1929 INDIANAPOLIS 500

The 17th International 500-Mile Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Thursday, May 30, 1929. Ray Keech, who finished fourth a year earlier, took the lead for the final time on lap 158 and won his first Indianapolis 500. Keech won for car owner Maude A. Yagle, the first and to-date, only female winning owner in Indy history. Only two weeks after winning the race, Ray Keech was fatally injured in a crash at Altoona Speedway on June 15, 1929. The race was part of the 1929 AAA Championship Car season.
The 1929 edition was the last contested with the supercharged 91¹⁄₂ cu. in. (1.5 L) displacement engine formula. The supercharged front-wheel drive Miller 8s dominated qualifying, sweeping the front row. A total of twelve front-wheel drive machines made the field, but Keech's rear-wheel-drive Simplex Piston Ring Special took the victory. All three cars of the front row, as well as the first two cars of the second row, dropped out before the halfway point. Pole-sitter Cliff Woodbury crashed on lap 4, and become the first pole position winner in Indy history to finish last (33rd). Defending race winner Louis Meyer was leading in the second half, but lost nearly seven minutes when his car stalled in the pits due to low oil pressure on lap 157. He finished second just over six minutes behind Keech, with the lengthy pit stop the deciding margin.
The hard luck story of the race belonged to Lou Moore. After finishing second in 1928, Moore was on his way to back-to-back runner-up finishes. With two laps to go, however, his engine threw a rod. Due to the rules at the time, since Moore was not running at the finish, he was scored behind all finishers. He fell all the way back to 13th position, behind four cars that actually had fewer laps than he had.
It was the final race of the Roaring Twenties and the final race before the Stock Market Crash and Great Depression. The facility was expanded in 1929 to include a golf course.^[1] Dubbed the "Speedway Golf Course," it featured nine holes outside the track, and nine holes inside the track, and was designed by Bill Diddel.^[2] Also during the month, scenes for the movie Speedway were being filmed. Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Indianapolis_500

Starting Lineup:

Row 1	Cliff Woodbury	Leon Duray	Ralph Hepburn
Row 2	Babe Stapp	Pete DePaolo	Ray Keech
Row 3	Billy Arnold	Louis Meyer	Deacon Litz
Row 4	Russ Snowberger	Tony Gulotta	Bill Spence
Row 5	Lou Moore	Louis Chiron	Jules Moriceau
Row 6	Johnny Seymour	Peter Kreis	Phil Shafer
Row 7	Bob McDonogh	Ernie Triplett	Freddie Winnai
Row 8	Fred Frame	Jimmy Gleason	Wesley Crawford
Row 9	Carl Marchese	Frank Farmer	Herman Schurch
Row 10	Speed Gardner	Frank Brisko	Rick Decker
Row 11	Bert Karnatz	Cliff Bergere	Bill Lindau
Other Drivers on entry list:
Barney Kleopfer
Bill Albertson
Bob Robinson
C. H. Cunard
Chet Gardner
Cliff Durant
Dave Evans
Frank Sweigert
Fred Roberts
Gianfranco Comotti
Henry Turgeon
Ira Hall
Jack Buxton
Jim Hill
Jimmy Rossi
Joe Baker
John Vance
L. L. Corum
Myron Stevens
Phil Pardee
Ralph DePalma
Ralph Miller
Ray Smith
Roscoe Ford
Sam Grecco
Steve Smith
Ted Simpson
Thane Houser
Zeke Meyer
Race Results:
Finish	Driver	Laps	Status	Prize Money
1	Ray Keech	200	97.585	$31,950
2	Louis Meyer	200	95.596	$20,400
3	Jimmy Gleason	200	93.699	$7,250
4	Carl Marchese	200	93.541	$4,350
5	Freddie Winnai	200	88.792	$3,600
6	Speed Gardner	200	88.39	$2,200
7	Louis Chiron	200	87.728	$1,800
8	Billy Arnold	200	83.909	$1,600
9	Cliff Bergere	200	80.703	$1,500
10	Fred Frame	193	Running	$2,500
11	Frank Brisko	180	Running	$468
12	Phil Shafer	150	Running	$465
13	Lou Moore	198	Rod	$2,662
14	Frank Farmer	140	Supercharger	$459
15	Wesley Crawford	127	Carburetor	$456
16	Peter Kreis	91	Engine seized	$453
17	Tony Gulotta	91	Supercharger	$450
18	Bob McDonogh	74	Oil tank	$447
19	Bill Lindau	70	Valve	$444
20	Herman Schurch	70	Tank split	$441
21	Johnny Seymour	65	Rear axle	$438
22	Leon Duray	65	Carburetor	$1,135
23	Rick Decker	61	Fuel line	$432
24	Deacon Litz	56	Rod	$5,329
25	Bert Karnatz	50	Fuel leak	$426
26	Ernie Triplett	48	Rod	$423
27	Russ Snowberger	45	Supercharger	$420
28	Babe Stapp	40	Rear end	$417
29	Jules Moriceau	30	Accident	$414
30	Pete DePaolo	25	Steering	$411
31	Ralph Hepburn	14	High gear	$407
32	Bill Spence	9	Accident	$403
33	Cliff Woodbury	3	Accident	$400
Lap Leaders:
1 7	Leon Duray
8 56	Deacon Litz
57-60	Lou Moore
61	Louis Meyer
62-79	Lou Moore
80-94	Louis Meyer
95-105	Fred Frame
106-108	Ray Keech
109-157	Louis Meyer
158-200	Ray Keech