1939 AAA Championship Car season

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.

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

The Springfield 100 was originally scheduled as a AAA non-championship event, had its sanction withdrawn the day of the race.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.

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.

Further information: List of American Championship car racing point scoring systems

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

• 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.

See also

• 1939 Indianapolis 500