Buckle up, race fans! We're cranking up the nostalgia and taking a lightning-fast journey back to the 1973 Gold Cup boat race in Tri-Cities, Washington. Revel in the high-octane thrill as we revisit the unforgettable face-offs, from the intense preliminary rounds (heats 2A, 2B, 2C, 3A and 3B) to the final showdown that keeps your heart pounding. We've got a fascinating line-up for you, featuring interviews with iconic names from racing history - Bob Gilliam, Bill Muncey, Bernie Little, and Dean Chenoweth. Not only that, we also hear from legendary announcers Jim Hendricks, Phil Cole, and Pete Gross, injecting life into the heart-stopping races with their iconic commentary.
The episode culminates with the fierce competition between the intensity as Mickey Remund in the Pay'n'Pak, and Bill Muncey in the Atlas Van Lines and Dean Chenoweth in the Miss Budweiser go head-to-head in the 1973 Gold Cup race finale. We promise you an exhilarating ride as we relive the epic battle, the record-breaking speeds and the nail-biting suspense. Don't miss out on this thrilling trip down memory lane, reliving the high-speed excitement of the 1973 APBA Gold Cup!
Buckle up, race fans! We're cranking up the nostalgia and taking a lightning-fast journey back to the 1973 Gold Cup boat race in Tri-Cities, Washington. Revel in the high-octane thrill as we revisit the unforgettable face-offs, from the intense preliminary rounds (heats 2A, 2B, 2C, 3A and 3B) to the final showdown that keeps your heart pounding. We've got a fascinating line-up for you, featuring interviews with iconic names from racing history - Bob Gilliam, Bill Muncey, Bernie Little, and Dean Chenoweth. Not only that, we also hear from legendary announcers Jim Hendricks, Phil Cole, and Pete Gross, injecting life into the heart-stopping races with their iconic commentary.
The episode culminates with the fierce competition between the intensity as Mickey Remund in the Pay'n'Pak, and Bill Muncey in the Atlas Van Lines and Dean Chenoweth in the Miss Budweiser go head-to-head in the 1973 Gold Cup race finale. We promise you an exhilarating ride as we relive the epic battle, the record-breaking speeds and the nail-biting suspense. Don't miss out on this thrilling trip down memory lane, reliving the high-speed excitement of the 1973 APBA Gold Cup!
Roostertail Talk, a podcast dedicated to everything related to the sport we all love. It is July 25th 2023 and this is Episode 107. Well, this weekend marks another Columbia Cup on the racing circuit. Boats are getting ready and prepared for this weekend's activities. Some exciting news coming out from the U40 pits that they have a national sponsor for the rest of the series. They are going to be sponsored by Flavor Pack, which is going to have a whole new paint scheme for their boat, so it's great to see another sponsor come on board. I'm excited that they'll be patched and repaired and able to race as well as the 91. Good thing in real estate it's going to be all patched up. We'll have nine boats on the water and in fact there's even a boat over in Tri-Cities. Now I want to call them Cooper's Express because that's what they went by in years past, but the Go3 racing team is over in Tri-Cities doing some displays around town. I know some of their boats will be heading over there soon. They normally do some displays on Wednesday before they go over to the pits on Thursday.
David Newton:But 50 years ago the Gold Cup was in Tri-Cities, washington, in 1973. And last week we listened to the first round of heats back then. So you heard heats 1A, 1b and 1C, and today we're going to finish out that race. We've got an hour and a half. I hope you've got some time to spend to listen to this race, because it's a great opportunity to listen to some great classic names from racing past, as you're going to hear interviews from Bob Gilliam, bill Muncie, bernie Little, dean Chenoweth, along with the likes of the announcers Jim Hendricks, phil Cole and Pete Gross Now I went over the names last week.
David Newton:What you're going to hear? The different drivers involved. They had a lot of boats on the water, had a lot of heats. You're going to hear heats 2A, 2b, 2c, 3a, 3b and the finals. I love just listening to these old races because you can hear the different engines on the waters and you'll hear the announcers talk about the differences between the turbocharged allicens like the Miss US and the Lincoln Thrift, along with the Merlin engines on the water and how they differ.
David Newton:One thing of interesting note as well you'll hear the lap times. They're going to talk about the times and the speeds of the boats a lot, as the times were up in 73, boats were going faster and they were breaking records several times throughout the heats and throughout the weekend. That qualifier for the weekend was the pain pack when Mickey Raymond and they did a blistering 124.310 on that 2.5 mile race course, something that was lightning quick back then, faster than they'd seen with that boat in Tri-Cities. I forgot to mention they also have official Bill Newton in the booth a few times going over some of the penalties and what could be enforced and what not. I know a lot of people back then at least I've talked to since were not a big fan of Bill Newton and just to get the record straight, no relation to myself with that Newton. I hope you enjoy this stroll down memory lane as we're going to go hop back in that time machine. We're going to travel back 50 years to 1973 on the shores of the Columbia River for the 1973 APBA.
Phil Cole:Gold Cup. We're going to join them on the Brown White Cincones rocker that launched earlier last time when they saw progress on their não cutting hand damage, on government cold to place them for you, no-der-deans up there. Long be early because he's gonna go deep. Bill Munty figures he can let this field have the inside and still whip him into that first turn. So he's hanging on the outside as the boats move into the scoring up area at the upper end of this Columbia River race course. Tommy Deese moving around there. Jim McCormick's gonna get the inside by default as the clock ticks away to 25 seconds before the start. It's gonna be red man on the number one lane, murphy's Marina on the little. Look out, us gotta go outside to get away from Chuck Higney, phil Spamble back there, little problem.
Phil Cole:On the number one lane is red man. Atlas comes up into two Murphy's Marine to three lane Atlas man on the inside of Bill Munty on top by about two links, about four more links back as Miss US. Then Jim McCormick and red man and Chuck Higley in Murphy's Marine Straightening out of the number two turn. Atlas man line booms off that turn. But Bill Munty really getting his money's worth this time he's in helping it up the back stretch now on Atlas man line at about 150 miles an hour, followed by about two seconds back by No-der-deans, but I don't believe Ron Larson's gonna give up. Ron Larson's getting his way into it a little bit and that No-der-deans is looking better We've seen him look this year.
Phil Cole:Miss US running a steady third, red man at fourth and US, of course, showing us more ways to come down on three points in a hydroplane we've ever seen before. The boat just isn't riding right and they're gonna have to do something to get that boat fixed around before it is. It's gonna be competitive, but George Simon will work like the dickens to try to get that done. Munty went sideways in the upper corner. It's rough up there. He got it back and he's coming down to finish lap number one. Jim, okay, munty will be your leader at the completion of lap number one, going wide in the second place with No-der-deans, followed by Miss US, where comes Munty, here comes the No-der-deans 113.9 miles per hour for Bill Munty and Atlas Fanline to lap number one, followed by No-der-deans and left man, and that order 113.9 for Bill Munty.
Phil Cole:Lap number one Atlas Fanline Okay, the entire field is now complete and lap number one as Chuck McGrane brings Murphy's Marine right by us. Our leader has set the back shoot and has increased his lead by about three seconds over the Notre Dame as Bill Munty and the Atlas Fanline comes down that back shoot Riding beautifully on a Sunday afternoon 113.924, officially lap number one as it comes up from our timer. Coming down that back shoot right now is the Notre Dame and he's sitting. I believe I think Ryan Watson will quit charge right now and sit for a sure 300 points. If the Notre Dame is, he's riding much better than his last time out. Meanwhile, the US is trying to get Chase and it's still a mission not riding very good down that back shoot coming up on that less spot than light and then coming back down, while the Redman is setting the charge for fourth, trying to catch the US fifth place boat just coming down the back shoot after a lap and a half. Here's the completion of lap number two, the Atlas Fanline, with Bill Munty. Munty with a wide lead now with another David, the rest of the field, bill Munty running at about 112.5, 112.6 that last lap and Atlas Fanline on lap number two and he has about a seven or eight second lead on Ronnie Larson in Notre Dame and US about seven or eight seconds behind Notre Dame and Redman about seven or eight seconds behind the US. As a matter of fact, tim LaFarming has a five to thirty-five and thirty-one seconds behind Atlas Fanline. Tim LaFarming, the fourth place boat, about a half minute behind the leader. So Bill Munty needs to be on his way to the bank here at lap number two, 113.065, officially lap number two for Bill Munty and Atlas Fanline. You know, bill, we're talking about between eight to Bill Munty on a radio network and he said that they have changed some combinations and I mentioned that we were talking about historical last year, historical this year. He said it's true, but he believes now that he's put a combination together that can be a definite challenge for the rest of the year.
Phil Cole:As much as he goes charging up and down this Gold Cup race course here at Tri-Cities, washington, he's going around in front of the biggest crowd ever to watch the race here and he's finished lap number three and has a fanline right here in the plate. Bill's running at 119 miles an hour. Still About 112 and a half to 113 miles an hour on lap number three the largest crowd ever to watch a hyperplane race here in the Tri-Cities area, here for the Gold Cup today. Wall to wall people Every place you can look and they're watching Bill Munty, still dominant on the field in each two A's. Ron Larson now, if anything, his second lap is about 23 seconds now behind Bill Munty Larson, about 23 seconds behind Bill Munty as he goes across the line and Jim McCormick is going to move around here. He's lost about seven or eight more seconds to Munty. He's fourth place in the US. Discerned 111.9 miles in at the fanline on lap number three as the helicopter returns just follows him around this race course. So, jim, as long as he can keep everything going down in that engine room, it looks like he two A has taken form early and it's not going to change. And that would give Bill Munty a perfect day so far, winning his first section in the heat one. You'd have 800 per big points to find a fan pack and of course each speed would have to duplicate to keep tight.
Phil Cole:Here comes Chuck Hickley driving the Burby Marine and getting a rough ride down that shooting. He's not riding right as he completes his third lap and it's about to be left by Munty. Here comes Bill Munty. Now he's a complete lap number four, leaving two more laps for Bill McGowan. Bill Munty's a little bit in the wake, left by the slower Murphy Marine, about a hundred and seven mile an hour, bill Munty, cooling it down. We're getting an official fan for you just a moment, but it won't be too far off of that. Here comes our number two place vote, off to number four corner to come down and complete lap number four, while the Miss US is going to get a challenge right now for third place. And look at the red man charged up in that third place vote.
Phil Cole:Jim, what's happening to Miss US? The tail of the boat is being thrown out of the water by the propeller. You'll notice as he goes up that backstretch. The tail of that boat blows up out of the water when he gets up to a certain speed 106.635 officially for Bill Munty. Now what's the US that comes down here, jim, and you'll see the tail end of that boat being blown out of the water, probably by the propeller or an undefendable power supply and Jim McCormick has made him race even on implied events At Tommy's team, having Natalie's problems with the Miss US and Natalie's problems with the race. And Jim McCormick's trying to catch him and he's just like get the job done. Jim's got to try for a fourth place instead of a fifth. If he possibly can, he's trying to protect that third place.
Phil Cole:Standing the leaders in the upper turn Bill Munty and Atlas Van Lines. He'll get the green flag this time around. Second place boat is opposite the starting barge on the backstretch. Third and fourth place boats are both in the same turn with Miss US, third and red man moving up on the outside at Jim McCormick doing the driving. Here's Bill Munty winding up lap number five and he ran about 106 miles an hour up that backstretch. Now, jim, if you watch the US and the red man, red man's going to pass him and Miss US still has the feeling that boat's blowing out of the water. Yes, he's jumping it out of the snow, showing a little porpoise, little porpoise by the Miss US. And now the red man has finally taken over and look at the boat on that US on the inside he's taking out the roof water. Well, here comes the number two place boat to take the green flag, the Notre Dame, what's?
