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| Indianapolis Motor Speedway | |||||
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| Indianapolis 500 | |||||
| Sanctioning body | AAA | ||||
| Date | May 30, 1941 | ||||
| Winner | Floyd Davis and Mauri Rose (co-winners) | ||||
| Winning Entrant | Lou Moore | ||||
| Average speed | 115.117 mph | ||||
| Pole position | Mauri Rose | ||||
| Pole speed | 128.691 mph | ||||
| Most laps led | Wilbur Shaw (107) | ||||
| Pre-race | |||||
| Pace car | Chrysler Newport Phaeton | ||||
| Pace car driver | A. B. Couture | ||||
| Starter | Seth Klein[1] | ||||
| Honorary referee | Guy Vaughn[1] | ||||
| Estimated attendance | 160,000[2] | ||||
| Chronology | |||||
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The 29th International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Friday, May 30, 1941. The start of the race was delayed due to a fire that swept through the garage area on race morning. No persons were injured, but one car in the field was destroyed. The race rolled off with only 31 cars, and ran to its scheduled distance. This would be the final "500" prior to the United States involvement in World War II along with the final race under with Eddie Rickenbacker as president of the speedway. He kept the track locked during the war before selling the track in November 1945 to Tony Hulman. The race returned a year later.
The 1941 race was the second, and most recent "500" to be recorded with co-winners. Floyd Davis started the race in the #16 Noc-Out Hose Clamp Special. His teammate Mauri Rose started the race on the pole position in the #3 car, but his dropped out early with spark plug trouble. Rose took over behind the wheel of the #16 car on lap 73, and drove that car to victory. Davis and Rose were credited as co-winners, and it was the first of three "500" victories for Rose.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Wilkins, Lloyd H. (May 31, 1941). "Nervous, Dusty, Affable Crowd Sees Race—Well, Part of the Time". The Indianapolis Star. p. 1. Retrieved June 2, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
