The 1912 Indianapolis 500, or Indianapolis 500-Mile International Sweepstakes, the second such race in history, was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 30, 1912. 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Indianapolis 500, 1994 The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, frequently shortened to Indianapolis 500 or Indy 500, is an American race for open-wheel automobiles held annually over the Memorial Day weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. ... Indianapolis Motor Speedway Wing and Wheel Indianapolis Motor Speedway, located in Speedway, Indiana (a separate city completely surrounded by Indianapolis) in the United States, is the second-oldest surviving automobile racing track in the world (after the Milwaukee Mile), having existed since 1909. ... May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

In the aftermath of victory by Ray Harroun in the single-seat Marmon "Wasp" in the first 500-Mile Race the year before, new rules make the presence of riding mechanics mandatory; at $50,000, the race purse is nearly double that of 1911. Ray Harroun (January 12, 1879 - January 19, 1968) was an American racecar driver. ... Marmon was an automobile brand name manufactured by the Nordyke & Marmon Company of Indianapolis, Indiana, from 1902 through 1933. ... Cover of Speed Age magazine, showing start of first Indianapolis 500 race The 1911 Indianapolis 500, or Indianapolis 500-Mile International Sweepstakes, the first recorded automobile race of such distance in history, was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 30, 1911. ...

Out of 29 original entries, 24 qualify for the race by sustaining a speed faster than a minimum of 75 mph (120.7 km/h) for a full lap. David L. Bruce-Brown runs fastest at 88.45 mph (142.35 km/h), but starting positions are again determined by entry date. Lining up five cars to the first four rows and four to a fifth, a change from the previous year's starting method is movement of the pace car, a Stutz, from the inside of the first row to out in front of the field. See also List of Indianapolis 500 pace cars A pace car has been used to start the Indianapolis 500 since 1911. ... The Stutz Motor Company, later reborn as Stutz Motor Car of America, was a producer of luxury cars. ...

Upon wave of the then-red starting flag, Teddy Tetzlaff takes the lead in a Fiat from the third starting position in the center of the first row, and leads for the first two laps before being overtaken by the grey # 4 Mercedes of Italian-born Ralph DePalma. Fiat S.p. ... Mercedes may refer to: Things Mercedes-Benz, a German brand of automobiles and trucks Mercedes-Benz (song), by Janis Joplin Mercedes (calculator), an early 20th-century computing device Mercedes College, South Australia Places Mercedes, Buenos Aires, Argentina Mercedes, Paraná, Brazil Mercedes, Camarines Norte, Philippines Mercedes, Eastern Samar, Philippines Mercedes, Texas... Ralph DePalma (January 23, 1884 – March 31, 1956) was an Italian-American racecar driving champion. ...

DePalma's domination of most of the event is total, as he builds an eventual five-and-a-half lap, eleven minute advantage over second, and leads uncontested for the next 194 laps...before suffering one of the most confounding mechanical failures in motorsport history at the beginning of lap 197, as his Mercedes begins misfiring, and slowing on the mainstretch at the conclusion of the lap. Nursed on the 198th lap by DePalma at reduced speed, the car finally loses all power at the end of the backstretch on lap 199, as a broken connecting rod rips a hole in the crankcase. Auto racing (also known as automobile racing or autosport) is a sport involving racing automobiles. ... piston + connecting rod In a reciprocating piston engine, the connecting rod or con rod connects the piston to the crank or crankshaft. ... Crankshaft Continental engine marine crankshafts, 1942 Crankshaft is also the name of a comic strip about an old, curmudgeonly bus driver. ...

With the car's momentum carrying it around to the fourth turn, DePalma and riding mechanic Rupert Jeffkins then enter themselves into motor racing lore, as well as inspire the cheers of the more than 80,000 in attendence, as they climb from the vehicle and begin pushing it down the five-eighths of a mile mainstretch toward the start-finish line.

