Monday, September 26, 2016

Remund Drives Pay ’n Pak To 2 Hydroplane Records

SEATTLE, Aug. 4, 1973 (AP)—The Pay ‘N Pak, badly damaged in the Gold Cup two weeks ago, warmed up today for the Seafair world championship regatta by setting two unlimited hydroplane records.

Mickey Remund at the wheel of the Pay 'N Pak.

Mickey Remund drove Pay ‘N Pak twice around the three‐mile Lake Washington course during time trials for tomorrow's race at speeds averaging 126.464 and 126.761 miles an hour.

The faster lap time broke the old one‐lap time trial record over a three–mile course of 125.874 m.p.h. set here last year by an earlier version of the Pay ‘N Pak with a different driver in the cockpit, Billy Sterett Jr. Remund's average for the two laps, 126.613 m.p.h., broke the old mark in that department, 125.874, also set by Sterett last year.