1928 AAA Championship Car season

1928 AAA Championship Car season
1928 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Championship Trail
Season
Races	7
Start date	May 30
End date	October 12
Awards
National champion	Louis Meyer
Indianapolis 500 winner	Louis Meyer

The 1928 AAA Championship Car season consisted of seven races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Salem, New Hampshire on October 12. There were also three non-championship races. The AAA National Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Louis Meyer.

Fred Comer died during the season's final event at Rockingham.^[1]

Schedule and results

All races running on Dirt/Brick/Board Oval.

Rnd	Date	Race Name	Track	Location	Type	Pole Position	Winning Driver
1	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Brick	Leon Duray	Louis Meyer
2	June 10	Detroit Race 1 - 100	Michigan State Fairgrounds	Detroit, Michigan	Dirt	Ray Keech	Ray Keech
3	July 4	Rockingham Preliminary - 15	Rockingham Park	Salem, New Hampshire	Board	Leon Duray	Leon Duray
4	July 4	Rockingham Race - 185	Rockingham Park	Salem, New Hampshire	Board	Leon Duray	Ray Keech
NC	July 4	Atlantic City Race 1 - 100	Atlantic City Speedway	Hammonton, New Jersey	Board	—	Freddie Winnai
NC	July 15	Detroit Race 2 - 100	Michigan State Fairgrounds	Detroit, Michigan	Dirt	—	Howard Taylor
5	August 19	Altoona Race - 200	Altoona Speedway	Tyrone, Pennsylvania	Board	Leon Duray	Louis Meyer
6	September 1	Syracuse Race - 100	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt	Cliff Woodbury	Ray Keech
NC	September 16	Atlantic City Race 2 - 100	Atlantic City Speedway	Hammonton, New Jersey	Board	—	Ray Keech
7	October 12	International Motor Classic - 200^A	Rockingham Park	Salem, New Hampshire	Board	Bob McDonogh	Cliff Woodbury

Non-championship race

^A Scheduled for 200 miles, stopped due to track breaking up after 50 laps.

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	INDY	DET	SAL1	SAL2	ALT	SYR	SAL3	Pts
1	Louis Meyer	1	DNQ	7	2	1	10	16	1596
2	Ray Keech	4	1*	8	1	6	1	14	915
3	Lou Moore RY	2	3	11	11	13		12	406
4	George Souders	3	14	DNQ					270
5	Bob McDonogh	16		2	6	2		11	248
6	Fred Frame	8	2						146
7	Norman Batten	5	12	9	3	16	8	8	145
8	Cliff Woodbury	23	6	5	10	11	7	1	138
9	Billy Arnold R	7	7			4		3	120
10	Bill Spence R	7	4	12	4	DNQ			115
11	Russ Snowberger	29				DNQ	2		110
12	Dave Evans	12		13	5	5	5	10	97
13	Fred Comer	9		3	9	3		15	95
14	Zeke Meyer	5					4	DNQ	89
15	Babe Stapp	6	DNQ	14	13	7	12	4	87
16	Ralph Hepburn	24*		4	DNS	15	DNQ	2	70
17	Chet Gardner R		10				3	DNQ	60
18	Leon Duray	19*	11	1	7	8	13	7	49
19	Earl Devore	18		10	8	9		5	22
20	Tony Gulotta	10							21
21	Howard Taylor R		5						20
22	Bob Robinson R						6		15
23	Cliff Bergere	28		6	12	14	DNQ	6	10
24	Dutch Baumann	10							9
-	Louis Schneider	11	8						0
-	Deacon Litz R	14	13			10		9	0
-	Wilbur Shaw	25	9						0
-	Charles Ganung R						9		0
-	Louis Wilson	11							0
-	Frank Farmer						11		0
-	Johnny Seymour R	17				12			0
-	Jimmy Gleason	15	DNQ	DNQ		DNQ	DNQ	13	0
-	Shorty Cantlon R	13	DNQ						0
-	Henry Kohlert	13							0
-	W. E. Shattuc	13							0
-	Wesley Crawford	14							0
-	Ralph DePalma						14		0
-	Cliff Durant	16							0
-	Cy Marshall R	18							0
-	Sam Ross R	20	DNQ						0
-	Ira Hall R	21							0
-	Jack Petticord	21							0
-	Pete Kreis	22							0
-	Benny Shoaff	26							0
-	Clarence Belt R	27							0
-	Buddy Marr	DNQ	DNQ						0
-	L. L. Corum	DNQ							0
-	Peter DePaolo	DNQ							0
-	Jim Hill	DNQ							0
-	Chet Miller	DNQ							0
-	Kelly Petillo	DNQ							0
-	Herman Schurch	DNQ							0
-	Eddie Hearne					DNQ			0
-	Bill Albertson						DNQ		0
-	Bo Amos						DNQ		0
-	Claude Berton						DNQ		0
-	Frank Conley						DNQ		0
-	Rick Decker						DNQ		0
-	Louis Hornbrook						DNQ		0
-	G. Hunn						DNQ		0
-	George Huss						DNQ		0
-	Henry Korgis						DNQ		0
-	Aguila Lenyard						DNQ		0
-	Ralph Malamud						DNQ		0
-	Hap Ray						DNQ		0
-	Charles Schwab						DNQ		0
-	Ira Vail						DNQ		0
-	George Wingerter						DNQ		0
-	Freddie Winnai						DNQ		0
-	George Zimmerman						DNQ		0
-	Ionel Ghica-Cantacuzino	DNP							0
-	Phil Shafer	DNP							0
Pos	Driver	INDY	DET	SAL1	SAL2	ALT	SYR	SAL3	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 1928". Driver Database. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved April 24, 2011.
"1928 AAA National Championship Trail". ChampCarStats.com. Archived from the original on April 5, 2012. Retrieved April 24, 2011.
Harms, Phil. "1928 Championship Driver Summary" (PDF). Motorsport.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 10, 2012. Retrieved April 24, 2011.

[ChampCar19287-1] "1928 International Motor Classic".

[ChampCar1928-2] "1928 AAA National Championship Trail".

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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