:going on out of the boat Whoa.
Phil Cole:You heard it that Notre Dame cut out for just a second, completely dead. But now here's that race for third place coming and it's going to be the red man 105.882 for the fifth lap. Jim McCormick's trying to make the cut. He'll only cut him down to 10 boats. After this rain. Mccormick's got to get that third to make the cut and it can't be one of the boats that's out of here. Jim McCormick takes the green flag in third place. Miss US is bubbling very badly now taking on some water. When McCormick passed a bit, he bounced a little bit and our leader is coming out of the turn to take the checker flag for another perfect 400 points. The National Defending Champion of 1972, bill Murphy, in the Atlas fan line. Here comes Bill Alright, our second place boat 108.
Phil Cole:108.
Phil Cole:108 mile-hour on that. Last lap for Bill Muncie and Murphy's Marine, with Chuck Hickley, will come around and take a green flag. One more lap to go and then the rest will get the checker flag. And let's, here we come. Here comes the flag swinging out wide as the Notre Dame. He'll get the checker flag in second place for 300 points. And this here comes the checker flag for the Notre Dame. The Notre Dame takes over second. Our third place boat is the Apex, to the upper turn, and that is the Red man Tobacco and that is Jim McCormick as he slides out.
Phil Cole:And Bill told you he had to catch the Miss US at Basset to try to make that cut for the third section of the Gold Cup in 1973. Here he comes, jim McCormick from Honesboro, kentucky, 1971 Gold Cup winner. He acknowledges with a wave the checker flag. And here comes the checker flag. Now for the fourth place finisher Miss US, tommy D. Jim, let the fans hear. The US that goes by. It's worth it. Yeah, it's so quiet. You know, after hearing all this engine, here's a turbocharged engine. We want you to hear it. Let's listen, believe it or not. That was it. Now down the back shoot.
Phil Cole:Our fifth place finisher will be Chuck Hickley. Last time he did not finish. He had zero points going into this heat. He will not make the cut. I don't think I would believe it, do you feel? No, I don't. Murphy's Marine is not going to make it. Us is now in trouble. We'll just have to wait to see what happens. Okay, now we've got, of course, another heat coming right up, as they both are pulling into the pits right now.
Phil Cole:So the first place goes to the Atlas Van Lines and right now let's call up to our microphones, and I know the folks listening to Seattle are interested in hearing from Art Naggar, who has much to do with the Seattle race. It'll be two weeks hence. We folks in Cairo and listening to Seattle want to know what you have planned for them to outdo this Gold Cup. Well, we're going to try to do it. It's going to be awfully hard, but we know we're going to have one or two more boats, because we've got the U-95 coming up and of course, we operate under the Van Plan and we hope we will have quite a parade of boats, as you had this last race. We hope to have a little more competitive racing all the way through. Well, I think you would have to Art Naggar, because the thing is here, we have the conventional draw, you have the Van Plan, so that puts the boats pretty even in speeds. Oh, what that was, jim, was water. I think they're blowing after cooler. That's getting common with the old. They're getting old and tired.
Speaker 6:It's like a radiator and they're just giving away and then a water is in the system.
:so you're putting a supercharger in the engine.
Phil Cole:We had the Van Naggar's out and Phil Cole and I were calling the race and we told your friends listening on Cairo and Seattle and the friends of folks that you had in the Pocana and CHP here in Tri-Cities on Corbett and they thought a spark plug completely popped out and you were getting a lot of fuel off of the cylinder.
Bernie Little:Here's water.
Phil Cole:Jim, but that can still. Did you get burned at all? No, alright, everything's okay.
Bernie Little:Everything's alright, we'll go again. So what do you have to do to get ready for this next cool down? Put in a wrap for cooler off, and how long does that take you? It takes you 15-20 minutes, okay, so then you should be ready to go and hear from the value of water before this stage is over.
Phil Cole:Oh, yeah, we'll be back. Okay, Bob, thank you very much for coming out of line. Thank you, jim, right. Right, bob Gilliam says it was not fuel, so we'll have to stand corrected. He sure looked that way and of course, bill Muncie in the interview just powered it up. He thought it could be water, so they burned up an app to cool it and he was getting hot water back there. But he says he's alright and should be ready to go. We summarized the heats 1A, 1b and 1C in total points for you.
:But right now let's talk about.
Phil Cole:A couple of weeks ago we had some problems with these boys hitting the line, and we had several jumping at the clock, as our rules call it, not the gun, because the gun can't misfire, and they were penalized next to that for doing so. But they're hitting that thing right on the money now. Well, that's the way they should have it, jim, now all in Kentucky. As you recall, we had money problems on the start, but since then they have really straightened up. Okay, we are now waiting down at the fifth, bill Muncie. Bill, congratulations on a second straight win, thank you. Thank you very much, you're breathing off a heart.
Bernie Little:buddy, Did you run up the hill? I guess I ran up the hill.
Phil Cole:Yes, Well, you should. Everything seems to be working very good. Like you said, you had a new combination going. You were hitting speeds of 113 miles an hour, which is very good. I don't think you had it hanging out all the way, did you, no, I think?
Bernie Little:everybody has to save some for people like the Budweiser and the Lincoln Trips in the fan pack. They're strong boats and they're exciting boats to watch and hopefully I really will be exciting to chase.
:I don't particularly care to do that, I'd rather have them chasing me at this point.
Phil Cole:Bill, take a deep breath. I know you're tired, buddy. Yeah, these guys are running their ass all over the pitch. That's the reason. They're really happy, aren't they? They're doing an awful good job. Well, the thing is, the people along the network are lying around the country wanting to hear from Bill Muncie. After all, it isn't often that we can get you up here right after a win and you're a man who's won more races than any other driver in history. This sport.
Bernie Little:That may prove like sports history, but all I have really is longevity. Well, you got it. Maybe that just proves I'm not the brightest guy in town, but I'm delighted I've been able to race along this long.
Phil Cole:Well, Bill, that's just a disaster. The first five races, the sixth race, with 800 perfect points, you have to feel pretty good.
Bernie Little:Jim, we've got a long way to go. This race is just starting as far as I'm concerned, and until we hit our main competition, which is, you know, the Budweiser and the PMPAC and a couple of the boats that are running strong. We haven't really done that and it hasn't been really a true test. We're not feeling too strong, we're just feeling competitive at this point.
Phil Cole:Okay, Bill, I'm going to let you take a breath and take a big drink of Gatorade or whatever you want.
Bernie Little:Rest up, buddy. Thank you, jim, okay, bye.
Phil Cole:Bill Muncie has come up for the second time and really I can see the world bill would be out of breath because he raced in one seat, dashed up the hill, originally stationed. The personnel are really on the ball, prid, they're getting. Grab the driver out of the cockpit and rush him up there to be first so that you and Robin Edwards can hear what's going on. And then he ran back to his boat and jumped out and ran another win, then run back up the hill. I don't think Bill would mind running around in circles as long as you can keep adding 440 to his total in this 1973 Gold Cup. We'll be back with more Gold Cup coverage 1973 in 75 seconds.
:Let's get it. You see, there's always a party of changes. You know, with music and grace it's a pie. You won't have to worry about watching the tune and there'll be two busy watching the feeds that get made.
Phil Cole:Here's the boat and he's going to be awful tough to catch this afternoon the way he looks and the way that boat is going. We might just briefly run down the individual lap times for you and Atlas Van Lines, with Bill Muncie at the helm. In the first lap, 113.924 average miles per hour. Second lap, bill again going pretty good at 113.065 miles per hour. Slow little bit down after that dropped out to 111 miles per hour average in the third lap and the fourth lap, 106 mile per hour average and 105 mile per hour average in lap number five. And again, jimmy was going wire to wire as he did during the running of Heat 1C earlier today. So two wire to wire victories for the Atlas Van Lines and Bill Muncie Now coming up in the Heat 2B, which will be coming up at 230 the sap. No, we'll have Miss Budweiser Heats of Peter, who is winner of the 1B Heat Shaky Special, and Mr Fabricator, both finishing fourth in their respective heats this morning.
Phil Cole:While we have a couple of minutes, jim, we might review what went on this morning. In Heat 1A we had Mickey Rieman in the pride of Pay-In-Pack, the winner, getting those big 400 points and winding up an average speed of 110 miles per hour. Second in that was Miss Budweiser and Dean Chenoweth, third was Lincoln Perth with Danny Walz and then of course Miss US brought up the fourth spot with Bob Murphy's Molina, with Chuck Kinkling failing to finish that race. In Heat 1B the winner of that was Peter Pete, again with 400 points to Freddie Alder at 102.118 miles per hour average. Notre Dame was second with Ronnie Larson and third spot was Miss Madison with Tom Sheehy and Mr Fabricator with Tom Kaufman, finished fourth. That was in Heat 1B.
Phil Cole:Then in Heat 1C, atlas Van Lines, bill Muncie, again going to wire to wire and hitting those starts very, very effectively, average 105.75 miles per hour. Redman was second with Jim McCormick. Value mile with Bob Gilliam was third and Sheehy special with Tom Martin, finished fourth. So that's kind of a brief rundown for you on the Heat 1A, 1b and 1C as we move now along and the way to start of Heat 2B which will be coming up, as we mentioned, at 230. In Heat 2C, which will be coming up I would imagine somewhere around 2.45, 3 o'clock and the pay-and-pack with Mickey Raymond back on the course with Lincoln, miss Madison and the value mart and pay-and-pack Jim has brought out a couple of times and his comments should have a pretty easy time of it and that Heat 2C because he's going against some boats that were pretty up to date and, of course, the average speed of each boat.
Phil Cole:Okay, jim, I know you thought I ran out on you there, but you ran downstairs to get the form sheet so we can bring you up to date on Heat 2B. And we're again, miss Budweiser, dean Chetowit at the helm, collecting 400 points for this heat and then totaling out 700 for the day. Average speed 104.046. We're just checking. That's a little bit slower than he ran this morning, but not by much this morning. Well, no, it's a little slower. 105.058 was the average this morning, against the pride of You're running upstairs. Get ready for your race. I'll complete that.
Phil Cole:As you mentioned, the Atlas Van Lines, bill Muncie, with another 400 points Now, with a total of 800 for the day, with 109.766 mile per hour average. In first place in Heat 2A, second spot with Notre Dame, with Ronnie Larson, were 300 points to him and that heating a total of 600 for the day, and his average speed was 101.771 miles per hour. Third spot in Heat 2A went to Redman Jim McCormick. 225 points for Jim and 525 total points to his average speed, 96.982 miles per hour. Now let's go upstairs to Jim Hendrick. Here is Dean Kennewick.
Phil Cole:He should take the inside. That's the place where Gene LaDee likes to start. I don't know about you, hendrick, I really don't. Phil Cole, I'm tired of running up and down. I'm down there. Pete goes in the lower deck and I run up to you and I tap you on his shoulder. You kind of look at me and I want to do something. Buddy, I'm at least about 10 pounds to Jim. That's the result of the mission planning on your part. Yes, I know, I thought I did quite well myself.
Phil Cole:The boats are on the course. A lot of racing taking place inside the five minute gun Dlaven about Muncie, who is saying he was running something off down the fifth. I'm doing the same thing here. I feel like Grand Mag to me. Are we on? Are we on? Yes, you're on, phil, you're never off. Let's put a bed right. Okay now our boats are now jockeying four positions out here and down to the back stretch goes the favorite for his heat, the pride of paint, back with Mickey Rieman. Earlier this week he set a Gold Cup qualifying record at 2.5 mile qualifying record 124.310.
