1939 AAA Championship Car season

1939 AAA Championship Car season
1939 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Championship Trail
Season
Races	3
Start date	May 30
End date	September 2
Awards
National champion	Wilbur Shaw
Indianapolis 500 winner	Wilbur Shaw
	← 1938 1940 →

The 1939 AAA Championship Car season consisted of three races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Syracuse, New York on September 2. There was also one non-championship event in Springfield, Illinois. The AAA National Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Wilbur Shaw.

The Springfield 100 was originally scheduled as a AAA non-championship event, had its sanction withdrawn the day of the race. It was held as an unsanctioned event on August 19, and won by John Crone.^[1]

Schedule and results

All races running on Oval/Speedway.

Rnd	Date	Race Name	Track	Location	Type	Pole Position	Winning Driver
1	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Paved	Jimmy Snyder	Wilbur Shaw
2	August 27	Milwaukee 100	Wisconsin State Fair Park Speedway	West Allis, Wisconsin	Dirt	Emil Andres	Babe Stapp
3	September 2	Syracuse 100	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt	Rex Mays	Mauri Rose
NC	October 15	Race of Champions	Illinois State Fairgrounds	Springfield, Illinois	Dirt	—	Emil Andres

Non-championship race

Final points standings

Note: Drivers had to be running at the finish to score points. Points scored by drivers sharing a ride were split according to percentage of race driven. Starters were not allowed to score points as relief drivers, if a race starter finished the race in another car, in a points scoring position, those points were awarded to the driver who had started the car.
The final standings based on reference.^[1]

Pos	Driver	INDY	MIL	SYR	Pts
1	Wilbur Shaw	1			1000
2	Jimmy Snyder	2			825
3	Ted Horn	4	14	3	685
4	Babe Stapp	5	1	11	675
5	Cliff Bergere	3			675
6	George Barringer	6	2	5	630
7	Mauri Rose	8	12	1*	490
8	Joel Thorne	7	9	DNQ	370
9	Frank Wearne	9		DNQ	225
10	George Connor	13	10*	2	200
11	Louis Durant RY		3	7	200
12	Billy Devore	10		DNQ	136.5
13	Floyd Davis	27	11	4	135
14	Frank Brisko	29	8	6	130
15	George Robson	21	5	10	125
16	Tony Gulotta	11			114.5
17	Russ Snowberger	25	4	DNQ	110
18	Duke Nalon	DNQ	6	12	90
19	Louis Meyer	12*			75
20	Spider Webb R		7		65
21	Shorty Cantlon	32	15	8	55
22	Emil Andres	30	13	9	45
23	Henry Banks	10			38.5
-	Rex Mays	16	17	13	0
-	Frank McGurk	DNQ	16	14	0
-	Tony Willman	14			0
-	Louis Tomei	15			0
-	Herb Ardinger	17			0
-	Kelly Petillo	18		DNQ	0
-	Mel Hansen R	19			0
-	Chet Miller	20			0
-	Al Putnam	21		DNQ	0
-	Harry McQuinn	21			0
-	Ralph Hepburn	22			0
-	Floyd Roberts	23			0
-	Ira Hall	24			0
-	George Bailey	26			0
-	Al Miller	28			0
-	Bob Swanson	31			0
-	Deacon Litz	33		DNQ	0
-	Ronney Householder	DNS			0
-	Lou Webb	DNQ		DNQ	0
-	Sam Hanks	Wth		DNQ	0
-	Tommy Hinnershitz	DNQ			0
-	Zeke Meyer	DNQ			0
-	Johnny Seymour	DNQ			0
-	Doc Williams	DNQ			0
-	Vince Conze			DNQ	0
-	Lou Moore			DNQ	0
Pos	Driver	INDY	MIL	SYR	Pts

Color	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	4th & 5th place
Light Blue	6th-10th place
Dark Blue	Finished (Outside Top 10)
Purple	Did not finish (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Brown	Withdrawn (Wth)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
Blank	Did not participate (DNP)
Not competing

In-line notation
Bold	Pole position
Italics	Ran fastest race lap
*	Led most race laps
Rookie of the Year
Rookie

References

^ ^a ^b "1939 AAA National Championship Trail".

Åberg, Andreas. "AAA National Championship 1939". Driver Database. Archived from the original on September 10, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2009.
"1939 AAA National Championship Trail". ChampCarStats.com. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2009.
Harms, Phil. "1939 Championship Driver Summary" (PDF). Motorsport.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 10, 2012. Retrieved April 20, 2011.

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Schedule and results

Final points standings

References

See also