1934 AAA Championship Car season

1934 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Championship Trail
Season
Races	4
Start date	May 30
End date	December 23
Awards
National champion	Bill Cummings
Indianapolis 500 winner	Bill Cummings
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The 1934 AAA Championship Car season consisted of four races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Inglewood, California on December 23. The AAA National Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Bill Cummings.

Pete Kreis^[1] died at Indianapolis, during practice. George Brayen^[2] died at Syracuse during the race.

Rnd	Date	Race Name	Track	Location	Type	Pole Position	Winning Driver
1	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Brick	Kelly Petillo	Bill Cummings
2	August 25	Springfield 100	Illinois State Fairgrounds	Springfield, Illinois	Dirt	Johnny Sawyer	Billy Winn
3	September 9	Syracuse 100	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt	Bill Cummings	Shorty Cantlon
4	December 23	Mines Field Race	Mines Field	Inglewood, California	Road	Doc MacKenzie	Kelly Petillo

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 SPR SYR MIF Pts 1 Bill Cummings 1 13 7 8 681.7 2 Mauri Rose 2 3 530 3 Kelly Petillo 11 5 DNQ 1 300 4 Russ Snowberger 8 2 5 12 300 5 Joe Russo 5 300 6 Al Miller 6 11 6 10 280 7 Frank Brisko 9* 4 2 9 264.5 8 Lou Moore 3 DNS 248 9 Shorty Cantlon 20 6 1 7 211.2 10 Billy Winn 7 1 3 211 11 Babe Stapp 4 18 185.5 12 Wilbur Shaw 28 2 180 13 Cliff Bergere 7 DNQ 177 14 Deacon Litz 4 DNS 164.5 15 Doc MacKenzie 29 DNQ 4 140 16 Chet Gardner 21 DNQ 5 120 17 Al Gordon 22 14 DNQ 6 100 18 Ralph Hepburn 13 3 83.7 19 Floyd Roberts  RY  3 76.2 20 George Barringer 14 10 4 17 70 21 Herb Ardinger  R  10 8 11 69.7 22 Zeke Meyer 6 40 23 Harry Hunt  R  DNQ 7 40 24 Harris Insinger  R  7 38.8 25 Gene Haustein 30 12 9 11 30 26 Fred Frame DNQ 8 18.3 27 Danny Day  R  10 10.2 - Johnny Sawyer 25 9* 12 0 - George Brayen 10 0 - Stubby Stubblefield 12 15 0 - Louis Meyer 18 13 0 - Cy Yocum  R  13 0 - Bob Sall  R  14 0 - Phil Shafer 15 0 - Rex Mays  R  23 16 0 - Charles Crawford  R  16 0 - Tony Gulotta 17 0 - Dave Evans 19 0 - Guy Devlin  R  19 0 - Dusty Fahrnow 24 0 - Johnny Seymour 26 0 - Rick Decker 27 0 - Harry McQuinn  R  31 0 - George Bailey  R  32 0 - Chet Miller 33 0 - George Lyons DNS 0 - Charles Tramison DNQ DNQ DNQ 0 - Harry Lewis DNQ DNQ 0 - Al Theisen DNQ DNQ 0 - Bill Chittum DNQ 0 - Maynard Clark DNQ 0 - George Connor DNQ 0 - Wesley Crawford DNQ 0 - Leon Duray DNQ 0 - Sam Hoffman DNQ 0 - Ted Horn DNQ 0 - Pete Kreis DNQ 0 - Tee Linn DNQ 0 - Milt Marion DNQ 0 - Vern Ornduff DNQ 0 - Jack Petticord DNQ 0 - Willard Prentiss DNQ 0 - Bob Wallace DNQ 0 - Charles Engle DNQ 0 - Ted Kessler DNQ 0 - Gene Pirong DNQ 0 - Wally Zale DNQ 0 - Peter DePaolo Wth 0 - Harold Shaw DNP 0 - Orville Smith DNP 0 - Doc Williams DNP 0 - Arthur Brandt DSQ 0 Pos Driver INDY SPR SYR MIF 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

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• 1934 Indianapolis 500