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    This is from the SE Class European Championship race in Nora, Sweden 1976.
    Lars Strom in his #1 Clerici/Evinrude FT-19s.
    http://svera.se/blogg/racing-histori...tles-in-a-row/
    Thank you Jørgen Jørgensen for the picture and good memories.
    I rigged this Clerici with a Ray Nydahl foot throttle and complete steering kit Ray sent me to Sweden.
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    This is from London GP 1985. Its me in my overpowered Burgess F1-V8 boat.
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    Check my own racing history at BRF...http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forum...ead.php?t=6727

    My racing web site SVERA.se....http://svera.se/blogg/paris-6-hours/
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    F1-V8 racing video from 1985..enjoy..!!

    Lars Strom

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    Check my own racing history at BRF...http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forum...ead.php?t=6727

    My racing web site SVERA.se....http://svera.se/blogg/paris-6-hours/
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    Lars, Great video. Having never seen a F1-V8 race, it looks like they were brutally hard on the boats from the video. Can you walk a non-driver through how it was to be in the cockpit of one of these beasts. The jetty start. The first turn. The acceleration. Had to be amazing to drive.
    Thanks for all the posts and photos.

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    Hi Dan,

    Thats a very good question..takes a long answer. I get back to you ASAP.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lars Strom View Post
    Hi Dan,

    Thats a very good question..takes a long answer. I get back to you ASAP.
    accelerates like JPS F1 car I thought?
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    APBA news
    Fred Hauenstein won the Charles D. Strang Ultimate Service Award at the American Powerboat Association banquet yesterday
    Congratulations Fred..
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    Default Francois Salabert of France.

    I have been asked what really happen to Francois Salabert of France.
    Here is a short story with a very sad end..

    My former OE class and F1-V8 friend/racing buddy Francois Salabert was racing the F1-V8 series very successfully from 1981 to 1989 in Europe and the USA. I think he won a F1-V8 race, maybe two..Always driving for Velden Racing. (Salabert also raced the F1-V8 race in Bristol 1982)
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    Late, (after the 1989 season) OMC cut back on the US F1-V8 racing and Salabert went to Mercury and raced the ON 2 liter series 1990..
    He started up the 1990 season by winning Parker Enduro.
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    Next big race was Bristol 1990 but tragedy hit Salabert. He crashed hard in to the Bristol wall and we lost him.
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    See attached video. 1.20 minutes in you can see the bad crash.
    Salabert was extremely popular and we lost a great person/friend.

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    What a tragic end to someone so young with a promising racing career Lars. Reminds me of the tragic death of Erwin Zimmerman whom I sure you remember who just started racing with Mercury after a very successful career racing kneel down alkies. The last time I talked to Billy Seebold he told me he liked his wins at Bristol, and he didn't say this, but I could tell by talking to him it was because it was because it was so challenging, dangerous, and he was successful. I had asked him about his favorite race course, and his answer "Bristol" surprised me.


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    Today January 29 is my best friend and wife's birthday. For over 30 years ago I asked Carina to leave Sweden for "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" in the USA.
    If I have told her 30 years ago we are going to end up living in a "house on wheels"..maybe we still had been in Sweden..
    Thanks, hugs and Happy Birthday Carina.❤️❤️❤️
    I was looking for one picture but could not pick the right one..here is all of them
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    Check my own racing history at BRF...http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forum...ead.php?t=6727

    My racing web site SVERA.se....http://svera.se/blogg/paris-6-hours/
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