Indianapolis 100
Indiana State Fairgrounds
1 Mile Dirt Oval
100 Laps/100 Miles
September 15, 1946
| Finish | Start | Driver | Car # | Sponsor/Name | Chassis | Engine | Laps | Status |
Points |
| 1 | 1 | Rex Mays | 1 | Bowes Seal Fast | Stevens | Winfield | 100 | 1:16:03.43 78.888 | 200 |
| 2 | 6 | Mauri Rose | 9 | Blue Crown Spark Plug | Lencki | Lencki | 99 | Flagged | 160 |
| 3 | 3 | Emil Andres | 44 | Riverside Tire | X | Offy | 99 | Flagged | 140 |
| 4 | 2 | Ted Horn | 24 | Peters | Wetteroth | Offy | 99 | Flagged | 120 |
| 5 | 4 | Tony Bettenhausen | 67 | Noc-Out Hose Clamp | X | Offy | 99 | Flagged | 100 |
| 6 | 11 | Floyd Davis | 17 | Schoof | Wetteroth | Offy | 98 | Flagged | 80 |
| 7 | 5 | George Connor | 38 | Walsh | Kurtis | Offy | 98 | Flagged | 60 |
| 8 | 12 | Al Miller | 25 | Jim Hussey's Sportsman's Club | Maserati 8CTF | Maserati SC | 98 | Flagged | 50 |
| 9 | 8 | Steve Truchan | 28 | Jimmy Chai | X | Offy | 88 | Broken connecting rod | |
| 10 | 9 | Spider Webb | 45 | Johnston | Adams | Offy | 77 | Split clutch | 30 |
| 11 | 7 | Duke Dinsmore | 37 | Olson | X | Offy | 54 | Out of oil | 20 |
| 12 | 10 | Elbert Booker | 31 | Auto Shippers | Snowberger FD | Offy | 11 | Broken piston | 10 |
| 13 | 14 | Bud Bardowski | 37 | Army Recruit | X | Sparks | 7 | Flagged - too slow | |
| 14 | 13 | Joe Langley | 55 | Clemons | X | Clemons | 7 | Burned wiring | |
| -- | -- | Al Putnam | 12 | Palmer | Stevens | Offy | -- | Wrecked qualifying - fatal | |
| -- | -- | Charlie Rogers | 71 | Jewell | X | HAL | -- | DNS, lost draw with Bardowski | |
| -- | -- | Russ Snowberger | 25 | Jim Hussey's Sportsman's Club | Maserati 8CTF | Maserati SC | -- | Driven by A. Miller | |
| -- | -- | Eddie Zalucki | 37 | Olson | X | Offy | -- | Driven by Dinsmore | |
| -- | -- | Charles Crawford | 53 | Chambers | X | X | -- | Did not appear |
| Lap Leaders | Total | Laps |
| Rex Mays | 100 | 1-100 |