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


Seafair Hydro Race Summaries

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Remund Sets 126.613 Hydro Qualifying Mark

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Hydroplane Handicap

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Qualifying Ladder

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Silent Seafair Thunder

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Would Brundage’s Rudder Shudder?

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‘New Ball Game’

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Sheehy Drives Miss Madison as ‘Labor of Love’

bullet Return at Last, of Handy-Dandy Hydro Guide
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Fascination Thrived On a Shoestring

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Remund Wins It All — By 25 Feet

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The Champion Fog Cutter of the World

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Hydro Happiness Is a Special Italian Propeller

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Borrowed Prop Pushed Remund’s Pak To Victory

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Did Pak violate right-of-way rule?

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Should Pak Have Been Disqualified?

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Not All Drivers Were In Favor Of Racing in Rain

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Hanging Out The Monday Morning Wash

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‘Floorboard is the Floorboard’

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Summaries

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Statistics

Final heat
Pay 'n Pak (Remund) 117.238 m.p.h.
Budweiser (Chenoweth) 117.086 m.p.h.
Atlas Van Lines (Muncey) 107.185 m.p.h.
Pizza Pete (Alter) 98.325 m.p.h.
Greenfield (Hickling) 87.662 m.p.h.
Red Man I (McCormick) Did Not Finish
Preliminaries
Heat 1-A
Valu-Mart (Gilliam) 92.276 m.p.h.
Greenfield Galleries 89.315 m.p.h
Miss U. S. (D'Eath) Did Not Finish
Red Man II (Henley) Did Not Finish
Lincoln Thrift (Brown) Did Not Start
Heat 1-B
Atlas Van Lines 108.390 m.p.h.
Red Man I 100.596 m.p.h.
Mister Fabricator (Kfmn) 91.216 m.p.h.
Notre Dame (Larsen) Did Not Start
Shakey's Special (Mrtn) Did Not Start
Heat 1-C
Budweiser 122.504 m.p.h.
Pay 'n Pak 120.697 m.p.h.
Pizza Pete 104.854 m.p.h.
Miss Madison (Sheehy) 98.004 m.p.h.
Heat 2-A
Ms. Greenfield Galleries in the lead all the way. Chuck Hickling, G. G. driver, was penalized one lap for missing buoy, but was awarded the win when Valu-Mart went dead in the water and G. G. was only boat running. Miss U. S. did not finish. Lincoln Thrift and Red Man II did not start.
Heat 2-B
Atlas Van Lines 109.979 m.p.h.
Red Man I 100.821 m.p.h.
Mister Fabricator 84.007 m.p.h.
Notre Dame Did Not Start
Shakey's Special Did Not Start
Heat 2-C
Pay 'n Pak 114.407 m.p.h.
Pizza Pete 106.509 m.p.h.
Budweiser Did Not Finish
Miss Madison Did Not Finish
Prize breakdown
(INCLUDES QUALIFYING MONIES) Pay 'n Pak, $10,300; Budweiser, $9,200; Atlas Van Lines, $7,000; Pizza Pete, $6,600; Red Man I, $4,600; Greenfield Galleries, $3,500; Miss Madison, $2,600; Mister Fabricator, $2,600; Valu-Mart, $1,650; Lincoln Thrift, $650; Red Man II, $600; Miss U. S., $400.
National points
Pay 'n Pak 7,438
Budweiser 7,088
Atlas Van Lines 4,838
Red Man I 4.634
Pizza Pete (Gale) 3,979
Lincoln Thrift 3,421
Miss Madison 2,811
Mister Fabricator 2,196
Valu-Mart (U-16) 1,804
Miss U. S 1,544
Notre Dame 1,463
Greenfield Galleries 712
Shakey's Special 338
Valu-Mart (U-21) 225

(Reprinted from The Seattle Times, August 6, 1973)


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