Naples Daily News - Monday, May 21, 1973
MIAMI (AP) - Mickey Remund's domination of the season-opener $25,000 Champion Spark Plug Regatta has established his revolutionary Pride of Pay 'N Pak as the boat to beat in this year's Gold Cup series for unlimited hydroplanes.
Remund, of Palm Desert, Calif., twice pushed the Pay 'N Pak through the old Miami Marine Stadium record in Sunday's event, winning all three heats, 1,200 points and $6,500. He clocked 106.867 miles per hour in the first heat and 111.150 in the second, both times bettering the mark of 105.448 set last year by defending champion Bill Muncey.
Pay 'N Pak, owned by Dave Heerensperger of Seattle, features a new design with a horizontal stabilizer fin of the type usually seen on racing cars. The boat's hull is made of honeycomb magnesium and titanium to give lightness and strength.
Finishing second in the five-boat final was George Henley in Lincoln Thrift and Loan. He earned 900 points and $4,500.
Jim McCormick in Red Man was third for 794 points and $3,000, and Dean Chenoweth was fourth in Miss Budweiser for 569 and $2,350. Defending regatta and national champion Muncey was last, earning 300 points and $2,046 in his Atlas Van Lines.
But it was Muncey who gave Remund the closest competition.
