Terry Keeley
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I remember '81 in Indy & '83 in Oxford, MI...
Thanks John, I will begin to put out the partial lists and hope that we can get them filled in by year, for 1987 at the moment I only have Andy's win in E Hydro and yours in F mono.You have a lot of years covered. I didn't see 1987 so I will give you my 1987 US-1 F-Mono Huntsville. Twin Craft twin 80 mono. 56 inches long. Everyone was teasing me and calling it a bathtub boat because it was so big. I did break the oval record shortly there after with the bathtub boat. Today 56 inches is not all that big in the gas classes.
John Finch
So if 88 was the year we did the first Twin race, then I think Cliff Rose won US-1 F-Hydro in 1987.Andy we were thinking about the Top Gun at the 1987 Internats. It was not until 1988 that we did the Top Gun at the Internats we called it "Race 88". Back in those days Multi-engine was special event. And it was always run after the Internats was over. It could have been Friday or Saturday for these events or not at all. Depended on the Internats event being finish. I remember in 1984 Bartow Internats that we only got thru the 3rd round. So there were not any special events.
In the 1988 Internats / Race 88 we ran three or four rounds of Multi-engine boats. The top eight boats were place into the final, thus the "Top Gun" event. Each driver got a special hat that was a trophy in itself because there were only eight hats. I have one of the hats myself. Boy I will tell you that 16 or more engines running in the pits at the same time was something. There were some guys running three engines but I don't remember if they made it to the field.
The first Top Gun winner was Doug McNeely. And I think he was running a Mongoose.
We did not get the Multi-engines boats into a class until 2005. I wrote the rules as they are and we follow up and change the engine size the next year. The first US 1 Multi-engine Internats was in Evansville IN. and the winner was Ralph Almirola.
Cliff was a relatively new boater from Miami. He raced just a few years around 1985 -1988. The 87 Huntsville Internats is the only one he ever attended.That right Andy. We always had twin races in the special event at the Internats as did most of the other host clubs that put the Internats on. And I am sure your right as of Cliff Rose winning US-1 in F hydro but I sure don't remember him and I was there. I wonder what that is a sign of?
Thanks Larry1988 E Hydro Huntsville A
1991 F Hydro Atlanta G.
1993 F Hydro St.Louis.Missour
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