1905 AAA Championship Car season
1905 AAA Championship Car season | |
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AAA National Circuit Championship | |
Season | |
Races | 11 |
Start date | June 10 |
End date | September 29 |
Awards | |
National champion | ![]() |
The 1905 AAA National Motor Car Championship consisted of 11 points-paying races, beginning in The Bronx, New York on June 10 and concluding in Poughkeepsie, New York on September 29. There were also at least two non-championship events held during the year. This was the first year that the AAA Contest Board (then known as the Racing Board) officially recognized a National Champion in American Championship Car competition.
The 1905 AAA National Champion was Barney Oldfield. For reasons unclear, but likely due to a change in attitudes and opinions by AAA officials about the dangers of racing following several serious accidents, no national championship was officially recognized again until 1916.
Schedule and results
All races running on Dirt Oval.
Leading National Championship standings
# | Driver | Car | Points |
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1 | ![]() |
Peerless "Green Dragon" | 26 |
2 | ![]() |
Fiat 90 | 12 |
3 | ![]() |
White Steamer | 4 |
4 | ![]() |
Peerless | 4 |
5 | ![]() |
Fiat | 4 |
6 | ![]() |
Reo Bird 32 | 4 |
7 | ![]() |
Pope-Toledo | 2 |
8 | ![]() |
Thomas | 2 |
9 | ![]() |
Peerless | 1 |
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Decauville | ||
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Renault | ||
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Stanley |
In 1951, Victor Hémery, winner of the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup, was retroactively awarded a national championship.
References
Works cited
- Åberg, Andreas. "AAA National Championship 1905". Driver Database. Archived from the original on 2009-05-14. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
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Footnotes
- ^ "Considerable and reasonable doubt is raised" (based on coverage in The Motor World) about the Syracuse event being a points-paying race in the 1905 national championship; per research by Don Capps (February 14, 2015).