Lars Strom

Shaun Torrente of Sunny Florida win UIM F1 in Doha, Qatar.

15 November, 2014 Published by: Lars Strom

I think this was Shaun’s best drive ever..nobody was close to beat him. A few close calls in the race but this time luck was on Shaun’s side.

There was hard racing between the two Swedish drivers, but Jonas Andersson ended up ahead of Stark.

A mix of picture and result.

General News

November 10 1985 was a very, very sad day.

11 November, 2014 Published by: Lars Strom

My boating friend Pelle Lindbergh crashed his red Porsche 911 Turbo in to a concrete wall in New Jersey and died the day after.
There is so many good memories from our boating summers in Sweden.
Maybe one day I have to write a book about all the fun we had together.
Trips to Gotland, Utö, Möja, Sandhamn and Wermdö Golf & Country Club in my Flying Flipper boat.
All the soccer games he made me be part of..
Well..I visited Pelle in his home in Marlton, New Jersey a few times and did see
him play hockey for Philadelphia Flyers.
Pelle was one of the best goalies ever..

Rest in peace my friend..I will never forget you.

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Pelle and I had a plan to go Offshore racing together 1986.

We asked Michael Peters to design a cat for 3 X Evinrude F1-V8 Offshore engines and I made a deal with OMC for engine support.

The last picture is a similar looking boat to ours.

A postcard Pelle sent me a few weeks before the accident.
Pelle was in Pittsburgh and he know I like to race my F1-V8 boat there with #8. He made a little race boat on the postcard

Pelle at the Stockholm GP for F1-V8 boats 1985.
You can see me behind Pelle

My Flying Flipper we used 1985

Pelle in his own boat. A Century 30 Day-cruiser.

General News

A Rotary – (Wankel) wins the 2 liter class in Paris 6 hours 1970.

8 November, 2014 Published by: Lars Strom

Yes, I have totally forgot about this but two friends of mine drove a
V-bottom boat powered with a NSU Rotary (Wankel) to victory in the UIM Class R-3. (Max 2 liter inboards)

Here is a few pictures of Krusenstierna and Zetterstrom´s green Joker boat # 115 powered by a NSU Rotary – (Wankel)

Red arrow.

This boat was used in many races in Sweden over a few years and was doing very good.

Pictures by Wilfried Weiland