1905 AAA Championship Car season

1905 AAA Championship Car season
1905 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Circuit Championship
Season
Races	11
Start date	June 10
End date	September 29
Awards
National champion	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[edit]

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

Non-championship race

Leading National Championship standings[edit]

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

External links[edit]

Compilation of articles on "The Lost Championship of 1905"

[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).

[note 1]

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