1940 AAA Championship Car season

1940 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Championship Trail
Season
Races	3
Start date	May 30
End date	September 2
Awards
National champion	Rex Mays
Indianapolis 500 winner	Wilbur Shaw
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The 1940 AAA Championship Car season consisted of three races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Syracuse, New York on September 2. There was also one non-championship event in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. The AAA National Champion was Rex Mays and the Indianapolis 500 winner was Wilbur Shaw.

George Bailey died in practice at Indianapolis before the race. Lou Webb died during the season ending race at Syracuse.

All races running on Paved/Dirt Oval.

Rnd	Date	Race Name	Track	Location	Type	Pole Position	Winning Driver
1	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Paved	Rex Mays	Wilbur Shaw
NC	June 16	Langhorne 100	Langhorne Speedway	Langhorne, Pennsylvania	Dirt	Tony Willman	Duke Nalon
2	August 24	Springfield 100	Illinois State Fairgrounds	Springfield, Illinois	Dirt	Rex Mays	Rex Mays
3	September 2	Syracuse 100	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt	Rex Mays	Rex Mays

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 SPR SYR Pts 1 Rex Mays 2 1* 1* 1225 2 Wilbur Shaw 1* 1000 3 Mauri Rose 3 675 4 Ted Horn 4 6 625 5 Joel Thorne 5 DNQ 450 6 Bob Swanson 6 375 7 Frank Wearne 7 325 8 Frank Brisko 9 8 DNQ 280 9 George Robson 23 4 11 275 10 Mel Hansen 8 275 11 Al Miller 30 2 9 210 12 George Connor 26 7 4 175 13 Floyd Davis 20 6 7 140 14 Harry McQuinn 11 13 12 140 15 Tommy Hinnershitz 32 11 3 135 16 Duke Nalon 22 3 135 17 Emil Andres 12 DNS 10 110 18 René Le Bègue  RY  10 91 19 Kelly Petillo 21 5 13 90 20 Shorty Cantlon DNS 5 90 21 René Dreyfus  R  10 84 22 Paul Russo  R  28 12 8 55 23 Overton Phillips DNQ 9 DNQ 45 24 Hal Robson  R  2 25 - Lou Webb  R  20 10 14 0 - Sam Hanks  R  13 0 - Billy Devore 18 14 DNQ 0 - George Barringer 14 0 - Joie Chitwood  R  15 DNQ 0 - Louis Tomei 16 0 - Henry Banks 17 0 - Chet Miller 17 0 - Al Putnam 19 DNQ DNQ 0 - Babe Stapp 24 0 - Doc Williams 25 0 - Cliff Bergere 27 0 - Ralph Hepburn 29 0 - Russ Snowberger 31 0 - Raúl Riganti 33 0 - Tony Willman DNQ DNQ DNS 0 - George Bailey DNQ 0 - Wesley Crawford DNQ 0 - Port DeFraties DNQ 0 - Louis Durant DNQ 0 - Ira Hall DNQ 0 - Bill Lipscomb DNQ 0 - Louis Unser DNQ 0 - Freddie Winnai DNQ 0 Pos Driver INDY SPR 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

• 1940 Indianapolis 500

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• "1940 AAA National Championship Trail". ChampCarStats.com. Archived from the original on November 22, 2008. Retrieved May 17, 2009.
• Harms, Phil. "1940 Championship Driver Summary" (PDF). Motorsport.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 10, 2012. Retrieved April 20, 2011.