BILL MUNCEY HYDROPLANE DRIVER DOWNLOAD

The Seattle area sports writers and broadcasters, after years of being generally supportive, showed the sport no mercy in and plumbed the depths of journalistic one-sidedness. Indeed, by the end of the decade, Unlimited officials had their hands full just attempting to recruit representative fields of boats to meet the demands of race sponsors. But no one--not even the great Muncey--has ever won everything percent during a given year. Despite his team's financial limitations and the knowledge that his contract with George Simon's U. In the long history of Unlimited hydroplane racing, no individual defined the sport more convincingly than William Edward Muncey.

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With a new sponsor and a new state-of-the-art boat designed hydrkplane Bill Cantrell to drive, Muncey expected to win and win big in For the George Simon team, the season was over.

Bill Muncey - Wikipedia

It was something akin to watching Babe Ruth--the immortal Sultan of Swat--hit his record 60th home run on the final day of the baseball season. Muncey had been fairly and squarely beaten at Seattle.

GALE V arguably could have won a race in were it not not for her frustrating inability to finish.

In no time at all, Jim and Bill were fast friends. He's saying, "Okay, guys. Despite an abundance of action-filled drama out on the race course, seldom has any event in history borne the brunt of a more hostile hydrlplane media reaction, precipitated by a plethora of protests and accidents.

Slovak was hospitalized and wouldn't drive in competition again until If vindication of such a dismal showing was to occur, it had to happen quickly, because time munvey running out. Quitting would have meant debasing the sport that his friends had died enjoying, promoting, supporting, and participating in.

Prior tohe had only once in won more than one race during a given season. If any boat was capable of running with C, they weren't running long enough to make a difference.

Bill Muncey

The victory was the sixth of his career and the first that boasted first-place finishes in all three heats. The sport in which Bill Muncey played such a vital role for so long will most certainly continue.

Racers accept the good breaks with the bad. Yet, even in defeat, he had hydroplans his credentials as the one most likely to win at the Reno Gold Cup Regatta, three weeks later on Lake Pyramid. Despite the setbacks and obstacles, Muncey was able to cruise to an easy victory in the Final, crossing the Finish Line more than thirty seconds before the second place Miss Budweiser.

Bill Muncey Remembered

Instead, many long time supporters of the sport walked away in disgust, never to return. How many drivers that won races in the s were still winning races in the s?

GALE V started out well and turned in the day's fastest lap at His legacy is a standard of excellence that will be difficult to surpass. Muncey toured the 15 miles at Despite this, Villwock wired a perfect start in the Final and won the Final Heat going away.

As it was, Norm Evans made a mistake. An infrequent driver in competition, Roy never won a closed course race. When the definitive history of 20th Century power boat competition is written, the two titans of the racing world will be the "Gray Fox" Gar Wood for the pre-World War II years and Bill Muncey for the post-war era.

Also going through a time of transition was the U-2 Harvey Motorsports as they parted ways with longtime driver Steve David. It was the start of a new racing tradition for the Motor City. They had completed an unprecedented 52 consecutive heats. After finding himself back in the fraternity of unemployed boat racers, Muncey concentrated on Limited hydroplane competition for the balance of This was because no Gold Cup fastest qualifier in recent years had been able to win the big race.

For the first time, rumors were heard of Bill's possible retirement. Bill had established himself as a bona fide superstar.

Muncey had his ninth consecutive win, but hopes for a perfect season were dashed the following race at Ogden, Utah when the Atlas would go dead in the water, allowing Chip Hanauer to win his first career race in the Squire Shop. They would retire for the time being and await delivery of a new Les Staudacher hull for