1941 AAA Championship Car season

The 1941 AAA Championship Car season consisted of three races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Syracuse, New York on September 1. There was also one non-championship event in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. The AAA National Champion was Rex Mays and the Indianapolis 500 winners were Floyd Davis and Mauri Rose. The National Championship was not held again until 1946, due to World War II.

1941 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Championship Trail
Season
Races3
Start dateMay 30
End dateSeptember 1
Awards
National champion Rex Mays
Indianapolis 500 winner Floyd Davis
Mauri Rose

Schedule and results

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 Mauri Rose Floyd Davis
Mauri RoseA
NC June 22 Langhorne 100 Langhorne Speedway Langhorne, Pennsylvania Dirt — Duke Nalon
2 August 24 Milwaukee 100 Wisconsin State Fair Park Speedway West Allis, Wisconsin Dirt Rex Mays Rex Mays
3 September 1 Syracuse 100 New York State Fairgrounds Syracuse, New York Dirt Rex Mays Rex Mays
  Non-championship race
^A Floyd Davis and Mauri Rose shared the drive, but Davis received the National Championship points as the starting driver.

Leading National Championship standings
 #  Driver Team Points
1 Rex Mays Bowes Seal Fast 1225
2 Ted Horn Ted Horn Engineering 675
3 Ralph Hepburn Bowes Seal Fast 550
4= Floyd Davis 450
4= Cliff Bergere Noc-Out Hose Clamp 450

Final points standings

Note: The points became the car, when not only one driver led the car, the relieved driver became small part of the points. Points for driver method: (the points for the finish place) / (number the lap when completed the car) * (number the lap when completed the driver)

Pos Driver INDY
 MIL
 SYR
 Pts
1 Rex Mays 2 1 1 1225
2 Ted Horn 3 675
3 Ralph Hepburn 4 550
4 Floyd Davis 1 5 450
5 Cliff Bergere 5 450
6 Chet Miller 6 8 DNQ 430
7 George Connor 16 2 3 300
8 Frank Wearne 8 275
9 Mauri Rose 1 3 4 245
10 Tony Bettenhausen  RY  6 2 240
11 Paul Russo 9 181
12 Al Putnam 12 4 11 167.4
13 Harry McQuinn 7 157.6
14 Louis Tomei 11 125
15 George Robson 25 7 9 110
16 Frank McGurk 9 7 110
17 Tommy Hinnershitz 10 105
18 Emil Andres 30 5 13 90
19 Tony Willman 20 12 6 75
20 Louis Durant 61.6
21 Walt Brown 8 55
22 Duke Nalon 15 11 10 35
- Overton Phillips 13 10 14 0
- Lee Wallard  R  12 0
- Joie Chitwood 14 0
- Everett Saylor 17 0
- Wilbur Shaw 18 0
- Billy Devore 19 0
- Russ Snowberger 21 0
- Deacon Litz 22 0
- Frank Brisko 23 0
- Doc Williams 24 0
- Kelly Petillo 27 0
- Al Miller 28 0
- Mel Hansen 29 0
- Joel Thorne 31 0
- George Barringer DNS 0
- Sam Hanks DNS 0
- Shorty Cantlon DNQ DNQ 0
- Ira Hall DNQ 0
- René Le Bègue DNQ 0
- Bill Lipscomb DNQ 0
- Jean Trévoux  R  DNQ 0
- Roy Russing  R  DNQ 0
- Eddie Casterline  R  DNQ 0
- Bill Holland DNQ 0
Pos Driver INDY
 MIL
 SYR
 Pts
Color Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green 4th & 5th place
Dark Blue 6th-10th place
Dark Blue Finished
(Outside Top 10)
Red Did not qualify
(DNQ)
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
 RY  Rookie of the Year
 R  Rookie

References
  • Åberg, Andreas. "AAA National Championship 1941". Driver Database. Archived from the original on 2009-05-16. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
  • "1941 AAA National Championship Trail". ChampCarStats.com. Archived from the original on 2009-05-16. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
  • Harms, Phil. "1941 Championship Driver Summary" (PDF). Motorsport.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-04-20. Retrieved 2011-04-20.

See also
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