Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

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Cancun, Mexico for the New Years Eve celebrations

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Thanks Erik Nordskog.
(Charlie Strang for people who don’t know)
This is an original drawing by the great Powerboat Magazine art director, John Whorral.

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Thanks Erik Nordskog.
(Charlie Strang for people who don’t know)
This is an original drawing by the great Powerboat Magazine art director, John Whorral.

Jim Nerstrom

That’s a great picture. Thanks to Charlie’s interest in racing I got to design the V6 and V8 outboards shown

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#11 Bob Spalding and #12 Bertil Wik.
Hodges/Evinrude F1-V8 fuel injection 6 inch mid section.
The year is 1985

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This is my little office in my Evinrude dealership the first year I started (1975) You can see the OMC racing poster on the wall with my
Clerici-Evinrude 65 SS 1973.

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HaaHaa the Evinrude t-shirt did not protect me from getting wet..
Swimming in a pool is not my priority..
— at Ocean Maya Royale Pool Bar.

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Midnight Express 32'

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Tom Percival F1 Stockholm GP 1984.
Tom was using the ITC as his sponsor. I also drove for ITC (International Travel Card) in the race before Paris, but used my own Evinrude dealership as my sponsor in Stockholm GP 1984.

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How did the front spoiler work out?

-BL

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@BLisBack!

I tried front spoilers on my UIM SE class Clerici, OE class Burgess and my F1-V8 Burgess but could never get any better lap time with the front spoiler.
Thats my experience no matter what someone else says..

The front spoiler was a got spot for sponsors..

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Tom Percival F1 Stockholm GP 1984.
Tom was using the ITC as his sponsor. I also drove for ITC (International Travel Card) in the race before Paris, but used my own Evinrude dealership as my sponsor in Stockholm GP 1984.

Tom was using the ITC as his sponsor. I also drove for ITC (International Travel Card) in the race before Paris, but used my own Evinrude dealership as my sponsor in Stockholm GP 1984.



Here is a poorly quality picture from my #8 boat in Paris with ITC sponsorship. Tom and I was driving for the same team..!!.

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Did Tom's boat have one of those early safety capsule boxes beneath the cowl?

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Thanks Erik Nordskog.
(Charlie Strang for people who don’t know)
This is an original drawing by the great Powerboat Magazine art director, John Whorral.

Not many people know this but Charlie was heavily involved in NASCAR..

[WaterZebra]

Strang had hoped the NASCAR business model would be replicated on the F1 V8 program but the sponsorship did not line up like it did for NASCAR.