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  1.   Anonymous posted:
  05.26.2010 - 7:00 am
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First time the race was stopped before the scheduled distance. In 1915
the race ended at lap 120 however that was how it was scheduled.


  2.   Anonymous posted:
  01.10.2015 - 10:03 pm
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correct name International 500

DNQ
Bob McDonogh 2 Duesenberg Duesenberg Duesenberg SC
A. Dan Cain 37 K & M X K & M SC
Jack Foley 32 Duesenberg Duesenberg Duesenberg SC
Ralph Mulford 38 Duesenberg Duesenberg Duesenberg SC
T. W. Pickard 57 Sievers, Jr Sievers Sievers
Charles Shambaugh Shambaugh


  3.   Schroeder51 posted:
  03.13.2015 - 10:07 pm
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First Indy 500 starts for Frank Lockhart, Cliff Woodbury, Norman Batten,
Tony Gulotta, Dave Lewis, and Fred Lecklider.

Only Indy 500 starts for John Duff, Thane Houser, Ben Jones, E. A.
Eldridge, Steve Nemesh, Jack McCarver, and Bon MacDougall.

Last Indy 500 starts for W. Douglas Hawkes, Earl Cooper, and Albert Guyot.


  4.   Schroeder51 posted:
  06.20.2015 - 1:46 pm
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Err...this wasn't Dave Lewis' first Indy 500 start. Whoops!


  5.   Jolly Mean Giant posted:
  03.21.2017 - 10:40 pm
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Herbert Jones died from injuries suffered in a qualifying accident prior
to the race when his car hit the inside wall off the fourth turn,
overturned, and slid back up into the outside wall. Jones was initially
able to crawl out from his wrecked machine, but collapsed afterwards. He
fractured his skull in the accident and died from his injuries the next
day. Herbert was the youngest driver entered at Indy in 1926-he was only 22.

John Duff drove the repaired Elcar Special Jones intended to race in the
500 itself, coming from last place on the starting grid to earn a top 10
finish at the time the race was ended by rain.


  6.   Jolly Mean Giant posted:
  05.01.2018 - 8:18 pm
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Info on some of the DNQ drivers:

Charles Shambaugh:
Nationality: American
Hometown: Lafayette, Indiana
Born: Sep. 22, 1877
Died: June 4, 1940

T. W. Pickard:
Nationality: British
Hometown: Keighly, England
Born: Dec. 26, 1895
Died: July 28, 1983


  7.   Jolly Mean Giant posted:
  05.30.2018 - 12:57 am
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Qualifying speeds:
1. Earl Cooper, 111.735 MPH
2. Harry Hartz, 109.542 MPH
3. Leon Duray, 109.186 MPH
4. Dave Lewis, 107.009 MPH
5. Phil Shafer, 106.647 MPH
6. Jules Ellingboe, 106.376 MPH
7. Bennett Hill, 105.876 MPH
8. Frank Elliott, 105.873 MPH
9. Bon MacDougall, 105.180 MPH
10. Cliff Woodbury, 105.109 MPH
11. William Shattuc, 104.977 MPH
12. Cliff Durant, 104.855 MPH
13. Tony Gulotta, 102.789 MPH
14. Ralph Hepburn, 102.517 MPH
15. Norman Batten, 101.428 MPH
16. Fred Comer, 100.612 MPH
17. Fred Lecklider, 100.398 MPH
18. Pete DePaolo, 96.709 MPH
19. Frank Lockhart, 95.780 MPH
20. John Duff, 95.549 MPH
21. W. Douglas Hawkes, 94.977 MPH
22. Thane Houser, 93.672 MPH
23. Steve Nemesh, 92.937 MPH
24. Ben Jones, 92.142 MPH
25. E. A. D. Eldridge, 89.777 MPH
26. L. L. Corum, 88.849 MPH
27. Albert Guyot, 88.580 MPH
28. Jack McCarver, 86.418 MPH


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