From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

1937 AAA Championship Car season

Auto racing season

The 1937 AAA Championship Car season consisted of three races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Syracuse, New York on September 12. There were three non-championship events. The AAA National Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Wilbur Shaw.

Albert Opalko, the riding mechanic of Frank McGurk, died during Indianapolis 500 qualifying on May 28.

Schedule and results

Rnd	Date	Race name	Track	Location	Type	Pole position
May 31	US International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Brick	US Bill Cummings	US Wilbur Shaw
June 13	US Cleveland 50	Randall Park Raceway	North Randall, Ohio	Dirt	—	US Rex Mays
July 5	US George Vanderbilt Cup	Roosevelt Raceway	Westbury, New York	Road	Nazi Germany Rudolf Caracciola	Nazi Germany Bernd Rosemeyer
August 21	US Springfield 100	Illinois State Fairgrounds	Springfield, Illinois	Dirt	—	US Mauri Rose
August 29	US Milwaukee 100	Wisconsin State Fair Park Speedway	West Allis, Wisconsin	Dirt	US Billy Winn	US Rex Mays
September 12	US Syracuse 100	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt	US Rex Mays	US Billy Winn

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
US	ROR
US	SYR
US	Pts	1	1135	2	750	3	600	4	598.1	5	550	6	495	7	444.4	8	405	9	335.2	10	330	11	273	12	256.5	13	225	14	225	15	206.2	16	200	17	191	18	175	19	165	20	163.5	21	135	22	114.7	23	110	24	105	25	90	26	75	27	66.5	28	52	29	45	30	42.3	31	25	32	14	33	8.5	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	Pos	Driver	INDY
US	ROR
US	SYR
US	Pts
US Wilbur Shaw	1*	9	DNQ
US Ted Horn	3	17	6
Germany Bernd Rosemeyer		1*
US Ralph Hepburn	2
US Louis Meyer	4
UK Richard Seaman		2
US Bill Cummings	6	7	DNQ
US Rex Mays	33	3	13
US Cliff Bergere	5
Germany Ernst von Delius		4
US Billy Devore	7		DNQ
Kingdom of Italy Giuseppe Farina		5
US Joel Thorne	DNQ	6	DNQ
US George Connor	9	18	11
US Tony Gulotta	8
US Billy Winn	26	29	1*
US Chet Gardner	11	12	8
US Louis Tomei	10
US Jimmy Snyder	32	21	2
US Russ Snowberger	27	8	DNQ
US Bob Sall			3
US George Barringer	5
US Duke Nalon	DNQ		4
US Herb Ardinger	22	10
US Mauri Rose	18	15	5
US Frank Wearne	24	11	DNQ
US Ken Fowler	19	8	7
US Fred Frame	7
US Shorty Cantlon	16	DNP	9
US Ronney Householder	12	28
US Bob Henderson			10
US Henry Banks	12	23
US Al Putnam	12
US Gus Zarka		30	12
US Frank Brisko	23	13	14
US Floyd Roberts	13
US Milt Marion	DNQ	14	DNQ
US Deacon Litz	14	DNP
US Floyd Davis	15		DNQ
Norway Eugen Bjørnstad		16
US Emil Andres	17		DNQ
US Al Miller	17		DNQ
US Ora Bean		19	DNQ
US Kelly Petillo	20	20
US George Bailey	21
US Harry Lewis		22
Germany Rudolf Caracciola		24
US Tony Willman	25
Kingdom of Italy Tazio Nuvolari		25
US Al Cusick		26
US Babe Stapp	31	27
US Johnny Seymour	27
US Bob Swanson	28	DNP
US Harry McQuinn	29
US Chet Miller	30
US Lou Webb	DNQ		DNQ
US John Moretti		DNQ	DNQ
US Vern Ornduff	DNQ	DNP
US Ben Brandfon		DNQ
US Tom Cosman	DNQ
US Dave Evans	DNQ
US Ira Hall	DNQ
US Luther Johnson	DNQ
US Frank McGurk	DNQ
US Zeke Meyer	DNQ
US Lee Oldfield	DNQ
US Overton Phillips	DNQ
US Doc Williams	DNQ
US Woody Woodford	DNQ
US Ray Yeager	DNQ
US Ernie Gesell			DNQ
US Sam Grecco			DNQ
US Tommy Hinnershitz			DNQ
US Fred Tegtmeier			DNQ
Kingdom of Italy Enzo Fiermonte		Wth
US Lewis Balus		DNP
US Lucky Teter		DNP

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

|- |

Rookie

|} |}

References

Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

1937-in-motorsport aaa-championship-car 1937-in-american-motorsport

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about 1937 AAA Championship Car season — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report