MOTORSPORTS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

The group of finalists for the next enshrinees into the Motorsports Hall of Fame have been determined. The class of 2012 Inductees will be announced early in the new year. In the Open Wheel category, nominees on the ballot include four-time Indianapolis 500 Winner and nine-time Indy car Champion Chip Ganassi – as Team Owner of Chip Ganassi Racing, veteran driver and official Wally Dallenbach, American auto racing impresario Carl Haas, and two-time Indy 500 winner “The Flying Dutchman” Arie Luyendyk. Other names being considered by the Voting Panel are Pat Patrick who served as the first president of CART and whose teams won three Indianapolis 500s, Danny Sullivan who “spun and won” at Indianapolis in 1985, and Target Chip Ganassi Racing driver Alex Zanardi who captured CART titles in 1997 and 1998