Phil Cole:I wasn't primmy to this interview but I understand that Phil Muncie told you you're running more than pounds off of him. Yes, he said a little bit for that effect. You're absolutely right. Phil Newton was listening on the radio after I talked to Bill and I thought the referee was going to fall over. Shall we find him? No, we can't find Bill on that. You're losing your voice already. I'm not sure I am. Don't holler at these boats. These guys can't hear you with those engines in there anyway.
Phil Cole:Okay, here comes the piece of peace the miss Budweiser coming down the stretch, tommy Kaufman's out there and the Mr Fabricator and the fighter pay and pass. So we've got to blame it. I said the fighter pay is back and I'm wrong. They're not till 2C. I'm going to stay corrected. I kind of figured you tumbled with that before the race started. Well, you know, it's this hot sun that kind of gets to me, and every time I get a nice cold, soft drink, bill Newton, the referee, grabs it and drinks it all. And then what he don't drink, you finish my tongue's hanging out. I'm going to get folks back in Detroit. It is not the hot sun, that James problem. It's the problem of trying to figure out what to do with two dates the same night. That's his big problem. You're going to get me all kinds of trouble. Good thing I'm single. Okay, down the back seat. Right now we have shaky special. They fabricated Miss Budweiser and pizza Pete. Those are the four boats out in the course right now. Do they have any specials on milk here at the grocery stores in town, jim? Why, phil, we're kidding.
Phil Cole:One of our drivers who should remain anonymous, was being a lot yesterday by another driver who should remain anonymous. But they drive the Budweiser, the Madison. Tom Shee was yelling at Dean Chenoweth that his wife and children were out of milk. It just really teased the life and soul out of him. They go after each other. A lot like that. It was really funny. A lot of camaraderie in the side of playing racing. They help each other get ready to qualify, they help each other with mechanical problems, but when the race day comes they get out there in those slots they try to beat each other's brains out without hurting each other. Here is shaky special. We're coming up to the one minute gun the Budweiser coming up the back seat, followed by the fabricator.
:And.
Phil Cole:I am looking for Miss Budweiser. Okay, there's the pizza Pete. There's Miss Budweiser. There's the fabricator all up the back seat heading toward our left, looking at your radio dial. They're coming up to the left of your radio dial right now. I'm going to go right back down to the right. There's the one minute gun. The light flag is up. They jockey for position, phil Cole, I'm going to watch that upper turn this time, jim, to see what happens. Oh, freddie Alder is in there first. He's going to get the inside if he wants it. Dean Chenow is not going to have it, but maybe Dean doesn't want it. She never can want it.
Phil Cole:This time. They're moving into the upper turn area. Now Alder goes by the entrance boy to the number three turn with 35 seconds left to the start, and now Tommy Kaufman is sticking his nose in like he wants the inside. Tommy's got about as much business being on the inside as anybody I can imagine in that mode At least sticking his nose in there. Anyway. We have 20 seconds till the start and here's the way they're going to line up.
Phil Cole:Mr Fabricator on the number one lane Nope, megan Shaggy's pizza on the number one lane. Mr Fabricator on the number two Miss Budweiser, number three, pizza Pete, number four. And here they come for the start with five seconds left before the start and by Golly, mr Fabricator is going to take him across the line in the first place. He's got him by, mr Fabricator, and on the inside, shaggy Creason. So it's Mr Fabricator, miss Budweiser and Shaggy Creason. One, two, three. Now Miss Budweiser goes by Mr Fabricator and Dean Chenow gets to that turn First. Betty Olt is in the awful tight Boy. They're tight in that corner. Budweiser's on top and Pizza Pete is right on his hip and Mr Fabricator is inside the Budweiser. So Tommy Kaufman's all of a sudden saying hey, fellas, I can't hear the race. And he's right along with Dean Chenow as they start that back stretch. On the outside Pizza Pete, in the middle Miss Budweiser, and on the inside and slowing down now is Mr Fabricator.
Phil Cole:Now the two-boat race, budweiser and Pizza Pete Up that back stretch and Budweiser now begins to move away ever so slightly and have Pizza Pete as they move up that back stretch. If Miss Budweiser, by about two or three boat lanes and Dean Chenow in the engine room of that Budweiser pushing down hard with that right foot, he reaches the green and yellow stripes entrance Boy. Freddie Olt is right on his hip with the Pizza Pete. Freddie's giving it as hard as he can give him. Freddie's got a heavier boat, a little older boat, but Freddie's also got a lot of experience around these rivers in the United States. Here's Dean Chenow with your leader out of the number one corner in first place. Freddie Olt is right on his hip moving right out of there. With him Miss Fed Olt is in Pizza Pete. So at the end of lap number one and Miss Budweiser on top Pizza Pete's second about two seconds back and then a little bit of that, miss Fed Olt is coming off. So Miss Budweiser and Pizza Pete are one and two and, if I'm not mistaken, jim, I think we'll find a way to stay in shape right here. Yes, it is, and I'm surprised that Tom Coffin here has been a beautiful start and in that heavy 8,300-pound boat. If he was in rough water he'd give Marl a battle. There's an exception maybe a Pizza Pete who is also a rough water sled. All right, it's still the Budweiser, following by the Pizza Pete as they come out of the number two corner in down that back stretch in the straightaways.
Phil Cole:Here's the time for lap number one for the Budweiser 110.565. 110.565,. The Budweiser taking a beautiful ride each channel with down the back shoot, coming around to complete lap number two with about a two-second lead over the Pizza Pete with Freddie Olt. Another third place boat of Tom Coffin in the Mr Fabricator from Carleton, ohio, while Tom Martin getting a rough ride coming out of that number two corner bouncing in the shaky special. Here we go now, as we go into the number three corner with our lead boat and it's Freddie Olt charging. It's closed up some room. It's the number one boat, dean Sherwood, hugging close to the buoy staying in slot number one, coming around to complete lap number two. It's here. It's Wakin' Roosterfield spotting wide. Comes the Pizza Pete with Freddie Olt and here they come. This is the war of the engine. Completion of lap number two. Here comes the Pizza Pete 109.5,.
Phil Cole:Jim and I kept my eye on my glasses on Dean Chenilas all the way through. That I've returned. He is not using his nitrous oxide in the turns at all. He came around to turn under power with no nitrous, no evidence of the nitrous being used and moved wide around there smartly. His average is 109, 110 miles per hour of slow lap without using his nitrous oxide but for some reason or other he slowed down coming out of that number two corner more than he does coming out of the other one. 109.223 on lap number two for Dean Chenilas and Miss Budweiser, dean moving up that backstretch and Freddie Olt has begun to slow down in Pizza Pete. Freddie has begun to slow down in Pizza Pete. Suddenly coming out of the number two corner he began to get quite a bit slower, although he has a half the straightaway lead on Tommy Kaufman and Mr Fabricator.
Phil Cole:Well, on lap number three of the sixth lap of it, miss Budweiser is on her way to her first victory here in the 1973 Gold Cup race and Pizza Pete has dropped off quite a bit. But last time they came out of the number four turn Pizza Pete was right on the Budweiser's hip but now the Budweiser is a good half a turn ahead of Pizza Pete, with Mr Fabricator pulled turn behind the Pizza Pete as well. Here's the end of lap number three. This is Budweiser every about 108 miles an hour for that lap. So Dean Chenilas is quite a down to about 108, and the second place both Freddie Alder and Pizza Pete, which won his first race here today, and I think we'll find out that Freddie's both sound sick on the left side, jim, when he goes up that back stretch. Okay, the third, the second place. The boat has just passed and he said Pizza Pete. Here comes Tom Kaufman out of Carrollton, ohio and Mr Fabricator getting a better ride than we've seen in a run since he entered the circuit. Well, our last place vote, or fourth place, if you prefer. Shaky Special just comes out of corner number three. He'll complete the third lap, the lap number three for Budweiser 107.656. About two and a quarter laps to go and the Budweiser will go to the back.
Phil Cole:Let's point out, jim, the first lap speed we give you on the radio here on the PA is unofficial. On the watch we have. The second lap is official. The second speed is official. We give those two. We get them from the stores downstairs this is the only station, by the way, you get that information on. We give the official speed shortly after the boat goes across the line. So Dean Chenoweth is finishing lap number four in the Miss Budweiser. Dean is a depending a farmer, national champion, farmer, gold cup champion. In the Miss Budweiser, bernie Little from Lakeland, florida. And here's Dean Chenoweth going across the first three lines. That's the end of lap number four. We average around 105, 105.2 miles per hour on lap number four with two more to go.
Phil Cole:Fred Alter comes out of that turn. Tommy Kaufman has made up about a second and a half in the Mr Fabricator on pizza feet, but Freddie Alter doesn't seem to be having any great trouble. Let's take a look at his boat as he goes by the line. Freddie's got some oil smoke on the windshield and Tommy Kaufman's beginning to saw on him a little bit 105.140. Jim, as you noticed, freddie Alter has some oil smeared on his windshield. He's getting oil out of his engine. If you'll take the microphone, I'll watch him on the back to see if we can see it. Okay, phil, take a good look at him because Tommy Kaufman, the Mr Fabricator, is starting to close the lead in on pizza feet and Freddie would like to have that 300 points and has 700 going into the third section.
Phil Cole:Here comes Shaky Special right now with Tom Kaufman. Well, 11 and a half to go, 11 and a half to go, pizza feet trying to hold on to that second place. And here comes the green flag out for our lead boat for this flood wiser, with Dean Sheddoweth. That Sheddoweth comes out of the number four corner. Dean Sheddoweth comes out of the number four corner, takes the green flag and he will have one more lap to go and he's got 700 points total for the second and now a first. Well, dean averaged around 105 miles an hour for that lap, and that's the problem with Freddie Alter.
Phil Cole:It could be his instrument cluster up there.
Phil Cole:It could be. He has some instruments up there that reflect against that windshield and make it look like oil. But Tommy Kaufman has really picked up a lot of racing room on Fed Alter. Alter in the pizza feet and Tommy Kaufman in the Mr Fabricator. We have our glass bottle here, oil. It is the reflection of the instrument panel on the dash. 106.383, officially Lap number five for Miss Budweiser, and Tommy Kaufman Moving right along now might have a chance to catch Fed Alter, but he's going to have to hustle to do it.
Phil Cole:Everybody's getting the green flag now. It's going to be a great lap. And he's going to be a great lap. And he's going to be a great lap, but he's going to have to hustle to do it. Everybody's getting the green flag now. Dean Kenilas really has things cooled off in the Budweiser. He's really going slow there. Jim, yeah, he's got a troll for some of the fish that are here on the Columbia River. Since it's been lowered they have low water here out west in the northwest Back in Detroit. We want to give some away. We got sandbags. He caught a marlin out here yesterday. Here's got to. Thank you, specialist. Thank you for your flag. One more lap for the fourth plate slow.
Jim Hendrix:Now we pick up our leader.
Phil Cole:He's in the apex of the final turn, miss Budweiser, the fastest beer wagon alive, the Miss Budweiser with Dean Shenoweth Coming out of that final corner to come down and take the checker flag and pick up 400 points for a total of 700. That will get him into the third section of Gold Cup 1973. Here's the checker flag and here's the winning boat, miss Budweiser, with Dean Shenoweth Only about 90 mile an hour. Boy, he was really cool. That engine off Favoured it. For the win he has to face the hot dog. Try to pay it back or have a fan line or a boat in the next draw here coming out of the final corner right now to take also the checker flag, will be the pizza feet and 700 points for Freddie Alder. After taking it first, now he takes the second. He's way up there in the high ranking. Here comes Tom Kauffland to take 225 points for third place, and Tommy is doing a fine job of the rookie this year.
