| Indianapolis Motor Speedway | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indianapolis 500 | |||||
| Sanctioning body | AAA | ||||
| Date | May 30, 1935 | ||||
| Winner | Kelly Petillo | ||||
| Winning Entrant | Kelly Petillo | ||||
| Average speed | 106.240 mph | ||||
| Pole position | Rex Mays | ||||
| Pole speed | 120.736 mph | ||||
| Most laps led | Kelly Petillo (102) | ||||
| Pre-race | |||||
| Pace car | Ford V8 | ||||
| Pace car driver | Harry Mack | ||||
| Starter | Seth Klein[1] | ||||
| Honorary referee | Amelia Earhart[1] | ||||
| Estimated attendance | 157,000[2] | ||||
| Chronology | |||||
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The 23rd International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Thursday, May 30, 1935. Despite attempts to improve participant safety by requiring crash helmets and installing green and yellow lights around the track, the event that year would prove to be one of the worst in terms of fatalities.[3]
Kelly Petillo won the race, accompanied by riding mechanic Jimmy Dunham. Pete DePaolo, the 1925 winner, was the team principal, becoming the first individual to win the race separately as a driver and an owner.
The race was part of the 1935 AAA Championship Car season.
- ^ a b Fox, Jack C. (1994). The Illustrated History of the Indianapolis 500 1911-1994 (4th ed.). Carl Hungness Publishing. p. 22. ISBN 0-915088-05-3.
- ^ Kellum, Robert W. (May 31, 1935). "Ever See Such A Mob? -- Nobody Had". The Indianapolis Star. p. 1. Retrieved June 3, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Fatalities – May 1935 Archived 2009-03-30 at the Wayback Machine, indymotorspeedway.com
