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
[edit]All races running on Dirt Oval.
Leading National Championship standings
[edit]# | 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. At a later point, it was recognized by historians that these championship results were revisionist, after discovering published sources naming Oldfield as the National Champion.
References
[edit]Works cited
[edit]- Åberg, Andreas. "AAA National Championship 1905". Driver Database. Archived from the original on September 8, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
- "1905 AAA National Circuit Championship". ChampCarStats.com. Archived from the original on October 10, 2008. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ "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).