Race · Round 3 of 8 · 30 May 1957

1957 Indianapolis 500

Sam Hanks won for Salih-Offenhauser from 13th on the grid at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Every starter was classified. It was the first championship race win for Sam Hanks.

High of 27 °C, 1.3 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Indianapolis Motor SpeedwaySpeedway, Indiana, United States of America
Winner: Sam HanksSalih-Offenhauser
Pole: Pat O'Connor
Fastest lap: Jim Rathmann
Entries: 3333 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sam Hanks	Salih-Offenhauser	Indy Roadster	13	200	Finished	8
2	Jim Rathmann	—	Indy Roadster	32	200	Finished	7	fastest lap
3	Jimmy Bryan	—	Indy Roadster	15	200	Finished	4
4	Paul Russo	—	KK500F	10	200	Finished	3
5	Andy Linden	—	KK500G	12	200	Finished	2
6	Johnny Boyd	—	KK500G	5	200	Finished	0
7	Marshall Teague	—	—	28	200	Finished	0
8	Pat O'Connor	—	—	1	200	Finished	0
9	Bob Veith	—	Phillips	16	200	Finished	0
10	Gene Hartley	—	Lesovsky	14	200	Finished	0
11	Jack Turner	—	KK500G	19	200	Finished	0
12	Johnny Thomson	—	Indy Roadster	11	199	Finished	0
13	Bob Christie	—	KK500C	33	197	Finished	0
14	Chuck Weyant	—	Indy Roadster	25	196	Finished	0
15	Tony Bettenhausen	—	KK500F	22	195	Finished	0
16	Johnnie Parsons	—	—	17	195	Finished	0
17	Don Freeland	—	KK500D	21	192	Finished	0
18	Jimmy Reece	—	KK500C	6	182	Throttle	0
19	Don Edmunds	—	KK500G	27	170	Spun off	0
20	Johnnie Tolan	—	Indy Roadster	31	138	Clutch	0
21	Al Herman	—	Dunn	30	111	Accident	0
22	Fred Agabashian	—	KK500G	4	107	Fuel leak	0
23	Eddie Sachs	—	Indy Roadster	2	105	Fuel leak	0
24	Mike Magill	—	KK500G	18	101	Accident	0
25	Eddie Johnson	—	KK500G	20	93	Wheel bearing	0
26	Bill Cheesbourg	—	KK500G	23	81	Fuel leak	0
27	Al Keller	—	KK500G	8	75	Accident	0
28	Jimmy Daywalt	—	KK500C	29	53	Accident	0
29	Ed Elisian	—	KK500G	7	51	Retirement	0
30	Rodger Ward	—	Lesovsky	24	27	Compressor	0
31	Troy Ruttman	—	Indy Roadster	3	13	Engine	0
32	Eddie Russo	—	KK500C	26	0	Accident	0
33	Elmer George	—	KK500B	9	0	Accident	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout indianapolis-1 · 4.023 km · 4 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Sam Hanks	13	1	200
Jim Rathmann	32	2	200
Jimmy Bryan	15	3	200
Paul Russo	10	4	200
Andy Linden	12	5	200
Johnny Boyd	5	6	200
Marshall Teague	28	7	200
Pat O'Connor	1	8	200
Bob Veith	16	9	200
Gene Hartley	14	10	200
Jack Turner	19	11	200
Johnny Thomson	11	12	199
Bob Christie	33	13	197
Chuck Weyant	25	14	196
Tony Bettenhausen	22	15	195
Johnnie Parsons	17	16	195
Don Freeland	21	17	192
Jimmy Reece	6	18	182
Don Edmunds	27	19	170
Johnnie Tolan	31	20	138
Al Herman	30	21	111
Fred Agabashian	4	22	107
Eddie Sachs	2	23	105
Mike Magill	18	24	101
Eddie Johnson	20	25	93
Bill Cheesbourg	23	26	81
Al Keller	8	27	75
Jimmy Daywalt	29	28	53
Ed Elisian	7	29	51
Rodger Ward	24	30	27
Troy Ruttman	3	31	13
Eddie Russo	26	32	0
Elmer George	9	33	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Pat O'Connor	—	12	4:10.090	—	24 m	—
2	Eddie Sachs	—	88	4:10.220	+0.130	26 m	+0.130
3	Troy Ruttman	—	52	4:12.150	+2.060	58 m	+1.930
4	Fred Agabashian	—	14	4:12.530	+2.440	64 m	+0.380
5	Johnny Boyd	—	6	4:13.340	+3.250	77 m	+0.810
6	Jimmy Reece	—	5	4:13.510	+3.420	80 m	+0.170
7	Ed Elisian	—	83	4:13.920	+3.830	86 m	+0.410
8	Al Keller	—	16	4:14.600	+4.510	97 m	+0.680
9	Elmer George	—	23	4:15.810	+5.720	117 m	+1.210
10	Paul Russo	—	54	4:08.590	-1.500	0 m	-7.220
11	Johnny Thomson	—	10	4:10.820	+0.730	36 m	+2.230
12	Andy Linden	—	73	4:11.320	+1.230	44 m	+0.500
13	Sam Hanks	—	9	4:12.080	+1.990	56 m	+0.760
14	Gene Hartley	—	22	4:14.830	+4.740	101 m	+2.750
15	Jimmy Bryan	—	1	4:14.980	+4.890	103 m	+0.150
16	Bob Veith	—	7	4:15.290	+5.200	108 m	+0.310
17	Johnnie Parsons	—	18	4:15.710	+5.620	115 m	+0.420
18	Mike Magill	—	77	4:16.390	+6.300	126 m	+0.680
19	Jack Turner	—	19	4:16.470	+6.380	128 m	+0.080
20	Eddie Johnson	—	43	4:16.830	+6.740	133 m	+0.360
21	Don Freeland	—	3	4:17.790	+7.700	149 m	+0.960
22	Tony Bettenhausen	—	27	4:12.740	+2.650	67 m	-5.050
23	Bill Cheesbourg	—	31	4:14.300	+4.210	92 m	+1.560
24	Rodger Ward	—	8	4:14.740	+4.650	100 m	+0.440
25	Chuck Weyant	—	82	4:15.130	+5.040	106 m	+0.390
26	Eddie Russo	—	55	4:15.570	+5.480	113 m	+0.440
27	Don Edmunds	—	92	4:16.320	+6.230	125 m	+0.750
28	Marshall Teague	—	48	4:16.540	+6.450	129 m	+0.220
29	Jimmy Daywalt	—	57	4:16.770	+6.680	132 m	+0.230
30	Al Herman	—	89	4:17.130	+7.040	138 m	+0.360
31	Johnnie Tolan	—	28	4:17.430	+7.340	143 m	+0.300
32	Jim Rathmann	—	26	4:17.500	+7.410	144 m	+0.070
33	Bob Christie	—	95	4:17.550	+7.460	145 m	+0.050

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

Pit stops are recorded from 1994. F1DB, the source of every stop here, holds none before then, so this race has no stints to draw.

Where this comes from

Round: 3 of 1957
Grand Prix: Indianapolis 500
Dates: 30 May 1957
Layout raced: Oval · 4.023 km · 4 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Salih-Offenhauser
Entrant: Salih-Offenhauser
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.