1924 AAA Championship Car season

1924 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Championship Trail
Season
Races9
Start dateFebruary 24
End dateDecember 14
Awards
National champion Jimmy Murphy
Indianapolis 500 winner Joe Boyer
L. L. Corum

The 1924 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 9 races, beginning at Beverly Hills, California on February 24, and concluding at Culver City, California on December 14. The AAA National Champion was posthumously won by Jimmy Murphy. The Indianapolis 500 co-winners were Joe Boyer and L. L. Corum - the first of two occasions where co-winners were awarded a victory.

The 1924 season suffered three fatal accidents. Joe Boyer at the Altoona Race on September 1.[1] On September 15, Jimmy Murphy - winner of both the Indianapolis 500 and the National Championship in 1922 - perished at Syracuse.[2] On October 16, Ernie Ansterburg died at Charlotte during a practice run.[3] Murphy won the championship posthumously after Earl Cooper failed to win at Culver City, the final race of the season.

Schedule and results

All races running on Dirt/Brick/Board Oval.

Rnd Date Race Name Track Location Type Pole Position Winning Driver
1 February 24 Beverly Hills Race - 250 Los Angeles Motor Speedway Beverly Hills, California Board Phil Shafer Harlan Fengler
2 May 30 International 500 Mile Sweepstakes Indianapolis Motor Speedway Speedway, Indiana Brick Jimmy Murphy Joe Boyer
L. L. CorumA
3 June 14 Altoona Race - 250 Altoona Speedway Tyrone, Pennsylvania Board Ira Vail Jimmy Murphy
4 July 4 Kansas City Race - 150 Kansas City Speedway Kansas City, Missouri Board Tommy Milton Jimmy Murphy
5 September 1 Fall Classic - 250 Altoona Speedway Tyrone, Pennsylvania Board Ray Cariens Jimmy Murphy
6 September 15 Syracuse Race - 150 New York State Fairgrounds Syracuse, New York Dirt Norman Batten Phil Shafer
7 October 3 Raisin Day Classic - 150 Fresno Speedway Fresno, California Board Fred Comer Earl Cooper
8 October 25 Charlotte Race - 250 Charlotte Speedway Pineville, North Carolina Board Bennett Hill Tommy Milton
9 December 14 Culver City Race - 250 Culver City Speedway Culver City, California Board  — Bennett Hill
^A Shared drive

Final points standings

  • Note 1: Joe Boyer started the No. 9 car during the Indianapolis 500, but dropped out early with mechanical issues. On lap 112, he relieved L. L. Corum in the No. 15 car, and went on to finish first. While both Boyer and Corum were recognized as co-winners - the first of two such occasions in Indianapolis 500 history - the winner's points went to Corum, who started and qualified the No. 15 car.
  • Note 2: 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.
  • Final standings based upon reference:[4]
Further information: List of American Championship car racing point scoring systems
Pos Driver BEV
 INDY
 ALT1
 KAN
 ALT2
 SYR
 FRE
 CHA
 CUL
 Pts
1 Jimmy Murphy 7 3 1* 1 1* 6 1595
2 Earl Cooper 8* 2 6 5 5 5 1* 2 16 1240
3 Bennett Hill 4 5 DNQ 3 14 2 2 3 1 1214
4 Tommy Milton 5 21 7 2 3 8 3 1 3 1101
5 Fred Comer 14 7 2 12 2 4 4 8 4 725
6 Harry Hartz 3 4 5 6 10 11 8 5 2 666
7 L. L. Corum 1 8 11 570
8 Harlan Fengler 1* DNQ 4 7 10 12 Wth 563
9 Phil Shafer 11 13 4 1* 7 7 7 430
10 Jerry Wunderlich 2 12 DNQ 13 6 13 295
11 Peter DePaolo 6 DNQ 10 12 3 11 4 12 230
12 Antoine Mourre  RY  16 9 3 7 6 9 15 225
13 Bob McDonogh  R  10 4 9 9 9 5 9 10 160
14 W. E. Shattuc  R  5 50
15 Eddie Hearne 6 19 Wth 9 45
16 Stuart Wilkinson  R  6 35
17 Ira Vail 17 8 9 16 10 34
18 Ernie Ansterburg 12 22 10 15* 13 DNS 6 DNQ 25
19 Ray Cariens  R  8 15
20 Pietro Bordino 8 15
21 Wade Morton 17 7 11 8 12 10 14 14
22 Joe Boyer 9 18 DNQ 13 11 10
23 Cornelius Van Ranst 8 8
24 Louis Wilson 9 16 8
25 Cliff Durant 10 13 DNQ 5
- Norman Batten  R  7 0
- Frank Elliott 15 20 DNQ 14 11 DNQ 0
- Jules Ellingboe 11 0
- Ralph DePalma 11 0
- Ralph Hepburn  R  13 0
- Bill Hunt  R  14 0
- Elmer Dempsey  R  15 DNQ 0
- Ora Haibe 15 DNQ 0
- Alfred Moss  R  16 0
- Fred Harder  R  17 0
- Thane Houser 18 0
- Tom Alley DNQ DNS 0
- Wally Butler DNQ 0
- Calvin Hartley DNQ 0
- C. J. Ramsey DNQ 0
- Giovanni Rossi DNQ 0
- Charles Shambaugh DNQ 0
- Herbert Scheel DNQ 0
- Harry Thicksten DNQ 0
- Hollis Wells DNQ 0
- Pete Kreis DNQ 0
- Ralph Mulford DNS 0
Pos Driver BEV
 INDY
 ALT1
 KAN
 ALT2
 SYR
 FRE
 CHA
 CUL
 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

References

  1. ^ "1924 Fall Classic".
  2. ^ "1924 Syracuse Race".
  3. ^ "1924 Charlotte Race".
  4. ^ "1924 AAA National Championship Trail".

See also

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