Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

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#9 Roger Jenkins
The 1982 F1-V8 Champion.

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#165 Renato Molinari
The 1981 F1-V8 Champion.

[Instigator]

Great series of shots showing how incredibly hard those monsters turned!
Wow.

Look at how low the hull is in the water.

3 G’s ???

Bad asss!

#165 Renato Molinari
The 1981 F1-V8 Champion.

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#18 Renato Molinari
The 1983 F1-V8 Champion.

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Said it before, but the Martini livery is the best ever..it looks good on anything.

[lars strom]

Some info from the engine builder...

The side carb fed twin piston ports machined into the block from the inside. No reeds and no flow restriction with the side carb. The front 2-barrel carb provided the initial mixture feed, with progressive linkage opening the side piston-port carb at ~ 1/2 throttle. At WOT, all 3 barrels were full open. That way, it provided good bottom-end punch and great top end performance.

Sam LaBanco

Here's the engine on a yamato 80 boat we borrowed to test it, if you look up close I'm backing off the throttle, it just wasn't enough boat.

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Great series of shots showing how incredibly hard those monsters turned!
Wow.
Look at how low the hull is in the water.
3 G’s ???
Bad asss!

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Sam LaBanco

1984 Cincinnati F1-V8 race.
Tom Posey stuffed it in the straightaway in front of the pit area. This was all that was left. The rest of the boat and engine were not recovered.
He was OK.

[FMP]

Surprised it wasn't recovered, even today, dive down and rope it. Probably has been.

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I guess this is the same boat..!!..
Toledo, Ohio 1984


Tom Posey #97 Velden/Abilene Marine/Johnson V8

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Sam LaBanco

1984 Cincinnati F1-V8 race.
Tom Posey stuffed it in the straightaway in front of the pit area. This was all that was left. The rest of the boat and engine were not recovered.
He was OK.

More from Cincinnati GP 1984.

Mercury T-4 racing vs OMC V-8 racing.

After a summer-long legal battle, Mercury and OMC reached an out-of-court settlement a month before the Cincinnati GP which allowed the Merc T-4s to compete against the V-8s on a one race, experimental basis.
Here is the full story..if you don’t want the read the full Powerboat story I can make it pretty short.
Mercury lost big time using the T-4 and the Wizard..(with twin Merc V6 powerheads)
Ben Robertson won in his #57 Burgess/Johnson V8. Barry Woods second in his #35 Molinari/Evinrude V8

After the race one of the OMC’s corporate executives couldn’t help but mutter under his breath after watching
the T-4’s self-destruct:
“They (Mercury) have been suing us all summer” he said in hushed tones, ” do you think we could bring a case against them for fraud?”

Thanks Mark Spencer


Better text to read here:

http://svera.se/blogg/mercury-t-4-ra...nnati-gp-1984/

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The Wizard in Cincinnati 84..!!

A few pictures more later.

[Lake X Kid]

More from Cincinnati GP 1984.

Mercury T-4 racing vs OMC V-8 racing.

After a summer-long legal battle, Mercury and OMC reached an out-of-court settlement a month before the Cincinnati GP which allowed the Merc T-4s to compete against the V-8s on a one race, experimental basis.

Thanks Mark Spencer

Better text to read here:

http://svera.se/blogg/mercury-t-4-ra...nnati-gp-1984/

I guess this two headed monster, was allowed to compete because it had one prop-shaft.
Instead of a dual engine rig competing against OMC V8.

[lars strom]

The London GP 1984 was under the UIM OZ class. No rules. (same thing happened there.)
Not sure what APBA class in Cincinnati 1984..but APBA later changed to only one crankshaft.
Still..did not matter..The Wizard was no good for circuit racing.

London 1984

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Cincinnati 1984.

[Instigator]

I showed up at that race right as they pulled that out of the river.