Phil Cole:Tommy gives a hand signal that he sees the flag. Referee Bill Newton acknowledges and we have our first three boats in Our fourth place. Boat still out in the corner will be Shaggy Special here. Come around to pick up 169 points. We'll be back in 60 seconds with more Gold Cup coverage 1973.
Speaker 7:Before you settle for less car than you wanted because your budget isn't as big as you'd like. Compare your four days Gold Cup 1973 continues on the Columbia River.
Phil Cole:This is Jim Hendrick Long with Pete Gross and, of course, bill.
:Cole.
Phil Cole:We're waiting now for heat to be, which will feature Miss Budweiser, pizza Pete. Check that heat to see the Friday back the Lincoln trip, miss Madison, and the value mark. So turn it into a certain afternoon as we went their way down toward the faster boats in faster competition with each other. So far it's been an easy time for the winners. Surprise enough, pete's a Pete is right up there with 700 points, tied with Miss Budweiser. Referees are taking a little breather now Harry Wood, assistant referee, and Bill Newton, head man.
Phil Cole:So, right now as we await the five to five minute gun. Right now we're, of course, waiting. Let's see what we're looking at down here. We're looking at one of the bullies as well in Lucia.
Phil Cole:I thought for just a minute you want to make a few comments, pete Jim, on that last race, one which was actually very close, at least for the first half lap or so, because off that start, mr Fabricator, miss Budweiser and Pete's a Pete all off very quickly. But as they hit that first turn, and as you pointed out why, miss Budweiser grabbed the lead with Dean Chenoweth, you never relinquished it throughout the race. Apologies to the station of the network. We weren't sure when we rejoined, but somebody, instead of turning the on-off volume on our tuner, turned the tuner and we were listening to the wrong station. Okay, so I wasn't too sure if we were on Pete, but I understand that Dean Chenoweth is standing by. Dean, are you down the pits? Okay, dean, it looks like you were using nothing in the way of nitrous oxide. I don't think you touched that button once, did you?
Jim Hendrix:Oh, I might have tapped it at the start and maybe coming off the first corner, but there and now I'm running for the dollar, jim.
Phil Cole:Bill Muncie was telling me that we were running him ragged down there, bringing him after he won a heat and driving him out of the boat. How do you feel about coming to our microphone?
Jim Hendrix:Oh, I feel pretty good about it. I tell you the truth. I just hope I'm here at the end.
Phil Cole:Finally, that counts, dean. You know it's amazing that the way the draw is gone it's been pretty favorable for the hot dogs. You guys, with the exception of you running against the Pride of Pay-and-Pack in the very first section of the first seat, there hasn't been too much competition. I would say the Atlas, band-aids, the Budweiser and the Pay-and-Pack. So things are going to get worse before they get better. Oh, I think so, jim. I think this is building up to a heck of a final.
Jim Hendrix:as you can see from here, the way it looks now is going to be an Atlas Band-Pack and Budweiser final, and I think it's really going to be a real go-getter there in the final.
Phil Cole:We can't neglect it. Right on the money here, and we're standing right beside. Right on the money here and we're standing right beside. We have Bill Newton and he's on our left and I write the flag man and we're overlooking. And it's so great we get to try and face the factual first. So Kyra will be the official voice of the unlimited races when we get there two weeks from now. Of course, k's Cusebook. Canada has done a fantastic job this year and helping us cover unlimited high defying races. Let's get back to the Corde lane, idaho area someday so that we can, of course, get out there and see a race and make it to Seattle.
Phil Cole:Alright, they're going to the upper turn. Let's plot it right now as Phil Cole gets out from under his mustache, gets his Bifolk, is ready and slots the votes. Well, we'll have number two of the race. Now, with 20 seconds to go. It's not hard to tell you how much strategy there is, because Bob Gillum is on the number one lane, mickey Riemann's got the number two, tom Sheehy and Miss Madison number three, and on the outside is Danny Walton, lincoln Thrift. Now Mickey Riemann's coming up fast on the inside, although right now it's Tom Sheehy in this matter. So you see those two and Tom Sheehy goes across the line in first place but Mickey Riemann's coming up on the inside into paying back and he's going to eat Tom Sheehy alive. As they go into that first corner Paying back and Lincoln Thrift is down, gone past the Miss Madison as they reached that number one corner for the first time, mickey Riemann sticks his nose in there in that rear stabilizer, hides her plane from Seattle and begins to move around there in good shape and tucked it on the inside in a solid. Third place now is Bob Gillum, although Danny Walton is moving rapidly around the outside in Lincoln Thrift, calling them one, two, three and four as they straight down hit up the back shoot. It's a paid back, first Miss Madison, second Lincoln Thrift and Valumart, just it uptied for third place as they move up the back stretch here in lap number one, lincoln Thrift just down moved past the Valumart and now Danny Walton is moving on to Miss Madison. So Danny Walton really picked up some racing room as he's moved up that back stretch.
Phil Cole:Meanwhile Pay-In-Pack is in first place in my gracious. But you look at Danny Walton up there, jim, in the Lincoln Thrift he's gone by Valumart, he's gone by Madison and by Golly. He's set this right on Pay-In-Pack. Yes, he is. He came right up from fourth and now it's challenging for second. As we come to the completion of lap number one, here comes the Plata Pay-In-Pack and those votes are going way wide and we have a lot of swimmers down there. I hope they don't go a few wide. There's the Plata Pay-In-Pack and here comes a place for second place, side by side. The completion of lap number one is Lincoln Thrift and Vanadium.
:I don't know if my Valumart is.
Phil Cole:Just as we complete lap number one, it's Danny Walton, lincoln Thrift, taking over second 113.9. Are there votes for Mickey Riemann and the pride of Pay-In-Pack on lap number one? Tom Sheehy whoops for this Madison just blew something. Big Sheet of Flame came out of that engine 113.924. Tommy Sheehy backfired to the carburetor. The engine backfired to the carburetor on the Miss Madison but he's kept it going. But we did see a tongue of flame come out of the supercharger sector of that engine.
Phil Cole:On the back stretch is Mickey Riemann and the pride of Pay-In-Pack, with about a 10-second lead over the Lincoln Thrift and the Miss Madison in second place. The Lincoln Thrift of course has his DeWon of Cab over the votes, rides very light on the front end and we expect that out of this vote he's now moved into a nice second place. Well, lap number two and Mickey Riemann, who set a heat record the first time around this race course, isn't going to have to do it this time, unless he wants to. But then he might want to. You don't know. Mickey riding beautifully, trying to rate him to points, going into the third section of our limited heat. He goes past the start city climb at the end of lap number two, moving about 150 miles an hour and a speed of about 112 miles an hour.
Phil Cole:Mickey Riemann in pride of Pay-In-Pack, the second place voters, lincoln Thrift and Lowe's Association. With Danny Walsh he goes across the line 12 seconds behind the Pay-In-Pack and Miss Madison is a couple of seconds behind him. Counts. He's trying to make that cut too, and Mickey Riemann the Pay-In-Pack. Down in the lower corner. Mickey has one of the number two votes. Thank you, the number two vote, lincoln Thrift. Look just a little bit there. 111.663, lap number two for the Pay-In-Pack. So Lincoln Thrift had a little problem going into that number one corner and now Jim, miss Madison is moving up on the inside rather rapidly. Yes, I'm interested in that play for second place because Danny Walsh and the Lincoln Thrift has been very, very erratic.
Phil Cole:That boat is walking on a spot, the spot that he comes by, and he really lost some time there. Here he goes again, coming down there back. You can see the bottom half is burnt. A lot of times Phil Cole put the glass on him and watches him do that turn and see what happens. He's oscillating. It's very simple. The boat is out of balance a little bit and he'll hit on the left spot and he comes back to the right spots it and begins to aggravate itself and then air gets under and it really starts going up in the air and he has to back off of it.
Phil Cole:Here comes the completion of lap number three. It's the Friday Pay-In-Pack with Mickey Leaman coming rolling by our study line and that's why for second place he continues to go on about 108 mile an hour for Mickey Leaman on his way to the bank with a second straight victory in the heat. That of course all it separates them in from the boys. Here comes the Lincoln trip and two and a half seconds later it comes to the Madison and Thurston front. It's a complete lap number three, while the value of Bob Gurion is coming out of the turn and he'll come down in fourth place to complete the lap number three. It's six times around a two and a half mile oval, 108, as Phil called it, 108.173, to be exact. Well, lap and a half to go and the Friday Pay-In-Pack will be tied at the Amazon stand line for 800 points and 100 points ahead, at the feet of the Spudwifers.
Phil Cole:You know what, jim, I was thinking the other day. If I could build whatever I wanted to build and I remember the hydroplane today you know what I'd build? I'd build me a Pay-In-Pack hull with a Lincoln trip engine. But then they would not hear you coming. No, but they'd sure see me going. Boy, I'll tell you that. Because this Lincoln trip engine is so into that power and they'd only have to Pay-In-Pack's ride. I don't think anybody'd catch it.
Phil Cole:Here's Mickey Riemann coming down the main chute now out of number four down the main chute and moving toward the starting line at the end of lap number four. Here he is, and he averaged about 110.4 miles an hour for that lap. So Mickey's not backing off too much, moving right along, although he's not really being pushed. Meanwhile Lincoln trips in long. Danny Wolves, moving along in that cab over hydroplane, goes by the starting line about 17 seconds behind the leader. Third-place photosystematic, tom Shee.
Phil Cole:The boats would seem like they might be cut right now or Murphy's Marine, mr Fabricator and probably Miss US, or Value Mark, one of the two, I'll have to figure that out. But at 10.024, mickey Riemann, lap number four. He's on lap number five right now and he'll get the green flag this time around. He's about a half a lap ahead of Bob Gillum at the Value Mark. And, incidentally, I would say the boats that are in danger now being cut are Mr Fabricator, value Mark and Murphy's Marine. Perhaps Miss US, one of those three of those four boats, or one of those four boats is not going to make the cut when we cut this field down to 10 boats.
Phil Cole:Now the green flag, five feet square, goes out at the starting line, signifying the pay-in-fact is on its last lap of this heat and on its way to 400 more points and 800 points for the day, and Mickey Riemann, going by the starting line this time, is coming alive and has created a little over 107 miles an hour in that lap. He's going to be a little above 107 miles an hour on lap number five. So Mickey Riemann with 800 points, bill Muncie with 800 points, dean Chenoweth with 700 points and Freddie Alter with 700 points. That's the way the four boats should be right now for the 1973 Gold Cup. Lincoln Thrift will be back there with 600 points or 525, I guess He'll be your fifth-place boat at that time. Miss Madison, running along in here will have about 450.
Phil Cole:107.914 miles per hour on lap number five for the pay-in-fact, and up the back stretch goes that beautiful winged wonder of Dave Herron's burger from Seattle Washington, mickey Riemann, the pride of pay-in-fact. Dave said we'd never be able to call that boat a bird again. We used to call it the eagle, or eagle-elected screaming eagle. He said you'll never be able to relate it to a bird again. So now we have the winged wonder from Seattle U-25. Here comes the value of mine now, completely his fifth lap, bob Gilliam. Folks, like a butterfly, it stings like a bee. Yeah, there's no doubt about it. He's got the ashes today to haul.
