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1949 Springfield 100

AAA Champ Car Series race number 5 of 14
Saturday, August 20, 1949 at Illinois State Fairgrounds, Springfield, IL
100 laps on a 1.000 mile dirt track (100.000 miles)

Time of race: 1:08:29
Average speed: 87.613 mph
Pole speed: 96.489 mph

Cautions: n/a
Margin of victory: n/a
Attendance: 40000
Lead changes: 0

Pos	St	#	Driver	Sponsor / Owner	Chass./Eng.	Laps	Money	Status	Led	Pts
1	1	55	Mel Hansen	Bowes Seal Fast (Charles Bowes)	Lesovsky / Offy	100	2500	running	100	200
2	2	15	Rex Mays	Erwin Wolfe	Kurtis / Offy	100	1800	running	0	160
3	16	12	Johnnie Parsons	Kurtis Kraft	Kurtis / Offy	100	1000	running	0	140
4	3	3	Bill Holland	Love Machine & Tools (Milt Marion)	Offy	100	700	running	0	120
5	11	6	Lee Wallard	Iddings (Henry Meyer)	Offy	100	600	running	0	100
6	6	2	Myron Fohr	Carl Marchese	Marchese / Offy	–	500	–	0	80
7	7	9	Walt Brown	Tuffy's Offy (Carmine Tuffanelli)	Kurtis / Offy	–	400	–	0	60
8	17	98	Johnny Mantz	J.C. Agajanian	Kurtis / Offy	–	400	–	0	50
9	13	34	Ralph Pratt	Belanger Motors (Murrell Belanger)	Offy	–	300	–	0	40
10	10	19	Paul Russo	Tuffy's Offy (Carmine Tuffanelli)	Kurtis / Offy	–	300	–	0	30
11	12	10	Charles Van Acker	Walter Redmer	Offy	–	250	–	0	20
12	15	93	Hank Rogers	Scopa	Offy	–	250	–	0	10
13	9	71	Wally Stokes	Lutes	Offy	–	200	–	0
14	18	68	Jackie Holmes	Pioneer Auto	Wetteroth / Offy	–	200	–	0
15	4	14	Duane Carter	Neal's Rest (Hal Cole)	Kurtis / Offy	–	200	–	0
16	5	37	George Connor	Grancor (Lou & Bruce Bromme)	Bromme / Offy	–	200	–	0
17	14	69	Bayliss Levrett	Wynn's Friction Proofing (Bayliss Levrett)	Kurtis / Offy	–	100	–	0
18	8	99	Tony Bettenhausen	Meyer & Drake	Kurtis / Offy	–	100	–	0

Pos	Name	Nbr	Sponsor	Owner	Car
Failed to qualify, withdrew, or driver changes:
	George Lynch	21	Auto Shippers	Lou Rassey	Offy
	Bill Mackey	28	Dayton Coil Spring	Ralph Miller	Ralph Miller / Ralph Miller
	Duke Dinsmore	29	Veedol Oil
	Ed Haddad	33	City of Tacoma	Leo Dobry	Kurtis / Offy
	Charles Szekendy	49	Virginia	Mike Salay	Offy
	Phil Catalina	57		Pat Clancy	Offy
	Milt Fankhauser	72		Karl Hall	Offy
	Ted Duncan	83		Charlie Pritchard	Offy

Leader	From Lap	To Lap	# Of Laps
Lap leader breakdown:
Mel Hansen	1	100	100