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1938 AAA Championship Car season

Auto racing season

The 1938 AAA Championship Car season consisted of two races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Syracuse, New York on September 10. There were also two non-championship events. The AAA National Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Floyd Roberts.

Billy Winn died at Springfield during the non-championships race.

Schedule and results

All races running on Dirt/Brick Oval. In IZOD IndyCar Series 2011 Historical Record Book, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is, from 1911 to 1938, listed as a "brick track" type circuit. (page 73)

Rnd	Date	Race name	Track	Location	Type	Pole position
May 30	US International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Brick	US Floyd Roberts	US Floyd Roberts
August 20	US Springfield 100	Illinois State Fairgrounds	Springfield, Illinois	Dirt	US Rex Mays	US Tony Willman
August 28	US Milwaukee 100	Wisconsin State Fair Park Speedway	West Allis, Wisconsin	Dirt	US Mauri Rose	US Chet Gardner
September 10	US Syracuse 100	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt	US Jimmy Snyder	US Jimmy Snyder

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	SYR
US	Pts	1	1000	2	825	3	675	4	660	5	450	6	310	7	260	8	225	9	213	10	200	11	188.1	12	175	13	165	14	90	15	75	16	75	17	65	18	45.1	19	45	20	25	21	9.9	-	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	SYR
US	Pts
US Floyd Roberts	1*	DNQ
US Wilbur Shaw	2
US Chet Miller	3	DNQ
US Ted Horn	4	4
US Chet Gardner	5
US Billy Devore	8	10
US Duke Nalon	11	3
US Joel Thorne	9	DNQ
US Herb Ardinger	6
US Jimmy Snyder	15*	1*
US Harry McQuinn	7
US Frank Wearne	10	13
US Rex Mays	28	2
US Mauri Rose	13	5
US George Connor	19	6
US George Bailey	12
US Floyd Davis	DNQ	7
US Russ Snowberger	25	8
US Tommy Hinnershitz		9
US George Robson		11
US Bill Cummings	24	8
US Kelly Petillo	22	12
US Ronney Householder	14
US Billy Winn	14
US Frankie Bailey		14
US Louis Meyer	16
US Tony Gulotta	17
US Al Miller	18	DNQ
US Cliff Bergere	20
US Henry Banks	21
US Louis Tomei	23
US Babe Stapp	26
US Tony Willman	27	DNQ
US Emil Andres	29	DNQ
US Ira Hall	30
US Frank Brisko	31	DNQ
US Al Putnam	32
US Shorty Cantlon	33	DNQ
US Frankie Beeder	DNQ	DNQ
US Johnny Sawyer	DNQ	DNQ
US Charles Crawford	DNQ
US Fred Frame	DNQ
US Ralph Hepburn	DNQ
US Deacon Litz	DNQ
Kingdom of Italy Tazio Nuvolari	DNQ
US Jack Petticord	DNQ
US Johnny Seymour	DNQ
US Doc Williams	DNQ
US Walt Brown		DNQ
US Al Cusick		DNQ
US Miny Dugatta		DNQ
UK Henry Guerand		DNQ
US Bill Holland		DNQ
US George Huss		DNQ
US Doc Keim		DNQ
US Hans Koehler		DNQ
US Mark Light		DNQ
US Jack Moon		DNQ
US Leslie Owen		DNQ
US Charlie Rogers		DNQ
US Jack Russell		DNQ
US Bud Walker		DNQ
US Buster Warke		DNQ
US Lou Webb		DNQ

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

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References

http://media.indycar.com/pdf/2011/IICS_2011_Historical_Record_Book_INT6.pdf (p. 73)

References

"1938 AAA National Championship Trail".

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