Motor Sports
Hanauer named to racing Hall

By The Associated Press

Chip Hanauer won 61 unlimited hydroplane races.

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TALLADEGA, Ala. — Chip Hanauer, the Seattle-area native who won seven unlimited hydroplane national and world titles and 61 national events, will be inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.

Hanauer won a record 11 Gold Cups and seven Seafair Trophy races. His career victories trail only Bill Muncey with 62.

The five-member class also includes three-time NASCAR champion Darrell Waltrip, drag racing stars Joe Amato and Bob Glidden, and Formula One and CART champion Nigel Mansell. It will be inducted on April 28, 2005.

"This is a powerful class, one in which each member had a significant impact on the history of his particular form of racing," Jim Freemand, executive director of the Hall of Fame, said yesterday. "All five of them have won multiple championships. It is quite a group."

Waltrip won Winston Cup titles in 1981, 1982 and 1985. He also had 84 wins — tied for third all-time with former inductee Bobby Allison — 54 poles, and was Driver of the Year three times.

Amato had 54 NHRA Top Fuel wins and five division championships, both records. He also finished in the top 10 in points in each of his 19 seasons.

Glidden captured 10 NHRA Pro Stock titles and another one in the IHRA. When he retired, Glidden was the NHRA's winningest driver in any class with 85 career victories.

Kahne, Harvick fined, put on probation

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Kevin Harvick and Kasey Kahne were put on probation through the end of NASCAR's season and fined $10,000 each for deliberately crashing into each other after a race at Phoenix International Raceway.

Moments after the Checker Auto Parts 500 ended Sunday, Harvick and Enumclaw's Kahne ran into each other on pit road and stopped. Harvick jumped from his car and leaned into Kahne's cockpit, gesturing and talking before being shooed back to his own car.
 
"He started running into us after the (last) caution," Harvick said. "I just wanted to stop and ask him what the problem was."

NASCAR also fined Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s crew chief, Tony Eury, $2,500 for having a windshield that was not an approved part and did not meet the minimum required thickness.

Note

• NASCAR lifted its ban on hard-liquor ads on cars, easing restrictions aimed at cleaning up the image of a sport that traces its roots to good ol' boys running moonshine through the South. NASCAR already allows beer and malt-liquor sponsorships, but it restricted what liquor companies could do since the sport's modern era began in 1972.