Race · Round 3 of 7 ·
1950 Indianapolis 500
Johnnie Parsons won for Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser from 5th on the grid at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It was the first championship race win for Johnnie Parsons, and the first championship podium for Bill Holland and Mauri Rose.
- Circuit
- Indianapolis Motor SpeedwaySpeedway, Indiana, United States of America
- Winner
- Johnnie ParsonsKurtis Kraft-Offenhauser
- Pole
- Walt Faulkner
- Fastest lap
- Johnnie Parsons
- Entries
- 3434 classified
This race includes a shared drive. Two drivers took turns in one car and both are classified in the same position, so a position below appears twice. That is correct, not a duplicated row.
Classification
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | Chassis | Grid | Laps | Out | Points | FL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johnnie Parsons | Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser | — | 5 | 138 | Finished | 9 | fastest lap |
| 2 | Bill Holland | — | Tuffanelli Derrico | 10 | 137 | Finished | 6 | |
| 3 | Mauri Rose | — | Tuffanelli Derrico | 3 | 137 | Finished | 4 | |
| 4 | Cecil Green | — | KK3000 | 12 | 137 | Finished | 3 | |
| 5 | Joie Chitwood shared | — | KK2000 | 9 | 136 | Finished | 1 | |
| 5 | Tony Bettenhausen shared | — | — | 8 | 30 | Wheel bearing | 1 | |
| 6 | Lee Wallard | — | Moore | 23 | 136 | Finished | 0 | |
| 7 | Walt Faulkner | — | KK2000 | 1 | 135 | Finished | 0 | |
| 8 | George Connor | — | Lesovsky | 4 | 135 | Finished | 0 | |
| 9 | Paul Russo | — | Nichels | 19 | 135 | Finished | 0 | |
| 10 | Pat Flaherty | — | KK3000 | 11 | 135 | Finished | 0 | |
| 11 | Myron Fohr | — | Championship Racer | 16 | 133 | Finished | 0 | |
| 12 | Duane Carter | — | Belanger Indy Special | 13 | 133 | Finished | 0 | |
| 13 | Mack Hellings | — | KK2000 | 26 | 132 | Finished | 0 | |
| 14 | Jack McGrath | — | KK3000 | 6 | 131 | Spun off | 0 | |
| 15 | Troy Ruttman | — | Lesovsky | 24 | 130 | Finished | 0 | |
| 16 | Gene Hartley | — | Langley | 31 | 128 | Finished | 0 | |
| 17 | Jimmy Davies | — | Ewing | 27 | 128 | Finished | 0 | |
| 18 | Johnny McDowell | — | KK2000 | 33 | 128 | Finished | 0 | |
| 19 | Walt Brown | — | KK2000 | 20 | 127 | Finished | 0 | |
| 20 | Spider Webb | Maserati | 8CTF | 14 | 126 | Finished | 0 | |
| 21 | Jerry Hoyt | — | KK2000 | 15 | 125 | Finished | 0 | |
| 22 | Walt Ader | — | Rae | 29 | 123 | Finished | 0 | |
| 23 | Jackie Holmes | — | Special | 30 | 123 | Spun off | 0 | |
| 24 | Jim Rathmann | — | Wetteroth | 28 | 122 | Finished | 0 | |
| 25 | Henry Banks shared | Maserati | 8CTF | 21 | 112 | Oil line | 0 | |
| 25 | Fred Agabashian shared | Maserati | — | 2 | 64 | Oil leak | 0 | |
| 26 | Bill Schindler | — | Snowberger | 22 | 111 | Transmission | 0 | |
| 27 | Bayliss Levrett shared | — | Adams | 17 | 108 | Oil pressure | 0 | |
| 27 | Bill Cantrell shared | — | Adams | — | — | Finished | 0 | |
| 29 | Jimmy Jackson | — | KK3000 | 32 | 52 | Compressor | 0 | |
| 30 | Sam Hanks | — | KK2000 | 25 | 42 | Oil pressure | 0 | |
| 32 | Dick Rathmann | — | Indy Roadster | 18 | 25 | Stalled | 0 | |
| 33 | Duke Dinsmore | — | KK2000 | 7 | 10 | Oil leak | 0 |
A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.