Indianapolis driver Joe Dawson, running in the second position for most of the race in his blue and white National Motor Vehicle Company entry, finally passes DePalma midway down the mainstretch to assume the lead for the concluding two laps, the fewest led to date by a race winner. Finishing more then ten minutes ahead of newly-second place Tetzlaff, Dawson completes another two laps for good measure upon fear of a scoring miscue. Sometime thereafter, DePalma and Jeffkins finally bring their car across the line, but in two-fold futile endeavour: Speedway rules, dictating that a car must complete laps under its own power, mark DePalma's final number of circuits at 198, and the push across the line, even if to be counted, bringing them only to the beginning of the final lap. The Indianapolis skyline Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana. ...

Dawson's run in the American-manufactured, four-cylinder National, with a winning time of 6:21:06 and averaging 78.719 mph (126.686 km/h), is twenty-one minutes two seconds faster than the previous 1911 record; he garners $20,000 and additional contingency awards. The word cylinder has several meanings. ...

Throughout the remainder of the field, only the top ten finishers earn prize money, rules stipulating all entries complete the 500 miles to collect. Ralph Mulford, involved in the controversial finish the year before, and being forced to stop numerous times due to clutch problems in his Knox, finds irritation with the requirement and proceeds to drive on, long after all others are presented the chequered flag...and even after Speedway president Carl Fisher and starter Fred Wagner leave the grounds (the latter after getting into an argument over whether to flag Mulford off before he had completed the distance, Wagner in favor and Fisher against). Carl Graham Fisher (1874-1938) of Indiana, an American automotive and real estate entrepreneur. ...

Through numerous accounts of the run, including his reportedly changing shock absorbers for a gentler ride, as well as stopping for a dinner-on-the-go of fried chicken and ice-cream with his riding mechanic, Mulford's finish finally arrives, amid a setting sun over the mainstraightaway, 8:53:00 after the start, and with an average speed of 56.285 mph (90.582 km/h), which remains a record: the slowest finishing speed to date in 500 history. A shock absorber in United States parlance (sometimes damper in British use) is a mechanical device designed to smooth out or damp a sudden shock impulse and dissipate kinetic energy. ... Fried chicken with french fries. ... Cherry ice cream Ice cream (originally iced cream) is a frozen dessert made from dairy products such as cream (or equivalents), combined with flavourings and sweeteners. ...

