Outboard Racing

Great boat racing news from Italy this morning..
Emanuela Procaccini and Francesco Musti are racing a Soffio Rib with 2 X Evinrude E-TEC G2 in the European and World Championship endurance group B 2018.
Here is a copy of the message from my very good friend Emanuela this morning.

Ciaooooo Lasse,
“I just write you to inform you that from this year I will race as well with Evinrude engine!!!
I will take part with the Soffio rib to European and World Championship endurance group B.
Happy to became part of Evinrude family!!”

Emanuela

I wish them both all the luck you can get and looking forward the see the first race in 20 days.

 I had the opportunity to met Gene at many races overseas.
A great man/racer. Here is a mix of pictures to honor his superb racing.

R.I.P my friend.

CHARLES DANIEL STRANG, JR.
April 12, 1921 – March 11, 2018.

I remember when I first met Charlie at the Paris 6 Hour race in the early seventies.
My Evinrude friends told me to go up to him and present myself.
Well..I was not sure if that was the right thing to do..
The CEO and President of Outboard Marine Corporation and the maker of Evinrude/Johnson outboards may not have any interest talking to a very young race driver from Sweden.
I finally did and to my surprise Charlie was very friendly and asked about my race boat.
If I remember right his mother was with him also.
My friends asked me what Charlie told me but I was so stressed out and needed to sit down.
Later I met Charlie many times as an Evinrude dealer and race driver. He was always friendly and its a big honor to have done a lot of outboard business with a marine icon like Charlie D. Strang.
The Evinrude Super Strangler was probably named after Charlie but I don’t know that for sure.
I spent a few hours digging up every picture I could find on the internet of the famous Evinrude Super Strangler race engine and here they are in a mixed order. (Close to fifty)
Starting with a few pictures of Charlie Strang.

Charlie Strang and Ralph Evinrude in the picture below.

Benny Robertson´s record setting 141 MPH qualifying lap in his #57 SE/Johnson F1-V8 put him on the pole in Texas 1986.

Maybe time for clean and green F1-V8 racing again..❤️👍🏻
New leadership at the Evinrude headquarter.

Evinrude E-TEC G2 Formula 1 – V8 4.5 liter