Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

**lars strom** · 01-28-2018, 09:40 AM

Fred Hauenstein won the Charles D. Strang Ultimate Service Award at the American Powerboat Association banquet yesterday
Congratulations Fred..

**Mark75H** · 01-28-2018, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by lars strom

Fred Hauenstein won the Charles D. Strang Ultimate Service Award at the American Powerboat Association banquet yesterday
Congratulations Fred

Could not go to a nicer or more deserving individual!

**lars strom** · 01-28-2018, 01:19 PM

Ben Robertson is probably one of the best boat racing drivers ever. His experience is enormous from F1-V8 to Offshore racing and he use to have the World Fastest V bottom record.
Now is a plan to retake the record and I feel pretty comfortable he is the right man to do it.
Its a risky operation so be careful my friend..

Changes Made for in-Cockpit Team for Speed Record attempt.

https://pokerrunsamerica.com/changes...ecord-attempt/

**lars strom** · 01-28-2018, 04:25 PM

I just talked to Ben Robertson and there is a lot of misinformation out about the record attempt run..the info in my post above is "fake news"
The new purpose built Fountain is going to be set up for Ben only.
He is going to drive and control the throttles
This is great news because I think its safer set up.
The first two pictures is Ben in Stockholm, Sweden last summer. He was asked the drive the Fountain 42 he rigged with 2 X Merc 1350.
The next two pictures is the new purpose built Fountain for the record run. The power is going to be 2 X 1950 Sterling engines.

**lars strom** · 01-29-2018, 03:39 AM

Today January 29 is my best friend and wife's birthday. For over 30 years ago I asked Carina to leave Sweden for "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" in the USA.
If I have told her 30 years ago we are going to end up living in a "house on wheels"..maybe we still had been in Sweden..

Thanks, hugs and Happy Birthday Carina.

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I was looking for one picture but could not pick the right one..here is all of them.

**FUJIMO** · 01-29-2018, 08:47 AM

Happy Birthday and Anniversary you two!

(Does this mean you sold your house in Port St. Lucie Lars?)

**lars strom** · 01-29-2018, 12:13 PM

Originally Posted by FUJIMO

Happy Birthday and Anniversary you two!

(Does this mean you sold your house in Port St. Lucie Lars?)

Thanks FUJIMO, yes we have been "fulltiming" for over a year.

https://www.your-rv-lifestyle.com/fulltiming.html

**STEVERINO** · 01-29-2018, 02:11 PM

Originally Posted by Mark75H

Could not go to a nicer or more deserving individual!

Just over 40 yrs ago I first met Fred Hauenstein now that was a long time ago he was at the OMC European racing factory in Brugge Belgium. OMC had just taken delivery of some new 18ft Molinari racing boats and Fred was helping Ron Anderson to fit the fuel injection systems to all the new 2.5 crossflow engines I think they may have been 6 or 7 identical Molinari outfits they were being prepared for the 1977 Paris 6hr race Fred was over with his brother to race one of these outfits. Now I thought Fred was part of the factory team but he told me OMC didn`t like the idea of a employee racing boats so Fred and his brother had bought one of these Molinari boats for themselves to race and taken holiday leave from work he did tell me he had built his own engine for this race and was very helpful to all the other competitors he was a real gentleman and helped everyone there.

**John Schubert** · 01-29-2018, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by STEVERINO

Just over 40 yrs ago I first met Fred Hauenstein now that was a long time ago he was at the OMC European racing factory in Brugge Belgium. OMC had just taken delivery of some new 18ft Molinari racing boats and Fred was helping Ron Anderson to fit the fuel injection systems to all the new 2.5 crossflow engines I think they may have been 6 or 7 identical Molinari outfits they were being prepared for the 1977 Paris 6hr race Fred was over with his brother to race one of these outfits. Now I thought Fred was part of the factory team but he told me OMC didn`t like the idea of a employee racing boats so Fred and his brother had bought one of these Molinari boats for themselves to race and taken holiday leave from work he did tell me he had built his own engine for this race and was very helpful to all the other competitors he was a real gentleman and helped everyone there.

Steve,
I wa an employee driving for the T*A*R*T team funded indirectly by O M C granted the Executive VP but with factory race team engines. In the states that meant that I had to compete in S class.

**Rotary John** · 01-29-2018, 04:54 PM

Hello Fred and congratulations. Last time I remember talking with you was at St Louis race talking about hi-sil pistons.

**lars strom** · 01-29-2018, 07:12 PM

Ben Robertson is a master!!! If anyone can get the job done it will be him!!! Great person and he runs a great shop BAR Marine!!!

Click the link for the short video with Ben.
What goes into building and fine tuning a kilo boat? Ben Robertson gives us some insight.

https://www.facebook.com/FountainPow...SkcrmVgdadGvp0

**Rotary John** · 01-29-2018, 07:26 PM

John: I seem to recall you were working for Lawnboy at the time, while Fred was working at Marine Engineering. I don't think Leek wanted any rivalry between Fred and Jimbo. Fred had direct access to all the dyno, info, machine shop etc. while Jimbo had only remote access. Wasn't that EVP Jim Briggs? Major OMC stockholder and in charge of the Lawnboy division?

**John Schubert** · 01-29-2018, 08:26 PM

Originally Posted by Rotary John

John: I seem to recall you were working for Lawnboy at the time, while Fred was working at Marine Engineering. I don't think Leek wanted any rivalry between Fred and Jimbo. Fred had direct access to all the dyno, info, machine shop etc. while Jimbo had only remote access. Wasn't that EVP Jim Briggs? Major OMC stockholder and in charge of the Lawnboy division?

Yes it was Jim Briggs who coincidentally was bringing his boys in to racing & I guess at least my father thought so, I was to be their mentor as well as drive & manage the team. Actually I was with OMC Lincoln, OMC’s non Marine products group. But John, each tech that built the powerhead s knew what the hp was of what they built for each race. HP of the engines was the determining factor as to which driver was assigned which engine decided by Jack after Jimbo getting the best one.

**lars strom** · 01-30-2018, 09:50 AM

Originally Posted by John Schubert

Yes it was Jim Briggs who coincidentally was bringing his boys in to racing & I guess at least my father thought so, I was to be their mentor as well as drive & manage the team.

I meet the Briggs brothers in Paris 1974. I remember all the talk about the Briggs family and how powerful the Briggs family was within OMC.
The #30 ON class Scotti/Evinrude Super Strangler V6 2 liter cross-flow had a beautiful paint job and in was painful to see the #30 boat in pieces after the race.

The first picture is me on the inside of the Briggs brothers boat.
39 boats in the OE class..!!