1912 Indianapolis 500 Results

Pos	No	Driver	Car	Entrant	Engine	Cylinders	Displacement	Chassis	Color	Qual Spd	Start Pos	Time	Laps / Speed / Reason Out
1	8	Joe Dawson	National	National Motor Vehicle Company	National	4	491 cid / 8.05 liters	National	blue/white	86.13 mph / 138.61 km/h	7	6:21:06	200 - 78.719 mph / 126.686 km/h
2	3	Teddy Tetzlaff	Fiat	E. E. Hewlett	Fiat	4	589 cid / 9.65 liters	Fiat	red	84.24 mph / 135.57 km/h	3	6:31:29 / +10:23	200 - 76.632 mph / 123.327 km/h
3	21	Hughie Hughes	Mercer	Mercer Motors Company	Mercer	4	301 cid / 4.93 liters	Mercer	yellow	81.81 mph / 131.66 km/h	17	6:33:09 / +12:03	200 - 76.307 mph / 122.80 km/h
4	28	Charlie Merz	Stutz	Ideal Motor Car Company	Wisconsin	4	390 cid / 6.39 liters	Stutz	gray	78.88 mph / 126.95 km/h	22	6:34:40 / +13:34	200 - 76.014 mph / 122.333 km/h
5	18	Bill Endicott	Schacht	Schacht Motor Car Company	Wisconsin	4	390 cid / 6.39 liters	Schacht	red	80.57 mph / 129.66 km/h	15	6:46:28 / +25:22	200 - 73.807 mph / 118.781 km/h
6	2	Len Zengel	Stutz	Ideal Motor Car Company	Wisconsin	4	390 cid / 6.39 liters	Stutz	gray	78.85 mph / 126.90 km/h	2	6:50:28 / +29:22	200 – 73.088 mph / 117.624 km/h
7	14	Johnny Jenkins	White	White Indianapolis Company	White	6	490 cid / 8.03 liters	White	white	80.82 mph / 130.07 km/h	11	6:52:38 / +31:32	200 – 72.704 mph / 117.006 km/h
8	22	Joe Horan	Lozier	Dr. W. H. Chambers	Lozier	4	545 cid / 8.39 liters	Lozier	white/red	80.48 mph / 129.52 km/h	18	6:59:38 / +38:32	200 – 71.491 mph / 115.054 km/h
9	9	Howdy Wilcox	National	National Motor Vehicle Company	National	4	590 cid / 9.67 liters	National	blue/white	87.20 mph / 140.33 km/h	8	7:11:30 / +50:24	200 – 69.525 mph / 111.890 km/h
10	19	Ralph Mulford	Knox	Ralph Mulford	Knox	6	597 cid / 9.78 liters	Knox	white/red	87.88 mph / 141.43	16	8:53:00 / +2:31:54	200 – 56.285 mph / 90.582 km/h
11	10	Ralph DePalma (American national)	Mercedes	E. J. Schroeder	Mercedes	4	583 cid / 9.55 liters	Mercedes	white	86.02 mph / 138.44	4		198 – connecting rod
12	15	Bob Burman	Cutting	Clark-Carter Auto Company	Cutting	4	598 cid / 9.80 liters	Cutting	white/red	84.11 mph / 135.36 km/h	12		157 – accident, turn two
13	12	Bert Dingley	Simplex	Bert Dingley	Simplex	4	597 cid / 9.67 liters	Simplex	red/white	80.77 mph / 129.99 km/h	10		116 - connecting rod
14	25	Joe Matson	Lozier	O. Applegate	Lozier	4	545 cid / 8.93 liters	Lozier	white/red	79.90 mph / 128.59 km/h	21		110 - crackshaft
15	7	Spencer Wishart	Mercedes	Spencer Wishart	Mercedes	4	583 cid / 9.55 liters	Mercedes	gray/black/red	83.95 mph / 135.10 km/h	6		82 - water connection
16	3	Gil Anderson	Stutz	Ideal Motor Car Company	Wisconsin	4	390 cid / 6.39 liters	Stutz	gray/white	80.93 mph / 130.24 km/h	1		80 - accident, turn three
17	17	Billy Liesaw	Marquette-Buick	Will Thomson	Buick	4	594 cid / 9.73 liters	Marquette	tan/red	77.51 mph / 124.74	14		72 - caught fire
18	46	Louis Disbrow	Case	J. I. Case T. M. Company	Case	6	450 cid / 7.37 liters	Case	white/red	76.54 mph / 123.18 km/h	24		67 - differential pin
19	23	Mel Marquette	McFarlan	Speed Motors Company	McFarlan	6	425 cid / 6.96 liters	McFarlan	gray	78.08 mph / 125.66 km/h	19		63 - broken wheels
20	6	Eddie Hearn	Case	J. I. Case T. M. Company	Case	6	450 cid / 7.37 liters	Case	white/red	81.85 mph / 131.72 km/h	5		55 - burned bearing
21	16	Eddie Rickenbacker	Firestone-Columbus	Columbus Buggy Company	Firestone-Columbus	4	345 cid / 5.65 liters	Fiat	crimson/black	77.30 mph / 124.40 km/h	13		43 - intake valve
22	29	David L. Bruce-Brown	National	National Motor Vehicle Company	National	4	590 cid / 9.67 liters	National	blue/white	88.45 mph / 142.35 km/h	23		25 - valve trouble
23	10	Harry Knight	Lexington	Lexington Motor Car Company	Lexington	6	422 cid / 6.92 liters	Lexington	brown/white	75.92 mph / 122.18 km/h	9		6 - engine trouble
24	26	Len Ormsby	Opel	I. C. Stern & B. C. Noble	Opel	4	450 cid / 7.37 liters	Opel	gray/red	84.09 mph / 135.33 km/h	20		5 - connecting rod

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