F1/Seasons/1960/Round 3
1960 · Round 3 of 10

Indianapolis 500

May 30, 1960 · Indianapolis Motor Speedway · Indianapolis · USA
Rathmann
WINNER
Jim Rathmann · Watson · from grid 2
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+23
MOST PLACES GAINED
Paul Goldsmith · grid 26 to P3
33 of 33
CLASSIFIED
Every car in the field was classified

01/Classification

33 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Jim RathmannWatson2+12003:36:11.3608
2Rodger WardWatson3+1200+12.7506
3Paul GoldsmithEpperly26+23200+3:07.3004
4Don BransonPhillips8+4200+3:07.9803
5Johnny ThomsonLesovsky17+12200+3:11.3502
6Eddie JohnsonTrevis7+1200+4:10.6101
7Lloyd RubyWatson12+5200+4:25.5900
8Bob VeithMeskowski25+17200+5:17.4800
9Bud TingelstadTrevis28+19200+8:19.9100
10Bob ChristieKurtis Kraft14+4200+8:40.2800
11Red AmickEpperly22+11200+11:10.5800
12Duane CarterKuzma27+15200+11:17.2000
13Bill HomeierKuzma31+18200+12:10.7100
14Gene HartleyKurtis Kraft24+10196+4 Laps0
15Chuck StevensonWatson9-6196+4 Laps0
16Bobby GrimMeskowski21+5194+6 Laps0
17Shorty TemplemanKurtis Kraft19+2191Clutch0
18Jim HurtubiseChristensen23+5185Engine0
19Jimmy BryanEpperly10-9152Fuel system0
20Troy RuttmanWatson6-14134Axle0
21Eddie SachsEwing1-20132Magneto0
22Don FreelandKurtis Kraft11-11129Magneto0
23Tony BettenhausenWatson18-5125Engine0
24Wayne WeilerEpperly15-9103Accident0
25Anthony FoytKurtis Kraft16-990Clutch0
26Eddie RussoKurtis Kraft29+390Accident0
27Johnny BoydEpperly13-1477Engine0
28Gene ForceKurtis Kraft20-874Brakes0
29Jim McWitheyEpperly32+360Brakes0
30Len SuttonWatson5-2547Engine0
31Dick RathmannWatson4-2742Brakes0
32Al HermanEwing30-234Clutch0
33Dempsey WilsonKurtis Kraft33011Magneto0

Ordered on the source’s position column and printed from position_text. Those two disagree on purpose: position is a sort key that is never null, and position_text is what happened to the car. 0 of 33 cars here were not classified. Across the archive that is 9,612 of 26,048 result rows, so a page that printed the sort key would tell more than a third of every field it finished.


02/Grid to finish

33 of 33 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Paul GoldsmithEpperly263+23
Bud TingelstadTrevis289+19
Bill HomeierKuzma3113+18
Bob VeithMeskowski258+17
Duane CarterKuzma2712+15
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Dick RathmannWatson431-27
Len SuttonWatson530-25
Eddie SachsEwing121-20
Troy RuttmanWatson620-14
Johnny BoydEpperly1327-14

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 33 of the 33 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 0: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and no car here carries grid 0, the value the source uses for a pit lane start or for no recorded grid slot. Scoring a grid of 0 as a gain of every place on the grid is the arithmetic this rule exists to stop; 266 of 26,048 rows across the archive are grid 0, and 40 of those were classified.


03/The 1960 season

10 rounds
FEB 7 to NOV 20
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1FEB 7Argentine Grand PrixAutódromo Juan y Oscar GálvezBruce McLarenCooper-Climax22
2MAY 29Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoStirling MossTeam Lotus16
3MAY 30Indianapolis 500Indianapolis Motor SpeedwayJim RathmannWatson33
4JUN 6Dutch Grand PrixCircuit Park ZandvoortJack BrabhamCooper-Climax21
5JUN 19Belgian Grand PrixCircuit de Spa-FrancorchampsJack BrabhamCooper-Climax19
6JUL 3French Grand PrixReims-GueuxJack BrabhamCooper-Climax23
7JUL 16British Grand PrixSilverstone CircuitJack BrabhamCooper-Climax25
8AUG 14Portuguese Grand PrixCircuito da BoavistaJack BrabhamCooper-Climax15
9SEP 4Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaPhil HillFerrari17
10NOV 20United States Grand PrixRiverside International RacewayStirling MossTeam Lotus23

Every figure here is one race, read from f1_results and f1_races. The finishing order is the source’s position column; the printed position is position_text, which is a letter on 9,612 of 26,048 rows across the archive (R retired 9,089, W withdrew 364, D disqualified 159). Grid 0 is a pit lane start and prints as PIT, not as a place ahead of pole; 266 of 26,048 rows are grid 0. Time is a total for the winner and a gap to the car ahead for everyone else, and it is present on 8,508 of 26,048 rows only, so most of the archive shows the status instead; where both exist and the status is not “Finished” the status is printed beside the time, because 8,335 of 16,436 classified rows finished lapped or otherwise not cleanly. The fastest lap column is empty before 2004: the source carries lap timing on 8,977 of 26,048 rows and a ranked fastest lap in 447 of 1,161 races, and speed on 8,238 of those, none after 2024. Points are printed as the source stores them and are never rounded to a whole number: 38 of 26,048 rows are fractional (0.5, 1.33, 3.14), which is half points for a shortened race and a split score for a shared car, and every one of them is real. Three races (1951 French, 1956 Argentine, 1957 British) print two cars as first, because two drivers shared one car and the record books credit both; in those three the source hangs the race points on other rows, which is why 5 of 1,164 winning rows across the archive print zero points. Constructors carry no logo in any f1_* table, so none is drawn and none is invented. The 1960 season is complete at 10 rounds.