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Chip Hanauer

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Lee Edward "Chip" Hanauer (born July 1, 1954, in Seattle)^[1] is the third most successful Unlimited Hydroplane racer in history. He has won the APBAGold Cup a record 11 times and was the driver of one of the most famous boats in APBA history, the Miss Budweiser, in the early to mid-1990s. He was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1995 as their youngest inductee. In 2005, he was inducted into the International Motorized Vehicles Hall of Fame. In 1991, he temporarily left the waters for auto racing only to return a season later.

Hanauer was born on July 1, 1954, in Seattle. He grew up with a poster of the international Grand Prix auto racing star Jim Clark of Scotland on the wall of his boyhood bedroom. But finances and his home in Seattle, Washington – a major center of boat racing – dictated that he start in small hydroplanes. Hanauer graduated cum laude from Washington State University in 1976, also the year of his racing debut. Hanauer worked as a teacher of emotionally disturbed children, but becam

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Chip Hanauer

By Chip Hanauer - Reprinted from the Seattle Outboard Association

Foundation For A Career (Chip Hanauer)

I cannot remember a time in my life that I did not want to be a racer. I have no clue where these ideas originated; no one in my family had an interest in racing. My first love was actually automobile racing. I wanted to race and it was powerboat racing that offered me they opportunity. While on a camping trip to the Columbia River, I saw my first outboard race. I specifically fell in love with Andy Anderson's equipment; a DeSilva runabout with which he competed in the F runabout class, and a Sid Craft hydro with which he competed in F hydro. I will never forget that equipment; I sat and gazed at it for two days. I had never seen anything so beautiful in all my young life. My family never saw me that weekend! I collected phone numbers of Seattle Outboard Association members to call when I arrived home.

The person everyone told me to talk with was Fred Mackle. His granddaughter raced J hydro and his son raced A hydro. He took me "by the hand" and m

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Biography of Chip Hanauer

Hydroplane racing legend, Lee Edward "Chip" Hanauer was born on July 1, 1954 in Seattle, Washington.

Chip started racing powerboats at the age of nine, when he purchased his first race boat for $250.00. At age 10, he placed 5th in the Junior Stock Hydroplane Class for 9-12 year olds, but soon enough championships would come his way. At 18, he won his first American Power Boat Association (APBA) Championship in the 145 Class.

In 1976 at the age of 22, he graduated Cum Lade at Washington State University and he got his first taste of unlimited hydroplane racing, when he made his debut in The Tri-Cities, Washington driving the U-22, Barney Armstrong's Machine; A boat that was just as old (if not older) than him, which debuted as The Breathless. He failed to qualify there, But got to race in The Seafair Race in Seattle, Washington the next week and finished eighth.

Chip worked as a teacher, teaching emotionally disturbed children and he became a full time unlimited hydroplane driver in 1978 when The Squire Shop Race Team hired Chip to replace Jerry Bangs,