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World Championship boat racing from Nottingham, UK 1980
Today I received very nice racing pictures from Duncan Parnell a new FB friend of mine.
1980 was a very good year in racing for Sture Sjöberg and me.
Please read my short story and check the pictures out below.
After Sture Sjoberg and I finished third in the Paris Six Hours 1979 with the first F3 boat Sture built in Tullinge, Sweden we where ready for more.
Sture built his second F3 boat with some input from me.
I made sure we got the right power from Evinrude.
Lots of testing and I remember going to Norway to race the new boat in the Scandinavian F3 championship and ended up winning.
Back home for more testing and the next big race was the F3/OE Sprint World Championship race in Nottingham, UK.
The event was on the Bank Holiday early August 1980 at the Holmepierre Point row boat station.
A perfect place for sprint tunnel boat racing.
My #1 Sjoberg/AKAI/Evinrude CC was very fast but difficult to handle.
To much lift but I felt pretty good..and was thinking a top three is possible.
I do not remember exactly how I did in the four heat and three counts but remember I was as fast as Renato Molinari but could not keep up with John Hill.
John was very strong and won the race pretty easy.
I ended up sixth overall and was not very happy with the result.
Back home to boat builder Sture Sjoberg for more modifications on the brand new boat design.
The next big race was Paris Six Hours in early October 1980. We put all our effort in to modify the boat for victory in the most important race in the history of boat racing..
Click link below for 1981 World Championship boat racing from Nottingham
https://svera.se/blogg/the-winners-are-molinari-oz-seebold-on-strom-oe-nottingham-1981/
Lasse Strom in his #1 Sjoberg/Evinrude CC
John Hill in his #52 Burgess/Evinrude CC
Renato Molinari in his #65 Molinari/Evinrude CC
Carlo Columbo in his #46 Molinari/Evinrude CC
New boat with Petestep design winning races.
V-150 class racing in Smögen, Sweden.
Driver Ulf Brandstrom Co-Pilot Mikael Vesala
The brand new PV 150 racing boat is based upon a R&D vessel from Petestep. Racing gives an opportunity to stress test things and we are getting good feedback, but also wins!
Powered by Evinrude E-TEC 150H.O.
The Petestep technology will be launched later in 2015. Keep a special eye on the HOC 33P from HOC Yachts in September 2015, the first production boat with a Petestep hull.
The V-150 class have a limitation for the engine height. I think the fastest V-150 boats are just under 70 knots.. (79 MPH)
Smögen Offshore race 2015
V-150 class winner trophy´s
Result Friday below
Result Saturday below
Overall result Friday and Saturday below.
Result Class V-300 Oskarshamn, Sweden July 4 2015
1 X‐27 Marcus Friberg / Anton Skwirut. 40.54 Evinrude V6 G2 H.O.
2 X‐163 Björn‐Olof Schutzer / Stefan Schutzer. 45.52 Mercury V6 XS
3 X‐135 Håkan Jimstad / Johan Hesse. 49.03 Mercury V6 XS
DNF X‐392 Jesper Zander / Linus Johnson. Mercury V6 XS
DNS X‐150 Topi Nieminen / Björn Rasmussen. Mercury V6 XS
Pretty interesting..the X-27 was five minutes ahead of the second place boat.
Drivers put Evinrude in the winners circle.
There was a lot of boat racing going on in Oskarshamn, Sweden this weekend.
World Championship in Offshore 3, Class A, B and C.
First I like to congratulate the World Champions
William Söderlind & Marcus Grönvall Class A
Hotshot/Evinrude 115H.O.
Veronica Olderin & Kristina Coleman Class B
Twister Cat/ Merc 115XS
I really think Veronica deserve this title after many years of excellent driving.
Mikael Bengtsson & Marie Bengtsson Class C
If I remember right this is Mikaels second World title in Oskarshamn but this time with family on board.
Twister Cat/Merc 200XS
There was also Swedish championship race in the V-150, W-150 and V-300 classes.
Evinrude outboards was used and raced in all the classes above except the 3C class. (Only purpose built race outboards with 15 inch mid sections are used in the 3C)
In class A William Söderlind & Marcus Grönvall was really strong and won all three races with Evinrude 115H.O.
In class B Gustaf Lindén & Lina Thorén did good but not good enough this time. I was pretty sure Thomas & Annika Wrenkler was going to win the title with Evinrude power as they did a few years ago but no luck this year.
Well, they won the last race Saturday and ended up third overall.
Veronica Olderin & Kristina Coleman was outstanding.
Class C is Mercury only. Still good fun racing.
In Class V-150 Ulf Brändström & Magnus Nordgren won Friday driving a brand new boat #122 with Evinrude 150H.O.
In Class W-150 Conny Hertz & Micke Hultin drove #89 Twister Cat/Evinrude 150 H.O. to victory both Friday and Saturday.
Team Kemetyl – Andreas Gustafsson & Stefan Exerman did very good Saturday by driving #134 Nitra/Evinrude 150H.O. to victory.
In my opinion the most interesting win was Marcus Friberg & Anton Skwirut.
Also Team Kemetyl.
The brand new Nitra boat X-27 powered by the new Evinrude 250H.O G2 won the V-300 class both Friday and Saturday ahead of all the Merc in the same class.
This was the first boat race ever for the new Evinrude G2 and two victories in two days is the best possible result.
You can see that production/stock Evinrude outboards won a lot of racing in Oskarshamn.
I really enjoy boat racing and maybe one day the good smart people running the BRP/Evinrude factory will make a descision to start supporting racing to sell more Evinrude outboards.
Trust me..I am doing my best to push this issue..
Again thanks to all race drivers using Evinrude power.
Pictures by Pickla. Thanks a lot.
First a happy William Söderlind and Marcus Grönvall.
