1959

IND

29 May - 30 May, 1959

Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Championship

FIA Formula One World Championship

round

2

Laps

200

Latest results

Race

R. Ward

Leader Cards Inc

J. Rathmann

Lindsey Hopkins

J. Thomson

Racing Associates

Event info

Classification

Statistics

Standings

Formula 1

1959

IND

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FIA Formula One World Championship 1959 Indianapolis 500 Classification

Results

Sessions:

Race

Qualifying

Race

Pos	№	Driver	Team	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	KP/H	Best	Lap
1	5	Rodger Ward	Leader Cards Inc	200	3:40:49.200
2	16	Jim Rathmann	Lindsey Hopkins	200	3:41:12.480	+ 23.280	+ 23.280
3	3	Johnny Thomson	Racing Associates	200	3:41:39.840	+ 50.640	+ 27.360		1:01.890	64
4	1	Tony Bettenhausen	John R Wills	200	3:42:36.290	+ 1:47.090	+ 56.450
5	99	Paul Goldsmith	Norman C Demler	200	3:42:55.640	+ 2:06.440	+ 19.350
6	33	Johnny Boyd	Bignotti-Bowes Racing	200	3:44:06.180	+ 3:16.980	+ 1:10.540
7	37	Duane Carter	Yunick, Glover & Lathrop	200	3:44:59.120	+ 4:09.920	+ 52.940
8	19	Eddie Johnson	J S Donaldson	200	3:44:59.730	+ 4:10.530	+ 0.610
9	45	Paul Russo	Fred Gerhardt	200	3:45:00.240	+ 4:11.040	+ 0.510
10	10	A.J. Foyt	A E Dean	200	3:45:03.680	+ 4:14.480	+ 3.440
11	88	Gene Hartley	R T Marley Sr	200	3:46:31.680	+ 5:42.480	+ 1:28.000
12	74	Bob Veith	John Zink	200	3:46:58.930	+ 6:09.730	+ 27.250
13	89	Al Herman	Harry Dunn	200	3:47:29.600	+ 6:40.400	+ 30.670
14	66	Jimmy Daywalt	Federal Auto Associates	200	3:47:30.740	+ 6:41.540	+ 1.140
15	71	Chuck Arnold	Karl Hall	200	3:49:09.060	+ 8:19.860	+ 1:38.320
16	58	Jim McWithey	Ray T Brady	200	3:52:30.890	+ 11:41.690	+ 3:21.830
DNF	44	Eddie Sachs	Peter Schmidt	182
DNF	57	Al Keller	H H Johnson	163
DNF	64	Pat Flaherty	John Zink	162
DNF	73	Dick Rathmann	Kalamazoo Sports Inc	150
DNF	53	Bill Cheesbourg	Lysle Greenman	147
DNF	15	Don Freeland	Jim Robbins	136
DNF	49	Ray Crawford	Ray Crawford	115
DNF	9	Don Branson	Bob Estes	112
DNF	65	Bob Christie	Federal Auto Associates	109
DNF	48	Bobby Grim	Chapman S Root	85
DNF	24	Jack Turner	Ernest L Ruiz	47
DNF	47	Chuck Weyant	Roy McKay	45
DNF	7	Jud Larson	Bignotti-Bowes Racing	45
DNF	77	Mike Magill	George Walther Jr	45
DNF	87	Red Amick	LeRoy E Foutch Jr	45
DNF	8	Len Sutton	Wolcott Memorial Racing Team	34
DNF	6	Jimmy Bryan	George Salih	1