Dayton, 1975 D Runabout

[Ron Hill]

From left to right, who are they? Who was the winner???

[Matt Dagostino]

1975...............

Brunges, Dawe, Lovelace, Crazy Shorts and of course RON HILL.

Maybe Pontius won that year???

I believe we had close to 1000 enteries at Dayton that year....Stock Only!!

[Ron Hill]

Craqzy Shorts Is NOT An Answer

Brunges, Dawe, Lovelace, Crazy Shorts and of course RON HILL.

Maybe Pontius won that year???

I believe we had close to 1000 enteries at Dayton that year....Stock Only!!

-2 Matt

Grade C-

[Bob Rusnak]

Brunges, Dawe, Lovelace, Crazy Shorts and of course RON HILL.

Maybe Pontius won that year???

I believe we had close to 1000 enteries at Dayton that year....Stock Only!!

Wow 1000 entries, that is when winning a National Championship really meant something.

[Ron Hill]

In 1956, Paul Woodruff Said It

I was 12 in 1956 at my first nationals in Cambridge, Maryland. Paul woodruff was the defending D Runabout national Champion. He said, "Winning a Nationals is really hard, you need to be lucky to be getting everything together on one day."

I thought at the time, "He's just saying this because he's the Champion."

I finished 3rd, and felt lucky I got what I got, but also felt, I could have done better....I watch D Runabout, and I especially watch Paul...Paul also had a cute daughter...Paul turned sideways, and flipped. I thought, "Wow!"

I went our to his pits when the pulled him in and saw his steering pulley had broken. A defending Champion drives from Oregon to Maryland only to have a pulley break.

After that I thought, maybe winning any Championship wasn't easy.

I was busy in 1975, I was defending Nationals Champion in D Runabout. My dad and built and new boat that I sold to John Grant to be delivered in Dayton after the Nationals.

I didn't race D Runabout all year, but I felt ready, I had a new Fickett tank on my new DeSilva "C" Runabout and my new D Runabout.

My dad had built Dave Procknow a Mark 30-H that ran well, he almost won the 1973 C Hydro Nationals with it. Dave and I tested before Dayton in Janesville, Wisconsin. His motor was faster than mine. So, when we got to Dayton, I borrow his 30-H and set top time in the C Runabout qualifier.

I had visions of a double win. Problem was, my vent hoses on my Fickett tanks sucked up water. Dave failed to qualify in C Hydro. I finished 9th in D Runabout and worse in C Runabout.

I had borrowed Reed Riddle's Super C and put it on a borrow Hill runabout and I won Super C....There were several bad spills and an accident or two in Super C. I was quite proud that I didn't go on my ass out there and thought it was a great class, of course it went away before the next year...

Paul Woodruff's words....Now my words, "Any Championship big or small takes some luck and it isn't easy."

ADD: When we got home from Dayton, we found a quart or more of water in my gas tanks.

It ain't easy to win Nationals! Everyone, big or small means something. I won the Havasu Outboard World Championship with 128 entries. Beating Ted May when he had his 20-H and I had my 30-H was just as much fun....I beat Ted four heats one time......only at trophy presentation did I tell him I could hear him behind me....I drove him all over that river that weekend.......and I never once looked back... Racing should be fun...Ted may and I were racing C Alky Hydro.....we were fighting for a third place trophy and I WON!

[Tim Sidor]

1975 Dayton DSR

Brunges , Dawe, Lovelace , Voison , Hill

[Ron Hill]

Minus 2, Again!

Voisin and Pontius are wrong.....

C for trying, Tim!

[trapper]

in the red boat is don hagerl or bruce alexander driving voisins boat.

[trapper]

lovelace the winner

[Ron Hill]

Which is It?

This is my contest! One of those two is correct! B-

Trapper, I'm changing your grade to C-. Lovelace is wrong!

[trapper]

hagerl in voisins boat, dawe winner.i know ron hill didn`t win!!!

[Tim Sidor]

And the winner is ?

brunges , dawe , lovelace , Hagerl in Voisons boat , Ron Hill and the winner was Ernie Dawe .

[Ron Hill]

Cheaters Always Win! NOT!

I guess, A+, Tim!!!!

Good job, all! Thanks for playing! I got a new scanner from my wife......she also bought me a gearcase adapter kit for Christmas....But this scanner is way cool...

I hate to keep changing grades, but Trapper is back to a SOLID B!

[1977 ASH]

My recollection of the SO Nationals at Dayton in 1975 was nearly 1,200 entries (corrected below - it was nearly 900) - with 107 ASH entries alone.

[Bob Rusnak]

My recollection of the SO Nationals at Dayton in 1975 was nearly 1,200 entries - I remember about 122 or so ASH entries alone.

You had to do better than win the elimination heat to qualify. The fastest winner on time qualified. Any one know who won? I do, see if anyone else knows....