Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

[lars strom]

“Swim and win” in Nottingham 1981..
http://svera.se/blogg/swim-and-win-in-nottingham-1981/

[lars strom]

My barrel-roll in Nottingham 1981 (above) was peanuts compare to Mark Wilson's flipp in the Merc 2 liter class at the same weekend.

[powerabout]

crikey, thats going to hurt in the morning...

[lars strom]

Nottingham 1981
In the first picture you can see a few OZ-V8 boats mixed with OZ class V6 powered boats.
#19 is Rick Frost, #8 Arthur Mostert. Not sure about the #2 boat.
My Burgess/AKAI F3 boat is also parked there.

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[lars strom]

More from 1981 and OZ-V8 boats mixed with OZ class V6 powered boats.
Not sure who is triving the #4 Velden Racing/Johnson V6 cross-flow. You can see Bob Spalding in the #11 Velden Racing/JPS/Johnson V8 3.5 liter looper.

[lars strom]

“Swim and win” in Nottingham 1981..
http://svera.se/blogg/swim-and-win-in-nottingham-1981/

A few weeks later in Vishy, France John Hill and me was ready for the next Great Duel..the first heat was great for me but crashed out and lost one pickle fork in the turn.
Ended up third..better than John Hill but not good enough to win the World title..yet..next F-3 race was in Holland.

[lars strom]

Steve Pinson driving the #4 Cougar/Carlsberg/Johnson V6 RS. Probably a 2.448 liter cross-flow.

[lars strom]

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[lars strom]

More from 1981 and OZ-V8 boats mixed with OZ class V6 powered boats.
Not sure who is triving the #4 Velden Racing/Johnson V6 cross-flow. You can see Bob Spalding in the #11 Velden Racing/JPS/Johnson V8 3.5 liter looper.

#99 Luigi Baggioli racing the OZ class with a V6 waiting for his new Big Johnson V8 1981.

[lars strom]

Not sure about this picture..but it is Bob Spalding in a white Velden Racing/Johnson F1-V8.

[STEVERINO]

Steve Pinson driving the #4 Cougar/Carlsberg/Johnson V6 RS. Probably a 2.448 liter cross-flow.

The no 4 boat was one of the best boats I ever drove it first ran with a OMC V4 engine then a OMC 2 litre crossflow and later with a OMC 2.5 crossflow it cost less than a third of the price of a Molinari.It was built in a old chapel workshop in Bideford Devon by a young man Desi Roberts.It ran in some rough tough races it led the first half of the 1977 Amsterdam race until it hit got holed and we had to retire it.It ran the 1977 Thames race where it got hold again we figured it was then getting too old and needed to retire and it got sold on to a Norwegian racing driver named Yhan Bach.

[lars strom]

Nice Steverino,
Very few boats have been so lucky with three different engines.

[lars strom]

Windermere 1980.
Bob Spalding driving the #11 Velden Racing/Carlsberg Beer to a OZ class record.
Using a Johnson V6 RS 3 liter looper with fuel injection.

[Dave S]

Great thread but old.... Merc ran a 3.4 mod motor E rude had superfunds$$$$ in to it.

[lars strom]

Great thread but old.... Merc ran a 3.4 mod motor E rude had superfunds$$$$ in to it.

Not sure what you mean Dave S, but the 3.4 liter Merc was called the T-4...

http://svera.se/blogg/paris-6-hours/...a-3-liter-v-6/

Paris Six Hours 1979… OMC overall win. Beats the Merc T-4 with a 3 liter V-6

Paris 6 Hours 1979.
More OMC victories over the Merc T4.

This was the largest factory battle of the year.
Three boats rigged with the big bore V6 -T4 from Team Mercury.
OMC used their 3 liter V6 looper fuel injection and the result couldent get any better.
Cees van der Velden/Tom Posey won in the #4 Velden/Johnson RS 3 liter.. leading 181 laps of the 185 he won with.
Second was Renato Molinari/Barry Woods in the #3 Molinari/Evinrude CCC 3 liter 184 laps.
No Merc T4 finished the race.
How do I know this:
I was there racing the OE/F3 class and finished third with our Sjoberg/Evinrude CC