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10-04-2020, 10:50 AM #7576
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10-04-2020, 12:17 PM #7577
Paris 6 Hours 1976
I have two picture from the start..the first one is me in a brand new #47 OE class Burgess with Johnson RS power.
I found my own little area to start from.
The second picture is very interesting..check the ON class #88.. That's Bob Hering in a Johnson RS powered Molinari..!!
That tells me the OMC - Renato Molinari deal was already done.
Paris was always the first year for OMC's racing budget.
OMC's calender year ended September 30.
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10-04-2020, 12:32 PM #7578
Paris 6 hours 1976
Bob Hering teamed up with Tom Posey and drove the #88 Johnson RS V6/ Molinari in the famous race.
Well..a hole in the boat ended their race early.
The second picture is me in the #47 Johnson RS/Burgess..a few hours in to the race I run in the engine problems and was not fixable during the race.
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10-04-2020, 12:38 PM #7579
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10-04-2020, 12:44 PM #7580I'd rather be competitive w/junk I built in my garage than win w/stuff I bought.
I refuse to allow common sense to interfere w/my boat buying decisions.
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Hydrostream 17' Vector FrankenRude I
Laser 480 (?) 21' w/GT 200
Glastron Carlson Conquest w/XP 2.6
Glastron Carlson CVX 20 w/XP 2.6
24' Sonic w/twin 250 Johnsons
24' Sonic w/twin 250 HO Johnsons
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Allison XR 2002 w/Frankenrude II
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10-04-2020, 03:44 PM #7581
October-fest for us boat racers was in Paris.
Paris 6 hours 1977
The Paris 6 hour memories continues..
October-fest for us boat racers was in Paris.
All Paris 6 hour races was run the first or second Sunday in October.
Now we are up to the start of the 1977 race.
This was the year I raced for Volvo Penta & Dieter König.
Dieter Konigs sisters son Joachim Mareth was my co-pilot..
We drove the #68 Volvo Penta/König/Molinari.
Again I found my own litte place to start from. Second picture.
I can add the Volvo Penta/König was running great but a hole in the black beautiful Molinari boat stopped us.
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10-04-2020, 06:56 PM #7582
Paris 6 hours 1978.
This was a big one for me..I got the opportunity to drive for Team Renato Molinari in the Formula 1 - OZ class.
Me and Angelo Vassena was driving the second #11 Saffa/Evinrude V6 CCC.
The first picture is just before the start. Angelo Vassena is standing up in our boat. ( red arrow)
Yes..the yellow #4 boat next to us is Roger Jenkins.
A few more pictures of our #11 Saffa/Molinari/Evinrude V6 CCC after.We finished 4th overall. Very happy with that.
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10-04-2020, 07:43 PM #7583Junior Member
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Was this the 2nd generation racing engine or was it a stock 1970 V4?
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10-04-2020, 08:07 PM #7584
Well, the engine Sanders & Posey won the Paris 6 hours 1970 was the one after the 115-GT/X-115. A racing mid section and gearcase.
The Johnson was named Stinger & the Evinrude Starflite 115/SS.
The early ones did not have powertrim but the Stinger V-4 Sanders & Posey used in Paris 1970 did have powertrim.
A few pictures of the Evinrude Starflite from 1970..I dont have any right now of the Stinger.
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10-05-2020, 09:52 AM #7585
The October-fest from Paris, France
Paris 6 hours 1979 was a BIG one..!!
This was the year when all the big name drivers drove the OZ class.
You could really tell the crazy battle between Merc and OMC in the pit before the race.
Merc used the T-4 mixed with the regular V6 for the OZ class.
OMC the 3 liter V6 mixed with some V6 cross-flow.
Some Merc OZ class entries.
Seebold - Earl Benz T-4
Percival - Sutter T-4
Mike Seebold - Erwin Zimmerman T-4
Jenkins - Curt Todd Mariner T-4 (if I remember right)
Nicholson - Cripps
Inward - Tony Williams
Werner - Brinkaert
Halssa - Jeff Edwards
Some OMC OZ class entries
Renato Molinari - Barry Woods 3 liter
Sanders - Jimbo 3 liter
Velden - Posey 3 liter
Spalding - Stevenson 3 liter
Pelster - ??
Bullen - ??
For me Paris 6 hours 1979 was a new adventure..I teamed up with Sture Sjoberg a Swedish friend of mine and helped him develop a new boat for the OE class. The boat was ready in the last minute and the first test was a practice lap before the race in Paris.
We ended up third in the OE class and was really happy with that.
The only picture of our Paris OE class boat is this one. Its the one below the orange/blue on the trailer.
The start..you can see the three Merc T4 and a few OMC 3 liters.
This year was a wild one and the river Seine got extremely rough. Not sure if Jimbo hit the solid turning buoy or not but not much left of his Molinari below.
At 5:00 PM Sunday afternoon Cees van der Velden/Tom Posey was the OZ class/overall winner with Renato/Barry second.
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10-05-2020, 06:16 PM #7586
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10-05-2020, 07:32 PM #7587
Paris 6 hours 1980 the way I remember it..!!
We finally got the second Sture Sjoberg OE class boat right and was ready in time for the big race.
Our race number for the Alfa Laval/AKAI/Sjoberg was #45 and the latest Evinrude CC engine from OMC.
My brother Lennart and Anders Fallman was racing our boat from last year with #46.
Lined up next to each other for the start.
(Red mark)
A few more picture of the start 1980.
The start is not very important in a 6 hour race but you need a safe start without damaging your boat. 80 boats taking of at the same time is a recipe for disaster.
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10-05-2020, 07:54 PM #7588
This year(1980) was not as windy as 1979 and the conditions perfect for our #45 boat.
Fueling and driver change was done every hour and a half.
Meaning I started and Sture was racing the last hour and a half.
John Hill run in to problems already the first hour and we was more or less flying without any problem's for 6 hours..
I love the way Powerboat & Waterskiing wrote..
Sunday 5:00 PM October 5 1980..(Exactly 40 years ago today) our #45 boat won the very large popular OE class in the famous race.
Eight years of trying finally gave us the result we wanted so bad.
Here we are at the fancy dinner Hilton, Paris Sunday night receiving trophies and price money. A memory for the rest of our lives.
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10-06-2020, 09:12 AM #7589
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10-06-2020, 07:00 PM #7590
October-fest in Paris 1981.
Paris 6 hours 1981.
This year YMCF - (Yacht Moteur Club de France) & Jean-Noël Bladinaire the Club's President got really political.
The YMCF in partnership with Mercury ban the OZ class. Only the ON class..Meaning OMC could not compete with the new F1-V8.
My Swedish friend Ove Jansson was the President for OMC France. He was trying extremely hard to make
Jean-Noël Bladinaire change his mind..but no OZ class in Paris anymore.
OMC and all the F1-V8 drivers was not in Paris.
I get back to this later.
The setup for me this year was to run my red AKAI/Burgess/Evinrude CC in the OE class with my brother Lennart.
We got race #38.
Paris was extremely cold/windy and plenty of rain over the weekend.
Here is the program.
I dont have any pictures from the race of our #38 boat.
Only this one from the pit..red dot..low right corner.
The Swedish magazine FIB Aktuellt was with us in Paris and this picture of the start is from their magazine..Sorry for Swedish only..
I guess our Evinrude CC engine did not like the very cold/windy weekend and broke down pretty early in the race.
We got back to the hotel early and turned the heat on.
One more birds eye picture from the 1981 race.
Thanks.
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