Phil Cole:And our favorite now after this heat it's going to be tighter bird, tougher and tighter competition, because everything but the hot dogs will be sold together from now on. Here he comes and they can sit and play Pride of Pay-in-fact. Pride of Pay-in-fact is now perfect with 800 points tying Bill Munk and the Atlas Bandlines, 700 points to Miss Budweiser and the Peeps-a-Peeps and, of course, the rest of the field to follow. But those would have to be your four favorites and I think now you'll agree with me, bill, that it's going to be tougher competition. Well, I hope to draw for 3A and I'm going to be very honest with you, jim. In the interest of all the people around this race course and hundreds of thousands of people listening to us on the radio, I'd like to see 3A wind up being Budweiser and the Atlas Bandlines, pay-in-fact Peeps-a-Peeps and Lincoln Thrift, but that can't happen. Well, I don't know. I've seen a lot of things happen in this course. You never know.
Phil Cole:Here comes the third place finisher to take the Chagger Flag, as the Lincoln Thrift has already taken. Second. Here's our third place boat, miss Madison, with arms shee as he gives us a wave. And our fourth place finisher will be the value mark, with Bob Gilliam coming out of that apex of the upward turn right now. He'll come down to take the Chagger Flag. I remind you that throughout this day, klrd, official voice of the Gold Cupers BDI Network, which has now spoken in Seattle, but later on today we go all over the country. Here comes the value mark right now, with Bob Gilliam taking second place.
Phil Cole:Let's take with our referee, bill Newton. Now, bill, are we scheduled for 3A? At what time? 4 o'clock, jim? 4 and 430 won't be the next heat, okay? 4 and 430, pacific Coast time. And finally, we're still scheduling for 530. 530 broadcast time on the network, the most viewers seen on a radio, and as we look right now down toward there, we can see that the red. Oh, there we go.
Phil Cole:I think the Notre Dame just gets underway, but Notre Dame is underway. That leaves Red man Tobacco. Notre Dame is plowing a little bit, but he's got it going. He's on the prime and down by the bridge, the Notre Dame with Ronnie Larson just underway, shirley Mentor, sir McDonald and of course, dr McDonald was in Seattle. We wish that you were here and we're looking forward to seeing you in Seattle and hoping that your boat keeps a steady improvement as she has. The Notre Dame is underway, but very slowly, while drifting down toward the bridge with the current. It has to get underway.
Phil Cole:Before the one-minute gunner is disqualified is Red man Tobacco with Jim McCormick. Here comes that one-minute gun and that one-minute gun, one-minute gun is fired. Red man is out of the race. The alternate is now in there officially and that'll be Miss US and Lincoln trips out of the race too, because we don't find him on the race course. So Lincoln trips and Red man. Neither one gets started. As a matter of fact, lincoln trips Doesn't even put it in appearance, at least we don't see him and haven't seen him.
Phil Cole:Four boats up the backstrips now, and they are Atlas Van Lines, miss Budweiser, miss US and Notre Dame, and they're moving up that backstrip right now getting ready to come down here for the start. With 30 seconds to go. We're holding hands with the referee 25 seconds. Notre Dame's going to try for the inside here. Suddenly Ronnie Larson moving toward the inside, and so is Dean Chenoweth. Now Chenoweth's going to give up and settle for a wide lane. He's going to go out there and make Bill Muncie alter his course a little bit. Muncie has wrecked up Four and two boats just about hit up there. Now Muncie comes into the inside quickly. Bill Muncie comes into the inside and he's three seconds two seconds and a little surprise, he puts Notre Dame and Miss Budweiser and Atlas Van Lines across the line.
Phil Cole:Miss Budweiser going across there first as the rangers underway. Miss Budweiser goes in there first, atlas Van Lines second, notre Dame third and Miss US is fourth. Lincoln's rift just got started down there, went back to the pit area, I believe. Miss Budweiser on the outside, atlas Van Lines on the inside. This is lap number one of a sixth lap of it and Atlas Van Lines now moves smartly past the Miss Budweiser, dean Chenoweth loses his lead and Bill Muncie moves smartly right on past him Up that backstrap. It's Bill Muncie and Atlas Van Lines first, dean Chenoweth second and Miss Budweiser and Jim. Atlas Van Lines and Miss US just about hit up there.
Phil Cole:At the start, yes, it was legal and the delivery took place before the Apex Green Boy and the slots were then maintained. But it was a hairy situation as they jucked forward position. And now, as we come in the apex of the turn, here comes the Miss Budweiser on top, on side-by-side of Muncie. Muncie goes in lane number one, cuts it short to the boy, forcing Dean Chenoweth on the outside. Muncie by one boat late. Muncie by two. Dean Chenoweth is down to the next, to the outside. There'll be only a half a second. Here's the completion of round number one. Almost side-by-side Muncie, by a boat length that Miss Budweiser has been combined. Here comes the third place boat. It'll be the Notre Dame, followed by Miss US as they go into that turn. Completion of round number one.
Phil Cole:It's Bill Muncie keeping the Budweiser on his hip and a tremendous race here for first and second between Atlas Van Lines and the Miss Budweiser. Muncie comes flying off their new record 116.883 miles per hour. Look at the Budweiser Go by the Atlas Van Lines. He went by like he was tied to a post and now Muncie gets back in it 116.883, lap number one. And now it's Budweiser by about a half a boat length ahead of Atlas Van Lines and they're really hauling up that back stretch. Budweiser moves away by two lengths. It's the Lines of second. Dean Kenevis slows down, sets up for that corner, starts that long slide through the right hand porch, through the turn, moving around the apex boy. Here they come, they're going to be side-by-side as they come out of there. Kenevis moving in on the bullet line now and cutting off that bullet line, leaving not a lot of room, but Bill Muncie comes right off of it too. Muncie comes right around that boy, bill Muncie. A tremendous job of turning inside of Dean Kenevis.
Phil Cole:Kenevis, baby turn and Muncie turns 116.883, lap number two for Dean Kenevis of this Budweiser.
Phil Cole:So Kenevis really hauled down that back stretch and I think Muncie will keep trying to push him, or at least another lap before he'll settle for a second. And it's going to be Kenevis going into that third. Here comes your third place, both with no-to-dame, followed by this US Boy. You know that, dean Kenevis, without that nice of a soft side you could just see it coming out there. He said I'm going to go or blow. Well, this was it. He had to do it and he left him down in that corner. What Dean finally did now, and he moved into the corner, this time with an overlap. He moved in and made Bill Muncie go across his way. The last speed that time was 115.979. We called it at about 116. So, going into the number one turn on lap number two, dean Kenevis moved to the buoy line and Bill Muncie had to go across his way and it's now trickling by about four or five seconds. But Kenevis really moved on him. He really moved coming out of that turn and I guess he figured he had to stretch his neck out sooner or later. So he chose to do it.
Phil Cole:On lap number two of heat number 3A in the 1973 Gold Cup and now Dean Kenevis on lap number three, coming down here to finish lap number three. So that's a real fast but going far. This time that lap was 114 miles per hour by Dean Kenevis and Bill Muncie, an atlas man line about eight seconds back and running a little slower than he was first. The third place voted the Notre Dame, was Ronnie Larson in Notre Dame and the fourth place voted Tommy Deyves in this US Lincoln dribs unfortunately got started after the one-minute gun and returned to the pit area down there. So now it's a matter of Dean Kenevis can keep that engine together the way he pushed it on lap number one and two. To stay in the race, jim. And as the Notre Dame goes by us right now on third place, I think Bill Muncie will very wisely 113.924, 113.924 in the third lap, as our leader is coming down to take the fourth lap, which means two more laps to go after this one, and Muncie now will sit in second place, take no chances and he will have a total of 1,100 points to be tied with the Buclizer Right. So why should he try to pull it right now when he knows he'll go into the final only 100 points, the back of the pride of paying back, should the payback, of course, win the next section, which would be 3B. Well, it's going to be a winner take-all and the final he gets around Jim, just the way it usually is in a gold cup race.
Phil Cole:Here's Dean Kenevis and this Buclizer coming off that number four corner on lap number four, with a lead over Bill Muncie the last seven or eight seconds. Kenevis goes by the start finish line, 108 miles an hour, all that number four, and he is about seven seconds ahead of Adam's man line and suddenly Bill Muncie decides to start running after him. Bill Muncie suddenly has decided to start after Dean Kenevis. He began to pick it up very rapidly there. Evidently he figures maybe Kenevis might have something wrong. So Muncie is suddenly taken off after the Miss Budweiser and he cut that lead down quite markedly there as the boats went down the main chute. And now he is. Let's check it for you as a matter of fact 107.914 miles an hour and last lap 14, and Miss Budweiser One, two, three, four, five, six seconds for Atlas Van Lines behind Miss Budweiser. So he's cut a couple of seconds off that lead here on lap number four and the green flag will be out the next time around for Dean Kenevis in Miss Budweiser. And boy, you'll see two drivers driving closer together at higher speeds than that.
Phil Cole:Jim and those two boys were the first couple of laps. Well, we told the fans that we're listening to radio here on the PA system that the race would get better, and it has. The green flag just went out for the Miss US currently riding in fourth place. Here comes our leader to take the green flag and one more lap for Miss Budweiser and Dean Kenevis comes down. Here comes the Atlas Van Lines with Bill Munsey Munsey's engine, that's starting to well, not up the par, let's put it that way Our third-place voters just going into the number three-quarter to come down and take the green flag and complete five laps. We are on our sixth lap with our leader, and the leader happens to be at this time Miss Budweiser, with Dean Shennoweth driving as he comes out of the number two corner and Bill Munsey, the second-place voter of the apex, 107.914.107.914 for lap number five. Here comes the Notre Dame third-place vote. He'll have one more lap to go.
Phil Cole:Well, it'll be 1100 points for the Budweiser, 1100 points for Atlas Van Lines, and the FIATA Pay-It-Back already has 800. A first or a second for the FIATA Pay-It-Back will make it, as you said, a winner. Take all heat. It's going to be jam up and win them. That's final heat. Fiata Pay-It-Back ought to win its heat. There's no two ways about that. There's no use saying anything else than that. So it should be a three-boat final heat. But you know what, if these two feet would happen to sneak through and win one, it would really be a final heat for both sides and points.
Phil Cole:Here comes the winner, miss Budweiser, with Dean Shennoweth coming down here to take the second flag. Dean Shennoweth, miss Budweiser, takes the second flag and the last circuit that race for it. Dean Avery's 104.6 miles per hour and he gets the checker. Phil Muth, he gets the checker for a second wave and Atlas Van Lines. So those two boats are now tied in high points at the end of three heats, 1100 points each. Miss Budweiser's going to Avery's around 109, 110 miles an hour for that last heat, and Dean Shennoweth goes right back to the pit area right through Tommy the East Spray, which indicates to me that Uncle Dean must have something down in that engine room. He wants to have looked at by Tommy Frankhouser and the Budweiser crew. So he's just turning up because he knows we're waiting to interview him on the radio network because he won again. That's what he's trying to do, that's what he has to hurry in for.
Phil Cole:Here comes our third place finisher for 225 points. Another day, driven by Ronnie Larson, and fourth place points. We'll go to the Miss US with Tommy Deese when he gets around here. Now that means, ladies and gentlemen, that we have just one more illumination each to go, which will be in just a few minutes with 3B. Then they'll take the five fastest boats to run for the championship and we may have a consolation which is the second five fastest before the championship heat. But I guarantee you that you're about to see one of the most thrilling spectacles and those of you on the network here are one of the most thrilling high-speed spectacles when we put all these hot dogs together in a very short time and we're going to have a high-definition winning.
