1938 AAA Championship Car season

1938 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Championship Trail
Season
Races	2
Start date	May 30
End date	September 10
Awards
National champion	Floyd Roberts
Indianapolis 500 winner	Floyd Roberts
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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.^[1]

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	Winning Driver
1	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Brick	Floyd Roberts	Floyd Roberts
NC	August 20	Springfield 100	Illinois State Fairgrounds	Springfield, Illinois	Dirt	Rex Mays	Tony Willman
NC	August 28	Milwaukee 100	Wisconsin State Fair Park Speedway	West Allis, Wisconsin	Dirt	Mauri Rose	Chet Gardner
2	September 10	Syracuse 100	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt	Jimmy Snyder	Jimmy Snyder

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.^[1]

Pos Driver INDY SYR Pts 1 Floyd Roberts 1* DNQ 1000 2 Wilbur Shaw 2 825 3 Chet Miller 3 DNQ 675 4 Ted Horn 4 4 660 5 Chet Gardner 5 450 6 Billy Devore 8 10 310 7 Duke Nalon 11 3 260 8 Joel Thorne 9 DNQ 225 9 Herb Ardinger 6 213 10 Jimmy Snyder 15* 1* 200 11 Harry McQuinn 7 188.1 12 Frank Wearne 10 13 175 13 Rex Mays 28 2 165 14 Mauri Rose 13 5 90 15 George Connor 19 6 75 16 George Bailey 12 75 17 Floyd Davis DNQ 7 65 18 Russ Snowberger 25 8 45.1 19 Tommy Hinnershitz  RY  9 45 20 George Robson  R  11 25 21 Bill Cummings 24 8 9.9 - Kelly Petillo 22 12 0 - Ronney Householder 14 0 - Billy Winn 14 0 - Frankie Bailey 14 0 - Louis Meyer 16 0 - Tony Gulotta 17 0 - Al Miller 18 DNQ 0 - Cliff Bergere 20 0 - Henry Banks 21 0 - Louis Tomei 23 0 - Babe Stapp 26 0 - Tony Willman 27 DNQ 0 - Emil Andres 29 DNQ 0 - Ira Hall 30 0 - Frank Brisko 31 DNQ 0 - Al Putnam 32 0 - Shorty Cantlon 33 DNQ 0 - Frankie Beeder DNQ DNQ 0 - Johnny Sawyer DNQ DNQ 0 - Charles Crawford DNQ 0 - Fred Frame DNQ 0 - Ralph Hepburn DNQ 0 - Deacon Litz DNQ 0 - Tazio Nuvolari DNQ 0 - Jack Petticord DNQ 0 - Johnny Seymour DNQ 0 - Doc Williams DNQ 0 - Walt Brown DNQ 0 - Al Cusick DNQ 0 - Miny Dugatta DNQ 0 - Henry Guerand DNQ 0 - Bill Holland DNQ 0 - George Huss DNQ 0 - Doc Keim DNQ 0 - Hans Koehler DNQ 0 - Mark Light DNQ 0 - Jack Moon DNQ 0 - Leslie Owen DNQ 0 - Charlie Rogers DNQ 0 - Jack Russell DNQ 0 - Bud Walker DNQ 0 - Buster Warke DNQ 0 - Lou Webb DNQ 0 Pos Driver INDY 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

• 1938 Indianapolis 500