Cika wannan jumlar: Dario Resta, wanda ya lashe gasar
"500" a watan Mayu, bai shiga ba bayan ya hura injin a motarsa a Cincinnati. Ralph DePalma, 1915 "500" lashe ya tsallake 1916 tseren saboda wani jayayya da management kan bayyanar kudade. DePalma da waƙar sun sulhunta, kuma ya gabatar da shigarwa, amma tun da ya busa motar motar Mercedes a Cincinnati, ba a bayyana ba don 'yan kwanaki wace motar da zai tuka. Daga baya a cikin makon, an kira DePalma zuwa ƙungiyar Peugeot mallakar Speedway, yana ɗaukar motar Charlie Merz. Har ila yau, ya kasa isa shi ne William Muller, wanda ya sha wahala daga injin injin a tseren Cincinnati, da kuma Gil Anderson wanda ya ji rauni sosai bayan hadari a Cincinnati.