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Phil Cole:The rest of the cord broadcast crew are originating station for this, the 1973 version of Gold Cup APBA of the banks of the Columbia River here in Tri-Cities, Washington. And the last seat is an indication of a battle between Budweiser and Atlas side by side at over 116.8 mile an hour. That last five, which means they're hauling over 160 mile an hour and they're going to go around telling you that's moving. Looking ahead to 3B, the, prior to paying back with 800 perfect points, would like another first place win, which would give them 1200. Right now the Budweiser and Atlas Van Lines are tied, with 1100 total points going into the final. The Budweiser and Atlas Van Lines have now completed all their elimination heats. They will now just wait for the championship.
Phil Cole:Mickey Riemen of course, will be out to at least get us first or second place and with either tie, if he comes in second, there'd be a three way tie with 1100 points. If he comes in first, you'll have a 100 point advantage going into the finale for the Gold Cup, which is the most prestigious cup in the history of unlimited hydroplane racing, and right now Dean Schenerweth is on the line with us right now and a victory for the second time in two out of three, two firsts and a second. Dean, how do you feel?
Jim Hendrix:Yeah, I'm tired. I'll tell you how tired I've ever been in my life, but I'm starting to feel better. Really, I was telling the crew all day. I said I can't wake up, I just can't.
Phil Cole:I can't get my composure. What do you mean? What do you mean you're tired?
Jim Hendrix:Yeah, no, no, not now. I'm not. I'm feeling better now, I don't know. But the first couple of heats I just felt drug addict, just didn't feel physically like I was having any energy and I just made up my mind at final heat that, you know, either I get my energy up or just forget. Today I said, well, we're going to go now.
Phil Cole:Okay, now, dean, let me ask you this you and Bill Muncie and the Atlas and you driving the Budweiser, really had the battle right, right, and all of a sudden you came off of corner number two at the in the beginning of the second lap, coming out of the first turn for the second time, and you poured the cold tour and walked away from Muncie like he was standing still. How'd you do it?
Jim Hendrix:Well, I just hit the nitrous, I just put it on the wood and I said well, I know I've got all the confidence in the world in my boat. And I said, if I've got that much confidence, I'm just going to have to see how fast it'll go. And from one end of the shoot to the other I had it on the floor.
Phil Cole:But don't ask me how fast I was going. Well, I'll tell you. At the end of lap number one, both of you and Atlas Fan Line were over 116 mile an hour, which is a new record.
Jim Hendrix:Do you know that?
Phil Cole:No, I didn't. Well, you do know, buddy, and I'll say, and your second lap left, you took the lead with over 115. Oh boy, so you were traveling out there, so the water conditions must be good.
Jim Hendrix:Yeah, they are, dean, they're excellent.
Phil Cole:Okay, now you say you were tired. You've got your adrenaline flowing, you've got all of your elimination heats out of the way. You have 1100 points and a tie with Atlas Fan Line.
Phil Cole:No matter what happens to the Pan Pack with our first or second, with Pan Pack, if he's 30s a second, you're all free time with 1100. Right, 100. If the Pan Pack wins, as is expected, if he doesn't have any malfunctions, he goes in with 100 point advantage, but it still breaks down to a winner. Take all final, which is going to give these fans one heck of a thrill.
Jim Hendrix:Yeah, yeah.
Phil Cole:I don't believe it. It's going to be a final. I'm not going to forget for a while again. Okay Now, Dean Chenoweth driving the Miss Budweiser. What about your crew? Are they going to change engines for the final heat? I'd rather doubt it.
Jim Hendrix:This engine is strong and I just don't know, I really don't at this point. I just came from the boat to talk to you and I really have no idea what they're talking about.
Phil Cole:Well, I appreciate you coming directly out of a hot cockpit. A thrilling win. Come on our network and be first and factual on our network. Oh Dean, thank you very much, it's a pleasure to be with you on your network.
Jim Hendrix:Are you going to fly home with me? I don't know, it just depends on how this ride will go down, how tired I am.
Phil Cole:Well, you better fly home with the referee Bill Newton tonight. I'm out, don't go off tonight.
Jim Hendrix:Okay.
Phil Cole:I'm going to celebrate a little bit tonight on your flying driving. Then we'll all go back east and have a couple of weeks of rest before we hit Seattle.
Jim Hendrix:Good enough, jim. Thank you, and.
Phil Cole:I hope to be talking to you again.
Jim Hendrix:I hope you are too. Thank you.
Phil Cole:Dean Bye. Okay, that was Dean Chenoweth, the winning driver, and one heck of a nice guy. He hails from Zinio, ohio. He calls himself the pig farmer in Zinio, which is just a suburb of Dayton, and he's just a great guy. Here is the results of Heat 3A just handed to me. But before we get to that, let's take this time out 60 seconds for a word from our local sponsor.
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Phil Cole:Oh, we're back again. I'm sorry. I was talking. I found out that Bernie Lindell, the owner of Ms Budweiser, is making his way toward our microphones down in the pips so that we can talk to him. But here it is. Heat 3A Ms Budweiser said a new Gold Cup heat record of 110.929. Breaking Mickey Riemann's pan-fat record of 110.905, said earlier in Heat 1A. Atlas Van Lines said a new lap record 116.883 miles an hour in lap 1, breaking Riemann's record of 114.796 in Heat 1A. The winner of Heat 3A, dean Shenoweth 400 points Giving him a total of 11 for the day 1A at speed, 110.929.
Phil Cole:I'm running in the Gold Cup. The boats are on the course for Heat 3B the Pay-In-Pack Pizza Pete, miss Madison, value Mark, mr Fabricator Now let's go back upstairs to Phil and Jim. Time for Heat 3B here in the 1973 APBA Gold Cup. And a Value Mark driven by Bob Gillum Pushes away now from the pit area. So all five boats scheduled to run Heat 3B are on the race course and running. Let's take a look around the race course now and spot the field for Heat 3B. Pay-in-pack with Mickey. Riemann is one of your five boats in the race course and Mickey, of course, held the lap at Heat Record until Bill Munsey ran 116.883, a mile an hour lap and Heat 3A to set a new lap record and Dean Shanawood ran 110.929 for a Heat Record. So Mickey Riemann is no longer the holder of records on this race course for the Gold Cup race and he afford to go on to Phil and try to set another record at Busted Engine and be so far behind it.
Phil Cole:You think you'll play it safe. I don't know. Dave Harrisberger is an indefinable quantity when it comes to that. Dave just might elect to go over the records. He well could do that. Ready, author of Pizza Pete, has won a Heat in 72nd. He has 700 points. Tommy Sheehy and Miss Madison out there have not finished well up to this. Yet Neither Tommy Calfman nor Bob Gillum are all in there on the basis of finishing their heats here today. So we have five boats on the race course and running jammer coming up to the one. Ok, the Pizza Pete and Miss Madison now come by us, as a lot of the racing, as we've said many times, takes place right here, because it's more important to where they are. Here comes a lot of Pay-In-Pack followed by a value bar. This is the final elimination. This is the final heat before we go with a five passes boat. This is the value mark.
Phil Cole:We're close to cutting across the course right now. Close to cutting across the course right now, and leading them in. There is Pizza Pete, followed by the Miss Madison. Cutting across the infield right now is the value mark, followed by the Fassins. He'll right now is the value mark, followed by the fabricator and also the Pay-In-Pack comes up to the backstretch. Now, real fast. Five seconds to the one minute gun. Here comes the one minute gun. One minute gun is fired, the weight flag is out, the boats are up the back shield and all are at their junkie position. Here still, mickey Riemann, the pride of Pay-In-Pack, join the fleet late. He's just a wee bit late, but he'll take it up and no problem whatsoever. As the fleet moves up the backstretch into the starting area, the value mark is going to lead him in there, followed by Miss Madison. Mr Fabricator right now is on the outside and Mickey Riemann is going to do exactly what he tried to do in the first team. He's going to come around there late. If somebody leaves him a hole, come right down into that inside lane. Now he begins to pick up smartly and moves into the starting area with the field.
Phil Cole:So, with twenty seconds left to go before the start it's going to be Mickey Riemann and Pay-In-Pack. On the number one lane, tommy Sheehy makes that Freddy Alter in piece-a-piece-two value mark. The number three lane, madison, the number four lane and on the number five lane, tommy Cuffman and Mr Fabricator. And this Madison has a great start. He's got a key header right on the nose and Mickey Riemann and Freddy Alter are moving right up there with him, and Tommy Cuffman wasn't wasting any time either. Now Madison suddenly slows down and the field goes by Tommy Sheehy and the Miss Madison. The front runners move by Sheehy there as he slowed down for a moment. So on the inside it's Pay-In-Pack in first in piece-a-piece in this Madison. On the outside, mr Fabricator and the number four voters value mark.
Phil Cole:Moving out of that lower corner, the number two corner, mickey Riemann gets the Pay-In-Pack loose, gets down into that engine room, begins to work on it. The way he goes, mickey Riemann, on the pride of Pay-In-Pack, the winged one that floats like a butterfly, sings like a bee from Seattle. He's on his way again. He's hoping to have a lot of racing room between himself and Pete Capita's Red Alter. And after Freddy Alter it's Tom Sheehy in the Miss Madison, just about to roost the tail away. Jim Hendrick. Okay, freddy Alter is taking and I'm sure he is the piece-a-piece with a second place finish would have 1,000 going into the final, which isn't too bad. We'd be bunched up. If they finish this way, we'd be fine to fan back with 1,200, the Atlas with the 1,100, and 1,000 for Pete Capita. Those would be your top four votes. We'll have to finish this. We'll figure out who the fifth place vote would be. Here's the completion of lap number one the part of Pay-In-Pack with a 10 votes makes 3. There's the part of Pay-In-Pack. Here comes Freddy Alter, third place vote.
:Miss Madison coming by Freddy.
Phil Cole:Alter has the moral coming out of his engine. It's coming over, it's coming over his water over for it. Now A lot of oil. On the side of Freddy Alter's vote, the piece-a-piece that may felt trouble for him before the 50 miles over. You can't bump too much of that stuff out of there before something lets go. So the Pay-In-Pack has about a buoy lead. It needs about 500 feet on Freddy Alter and the piece-a-piece. And Pay-In-Pack moves up that back stretch with Fred Alter coming along behind him about three or four seconds later.
Phil Cole:Miss Madison, tommy Sheehy, the yellow and mahogany voted second 110.837 for Mickey Riemann in the pride of Pay-In-Pack on lap number one. Madison is third, mr Fabricator is fourth, valium Art is fifth as they move around the race course here on lap number two, tommy Kaufman, by the way, from Carrollton Ohio passed Bob Gillum in the main stretch just a little while ago the day before the fourth place in Mr Fabricator. Moving out of the upper corner now and moving beautifully is the pride of Pay-In-Pack from Seattle. About a three or four second lead over Fred Alter in piece-a-piece. Here we'll get a speed for you. We'll also check that side of that piece-a-piece boat. Here's the completion of lap number two to find a pay-in-pack. Here comes Freddy Alter.
Phil Cole:And we have the glasses on him now to check and see if he has the Earl problems in piece-a-piece Third place boat just coming down in complete lap. Number two is Miss Madison, followed by Tommy Kaufman. This is a Tom Kaufman. Yes, it is. Tom Kaufman is the abracator and Bob Gillum in value mark. That's the way to spread out, no contest here. But you're going to spread up a whale of a final field.
Phil Cole:Our lead boat is now down the back stretch and that is the pride of Pay-In-Pack. From lap number two, italy will be Madison and Notre Dame as the fifth boat in the final One of the two. No, kedoki, we'll just have to see if the Madison completes. If the Madison stays in third place where she is now, phil, how would that go? Well, let's see, notre Dame right now has 600 points. I don't know what Madison has, to be frank with you, but we'll figure it out sooner or later. Probably Notre Dame, I think, jim, up the back stretch it's the Pay-In-Pack Piece-a-piece. Well, madison is not. Notre Dame is going to be the fifth boat in the final heat. The way it will work out, notre Dame has 825 points. Notre Dame is just going to the fifth boat.
