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1939 AAA Championship Car season

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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 →

The1939 AAA Championship Car season consisted of three races, beginning inSpeedway,Indiana on May 30 and concluding inSyracuse,New York on September 2. There was also one non-championship event inSpringfield,Illinois. TheAAA National Champion andIndianapolis 500 winner wasWilbur Shaw.

The Springfield 100 was originally scheduled as aAAA non-championship event, had its sanction withdrawn the day of the race.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

Schedule and results

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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

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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]

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

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

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

v t e American Championship car racing (Indy car) seasons
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IRL	1996 1996–97 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
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Years marked initalics are not official championship years or upcoming seasons.

v t e AAA Championship Cars (1905–1955)
Seasons	1905 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942–1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
Indianapolis 500s	1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 ~~1942~~ 1943–1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
National Champions	Billy Arnold Henry Banks Tony Bettenhausen Jimmy Bryan Bob Carey Gaston Chevrolet Bill Cummings Pete DePaolo (twice) Sam Hanks Harry Hartz Eddie Hearne Ted Horn (three times) Rex Mays (twice) Louis Meyer (three times) Tommy Milton Jimmy Murphy (twice) Barney Oldfield Johnnie Parsons Kelly Petillo Dario Resta Floyd Roberts Mauri Rose Louis Schneider Wilbur Shaw (twice) Chuck Stevenson Bob Sweikert
AAA Contest Board Years marked initalics are not official championship years.

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Final points standings

References

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