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In a wild windup, Chip Hanauer won the hydro title. By Shelley Smith Reprinted from
 Sports Illustrated, October 1, 1990   Chip Hanauer was rounding the first turn in the third heat of the Budweiser Las Vegas Silver Cup on wind-chopped Lake Mead at 120-plus mph when he felt his 6,000-pound, jet turbine-powered Miss Circus Circus boat flip sideways and into the air. A four-time national hydroplane…