Phil Cole:Mickey Riemann finishes lap number three at 108.4 miles an hour. He's just tooling along in good shape, piece-a-piece Fetty Alter has settled into a 72nd place and saved his founder to fight for later. So the Gale entry just made it to the final heat, although that oil on the side of that piece-a-piece doesn't look like that boat's running to Sanitary here. On lap number four, here's the Madison, the third place boat, philly Sea. Lap number three Mickey Riemann starts up the back stretch. On lap number four. Mickey Riemann sticks up a lot of racing 107.143 officially. We're paying back on lap number three. We have two and a half more laps to go and then we'll have a finale set up here. And we'll have a finale set up here. On lap number four, paying back was 1200. Budweiser and Handler's stand line was 1100. Piece-a-piece is 1000 and Notre Dame is 825. That's the way they'll rack up here, pulling into the final heat.
Phil Cole:And Mickey Riemann is flying the things down quite a bit in the engine room of the pay-in pack here on lap number four. He's taking a leisurely Sunday afternoon cruise right now, followed there by Piece-a-piece, which is also not stretching anything. He probably knew he had a chance to get in that final and he'd probably get his foot in it just a little bit harder. But I guess he doesn't figure that he wants to stretch it that hard. Here's Mickey Riemann finishing lap number four. He's flying a pay-in pack in Seattle, washington, at a speed of just down 107 miles an hour, jim. Okay, it lets the two more laps to go, but if I have to pay it back, you know you have a perfect day of 1200 points, leading the Budweiser Handlers who have 1100 points and a Piece-a-piece remains here in second. He'll go in the final with a thousand points, followed by the Notre Dame with 800-cell-odd points. That'll round out your field.
Phil Cole:Third place boat is just coming up in at Smith-Madison 107.914 107.914, lap number four. Here goes this Madison bias, followed by Tommy Kaufman and just coming the apex to the upper turn, is the value mark by the leader as 11 1, 1, 2 to go before she goes to the bank and has a lot of pay-and-back down the back chute, a lot of pay-and-back with a lap and a quarter to go. Now, as these boats are pretty well spread out of this two and a half mile level here in the Columbia River and two weeks hence a World Championship 50,000-dollar event. The fan plans were all boats that are easily qualified when against each other all day and the winner take all at the second flag That'll be. That'll be on Lake Washington in Seattle and the green flag is put out here for Mickey Riemann inside of Pay-and-Back from Seattle Washington.
Phil Cole:Mickey, moving down that main stretch at about 140 to 145 miles an hour, has been well under control down to the inter-urbanal right of Pay-and-Back at 105.8 miles an hour, officially on lap number five and he's a half lap ahead of the fourth place boat, mr Fabricator, and I don't think he will last the value mark, but he will go to it if the race had another lap to go. The green flag is now up from Detroit, driven by Fred Older, and it's also out from Miss Madison, from Madison, indiana, driven by Tom Sheehy, and Mr Fabricator from Carrollton, ohio, driven by Tom Plumman. That's the beat to beat. Going by the line. You hear the background right now 106.383, lap number five for Pay-and-Back and now the Miss Madison gets the green flag signifying she's on her last lap. Coming right up to the back of the line is Tommy Kaufman in the Mr Fabricator and he will get the green flag now, signifying that he too is on his last lap.
Phil Cole:And at the back stretch Goal Sheer Leader try to say, in fact Mickey Lehmann from Seattle, washington, winner of the Miami race and winner of the Indiana Governor's Cup race this year and trying to win the first Gold Cup ever for Dave Heronsberger. Owners who won the Gold Cup here before include Shirley Mendelson and Shirley Sheeneth, who's won it twice with the Gales, bernie Liddler, who's won it twice with the Miss Budweiser, jim McCormick, who won it in the Miss Madison. Here's value of our Bob Gilliam getting the green flag and Mickey Lehmann comes right on behind him to take the checker, putting he's freebie and setting up a big winner, take-all finale here for the 1973 Gold Cup. So Mickey Lehmann wins it and, jim, it'll be a winner, take-all finale here in just a little bit. Okay. So, cole, thank you for your expertise in the application that you have in broadcast in 75.
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Bernie Little:I was pretty losing the voice. You want to say something about that, bill.
Phil Cole:There is Just one time I can say right now, jim. Okay, froggy, here comes your second place. Both a piece of beat with a total of a thousand points with a second place finish today. Right here he's. The beat will be in the final with one thousand points. Here comes this Madison, who will be the alternate should any of the first five sales have done, or she takes third place here in her final 15 mile heat. Here's Tommy Kauffman I look at you who joined us late but is coming along real well in Shifter.
:Fabrication.
Phil Cole:He'll take over fourth place for the C3B and the value might will come around and take fifth place points. We'll have the leaders for you and the breakdown in the final field will be back with more cold coverage. 1973 in 60 seconds. It's a way to waste time, but what I look for is the flight of hands back and the Budweiser trying to put up each other on the inside. I think Bill Muncie would be satisfied on the outside to get a worrying start, and that's the way it looks to me. Beat the beat.
Phil Cole:I don't know where Freddie will settle in, but all those votes have a chance to take it all with the second play. How much of a team race do you think we're going to see here between the feet to feet and the Atlas band lines? Since they are a team, I don't think we'll see any team race. I think it's going to be the best vote and the best man to get out, but let it be had. I don't see any teaming up. The Atlas band lines are fighting for respectability after winning last year's national championship, and she'll want to go out. Listen to the engine and it's hands back come by. There's a lot of racing going on right here in the great northwest town of Tri-Cities, washington. Here is the Notre.
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Phil Cole:Okay, right now, here comes the flood blighter out of the Tampa Bay area owned by Bernie Little and Gene Sinema, from the Bind. The Notre Dame is on us. Seattle and Detroit is kind of a split deal and Shirley Minnows McDonnell resides in both towns and I know they're listening on Cairo and Seattle. We wish them every bit of success and of course, we can see them at the race two weeks from now in the World Championship for $50,000 at Lake Washington in Seattle, and also the quite a big impact is out of Seattle, while they have a sand line to do a must-see based out of Detroit and we have on sound dimension scenarios. This Madison is on the race course. As the alternate, this Madison is on the race course and any of these boats fail to start, victory becomes fire and a fight of pay-back.
Phil Cole:All jockey watching their stop watches. These boats take a flying start. They see that five minute flag go out and they check their stop watches. They have to hit that course. White on the money, pizza Pete. Pizza Pete is coming by now. It's sponsored by a Seattle business firm. It's owned by Detroit's Joe Sheinert and company and part of the care of the racing team, and they've done a win with a job, with two boats in the final fill. That's right. Pizza Pete also is in Miami Florida too. They have a store down there also, pete Utter. And incidentally, I watched Mickey Rima go warming up, go way up that river and come down here very slowly as if he's looking for something to make a long run. Mickey cannot outrun the Budweiser on the straight away, but he does out turn him, so he's thinking of something already. Jim, they do a lot of planning, a lot of strategy right now and we're getting close to that one minute gun, close to the one minute gun as the boat Pizza Pete's got the inside if he wants it.
Phil Cole:And there's the half of the stand line going up the back, shoot, that's the one minute gun. As the Notre Dame leads the pack in there and all of a sudden here comes Budweiser and the pilot paying back are shocking, also for position, and if we spot him in their particular spot there's a dip. Whoever takes the checker flag is the 1973 cold cup champion. And as they go up to the upper turn, let's have Phil Cole spot him for you. It started back in 1904. The average speed was 22.3 miles an hour and now the engines won't even idle that slow and they're coming down for the start watching them and Budweiser's going to want the inside with Dean Chenoweth moving on that buoy line. We're watching for Mickey Riemann. Mickey is right up there with him. Ronnie Larson is coming very wide in the Notre Dame. Now Freddie Altar starts to turn for home with Pizza Pete, dean Chenoweth coming late into that starting area. Now in Budweiser he's going to be on the number one lane. Now Pizza Pete moves in on it. Budweiser takes the two lanes, paying back in the four lanes. Adler's fan lines to the four lanes, paying back in the three lanes. Adler's four, notre Dame five, three, two one. Here they go and it's Budweiser's and it's paying back right out on top. Now Phil Muncie begins to move up to the Adler's fan lines and Freddie Altar is a little bit slow in Pizza Pete watching that first turn as they move into that first turn area. Somebody went on their nose just a little bit there. But in paying back is there first with Budweiser. They're side by side as they move to that quarter. Budweiser and paying back are side by side with Adler's fan lines in third place Off that turn. Now it's Mickey Raymond coming off there like a scalded cat and now Dean Cheneylet moves up alongside of him and it's Budweiser. In paying back it's for the gold jump, it's for all of them and Adler's fan lines is third Jim.
Phil Cole:Okay, what I'll tell you. To stand now. Those first turns are rising. There's only a half a second between the first and second place boat, but part of fan back in first, the Budweiser in second and moving up fast to jam it up as the three-bow races the Adler's fan lines, followed by Pizza Pete and Notre Dame, and that's the way they go. As they come into that upper turn for the first time in the completion of lap number one, inside is Budweiser with Dean Cheneylet and grinding on the outside trying to catch up. It's Cheneylet trying to catch up on the part of fan pack and the part of fan pack stays inside Part of fan pack by about eight. Both lengths as they come out to complete lap number one but then to these edges.
:That was the payback.
Phil Cole:Here's the Budweiser, that's the new record, mickey Riemann. Over 120 miles an hour on lap number one. Almost 120 miles an hour for Mickey Riemann on lap number one, that's gonna be a new lap record. Dean Cheneylet's along behind him now in this Budweiser and Bill Mutzie in third place in Adler's fan line. So Mickey Riemann took him on it to start outgund him and ran outgund him. Mickey Riemann has slowed down, the fan pack has slowed down. The fan pack has slowed down and it's coming to a stop and the Budweiser's going ahead of him. Dean Cheneylet goes ahead of the fan pack. Mickey Riemann slowed down and teams are stopped. 119.6. Now is anybody's gold cup again.
Phil Cole:Budweiser now first and in second place is Mutzie in Adler's fan line. Second place is Mutzie. Third place is Pete's a Pete. Fourth place is Notre Dame. Watch the fan pack Jim to see if he gets started. Now Mutzie's moving on to Budweiser, bill Mutzie moving up on the Miss Budweiser here on lap number two Bill Mutzie first, adler's fan line second and Budweiser's gotta turn it on. Bill Mutzie coming off that boy very tight. Now Bill Mutzie, kenny went in sixth gold cup. Let's see Jim and then the Budweiser at the end of lap number two let's see the time that first lap to the plan of fan pack was 119.68.
Phil Cole:What a record. First place is Budweiser, second is Adler, third is Pete's a Pete. And here comes the Notre Dame.
Phil Cole:Mutzie. Second is Mutzie. Mutzie's won it five times. No-transcript To win the gold cup six times. That would save the entire season for Atlas Van Lines. It's Budweiser and Atlas Van Lines up the back stretch, about three seconds separating them. 100 and 9.489, lap number two, miss Budweiser. They're on lap number three and here comes Mussy. Mussy's moving up in that corner. He's moved up on channel up dramatically in this corner he's really coming. Mussy's decided to go for the downs. You can tell that here he comes out from behind channel of Schroosterdale. It's Budweiser and Atlas Van Lines coming down the main stretch of less than a second separating them.
