1934 AAA Championship Car season

1934 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Championship Trail
Season
Races4
Start dateMay 30
End dateDecember 23
Awards
National championUnited States Bill Cummings
Indianapolis 500 winnerUnited States 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 died at Indianapolis, during practice. George Brayen died at Syracuse during the race.

Schedule and results

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

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