1912 Indianapolis 500 | |||||||
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| FP | SP | Car | Driver | Car Name Chassis/Engine Running or Reason Out | Laps Comp | Prize Money | Qual. Speed |
| 1 | 7 | 8 | Dawson, Joe | National Motor Vehicle
National/National Running | 200 | $20,000 | 86.130 |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | Tetzlaff, Teddy | Fiat/E.E. Hewlett
Fiat/Fiat Running | 200 | $10,000 | 84.240 |
| 3 | 17 | 21 | Hughes, Hughie | Mercer Motors
Mercer/Mercer Running | 200 | $5,000 | 81.810 |
| 4 | 22 | 28 | Merz, Charlie | Stutz/Ideal Motor Car
Stutz/Wisconsin Running | 200 | $3,000 | 78.880 |
| 5 | 15 | 18 | Endicott, Bill | Schacht Motor Car
Schacht/Wisconsin Running | 200 | $2,500 | 80.570 |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | Zengel, Len(R) | Stutz/Ideal Motor Car
Stutz/Wisconsin Running | 200 | $2,000 | 78.850 |
| 7 | 11 | 14 | Jenkins, Johnny(R) | White Indianapolis
White/White Running | 200 | $1,500 | 80.820 |
| 8 | 18 | 22 | Horan, Joe(R) | Lozier/Dr. W.H. Chambers
Lozier/Lozier Running | 200 | $1,400 | 80.480 |
| 9 | 8 | 9 | Wilcox, Howdy | National Motor Vehicle
National/National Running | 200 | $1,300 | 87.200 |
| 10 | 16 | 19 | Mulford, Ralph | Knox/Ralph Mulford
Knox/Knox Running | 200 | $1,200 | 87.880 |
| 11 | 4 | 4 | DePalma, Ralph | Mercedes/E.J. Schroeder
Mercedes/Mercedes Rod | 198 | $0 | 86.020 |
| 12 | 12 | 15 | Burman, Bob | Cutting/Clark-Carter Auto
Cutting/Cutting Crash 2 | 157 | $0 | 84.110 |
| 13 | 10 | 12 | Dingley, Bert(R) | Simplex/Bert Dingley
Simplex/Simplex Rod | 116 | $0 | 80.770 |
| 14 | 21 | 25 | Matson, Joe(R) | Lozier/O. Applegate
Lozier/Lozier Crankshaft | 110 | $0 | 79.900 |
| 15 | 6 | 7 | Wishart, Spencer | Mercedes/Spencer Wishart
Mercedes/Mercedes Water line | 82 | $0 | 83.950 |
| 16 | 1 | 1 | Anderson, Gil | Stutz/Ideal Motor Car
Stutz/Wisconsin Crash 3 | 80 | $0 | 80.930 |
| 17 | 14 | 17 | Liesaw, Billy(R) | Marquette-Buick/Thomson
Marquette/Buick Caught fire | 72 | $0 | 77.510 |
| 18 | 24 | 5 | Disbrow, Louis | J.I. Case T.M.
Case/Case Differ. pin | 67 | $0 | 76.540 |
| 19 | 19 | 23 | Marquette, Mel | McFarlan/Speed Motors
McFarlan/McFarlan Broken wheels | 63 | $0 | 78.080 |
| 20 | 5 | 6 | Hearne, Eddie | J.I. Case T.M.
Case/Case Burned bearing | 55 | $0 | 81.850 |
| 21 | 13 | 16 | Rickenbacker, Eddie(R | Firestone/Columbus Buggy
Firestone/Firestone Intake valve | 43 | $0 | 77.300 |
| 22 | 23 | 29 | Bruce-Brown, David | National Motor Vehicle
National/National Valves | 25 | $0 | 88.450 |
| 23 | 9 | 10 | Knight, Harry | Lexington Motor Car
Lexington/Lexington Engine trouble | 6 | $0 | 75.920 |
| 24 | 20 | 24 | Ormsby, Len(R) | Opel/I.C. Stern & B.C. Noble
Opel/Opel Rod | 5 | $0 | 84.090 |
| Total Purse: | $52,225 | Field Average: | N/A |
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| Cars Entered: | 29 | Cars Started: | 24 |
| Number Rookies: | 8 | Former Winners: | 0 |
| Qualifying Notes: Positions assigned by date of Entry | |||
SP # Driver Chassis/Engine Speed -------------------------------------------------------- 1 1 Gil Anderson Stutz/Wisconsin 80.93 2 2 Len Zengel (R) Stutz/Wisconsin 78.85 3 3 Teddy Tetzlaff Fiat/Fiat 84.24 4 4 Ralph DePalma Mercedes/Mercedes 86.02 5 6 Eddie Hearne Case/Case 81.85 6 7 Spencer Wishart Mercedes/Mercedes 83.95 7 8 Joe Dawson National/National 86.13 8 9 Howdy Wilcox National/National 87.20 9 10 Harry Knight Lexington/Lexington 75.92 10 12 Bert Dingley (R) Simplex/Simplex 80.77 11 14 Johnny Jenkins (R) White/White 80.82 12 15 Bob Burman Cutting/Cutting 84.11 13 16 Eddie Rickenbacker (R) Firestone/Firestone 77.30 14 17 Billy Liesaw (R) Marquette/Buick 77.51 15 18 Bill Endicott Schacht/Wisconsin 80.57 16 19 Ralph Mulford Knox/Knox 87.88 17 21 Hughie Hughes Mercer/Mercer 81.81 18 22 Joe Horan (R) Lozier/Lozier 80.48 19 23 Mel Marquette McFarlan/McFarlan 78.08 20 24 Len Ormsby (R) Opel/Opel 84.09 21 25 Joe Matson (R) Lozier/Lozier 79.90 22 28 Charlie Merz Stutz/Wisconsin 78.88 23 29 David Bruce-Brown National/National 88.45 24 5 Louis Disbrow Case/Case 76.54