:Dean Genowith and Bill Muntzee missed it one second separating them two stretch of almost 112.5 miles an hour.
Phil Cole:Lap number two again. Okay, bill Muntzee is really pushing. Bill Muntzee is going to press the Budweiser to the end and he's starting to close that gap again. Bill Muntzee, after the completion of three laps, is really closing in on the Budweiser. Dean Genowith has his foot into it at the apex of the number two corner. He comes out now, starts to shake it loose and Mussy starts to move up again. Here comes beat-to-beat, our third place vote. Our fourth place vote is for Notre Dame, but our leaders are the back shooter. Look at Muntzee come. Here comes Bill Muntzee. He's in the rooster tail of the Budweiser. We can't even see Bill Muntzee. He's blinded by the rooster tail.
Phil Cole:111.663, lap three Jim Watch Muntzee. Genowith is holding him off. Genowith is holding him off, but Muntzee has given it all he's got. He wants to become the only man in history to win this gold cup six times. We're on lap number four. This is the fourth lap. Two more laps to go after this one and if still anybody's raised, those two votes are dueling just about as close as you can do. The slightest mistake by Dean Genowith and Bill Muntzee is going to eat him alive. Here comes Muntzee outside, genowith inside. Can the Budweiser hang together for a gold cup win. We'll see in a little bit the end of lap number four, bill.
:Muntzee is sailing these Genowiths 110 miles an hour.
Phil Cole:That lap, jim. This Budweiser. Two more laps to go and a disconsulate Mickey Riemann sitting over there in the back stretch At the setting of lap record of 119 points. Let's check 119.681. The platter paying back is signaling that he may need help, but he's out on the boat. We'll have to watch him. Our first place boat is the Budweiser, coming down the back shoot at his fourth lap at a safe by Bill Muntzee. Here comes Pete Zafiq riding in third place. The paying back is thinking going down Mickey Riemann standing on it. The green flag will be out this next time. One more lap to go and the gold cup will be history, jim, stay with it. I'll stay with the paying back. Okay, say the payback. If that driver goes in the water, it's a restart. We're watching now to see if Mickey goes while the Budweiser is holding off. We have a green flag. We have one more lap to go. I don't know that paying back is thinking in the water settling down on our number one boat. Yellow comes up 112.782. Here comes Woodward, who has one more lap to go. Let's see his second place at Bill Muntzee and they have a fair line. Here he comes. The paying back is dangerously low in the water. Mickey Riemann is still staying on it. He jumped off. He'll have to restart this championship heat. He has not jumped off and Dean Chenilas in the lower turn right now, less than a lap away from the gold cup victory.
Phil Cole:We're watching Mickey Riemann. He has not jumped off the boat. He is on the bow of the boat. He has not jumped off. He is as important as the rest of the race. There are patrol boats on the way to him. I thought Now there goes Chenilas by Riemann.
Phil Cole:He's really got his foot in it. Half a lap to go and the paying back is going now fully by the bow. The driver has not jumped off as yet. Less than a half a lap to go now and the foot wiser is less than half a lap away from winning. Mickey Riemann still has not jumped off the boat.
Phil Cole:Dean Chenilas enters the number three corner for the last time. Mickey Riemann still standing on the boat. Dean Chenilas has about a tenth second lead on Atlas Sandline. Jim, you watch the foot wiser. Dean Chenilas coming around the upper turn, mickey Riemann still standing on the boat. He has not jumped off of it yet. But when the foot wiser is coming out of the turn. We're watching Mickey Riemann to see if he goes off that boat. He has not gone off of it as yet. He's still standing on it. And the foot wiser comes across here to take the second flag. In the gold-cut winner, this foot wiser takes the second flag. The race is over. The race is now officially over.
Phil Cole:That's Mickey Riemann Left his boat in the water. He would have called for a restart. You have to give Mickey Riemann credit for his sportsmanship. He hung on to that boat as much as he could. Here's your second-place winner. Second-place finisher the Atlas Sandline. And third place will go to piece-of-peach, I'll tell you Mickey Riemann. Mickey Riemann did not jump into that water until that race was over. He needs help. They're getting to him right away. First place is this foot wiser. Second place will be Atlas Manline. Third place, pete Sappeat. Fourth place will be Mickey Riemann and the pan-packed fifth place will be Notre Dame Jim in the final. That's the way it'll work out. Okay, we'll be back with more gold-cut coverage 1973 in 60 seconds pelig decreases.
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Phil Cole:Okay this is Jim Hennick, back along on the banks of the Columbia River. Bill, and what a race we had in that final. Now Bill Newton is the referee, bill the plan of paying back 119.6 mile an hour, which is a record. And all of a sudden he must have hit something because something blew in the bottom of his boat and we're all waiting to see what would happen. That Mickey Raymond jumped in the water. We would have to have a restart.
Phil Cole:But I think it's fine sportsmanship on the part of that driver that's hanging there. So that race would not be held up. Certainly was Jim. From what I could see, I kind of think maybe it's a reoccurrence of the problem they might have had in Detroit when they lost their strutterer or rudder or a choice blade. And you've got to give a lot of credit to Mickey, however, because we could have stopped that race If Mickey wanted to jump in the water and we wouldn't have had to restart the whole league, no matter where you stopped it. So our hats go off to Mickey.
Phil Cole:Okay, the Budweiser wins the 1973 Gold Cup and we're waiting now to get that driver back in, and they said they would get him up to us as soon as they can because they had that five minute delay to hurry him up, and I'll see if our free Bill Newton can hurry him up by picking up that phone down in the fifth and getting hold of the Talking to the winner driver, just so that we can get him up here. I'd like to remind you that STP, the race is rich. Well, I'll bring these broadcasts to you. Gordon John-Cock won the Indy 500 for having a Grand Isle A-Team. Fourth time NASCAR winner, richard Pettie, a national and limit champion, joe Munsey and, of course, the Miss Budweiser driver.
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Phil Cole:So why not put your car in the winner's circle? Stp, proven the racer's edge. Well, what an exciting finale with the hot dogs on the race the Budweiser, the Atlas, the Pay-In-Pact, the Pizza Pete, all with its 200 points of each other. Any way of them, take the treasure flag, takes the gold cup of 1973, with the Notre Dame having an outside slim chance. It was a plight of Pay-In-Pact waking off everybody, going into that first turn, coming out like a skull that ain't. Budweiser was chasing him, but Budweiser couldn't catch him. The Pay-In-Pact turned a record 119.6 mile an hour lap, which is a gold cup record. He set a couple of them here today. Atlas Bandlines he'd been good chastised to lead both Budweiser, but Budweiser warded off Bill Munty doing show-off driving very smartly and the Pizza Pete came in with a third-place city.
Jim Hendrix:The pilot of.
Phil Cole:Pay-In-Pact. He just did that city and a sportsmanship by Mickey Riven his boat was shaking.
Jim Hendrix:He knew if he jumped off that boat it would be a restart.
Phil Cole:But he had a hole in it through the fake air and water and he knew if he went in the water he'd stop the race and we'd have to have a restart. But he didn't.
Jim Hendrix:He hung to the bottom of his boat as the stern was sinking and waited for that checker flag and the race became official, giving the victory to Budweiser Atlas Second, pizza Pete third and, of course, okay, right now let's talk to Dean Dean Chenoweth, winning driver. Dean you there, hello, good day, hello Dean, hi Jimmy, oh baby, what a race. Oh man, where'd you have the head?
Phil Cole:over there. Well, I'll tell you something.
Jim Hendrix:You've got to give credit to Mickey Riven, who even though his boat was sinking, he stuck with it so he wouldn't stop that race. Yeah, I know it. Yeah, I was hoping we'd have a little start. I'll take that engine. He changed the major Quite a good engine we had in the first few second he'd be 30, but we weren't going to run him. I mean, you know, I hadn't figured the race was over yet because Monday had the same title lead. I got him so I hadn't been seized by a heck of a long shot. Jim Okay, dean.
Phil Cole:Chenoweth, that's a winning driver. Do you know what the first lap was for the Pan-Trac?
Jim Hendrix:119.6. In ours is about what? 117? Yeah, you were right on the field and that was that. They were records, to be sure. Uh-huh, but I'll tell you. You wanted to talk to me at the end because you knew the last driver I had an interview would be the winner, and it turned out that way. Yes, Jim, your third race of the year and you're right back in the National. Crown standing right. Yeah, yes, I'm sorry, give me a little breath. I'm just running. I hate to be a forward interview, but I'm good for you.
Jim Hendrix:Well, listen, dean. Thank you very much, you're welcome. Okay, bernie wants to say a little bit. Okay, now let's talk.
Phil Cole:Okay, bernie, really you're on the network. How do you?
Bernie Little:feel Well, I feel great. Needless to tell you that's our third gold cup and this is my wife her and Dean's here to work for one of the greatest combinations I've ever seen. And, as you've seen in all the pan-scene here, dean really drove a great race. I'm sorry about the Pan-Tac, they sure did outlaw us and just went on in front of us and I got a great just driver. He didn't dive in to stop the race and the Atlas Bandlines. Bill Munchy, one of the pros in the business, drove a one hell of a race and I got to tell you that it was one of the greatest races I've been doing a long time, jim.
Jim Hendrix:Congratulations, bernie. Thank you very much. Okay, goodbye.
Phil Cole:Right, bye-bye. Okay, there you have it, dean Shenner, with the winning driver, his comments, bernie Little, the owner of the Miss Budweiser, based out of the Tampa Bay area of the winner and two weeks from now it'll be the world champion of the Great Direct from Seattle. Until then, this is Jim Hendricks saying so long from the shores of the Columbia River in Tri-Cities, Washington.
News Reporter:Well, in the final and championship heat of the classic Gold Cup Unlimited Regatta that racing just finishing on the Columbia River just a few minutes ago, these results in now. Dean Chenner would kept the Miss Budweiser in front of a charging Bill Munchy in the Atlas Bandline to take the Gold Cup Championship Pre-race favorite. The Seattle-based Pay-In Pack was leading after setting a new lap record on the first lap, but the pack, with Mickey Riemann driving, went dead in the water on the second lap, never to get back in the race again. From that point on it was a two-boat race to the finish. Munchy, a five-time winner of the Gold Cup, just couldn't let foot the Atlas Pass, chenner with Worth and the Miss Bud For Chenner. Worth this is his third Gold Cup victory and he's now taken over the points lead in the battle for the national championship. Seattle's Pay-In Pack is a close second. And the next stop for the Thunder Boats is Seattle for the World Championships on the 5th of August. That should be quite a showdown. We'll have full coverage right here on King TV and tonight we'll have film highlight of today's racing at the Gold Cup.
News Reporter:Yesterday in the Gold Cup Classic, the big Thunder Boats are headed for Seattle for the biggest payday on the Unlimited Circuit, that's the $50,000 World Championship Regatta on Lake Washington coming up on August 5th. Yesterday's Gold Cup Regatta went right down to the final lap in the championship heat. It was a three-boat battle. Most of the way Seattle's Pay-In Pack led in points going into the final heat and had a comfortable lead in the championship heat. But then on the second lap disaster struck. A prop blade broke off and almost sank the pack in the old Columbia River. Miss Budweiser roared past to take the lead and fought off a game challenged by Bill Munchy, the Atlas Van Lines the win of the coveted Gold Cup. The win for driver Dean Chenoweth is his second Gold Cup victory and it moves Miss Budweiser into a slim point lead in the Race for the National Championship. And it sets up a real showdown battle between the Pay-In Pack and Miss Budweiser here in Seattle as they race for the National Championship. And Jen that's.
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