1924 AAA Championship Car season

1924 AAA Championship Car season
1924 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Championship Trail
Season
Races	9
Start date	February 24
End date	December 14
Awards
National champion	Jimmy Murphy
Indianapolis 500 winner	Joe Boyer ; L. L. Corum
	← 1923 1925 →

The 1924 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 9 races, beginning at Beverly Hills, California on February 24, and concluding at Culver City, California on December 14. The AAA National Champion was posthumously won by Jimmy Murphy. The Indianapolis 500 co-winners were Joe Boyer and L. L. Corum - the first of two occasions where co-winners were awarded a victory.

The 1924 season suffered three fatal accidents. Joe Boyer at the Altoona Race on September 1.^[1] On September 15, Jimmy Murphy - winner of both the Indianapolis 500 and the National Championship in 1922 - perished at Syracuse.^[2] On October 16, Ernie Ansterburg died at Charlotte during a practice run.^[3] Murphy won the championship posthumously after Earl Cooper failed to win at Culver City, the final race of the season.

Schedule and results

All races running on Dirt/Brick/Board Oval.

Rnd	Date	Race Name	Track	Location	Type	Pole Position	Winning Driver
1	February 24	Beverly Hills Race - 250	Los Angeles Motor Speedway	Beverly Hills, California	Board	Phil Shafer	Harlan Fengler
2	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Brick	Jimmy Murphy	Joe Boyer
2	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Brick	Jimmy Murphy	L. L. Corum^A
3	June 14	Altoona Race - 250	Altoona Speedway	Tyrone, Pennsylvania	Board	Ira Vail	Jimmy Murphy
4	July 4	Kansas City Race - 150	Kansas City Speedway	Kansas City, Missouri	Board	Tommy Milton	Jimmy Murphy
5	September 1	Fall Classic - 250	Altoona Speedway	Tyrone, Pennsylvania	Board	Ray Cariens	Jimmy Murphy
6	September 15	Syracuse Race - 150	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt	Norman Batten	Phil Shafer
7	October 3	Raisin Day Classic - 150	Fresno Speedway	Fresno, California	Board	Fred Comer	Earl Cooper
8	October 25	Charlotte Race - 250	Charlotte Speedway	Pineville, North Carolina	Board	Bennett Hill	Tommy Milton
9	December 14	Culver City Race - 250	Culver City Speedway	Culver City, California	Board	—	Bennett Hill

^A Shared drive

Final points standings

Note 1: Joe Boyer started the No. 9 car during the Indianapolis 500, but dropped out early with mechanical issues. On lap 112, he relieved L. L. Corum in the No. 15 car, and went on to finish first. While both Boyer and Corum were recognized as co-winners - the first of two such occasions in Indianapolis 500 history - the winner's points went to Corum, who started and qualified the No. 15 car.
Note 2: 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.
Final standings based upon reference:^[4]

Pos	Driver	BEV	INDY	ALT1	KAN	ALT2	SYR	FRE	CHA	CUL	Pts
1	Jimmy Murphy	7	3	1*	1	1*	6				1595
2	Earl Cooper	8*	2	6	5	5	5	1*	2	16	1240
3	Bennett Hill	4	5	DNQ	3	14	2	2	3	1	1214
4	Tommy Milton	5	21	7	2	3	8	3	1	3	1101
5	Fred Comer	14	7	2	12	2	4	4	8	4	725
6	Harry Hartz	3	4	5	6	10	11	8	5	2	666
7	L. L. Corum		1	8	11						570
8	Harlan Fengler	1*	DNQ		4	7		10	12	Wth	563
9	Phil Shafer	11	13			4	1*	7	7	7	430
10	Jerry Wunderlich	2	12	DNQ				13	6	13	295
11	Peter DePaolo		6	DNQ	10	12	3	11	4	12	230
12	Antoine Mourre RY	16	9	3	7	6		9		15	225
13	Bob McDonogh R		10	4	9	9	9	5	9	10	160
14	W. E. Shattuc R									5	50
15	Eddie Hearne	6	19	Wth						9	45
16	Stuart Wilkinson R									6	35
17	Ira Vail	17	8	9	16		10				34
18	Ernie Ansterburg	12	22	10	15*	13	DNS	6	DNQ		25
19	Ray Cariens R					8					15
20	Pietro Bordino									8	15
21	Wade Morton	17	7	11	8			12	10	14	14
22	Joe Boyer	9	18	DNQ	13	11					10
23	Cornelius Van Ranst		8								8
24	Louis Wilson			9	16						8
25	Cliff Durant	10	13							DNQ	5
-	Norman Batten R						7				0
-	Frank Elliott	15	20	DNQ	14				11	DNQ	0
-	Jules Ellingboe		11								0
-	Ralph DePalma									11	0
-	Ralph Hepburn R	13									0
-	Bill Hunt R		14								0
-	Elmer Dempsey R		15		DNQ						0
-	Ora Haibe		15		DNQ						0
-	Alfred Moss R		16								0
-	Fred Harder R		17								0
-	Thane Houser		18								0
-	Tom Alley		DNQ	DNS							0
-	Wally Butler		DNQ								0
-	Calvin Hartley		DNQ								0
-	C. J. Ramsey		DNQ								0
-	Giovanni Rossi		DNQ								0
-	Charles Shambaugh		DNQ								0
-	Herbert Scheel		DNQ								0
-	Harry Thicksten		DNQ								0
-	Hollis Wells		DNQ								0
-	Pete Kreis									DNQ	0
-	Ralph Mulford									DNS	0
Pos	Driver	BEV	INDY	ALT1	KAN	ALT2	SYR	FRE	CHA	CUL	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

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1924 AAA Championship Car season

Schedule and results

Final points standings

References

See also