Moore boats is the new F1 boat to have if you like to win UIM F1 races.

World Champ Chiappe made it look so easy.

One yellow flag/restart when Jesper Forss of Sweden crashed out hard. He is OK

World Champ Chiappe of France starts from the point..

This was the last year for the F1-V8 series in Europe. After the race promotor “Pro One” spent three years budget in one year OMC moved all the F1-V8 racing back home to US of A.

#1 Cees van der Velden – # 2 Arthur Mostert – # 3 Francois Salabert – # 4 Peter Lindenberg – # 5 Gene Thibodaux – # 6 Ricky Frost – # 14 Fred Steinberg – # 57 Ben Robertson

Pictures by Fred Enemy.
Thank you

Here it is..the OMC race engine/powerhead Cees van der Velden and Renato Molinari used to win many 2 liter UIM ON class World Championship titles.
I had the opportunity to race a Team Saffa ON boat 1978 for Renato Molinari  in Italy with this type of engine.
The OMC 2 liter V6 looper engine was way more powerful then the Merc 2 liter engine but OMC never made very many. Instead they built the 3 liter looper with carb and fuel injection for the OZ class and later the famous F1-V8 engine.
Velden won the ON World title 1975 in Cardiff, GB..see pictures below (the #1 boat) Fred Hauenstein was a big part of developing this engine.
1979/1980 Molinari won the ON World title using this type of power.

First picture #12 below  is Cees van der Velden in Paris 6 Hours 1975 running a new cross-flow 2 liter V-6 from OMC.

The second picture #29 is me (Lasse Strom) driving the Molinari/Saffa/Johnson V-6 RS 2 liter at Idroscalo, Italy September 1978.

Result from Cardiff, UK September 1975

Yes this is from Renatos final F1-V8 race 1985. He left the F1-V8 series for Offshore racing 1986.

Bertil Wik in the #12 Hodges/Evinrude V8, next boat is #2 Arthur Mostert in his Velden racing/Johnson V8 and Renato in his #18 Molinari/Dole/Evinrude V8.

Not sure about the Nordica boat. Barrie Woods or Kicco Vidoli is my best guess. This is from Idroscalo, Milano.

Thanks Oliver Keuth‎ for a very good picture.