Grid to flag
Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap. Drivers who shared a car have a line each.
1 entry with no recorded grid slot or lap count is in the classification and not drawn.
Qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Time | Gap | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walt Faulkner | — | 98 | 4:27.970 | — | — |
| 2 | Fred Agabashian | — | 28 | 4:31.100 | +3.130 | +3.130 |
| 3 | Mauri Rose | — | 31 | 4:32.070 | +4.100 | +0.970 |
| 4 | George Connor | — | 5 | 4:32.390 | +4.420 | +0.320 |
| 5 | Johnnie Parsons | — | 1 | 4:32.640 | +4.670 | +0.250 |
| 6 | Jack McGrath | — | 49 | 4:33.000 | +5.030 | +0.360 |
| 7 | Duke Dinsmore | — | 69 | 4:34.670 | +6.700 | +1.670 |
| 8 | Tony Bettenhausen | — | 14 | 4:34.920 | +6.950 | +0.250 |
| 9 | Joie Chitwood | — | 17 | 4:35.320 | +7.350 | +0.400 |
| 10 | Bill Holland | — | 3 | 4:35.900 | +7.930 | +0.580 |
| 11 | Pat Flaherty | — | 59 | 4:37.760 | +9.790 | +1.860 |
| 12 | Cecil Green | — | 54 | 4:30.860 | +2.890 | -6.900 |
| 13 | Duane Carter | — | 18 | 4:33.420 | +5.450 | +2.560 |
| 14 | Spider Webb | Maserati | 21 | 4:37.460 | +9.490 | +4.040 |
| 15 | Jerry Hoyt | — | 81 | 4:37.950 | +9.980 | +0.490 |
| 16 | Myron Fohr | — | 2 | 4:33.320 | +5.350 | -4.630 |
| 17 | Bayliss Levrett | — | 24 | 4:34.430 | +6.460 | +1.110 |
| 18 | Dick Rathmann | — | 45 | 4:34.960 | +6.990 | +0.530 |
| 19 | Paul Russo | — | 7 | 4:35.250 | +7.280 | +0.290 |
| 20 | Walt Brown | — | 4 | 4:35.960 | +7.990 | +0.710 |
| 21 | Henry Banks | Maserati | 12 | 4:37.680 | +9.710 | +1.720 |
| 22 | Bill Schindler | — | 67 | 4:31.310 | +3.340 | -6.370 |
| 23 | Lee Wallard | — | 8 | 4:31.830 | +3.860 | +0.520 |
| 24 | Troy Ruttman | — | 55 | 4:32.910 | +4.940 | +1.080 |
| 25 | Sam Hanks | — | 23 | 4:33.570 | +5.600 | +0.660 |
| 26 | Mack Hellings | — | 15 | 4:35.470 | +7.500 | +1.900 |
| 27 | Jimmy Davies | — | 22 | 4:36.070 | +8.100 | +0.600 |
| 28 | Jim Rathmann | — | 76 | 4:37.010 | +9.040 | +0.940 |
| 29 | Walt Ader | — | 27 | 4:37.050 | +9.080 | +0.040 |
| 30 | Jackie Holmes | — | 77 | 4:37.570 | +9.600 | +0.520 |
| 31 | Gene Hartley | — | 75 | 4:38.610 | +10.640 | +1.040 |
| 32 | Jimmy Jackson | — | 61 | 4:38.620 | +10.650 | +0.010 |
| 33 | Johnny McDowell | — | 62 | 4:37.580 | +9.610 | -1.040 |
Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.
Pit stops
Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.
Photographs from this race
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Where this comes from
- Round
- 3 of 1950
- Grand Prix
- Indianapolis 500
- Dates
- Layout raced
- Oval · 4.023 km · 4 turns
- Format
- Standard weekend
- Constructor
- Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser
- Entrant
- Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser
- Confidence
- reference
The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.