1934 AAA Championship Car season

1934 AAA Championship Car season
1934 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Championship Trail
Season
Races	4
Start date	May 30
End date	December 23
Awards
National champion	Bill Cummings
Indianapolis 500 winner	Bill Cummings
	← 1933 1935 →

The 1934 AAA Championship Car season consisted of four races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Inglewood, California on December 23. The AAA National Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Bill Cummings.

Pete Kreis^[1] died at Indianapolis, during practice. George Brayen^[2] died at Syracuse during the race.

Schedule and results

Rnd	Date	Race Name	Track	Location	Type	Pole Position	Winning Driver
1	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Brick	Kelly Petillo	Bill Cummings
2	August 25	Springfield 100	Illinois State Fairgrounds	Springfield, Illinois	Dirt	Johnny Sawyer	Billy Winn
3	September 9	Syracuse 100	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt	Bill Cummings	Shorty Cantlon
4	December 23	Mines Field Race	Mines Field	Inglewood, California	Road	Doc MacKenzie	Kelly Petillo

Dirt/Brick Oval

Road Course/Hill Climb

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.^[3]

Pos	Driver	INDY	SPR	SYR	MIF	Pts
1	Bill Cummings	1	13	7	8	681.7
2	Mauri Rose	2	3			530
3	Kelly Petillo	11	5	DNQ	1	300
4	Russ Snowberger	8	2	5	12	300
5	Joe Russo	5				300
6	Al Miller	6	11	6	10	280
7	Frank Brisko	9*	4	2	9	264.5
8	Lou Moore	3		DNS		248
9	Shorty Cantlon	20	6	1	7	211.2
10	Billy Winn	7	1	3		211
11	Babe Stapp	4			18	185.5
12	Wilbur Shaw	28			2	180
13	Cliff Bergere	7		DNQ		177
14	Deacon Litz	4		DNS		164.5
15	Doc MacKenzie	29		DNQ	4	140
16	Chet Gardner	21		DNQ	5	120
17	Al Gordon	22	14	DNQ	6	100
18	Ralph Hepburn	13			3	83.7
19	Floyd Roberts RY				3	76.2
20	George Barringer	14	10	4	17	70
21	Herb Ardinger R	10	8	11		69.7
22	Zeke Meyer	6				40
23	Harry Hunt R	DNQ	7			40
24	Harris Insinger R				7	38.8
25	Gene Haustein	30	12	9	11	30
26	Fred Frame	DNQ			8	18.3
27	Danny Day R	10				10.2
-	Johnny Sawyer	25	9*	12		0
-	George Brayen			10		0
-	Stubby Stubblefield	12			15	0
-	Louis Meyer	18			13	0
-	Cy Yocum R			13		0
-	Bob Sall R				14	0
-	Phil Shafer	15				0
-	Rex Mays R	23			16	0
-	Charles Crawford R	16				0
-	Tony Gulotta	17				0
-	Dave Evans	19				0
-	Guy Devlin R				19	0
-	Dusty Fahrnow	24				0
-	Johnny Seymour	26				0
-	Rick Decker	27				0
-	Harry McQuinn R	31				0
-	George Bailey R	32				0
-	Chet Miller	33				0
-	George Lyons			DNS		0
-	Charles Tramison	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ		0
-	Harry Lewis	DNQ	DNQ			0
-	Al Theisen	DNQ	DNQ			0
-	Bill Chittum	DNQ				0
-	Maynard Clark	DNQ				0
-	George Connor	DNQ				0
-	Wesley Crawford	DNQ				0
-	Leon Duray	DNQ				0
-	Sam Hoffman	DNQ				0
-	Ted Horn	DNQ				0
-	Pete Kreis	DNQ				0
-	Tee Linn	DNQ				0
-	Milt Marion	DNQ				0
-	Vern Ornduff	DNQ				0
-	Jack Petticord	DNQ				0
-	Willard Prentiss	DNQ				0
-	Bob Wallace	DNQ				0
-	Charles Engle			DNQ		0
-	Ted Kessler			DNQ		0
-	Gene Pirong			DNQ		0
-	Wally Zale			DNQ		0
-	Peter DePaolo	Wth				0
-	Harold Shaw	DNP				0
-	Orville Smith	DNP				0
-	Doc Williams	DNP				0
-	Arthur Brandt			DSQ		0
Pos	Driver	INDY	SPR	SYR	MIF	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 1934". Driver Database. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2011.
"1934 AAA National Championship Trail". ChampCarStats.com. Archived from the original on April 5, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2011.
Harms, Phil. "1934 Championship Driver Summary" (PDF). Motorsport.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 10, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2011.

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Schedule and results

Final points standings

References

See also