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10-04-2019, 08:41 PM #39616000 RPM
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10-05-2019, 09:44 PM #39628000 RPM
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Angelo Molinari's boat shop and home, near Como, Italy.
This is Angelo Molinari's home & shop in the Cernobbio area near Como, Italy.
When i visited the house in 1971, Angelo was building a wooden cruiser (approximately a 30 footer). The cruiser was in the shop, inside the big opening in the left of the attached photo.
Angelo and his wife lived in the house attached to the shop (on the right side of the photo). Renato Molinari's two younger brothers were still living in this house in 1971. Renato had his race boat shop on Lake Como, but Angelo shop was not on the lakefront.
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10-06-2019, 01:25 AM #39648000 RPM
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Cees van der Veldon persona non grata, in the Molinari shop's hull construction area.
In 1973 Cees vander Veldon told me, that Renato Molinari said he, Cees was not allowed to enter the middle floor (2nd floor) of the Como race shop. The 2nd floor is where the carpenters built the wooden hulls.
Cees told me this prior to the Paris and Amsterdam races. And if I remember correctly Bill Seebold was also forbidden to enter the 2nd floor too. And in 1973 Cees and Bill were co-drivers at Paris that year. And apparently Renato must have sensed or got wind of, Cees and Seebold intentions of being future rival race-boat builders.
I can attest that from 1971 through 1973, that the boat rigging and engine shop were on the bottom floor (see lakeside race shop photo). The long narrow windows (two rows high above Motonautica) is the 2nd floor. And the covered rooftop (3rd floor) is boat storage area, and where Roy Ridgell had his office on the north east corner.
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10-06-2019, 07:15 AM #3965
My suspicion is being banned from the second floor and Renato's contining policy of 2 different boats for the Merc team is what got Bill and Cees into building their own boats
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10-06-2019, 01:38 PM #39668000 RPM
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Mercury top 4 finishers at Havasu 1970, and Bob Hering's - Hot Single 4th overall.
New York Times – January 24th, 1971 article.
It was a rather lean year for Kiekhaefer Mercury outboards in the winner's circle, but the big‐engine manufacturer capped its 1970 racing campaign with an awesome display of power in the outboard world championship at Lake Havasu City, Ariz.
Hulls propelled by Mercury power plants finished one, two, three, four in the $60,000 Havasu event to reestablish a dominance, according to United Press International. Mercury had held the No. 1 spot since the race's inception in 1964 but had lost it in 1969 to its major rival, Outboard Marine Corporation, the maker of Evinrude and Johnson motors.
A boat powered by two Evinrudes and driven by Cesare Scotti of Nesso, Italy, won the 1969 outboard world championship and O.M.C. powered hulls went on in 1970 to win the big class in the national outboard plea sure craft championships and the Six Hours of Paris and Six Hours of Berlin endurance events.
But Mercury came back with a vengeance in the Havasu competition at year's end when Bill Sirois of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with twin Mercs on a Molinari tunnel hull, roared to victory and the first prize of $18,000 in record time.
Sirois, a 10‐year veteran of powerboat racing and a standout on Mercury's crack racing team, covered 640 miles on the four‐mile Havasu course in eight hours of competition, averaging 79.25 miles an hour. This erased Scotti's record of the previous year — 584 miles at 73 m.p.h.
Finishing behind him in second, third and fourth places, respectively—all using Mercurys and Molinari hulls— were Jim Merten of ?? Wis.; Renato Molinari, Como, Italy, and Bob Hering, Sheyboygan, Wis.
Merten and Molinari, like Sirois, were using twin engines. Hering, with a single engine, captured top honors in that division.
O.M.C. managed to get three finishers in the top 10 — Jerry Craig, Bayton, Tex., who finished fifth; H. T. McCune, Denver, seventh, and Bruce G. Leach, Hawaiian Gardens, Calif., ninth.
Sirois iced the Mercury cake by clocking the fastest lap in Havasu history—85‐ 707 m.p.h.
Where Mercury dominated the power plants in the 1970 outboard world champion ship, Molinari, as it did in 1969, outclassed the other racing hulls. The first 10 finishers piloted Molinaris.
The high‐flying tunnel hulls were designed by Angelo Molinari, the father of the third place driver, Renato Molinari of Italy. They have revolutionized outboard racing in the United States and Europe. The driver “flies” the boat with just the rearward tips of the hulls touching the water.
