Race · Round 2 of 8 · 30 May 1951

1951 Indianapolis 500

Lee Wallard won for Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser from 2nd on the grid at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It was the first championship race win for Lee Wallard, and the first championship podium for Mike Nazaruk, Jack McGrath and Manny Ayulo.

Circuit: Indianapolis Motor SpeedwaySpeedway, Indiana, United States of America
Winner: Lee WallardKurtis Kraft-Offenhauser
Pole: Duke Nalon
Fastest lap: Lee Wallard
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

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Lee Wallard	Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser	327	2	200	Finished	9	fastest lap
2	Mike Nazaruk	—	KK1000	7	200	Finished	6
3	Jack McGrath shared	—	KK3000	3	200	Finished	2
3	Manny Ayulo shared	—	KK3000	—	—	Finished	2
4	Andy Linden	—	Sherman	31	200	Finished	3
5	Bobby Ball	—	Schroeder	29	200	Finished	2
6	Henry Banks	—	Moore	17	200	Finished	0
7	Carl Forberg	—	KK3000	24	193	Finished	0
8	Duane Carter	—	Tuffanelli Derrico	4	180	Finished	0
9	Tony Bettenhausen	—	Tuffanelli Derrico	9	178	Spun off	0
10	Duke Nalon	—	—	1	151	Retirement	0
11	Gene Force	—	KK2000	22	142	Engine	0
12	Sam Hanks	—	KK3000	12	135	Engine	0
13	Bill Schindler	—	KK2000	16	129	Engine	0
14	Mauri Rose	—	Tuffanelli Derrico	5	126	Accident	0
15	Walt Faulkner	—	Indy Roadster	14	123	Engine	0
16	Jimmy Davies	—	Pawl	27	110	Axle	0
17	Fred Agabashian	—	KK3000	11	109	Clutch	0
18	Carl Scarborough	—	KK2000	15	100	Fire	0
19	Bill Mackey	—	Hall	33	97	Clutch	0
20	Chuck Stevenson	—	Championship Racer	19	93	Fire	0
21	Johnnie Parsons	—	KK3000	8	87	Magneto	0
22	Cecil Green	—	KK3000	10	80	Engine	0
23	Troy Ruttman	—	KK2000	6	78	Engine	0
24	Duke Dinsmore	—	Schroeder	32	73	Overheating	0
25	Chet Miller	—	—	28	56	Ignition	0
26	Walt Brown	—	KK3000	13	55	Magneto	0
27	Rodger Ward	—	Bromme	25	34	Oil pipe	0
28	Cliff Griffith	—	KK2000	18	30	Axle	0
29	Bill Vukovich	—	Indycar	20	29	Oil leak	0
30	George Connor	—	Lesovsky	21	29	Transmission	0
31	Mack Hellings	—	Tuffanelli Derrico	23	18	Engine	0
32	Johnny McDowell	Maserati	8CTF	26	15	Fuel leak	0
33	Joe James	—	Indy Roadster	30	8	Transmission	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout indianapolis-1 · 4.023 km · 4 turns, F1DB’s figures
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.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Lee Wallard	2	1	200
Mike Nazaruk	7	2	200
Jack McGrath shared	3	3	200
Andy Linden	31	4	200
Bobby Ball	29	5	200
Henry Banks	17	6	200
Carl Forberg	24	7	193
Duane Carter	4	8	180
Tony Bettenhausen	9	9	178
Duke Nalon	1	10	151
Gene Force	22	11	142
Sam Hanks	12	12	135
Bill Schindler	16	13	129
Mauri Rose	5	14	126
Walt Faulkner	14	15	123
Jimmy Davies	27	16	110
Fred Agabashian	11	17	109
Carl Scarborough	15	18	100
Bill Mackey	33	19	97
Chuck Stevenson	19	20	93
Johnnie Parsons	8	21	87
Cecil Green	10	22	80
Troy Ruttman	6	23	78
Duke Dinsmore	32	24	73
Chet Miller	28	25	56
Walt Brown	13	26	55
Rodger Ward	25	27	34
Cliff Griffith	18	28	30
Bill Vukovich	20	29	29
George Connor	21	30	29
Mack Hellings	23	31	18
Johnny McDowell	26	32	15
Joe James	30	33	8

1 entry with no recorded grid slot or lap count is in the classification and not drawn.

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Duke Nalon	—	18	4:23.740	—	—
2	Lee Wallard	—	99	4:26.590	+2.850	+2.850
3	Jack McGrath	—	9	4:28.050	+4.310	+1.460
4	Duane Carter	—	27	4:29.160	+5.420	+1.110
5	Mauri Rose	—	16	4:29.820	+6.080	+0.660
6	Troy Ruttman	—	98	4:32.080	+8.340	+2.260
7	Mike Nazaruk	—	83	4:32.350	+8.610	+0.270
8	Johnnie Parsons	—	3	4:32.410	+8.670	+0.060
9	Tony Bettenhausen	—	5	4:32.830	+9.090	+0.420
10	Cecil Green	—	4	4:32.950	+9.210	+0.120
11	Fred Agabashian	—	59	4:26.610	+2.870	-6.340
12	Sam Hanks	—	25	4:30.680	+6.940	+4.070
13	Walt Brown	—	44	4:32.920	+9.180	+2.240
14	Walt Faulkner	—	2	4:23.020	-0.720	-9.900
15	Carl Scarborough	—	73	4:25.460	+1.720	+2.440
16	Bill Schindler	—	10	4:28.590	+4.850	+3.130
17	Henry Banks	—	1	4:28.860	+5.120	+0.270
18	Cliff Griffith	—	23	4:28.980	+5.240	+0.120
19	Chuck Stevenson	—	8	4:29.130	+5.390	+0.150
20	Bill Vukovich	—	81	4:29.210	+5.470	+0.080
21	George Connor	—	22	4:29.960	+6.220	+0.750
22	Gene Force	—	69	4:30.470	+6.730	+0.510
23	Mack Hellings	—	19	4:30.830	+7.090	+0.360
24	Carl Forberg	—	68	4:30.900	+7.160	+0.070
25	Rodger Ward	—	48	4:26.930	+3.190	-3.970
26	Johnny McDowell	Maserati	12	4:31.750	+8.010	+4.820
27	Jimmy Davies	—	76	4:29.630	+5.890	-2.120
28	Chet Miller	—	32	4:25.100	+1.360	-4.530
29	Bobby Ball	—	52	4:28.460	+4.720	+3.360
30	Joe James	—	26	4:28.460	+4.720	+0.000
31	Andy Linden	—	57	4:32.260	+8.520	+3.800
32	Duke Dinsmore	—	6	4:32.780	+9.040	+0.520
33	Bill Mackey	—	71	4:38.820	+15.080	+6.040

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.

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Where this comes from

Round: 2 of 1951
Grand Prix: Indianapolis 500
Dates: 30 May 1951
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.