1925 AAA Championship Car season

1925 AAA Championship Car season
1925 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Championship Trail
Season
Races	11
Start date	March 1
End date	November 29
Awards
National champion	Peter DePaolo
Indianapolis 500 winner	Peter DePaolo

The 1925 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 11 races, beginning in Culver City, California on March 1 and concluding in the same location on November 29. There were also eight non-championship races. Peter DePaolo won the AAA National Championship, as well as the Indianapolis 500.

Ray Cariens died at Culver City during the last race of the season.^[1]

Schedule and results

All races running on dirt/brick/board oval.

Rnd	Date	Race name	Track	Location	Type	Pole position	Winning driver
1	March 1	Culver City Race 1 - 250	Culver City Speedway	Culver City, California	Board	Ralph DePalma	Tommy Milton
NC	April 19	Culver City Heat 1 - 25	Culver City Speedway	Culver City, California	Board	—	Leon Duray
Culver City Heat 2 - 25		—				Peter DePaolo
Culver City Heat 3 - 25		—				Pietro Bordino
Culver City Heat 4 - 25		—				Bob McDonogh
Culver City Main - 50		—				Harry Hartz
2	April 30	Raisin Day Classic - 150	Fresno Speedway	Fresno, California	Board	Bennett Hill	Peter DePaolo
3	May 11	Southern Speed Classic - 250	Charlotte Speedway	Pineville, North Carolina	Board	—	Earl Cooper
4	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Brick	Leon Duray	Pete DePaolo
5	June 13	Spring Classic - 250	Altoona Speedway	Tyrone, Pennsylvania	Board	Leon Duray	Peter DePaolo
NC	July 4	Rockingham Race - 100	Rockingham Park	Salem, New Hampshire	Dirt	Ralph DePalma	Ralph DePalma
6	July 11	Laurel Race 1 - 250	Laurel Park	Laurel, Maryland	Board	Peter DePaolo	Peter DePaolo
7	September 7	Autumn Classic - 250	Altoona Speedway	Tyrone, Pennsylvania	Board	Bennett Hill	Bob McDonogh
NC	September 19	Syracuse Race - 100	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt	—	Ralph DePalma
NC	October 3	Fresno Race - 150	Fresno Speedway	Fresno, California	Board	Jerry Wunderlich	Fred Comer
8	October 26	Laurel Race 2 - 250	Laurel Park	Laurel, Maryland	Board	—	Bob McDonogh
9	October 31	Autumn Classic - 250	Rockingham Park	Salem, New Hampshire	Board	Peter DePaolo	Peter DePaolo
10	November 11	Charlotte Race - 250	Charlotte Speedway	Pineville, North Carolina	Board	Bennett Hill	Tommy Milton
11	November 29	Culver City Race 2 - 250	Culver City Speedway	Culver City, California	Board	Earl Cooper	Frank Elliott

Non-championship race

Indianapolis 500 was AAA-sanctioned and counted towards the 1925 AIACR World Manufacturers' Championship title.

^A Shared drive

Final points standings

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.^[2]

Pos	Driver	CUL1	FRE	CHA1	INDY	ALT1	LAU1	ALT2	LAU2	SAL	CHA2	CUL2	Pts
1	Peter DePaolo	2	1	5	1*	1	1	DNP	2	1*	15	9	3260
2	Tommy Milton	1*	2	3	5	3	7		3	16	1	7	1745
3	Harry Hartz	3	6	2	4	4	3	2	9	4	2	2	1640
4	Bob McDonogh	4	9	6	14	7	2	1	1	5	16	4	1505
5	Earl Cooper	7	5	1	17	12	14	3	5	3	11	5*	935
6	Frank Elliott	14	8	12	12	2	5	9	14	14	5	1	870
7	Dave Lewis	8			2	18						Wth	465
8	Fred Comer	17	7	4	11	5	4	4	8	15	6	3	459
9	Ralph Hepburn				16	9	8	10	4	2	7	12	380
10	Phil Shafer	16		7	3	17	9	7	6	9	Wth	DNS	340
11	Norman Batten				1			6		7	4	Wth	250
12	Leon Duray	13	3	11	6	5	12	5	11	13	8	8	221
13	Jerry Wunderlich	11	10	14	18	11	Wth	11	12	8	3	13	155
14	Pete Kreis RY	5		10	8	6	9		13	11	10		122
15	Bennett Hill	19	4	13	18	14	13	15	7	12	13	10	75
16	Earl Devore			DNP	13	8	8	12	15	6	14	15	55
17	Dave Evans R							8		Wth	9	6	46
18	Pietro Bordino	6		9	10								46
19	Ralph DePalma	18			7		8						45
20	Jim Hill					10	6	14		17			40
21	W. E. Shattuc	10		DNP	9	15	DNQ	13	10	10	12	11	40
22	L. L. Corum			8	7								25
23	Antoine Mourre				10								19
24	Vic Spooner R							8	DNS	DNQ			10
25	Reginald Johnson R	9		15	DNS	DNS					17	Wth	10
26	Wade Morton	12		DNQ	15	13	15	8					4
-	Ora Haibe				12								0
-	Glenn Shultz R				13								0
-	Ray Cariens				18							14	0
-	Eddie Hearne	15											0
-	Jimmy Gleason R				15								0
-	Herbert Jones R				19								0
-	Alfred Moss				19								0
-	Ira Vail				20								0
-	Fred Harder				21								0
-	Melville Jones R				21								0
-	Jules Ellingboe				22								0
-	Tom Alley				DNQ								0
-	Clarence Belt				DNQ								0
-	Nick Eckerle				DNQ								0
-	Carl Green				DNQ								0
-	Charles Shambaugh				DNQ								0
-	Harry Thicksten				DNQ								0
-	Lou Fink							DNQ					0
-	Cliff Durant	DNS			DNS								0
-	Stuart Wilkinson	DNS											0
-	Harold Skelly				DNS								0
-	Albert Guyot				DNP								0
-	Steve Smith				DNP								0
-	Frank Lockhart	DSQ											0
Pos	Driver	CUL1	FRE	CHA1	INDY	ALT1	LAU1	ALT2	LAU2	SAL	CHA2	CUL2	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

Åberg, Andreas. "AAA National Championship 1925". Driver Database. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
"1925 AAA National Championship Trail". ChampCarStats.com. Archived from the original on April 5, 2012. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
Harms, Phil. "1925 Championship Driver Summary" (PDF). Motorsport.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 10, 2012. Retrieved April 25, 2011.

[ChampCar19251-1] "1925 AAA Culver City Race 2".

[ChampCar1925-2] "1925 AAA National Championship Trail".

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American Championship car racing (Indy car) seasons
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AAA Championship Cars (1905–1955)
Seasons	1905 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942–1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
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National Champions	Billy Arnold Henry Banks Tony Bettenhausen Jimmy Bryan Bob Carey Gaston Chevrolet Bill Cummings Pete DePaolo (twice) Sam Hanks Harry Hartz Eddie Hearne Ted Horn (three times) Rex Mays (twice) Louis Meyer (three times) Tommy Milton Jimmy Murphy (twice) Barney Oldfield Johnnie Parsons Kelly Petillo Dario Resta Floyd Roberts Mauri Rose Louis Schneider Wilbur Shaw (twice) Chuck Stevenson Bob Sweikert
AAA Contest Board Years marked in italics are not official championship years.

Schedule and results

Final points standings

See also

References