Indianapolis 500

1950 · Round 3 · Indianapolis, United States · May 30, 1950

Race summary

Victory went to Parsons (from 5th on the grid). Wallard made the biggest gain, from 23rd on the grid to 6th (up 17 places). McGrath had a difficult race, dropping from 6th to 14th.

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Laps	Time / status	Points
1	Johnnie Parsons	Kurtis Kraft	5	138	2:46:55.970	9
2	Bill Holland	Deidt	10	137	+1 Lap	6
3	Mauri Rose	Deidt	3	137	+1 Lap	4
4	Cecil Green	Kurtis Kraft	12	137	+1 Lap	3
5	Tony Bettenhausen	Kurtis Kraft	9	136	+2 Laps	1
5	Joie Chitwood	Kurtis Kraft	9	136	+2 Laps	1
6	Lee Wallard	Moore	23	136	+2 Laps	0
7	Walt Faulkner	Kurtis Kraft	1	135	+3 Laps	0
8	George Connor	Lesovsky	4	135	+3 Laps	0
9	Paul Russo	Nichels	19	135	+3 Laps	0
10	Pat Flaherty	Kurtis Kraft	11	135	+3 Laps	0
11	Myron Fohr	Marchese	16	133	+5 Laps	0
12	Duane Carter	Stevens	13	133	+5 Laps	0
13	Mack Hellings	Kurtis Kraft	26	132	+6 Laps	0
14	Jack McGrath	Kurtis Kraft	6	131	Spun off	0
15	Troy Ruttman	Lesovsky	24	130	+8 Laps	0
16	Gene Hartley	Langley	31	128	+10 Laps	0
17	Jimmy Davies	Ewing	27	128	+10 Laps	0
18	Johnny McDowell	Kurtis Kraft	33	128	+10 Laps	0
19	Walt Brown	Kurtis Kraft	20	127	+11 Laps	0
20	Travis Webb	Maserati	14	126	+12 Laps	0
21	Jerry Hoyt	Kurtis Kraft	15	125	+13 Laps	0
22	Walt Ader	Rae	29	123	+15 Laps	0
23	Jackie Holmes	Olson	30	123	Spun off	0
24	Jim Rathmann	Wetteroth	28	122	+16 Laps	0
–	Henry Banks	Maserati	21	112	Oil line	0
–	Bill Schindler	Snowberger	22	111	Transmission	0
–	Bayliss Levrett	Adams	17	108	Oil pressure	0
–	Bill Cantrell	Adams	17	108	Oil pressure	0
–	Fred Agabashian	Kurtis Kraft	2	64	Oil leak	0
–	Jimmy Jackson	Kurtis Kraft	32	52	Supercharger	0
–	Sam Hanks	Kurtis Kraft	25	42	Oil pressure	0
–	Tony Bettenhausen	Deidt	8	30	Wheel bearing	0
–	Dick Rathmann	Watson	18	25	Stalled	0
–	Duke Dinsmore	Kurtis Kraft	7	10	Oil leak	0

Rows without a position (–) did not finish the race; the status column shows what happened.