1973 UIM World Championship
Lake Washington, Seattle WA, August 5, 1973

Hydroplane Handicap
By Del Danielson
(Boats listed in order of handicapper's preference)

Remund Sets 126.613 Hydro Qualifying Mark Hydroplane Handicap Qualifying Ladder Silent Seafair Thunder Would Brundage’s Rudder Shudder? ‘New Ball Game’ Sheehy Drives Miss Madison as ‘Labor of Love’ Return at Last, of Handy-Dandy Hydro Guide Fascination Thrived On a Shoestring Remund Wins It All — By 25 Feet The Champion Fog Cutter of the World Hydro Happiness Is a Special Italian Propeller Borrowed Prop Pushed Remund’s Pak To Victory Did Pak violate right-of-way rule? Should Pak Have Been Disqualified? Not All Drivers Were In Favor Of Racing in Rain Hanging Out The Monday Morning Wash ‘Floorboard is the Floorboard’ Summaries Statistics

No.	Boat	Driver	Power	Qualification Speed
U-25	Pay 'n Pak	Mickey Remund	Rolls	126.613
U-12	Budweiser	Dean Chenoweth	Rolls	121.901
U-71	Atlas Van Lines	Bill Muncey	Rolls	105.059
U-44	Pizza Pete	Fred Alter	Allison	116.379
U-11	Shakey's Special	Tom Martin	Allison	106.299
U-16	Valu-Mart I	Bob Gilliam	Rolls	102.177
U-6	Miss Madison	Tom Sheehy	Allison	112.737
U-8	Red Man I	Jim McCormick	Rolls	109.202
U-3	Mister Fabricator	Tom Kaufman	Allison	105.991
U-29	Lincoln Thrift	Jack Brown	Turbo-Allison	102.176
U-7	Notre Dame	Ron Larsen	Rolls	104.959
U-4	Ms. Greenfield Galleries	Chuck Hickling	Allison	101.509
U-2	Miss U.S.	Tom D'Eath	Turbo-Allison	102.762
U-81	Red Man	George Henley	Turbo-Allison	93.312
Pay 'N Pak holds together this time. Budweiser is fast, but not in Pak's class. Atlas Van Lines is a third-place boat this season. Pizza Pete is consistent with veteran driver. Shakey's Special will be surprise of the day. Valu-Mart survives the cough-and conk heat.

(Reprinted from The Seattle Times, August 5, 1972)

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