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 |
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 | edit source]All races running on Dirt Oval.
Leading National Championship standings
[edit | edit source]| # | 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 Vaughan
|
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 | edit source]Works cited
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Footnotes
[edit | edit source]- ^ "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).