1st Indianapolis 500 Indianapolis Motor Speedway Indianapolis 500 Sanctioning body AAA Date 30 May 1911 Winner Ray Harroun Winning Entrant Nordyke & Marmon Company Average speed 74.602 mph (120.060 km / h) Pole position Lewis Strang Pole speed N / A Most laps led Ray Harroun (88) Pre-race Pace car Stoddard - Dayton Pace car driver Carl G. Fisher Starter Fred J. Wagner Honorary referee R.P. Hooper Estimated attendance 85,000 Chronology Previous Next 1909 - 1910 events 1912
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