Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

[lars strom]

Picture above..!!

You can see Cees Van Der Velden in boat #3 hanging in the slings with his Johnson V6 Stinger RS, Bristol was one of his first races with OMC/Johnson 1975.

[lars strom]

Believe it or not..but the Johnson RS V6 3 liter, looper with fuel injection needs to gas up sometimes. Bob Spalding is doing the fill up..!!
This is in Drammen, Norway 1979
Thanks Marcus Weman.

[WaterZebra]

Believe it or not..but the Johnson RS V6 3 liter, looper with fuel injection needs to gas up sometimes. Bob Spalding is doing the fill up..!!
This is in Drammen, Norway 1979
Thanks Marcus Weman.

Hmmmm................what's the bottle located aft of the fuel tank for? Nitros or water brake?

[WaterZebra]

Thanks Fast on Water.

I can't recall ever seeing Velden run anything but Johnson and likewise with Molinari running just Evinrude. I have a vague memory of Sacramento CA 1985 with Spalding running Evinrude? Salabert was Johnson only. Who at OMC decided on which driver got which brand? Marketing potential? The Mercury / Mariner mix in the 80s was completely bizarre.

[Lake X Kid]

I can't recall ever seeing Velden run anything but Johnson and likewise with Molinari running just Evinrude. I have a vague memory of Sacramento CA 1985 with Spalding running Evinrude? Salabert was Johnson only. Who at OMC decided on which driver got which brand? Marketing potential? The Mercury / Mariner mix in the 80s was completely bizarre.

In 1973 whilst Velden & Molinari were still Merc pilots, (and before they eventually became team OMC members) James Bond was driving Evinrude --- 50 years ago.

[Lake X Kid]

Betty got an Evinrude powered Bass Boat.

And I wonder if OMC got some free advertising from Pam Tillis' video (Pam is the daughter of the late singer Mel Tillis).

[Lake X Kid]

[Lake X Kid]

Regarding OMC V6 advertising.

“Our ring design allows combustion pressure to push the rings close to the cylinder walls”.

I am skeptical about this selling point, and it being legit mechanically. The rings pushing away from the piston’s circumference outward towards the cylinder wall.

And, if the rings do such, then surely, there will be combustion leakage between the piston rings & the piston grooves. Negating “power from leaking out”.

[lars strom]

I can't recall ever seeing Velden run anything but Johnson and likewise with Molinari running just Evinrude. I have a vague memory of Sacramento CA 1985 with Spalding running Evinrude? Salabert was Johnson only. Who at OMC decided on which driver got which brand? Marketing potential? The Mercury / Mariner mix in the 80s was completely bizarre.

In my opinion OMC never told any driver to pick Johnson or Evinrude..It was more up the the drivers choice..for a number of reasons.

[lars strom]

Hmmmm................what's the bottle located aft of the fuel tank for? Nitros or water brake?

Air operated brakes..Did never really worked.

[Mark Poole ModVP]

Let's see how good my memory is.
Evinrude cowls...McConnell, Woods, May, Scotti, Pelster, Molinari, Larson, Strom, Herring

Johnson cowls...Posey, Witt, Sanders, Nordskog, Velden, Spalding, Robertson, Thibidaux (spell)

Peter Thornywork would run both. Percival too. Seems Clive Hook and Alf Bullen ran Evinrudes.

OMC always ran Evinrudes on the straightaway record boats. Not sure why they did not want to use Johnson for that.

[STEVERINO]

Let's see how good my memory is.
Evinrude cowls...McConnell, Woods, May, Scotti, Pelster, Molinari, Larson, Strom, Herring

Johnson cowls...Posey, Witt, Sanders, Nordskog, Velden, Spalding, Robertson, Thibidaux (spell)

Peter Thornywork would run both. Percival too. Seems Clive Hook and Alf Bullen ran Evinrudes.

OMC always ran Evinrudes on the straightaway record boats. Not sure why they did not want to use Johnson for that.

From 1970 to 1979 i ran with Johnson cowls apart from 2 races only i was told to use Evinrude cowls just to even the balance between brands.

[lars strom]

From 1970 to 1979 i ran with Johnson cowls apart from 2 races only i was told to use Evinrude cowls just to even the balance between brands.

Steve Pinson, UK. Molinari/Johnson V-6 RS. (Racing Special)

[lars strom]

See..I am a lucky OMC race driver..

I raced the #47 Burgess/Johnson RS and the #1 Burgess/Evinrude CC in the UIM F3/OE class.





I also raced the #29 Molinari/Saffa/Johnson V6 RS and the #11 Molinari/Saffa/Evinrude V6 CCC

[lars strom]

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