1933 AAA Championship Car season

1933 AAA Championship Car season
1933 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Championship Trail
Season
Races	3
Start date	May 30
End date	September 9
Awards
National champion	Louis Meyer
Indianapolis 500 winner	Louis Meyer
	← 1932 1934 →

The 1933 AAA Championship Car season consisted of three races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Syracuse, New York on September 9. There was one non-championship event. The AAA National Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Louis Meyer.

During a tragic year at Indianapolis, Bill Denver and his riding mechanic Bob Hurst died during practice, and during the race Mark Billman, and later Lester Spangler and his riding mechanic G. L. Jordan - in two different accidents.^[1] The season ended on 9 September at Syracuse, where a 15 lap non-championship race was scheduled to run after the main event, but was cancelled due to darkness.^[2]

Schedule and results

Rnd	Date	Race Name	Track	Location	Type	Pole Position	Winning Driver
1	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Brick	Bill Cummings	Louis Meyer
2	June 11	Detroit 100	Michigan State Fairgrounds	Detroit, Michigan	Dirt	Bill Cummings	Bill Cummings
NC	August 26	Elgin National Trophy	Elgin Road Race Course	Elgin, Illinois	Road	Fred Frame	Phil Shafer
3	September 9	Syracuse 100	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt	Bill Cummings	Bill Cummings

Dirt/Brick Oval

Road Course/Hill Climb

Non-championship race

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.^[3]

Pos	Driver	INDY	DET	SYR	Pts
1	Louis Meyer	1*	10		610
2	Lou Moore	3	3	6	530
3	Wilbur Shaw	2	13	16	450
4	Chet Gardner	4	DNQ	3	430
5	Stubby Stubblefield	5	4		325.2
6	Dave Evans	6		DNQ	250
7	Bill Cummings	25	1*	1*	240
8	Tony Gulotta	7			200
9	Mauri Rose	35	2	2	180
10	Russ Snowberger	8	11	7	122.5
11	Deacon Litz	16	4	5	104.8
12	Zeke Meyer	9		DNQ	100
13	Shorty Cantlon	34		4	70
14	Joe Russo	17	5	15	60
15	Kelly Petillo	19	6		50
16	Sam Palmer RY	10		8	43.3
17	George Barringer	DNQ	8		30
18	Luther Johnson	10			29
19	Freddie Winnai	27	7	DNQ	28.4
20	Al Miller	21	9		20
21	Ralph DePalma			9	20
22	Fred Frame	29	7		11.6
23	George Brayen R			10	10
24	George Howie	8			4.5
-	Cliff Bergere	11			0
-	Tee Linn R			11	0
-	Johnny Sawyer R	31	12	DNQ	0
-	L. L. Corum	12			0
-	Bob Zauer R			12	0
-	Willard Prentiss R	13			0
-	Harold Shaw R	13			0
-	Bob Hahn R			13	0
-	Gene Haustein	15	14	14	0
-	Juan Gaudino	14			0
-	Raúl Riganti	14			0
-	Doc MacKenzie	18		DNQ	0
-	Sam Hoffman R	19			0
-	Chet Miller	20			0
-	Bennett Hill	22			0
-	Babe Stapp	23			0
-	Wesley Crawford	24			0
-	Billy Winn	24			0
-	Les Spangler	26			0
-	Terry Curley R	27			0
-	Malcolm Fox	28			0
-	Mark Billman R	30			0
-	Ernie Triplett	32			0
-	Pete Kreis	33			0
-	Frank Brisko	36			0
-	Ira Hall	37			0
-	Ralph Hepburn	38			0
-	Ray Campbell	39			0
-	Paul Bost	40			0
-	Rick Decker	41			0
-	Louis Schneider	42			0
-	Howard Wilcox	DNS			0
-	Maynard Clark			DNS	0
-	Ray Carter	DNQ		DNQ	0
-	Bill Sockwell	DNQ		DNQ	0
-	Al Aspen	DNQ			0
-	Paul Butler	DNQ			0
-	Frank Davidson	DNQ			0
-	Danny Day	DNQ			0
-	Leon DeHart	DNQ			0
-	Bill Denver	DNQ			0
-	Harry Falt	DNQ			0
-	William Gardner	DNQ			0
-	Leonide Albert LaRivière	DNQ			0
-	Harry Lewis	DNQ			0
-	Virgil Livengood	DNQ			0
-	Roy Painter	DNQ			0
-	Phil Shafer	DNQ			0
-	Overton Snell	DNQ			0
-	Doc Williams	DNQ			0
-	James Patterson			DNQ	0
-	Gene Pirong			DNQ	0
Pos	Driver	INDY	DET	SYR	Pts

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

In-line notation
Bold	Pole position
Italics	Ran fastest race lap
*	Led most race laps
Rookie of the Year
Rookie

References

Åberg, Andreas. "AAA National Championship 1933". Driver Database. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2011.
"1933 AAA National Championship Trail". ChampCarStats.com. Archived from the original on September 20, 2011. Retrieved April 22, 2011.
Harms, Phil. "1933 Championship Driver Summary" (PDF). Motorsport.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 10, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2011.

[ChampCar19331-1] "1933 International 500 Mile Sweepstakes".

[ChampCar19332-2] "1933 Syracuse 15".

[ChampCar1933-3] "1933 AAA National Championship Trail".

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Schedule and results

Final points standings

See also

References