Outboard Racing

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

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.

 

 

Yesterday was a new step for Marcus Friberg and his Nitra Boats.
A brand new race boat was tested for the first time just north of Stockholm.
This is also as far as I know the first Evinrude 250H.O V6 G2 used for boat racing.
A new boat, engine and class for Marcus and his Co-Pilot Anton Skwirut 2015.
This boat is built for the Offshore V-300 class and the plan is to go racing this weekend in Oskarshamn, Sweden.
Many new things must work..for example the “Fly By Wire” foot throttle from Evinrude, but if I know Marcus right it is going to be mostly wide open throttle.

The X-27 race boat was running extremely good yesterday and Marcus need bigger propellers for the powerful engine and I was told there is bigger props in the mail..

The new G2 from Evinrude is already famous for extremely good fuel mileage and less fuel on board is another advantage.

Well I wish Team Kemetyl a fun race season and stay tuned for more.

http://www.teamkemetylracing.com/

Check this black beauty out..

 

 

I strongly believe performance and racing outboards is good to promote and sell more outboards.
The new Evinrude E-TEC G2 is already a great success. Lots of power and best in fuel economy. On top of that the cleanest outboard in the world.

I wish Evinrude took my advice and started a performance division for us that love speed and competition.
After some computer help i came up with this.
The outstanding Evinrude E-TEC G2 Formula One V8.
We added two more cylinders to the current G2 V6 and here it is..
A 4.5 liter very powerful V8, fuel efficient and extremely clean outboard.
Is it going to be reality for racing..probably not but dreaming is what keep many people alive..

A production 400+ HP  Evinrude E-TEC G2  4.5 liter V8 is also a must to keep up with Mercury and Yamaha.

Enjoy
Lars Strom

 

This is extremely good news and a new step for Shaun to be the 2015 UIM F1 World Champ.

“The 36 year-old American driver from Miami, Florida, who had multiple offers to stay within the UIM F1 H2O tour, is going to be represented by the Victory Team and will run an Italian BABA hull supported by the organization based out of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates”

Picture from the St. Louis F1 race 2008 by Lars Strom