Ray Feltell has just fired up his twin engined Penetration machine on the rollers at Santa Pod. My contemporaneous notes say the bike was 'ill fated' but I did not know why. Ex-MCN Drag Racing Correspondent Jim Reynolds supplied the answer. Ray ran the bike for less than a season and reverted to a single 750cc Morgo-barrelled blown triumph engine. Ray's son Ian has been in touch to say that the chap giving the bike a shove is his grandfather Bert who used to help his father in the 1970s.
That is definitely a nice shot of Ray.
Some doubles ran 2 blowers, like this one, but a couple of the other riders who set the motors in a vee formation - Ray Baskerville and Stu Bentley - ran a single large blower in the middle.
It had to make a certain sense to run 2 blowers if you previously ran a blown single engine, as you could duplicate the setup.
I know Ray had a lot of grief with the double, but they were not an easy option for anyone to keep in one piece!