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1959 Indianapolis 500 Previous race results / Next race results                     Previous at this track / Next at this track     Post Formula One race number 2 of 9 Saturday, May 30, 1959 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway, IN 200 laps on a 4.023 kilometer paved track (804.600 kilometers) Time of race: 3:40:49.2 Average speed: 218.646 kph Pole time: 246.73 seconds Cautions: n/a Margin of victory: 23.28 sec Attendance: n/a Lead changes: 12 Glossary    1959 Formula One results   /   1959 standings

Pos St # Driver Team Chass./Eng. Laps Status Led Pts 1 6 5   Rodger Ward Leader Card 500 Roadster Watson / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 200 3:40:49.20 130 8 2 3 16   Jim Rathmann Simoniz Watson / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 200 +23.28 19 6 3 1 3   Johnny Thomson Racing Associates Lesovsky / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 200 +50.64 40 5 4 15 1   Tony Bettenhausen Hoover Motor Express Epperly / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 200 +107.09 0 3 5 16 99   Paul Goldsmith Demler Epperly / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 200 +126.44 0 2 6 11 33   Johnny Boyd Bowes Seal Fast Epperly / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 200 +196.98 0 0 7 12 37   Duane Carter Smokey's Reverse Torque Kurtis / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 200 +249.92 0 0 8 8 19   Eddie Johnson Bryant Heating & Cooling KK500G / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 200 +250.53 0 0 9 27 45   Paul Russo Bardahl KK500G / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 200 +251.04 0 0 10 17 10   A.J. Foyt Dean Van Lines Kuzma / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 200 +254.48 0 0 11 9 88   Gene Hartley Drewry's Kuzma / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 200 +342.48 0 0 12 7 74   Bob Veith John Zink Heater Moore / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 200 +369.73 0 0 13 23 89   Al Herman Dunn Engineering Dunn / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 200 +400.40 0 0 14 13 66   Jimmy Daywalt Federal Engineering KK500E / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 200 +401.54 0 0 15 21 71   Chuck Arnold Hall-Mar Kurtis / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 200 +499.86 0 0 16 33 58   Jim McWithey Ray Brady KK500C / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 200 +701.69 0 0 17 2 44   Eddie Sachs Schmidt Kuzma / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 182 spun off 0 0 18 28 57   Al Keller Helse Kuzma / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 163 piston 0 0 19 18 64   Pat Flaherty John Zink Heater Watson / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 162 crash 11 0 20 4 73   Dick Rathmann McNamara Chiropractic Watson / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 150 pit fire 0 0 21 30 53   Bill Cheesbourg Greenman-Casale Kuzma / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 147 magneto 0 0 22 25 15   Don Freeland Jim Robbins KK500G / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 136 magneto 0 0 23 32 49   Ray Crawford Meguiar's Mirror Glaze Elder / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 115 crash 0 0 24 10 9   Don Branson Bob Estes Phillips / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 112 torsion bar 0 0 25 24 65   Bob Christie Federal Engineering KK500D / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 109 rod 0 0 26 5 48   Bobby Grim Sumar KK500G / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 85 magneto 0 0 27 14 24   Jack Turner Travelon Trailer Christensen / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 47 fuel tank 0 0 28 29 47   Chuck Weyant McKay KK500J / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 45 crash 0 0 29 19 7   Jud Larson Bowes Seal Fast KK500J / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 45 crash 0 0 30 31 77   Mike Magill Dayton Steel Foundry KK500G / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 45 crash 0 0 31 26 87   Red Amick Wheeler-Foutch KK500C / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 45 crash 0 0 32 22 8   Len Sutton Wolcott Memorial Lesovsky / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 34 crash 0 0 33 20 6   Jimmy Bryan Belond A.P. Muffler Salih / Offenhauser 4.5 L4 1 cam housing 0 0

Fastest Lap: 234.009 kph by Johnny Thomson Lap leader breakdown: Leader From Lap To Lap # Of Laps   Johnny Thomson 1 4 4   Rodger Ward 5 12 8   Jim Rathmann 13 13 1   Rodger Ward 14 16 3   Jim Rathmann 17 30 14   Pat Flaherty 31 31 1   Jim Rathmann 32 33 2   Pat Flaherty 34 40 7   Jim Rathmann 41 42 2   Pat Flaherty 43 45 3   Rodger Ward 46 48 3   Johnny Thomson 49 84 36   Rodger Ward 85 100 16