on the borderline with Switzerland & France 1974
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My best memories is from Evian, France where I defended my SE European championship.
Over 40 boats in this race, the SE class was very popular in the mid seventy’s.
The Italian drivers was still upset from the year before when I “stole” the race in Finland so they teamed up to try to run me over in every start.
My new Clerici boat and the way I could fly it, was perfect for this 2 point race course, two mile long.
(Jim Wagner told me I was way faster then the OMC Factory OE boats).
Normally a race was 4 heat and 3 of them counts, and the big Lake Geneva was extremely rough.
In the final heat when I was up front, one of the Italian drivers slowed down waiting for me to lap him and then he
hit my boat on purpose in the turn, but I was lucky to bring it home in first place.
On top of that, the top Italian drivers ended up disqualified for not legal modifications to the engines.
The final result with me as the Champ was ready 4 AM Monday morning with very angry and upset Bonvicini brothers from Italy.
Earlier that year one of my sponsors Melins Motor made very nice stickers with a picture of my boat saying I was the 1973 European Champion, but they never told me that the printing office made a mistake, putting year 1974 on the first set of stickers so in the pit area after the race, they put a new sticker on my boat saying
I was the 1974 European Champion and that made the Italians even more upset!!!!
I never told them the true story about the sticker screw up.
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09-22-2020, 07:02 PM #7505
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09-22-2020, 08:43 PM #7506
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09-23-2020, 09:07 AM #7507
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09-23-2020, 10:19 AM #75097000 RPM
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Racing against people who will hurt you on purpose is not fun. I only had a couple of competitors like that and I did not look to racing them. Racing against the good guys was what made it worthwhile. Some drivers did not have to worry about what they broke. Guys like me who were racing on my own dime had to try to keep the equipment intact.
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09-23-2020, 03:46 PM #7510
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09-23-2020, 05:35 PM #7511
This is getting very interesting..Guido Cappellini..(a 10 times UIM F1 World Champ) is asking if anybody knows who owns the little red boat sitting in the water..
I was there in Auronzo 1976 and remember this and answering as you can see in the first "picture"
The second "picture" is the interesting one..it was Guido Cappellini's first race boat.
Yes..he was working for Renato as a young boy..
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09-24-2020, 05:56 AM #7512
I can remember this race at Chasewater The British Grand Prix. Rodger Jenkins won this race with Tom Percival 2nd Steve Pinson 3rd. I think Andy Bullen raced his dads old Burgess in the race and Alfi drove the new Molinari with a 3.0 Looper engine.I went to visit Alfi 3 days later at the Hospital in Walshall to say he was very unhappy was a understatment.Alfi had a business to run and places to be he had broken his femur bone right at the top of his leg so this was no quick fix i think this had him out of racing for sometime and Andy took over his driving seat.
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09-24-2020, 08:44 AM #75136000 RPM
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Function Of $$$$
It always seemed to be the same. If prize money was involved, the demeanor of some drivers flipped like a switch. Risking my hull and engine for a weekend of racing for a paltry sum of money that didn't even put a dent in my operating expenses wasn't worth it. One thing I did learn though was when the composite hulls starting showing up, the guys who were stupid enough to try "trading paint" with wood hulls always got the worst of it. LOL Also, if the rescue situation looked even the the least bit risky, I would not attend that race to begin with.
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