The owner of the beautiful restored GOLD DUST/Molinari/Evinrude V6 CCC Rich Luhrs asked the Canadian boat racing champ Mark Rotharmel to drive his GOLD DUST during the Classic Raceboat Association event this weekend. Like the good old days..team owners and drivers.
Take a closer look at this beauty with race # 754
This is looking really good. Well done Mercury Racing
Many large thumbs up to Mercury Marine and Mercury Racing for producing a new High Performance outboard.
http://www.mercuryracing.com/outboards/engines/race-offshore/
Back in the early eighties I was pushing OMC Europe really hard to get in to the F1-V8 racing. OMC’s George Lamy was in charge for finding sponsorship and late 1982 I signed Aspen Racing Jackets from Rouen, France as my main sponsor for the 1983 season.
I was racing F3 during the 1982 season and become a good friend of Luigi Baggioli from Como, Italy.
Luigi was racing F1-V8 in his red #99 Velden/Johnson V8 1982 and told me he was retiring after the season.
He offered me his Johnson V8 for a very good deal after the race season.
I started up my pickup truck in Sweden and drove to Baggioli’s place in Como, Italy and purchased his slightly used powerhouse.
OMC gave me a new Evinrude cowling and a new spare powerhead.
So my #8 Burgess/Aspen/Evinrude was really a Johnson V8 from start, but I turned it in to an Evinrude and enjoyed the F1-V8 series 1983.
Thanks Luigi Baggioli, it was a pleasure doing outboard business with you.
The red arrow first picture is Baggioli and his red #99 Velden/Johnson. The second picture I did found today. Last picture is my #8 Burgess/Aspen/and now Evinrude V8..
EDIT: November 5 2015 in the morning.
This is pretty incredible..I just got this from Luigi Baggioli thanks to FaceBook…
The meanest, baddest, fastest and most loved F1-V8 race outboard ever built. 30 years later it is still the fastest outboard the world have ever seen..!!
The first UIM F1-V8 race for the most powerful racing outboard in the history of outboard racing was in Brodenbach, Germany 1981.
https://svera.se/blogg/f1-v8/forst-till-bojen/
The last six pictures above with thanks to Tim Schroer.
Thanks Freddie Webb for the four pictures above.
Maybe a wake up call for struggling boat racers without sponsorship.
Just sign up and catch the rights size fish and collect $70,000.00
This is from Lake of the Ozarks today..
