Milwaukee 100
The Milwaukee Mile
1 Mile Dirt Oval
100 Laps/100 Miles
July 27, 1947

Finish Start Driver Car # Sponsor/Name Chassis Engine Laps Status

Points

1 15 Charles Van Acker 44 Tucker Partners Stevens Lencki 100 1:09:47.88 85.963 200
2 3 Duke Nalon 27 Andrews X Offy 100 Finished 160
3 16 Paul Russo 15 Wolfe Shaw Offy 100 Finished 140
4 2 Mel Hansen 33 Tucker Partner X Lencki 100 Finished 120
5 10 George Connor 14 Walsh Kurtis Offy 98 Flagged 100
6 9 Ted Horn 1 Horn Horn Offy 96 Engine 80
7 14 Charlie Rogers 71 Jewell X HAL 93 Flagged 60
8 4 Steve Truchan 39 Truchan X Offy 84 Flagged 50
9 13 Buddy Rusch 37 Mitchell X Offy 63 Flagged 40
10 8 Rex Mays 9 Bowes Seal Fast Kurtis Winfield 62 Flagged 30
11 1 Tony Bettenhausen 6 Olson X Offy 47 Broken rear radius rod 20
12 18 Walt Ader 41 Schoof Wetteroth Offy 42 Dropped valve 10
13 17 Jackie Holmes 25 Dreyer X Dreyer 32 Cracked oil tank
14 11 Walt Brown 31 Auto Shippers X Offy 31 Sheared steer shaft
15 7 Duke Dinsmore 10 Schoof Wetteroth Offy 27 Broken connecting rod
16 12 Myron Fohr 42 Marchese X X 20 Broken connecting rod
17 6 Emil Andres 3 Belanger X Offy 5 Burned piston
18 5 Bill Holland 8 Peters Wetteroth Offy 0 Broken rear end
-- -- Charles Crawford 59 Katty Korner X Offy -- Out in practice
-- -- Milt Fankhauser 53 Fankhauser Stevens Offy -- Out after qualifying
-- -- Sam Hanks 21 Thorne Engineering Adams Sparks -- Out in practice
-- -- Billy DeVore X X X X -- Did not appear

Lap Leaders Total Laps
Ted Horn 70 27-96
Duke Dinsmore 26 1-26
Charles Van Acker 4 97-100