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1905 AAA Championship Car season

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1905 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Circuit Championship
Season
Races11
Start dateJune 10
End dateSeptember 29
Awards
National championUnited States Barney Oldfield
← None
1909 →

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

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All races running on Dirt Oval.

Rnd Date Race Name Track Location Winning Driver
1 June 10 Morris Park 5 Morris Park The Bronx, New York United States Louis Chevrolet
2 June 17 Hartford 5 Charter Oak Park West Hartford, Connecticut United States Barney Oldfield
3 June 26 Empire City 10 Empire City Speedway Yonkers, New York United States Louis Chevrolet
4 June 28 Brunots Island Brunots Island Driving Track Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States Barney Oldfield
5 June 29 Brunots Island 10 Brunots Island Driving Track Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States Louis Chevrolet
6 July 4 Morris Park 1 Morris Park The Bronx, New York United States Webb Jay
NC August 8 Grosse Pointe 5 Grosse Pointe Track Detroit, Michigan United States Webb Jay
7 August 14 Glenville 5 Glenville Driving Track Cleveland, Ohio United States Charles Burman
8 August 19 Buffalo 5 Kenilworth Park Buffalo, New York United States Barney Oldfield
9 September 9 Readville 5 Readville Trotting Park Readville, Massachusetts United States Barney Oldfield
NC September 18 Syracuse 5[note 1] New York State Fairgrounds Syracuse, New York United States Guy Vaughan
10 September 23 Providence 5 Narragansett Park Speedway Cranston, Rhode Island United States Barney Oldfield
11 September 29 Poughkeepsie 5 Hudson River Driving Park Poughkeepsie, New York United States Barney Oldfield
  Non-championship race

Leading National Championship standings

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 #  Driver Car Points
1 United States Barney Oldfield Peerless "Green Dragon" 26
2 United States Louis Chevrolet Fiat 90 12
3 United States Webb Jay White Steamer 4
4 United States Charles Burman Peerless 4
5 Italy Emanuel Cedrino Fiat 4
6 United States Dan Wurgis Reo Bird 32 4
7 United States Herbert Lytle Pope-Toledo 2
8 United States Montague Roberts Thomas 2
9 United States Frank Wridgeway Peerless 1
United States Guy Vaughan Decauville
France Maurice Bernin Renault
United States Frank Durbin 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

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Works cited

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  • 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

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  1. ^ "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).
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