So it's back to the drawing board for O.M.C., and one can be sure that Mercury will not rest on its laurels.
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Mercury blue race jacket, & 1970 winners T-shirt was Lake X Kid favorite race attire
Does anyone remember the Tee Shirt, that had the three 1970 Havasu winners on it?
The shirt had a photo of Sirios winning boat, then below was 2nd place Merten, and beneath was 3rd place Renato. The three Molinari race boats each had dual Mercs.
Renato Molinari gave me that shirt when I arrived in Como, Italy in 1971. Now when I reflect on that moment, I am surprised how Renato seemed to proud of achieving 3rd overall (or was he just happy in giving me a gift). I wore that T-shirt at most of the European races. Sentimentally I wish I had that shirt now.
Renato's 3rd place boat in photo below.
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Rick LaMore my hotel roommate (I should say I his) at Paris, Amsterdam & Koblenz too.
Rick LaMore was a gentleman. I was prone to go hang with Bob Spalding in evenings away from the race course, or join Don Pruett on some of his late night outings, but not Rick.
At the Amsterdam race, Gary Garbretch told Rick and I to stay at the canal near the hotel, in case one of the drivers arrived with mechanical issues during the race. We could not see the race course from this canal position. I did not voice my disappointment but it must of have registered on my face, because like an older brother Rick tried to console me, of us not witnessing the race.
And then after the Bristol race in 1973. Rick and my younger brother drove a company van back to Como, Italy. And one of my high school buddies that summer came to Europe, and after the race, I told Rick to let us off in Paris (my friend wanted to see the Eiffel Tower). So in the van we hit Paris stop and go traffic, and when we could see the tower, I had Rick pull over and let us out.
We were doing the Eurail Pass for 60 days, and after Paris, my friend and I headed to Pamplona Spain for the running of the bulls.
Thanks Rick for the friendship. And also tolerating me, when I came back late to the Koblenz hotel room, after having found some female companionship earlier.
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10-06-2019, 04:45 PM #39708000 RPM
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10-12-2019, 08:38 AM #39718000 RPM
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Bristol one of the best races on the European circuit.
Bristol is going to be one of the best races on the circuit, Roy Ridgell tells Gary Garbrecht. Also in this letter to POWERBOAT, Gary mentions Bob Hering set a new World S Class Straightaway Kilometer Record on June 9th.
In the new Picklefork Molinari, Bob averaged 118.359, and with a run bettering 121 miles per hour. This surpasses the old record held by Evinrude Scotti boat at 116.538 miles per hour.
Let me get back to Bristol, one of my favorite race courses. I agree with Roy (my dad) and I will explain later.
As Willabee says “to be continued.”
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Bristol was one of the greatest shows on water, for Hot Singles.
Bristol was one of the greatest shows on water, for Hot Singles. It was an exciting atmosphere with spectators surrounding the bull ring. Onlookers watching raceboats not only turn left, but negotiate right-handed bends in the race course too. And there was not a bad seat —standing area— at the facility to watch a boat race. Albeit the race organizers were surprised, at the large attendance by race fans in 1973, for the 2nd annual race.
As I remember the Cigarette Girls were there too. The Marlboro women in hot pants passing out free samples to the crowd. It must of, gave Cees vander Velden an extra race incentive, being his sponsor was in attendance. I do not remember if there were John Player Special cigarette girls in attendance too.
One of the surprise heat races was, watching the 850 cc class race. I do not overly exaggerate, when I say, their tunnel bows were pointing near 45 degrees in the air. It was a crowd pleaser, to watch those hulls walk across the waves. And they got to showcase there performances separately, without the faster ON class boats overshadowing their show, like in Paris or Parker. A venue where each race-classes, runs in their own celebrated events.
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10-13-2019, 10:26 AM #3975
Misfire .....
Didn't mean to leave this hanging, just can't find the answer that I posted about it several years ago and I wanted to be consistent. I thought it was a few pages after the question, but I've searched and can't find it.
The 1350 stacker powerhead on the stock 1350 dsh cut out on top end due to a harmonic vibration that came from the stacks through the rubber motor mounts. Everyone knows that simple harmonic motion is a special type of periodic motion or oscillation where the restoring force is directly proportional to the displacement and acts in the direction opposite to that of displacement. In other words, install solid mounts and your problem goes away!