1905 AAA Championship Car season

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.

1905 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Circuit Championship
Season
Races11
Start dateJune 10
End dateSeptember 29
Awards
National champion Barney Oldfield

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

All races running on Dirt Oval.

Rnd Date Race Name Track Location Winning Driver
1 June 10 Morris Park 5 Morris Park The Bronx, New York Louis Chevrolet
2 June 17 Hartford 5 Charter Oak Park West Hartford, Connecticut Barney Oldfield
3 June 26 Empire City 10 Empire City Speedway Yonkers, New York Louis Chevrolet
4 June 28 Brunots Island Brunots Island Driving Track Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Barney Oldfield
5 June 29 Brunots Island 10 Brunots Island Driving Track Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Louis Chevrolet
6 July 4 Morris Park 1 Morris Park The Bronx, New York Webb Jay
NC August 8 Grosse Pointe 5 Grosse Pointe Track Detroit, Michigan Webb Jay
7 August 14 Glenville 5 Glenville Driving Track Cleveland, Ohio Charles Burman
8 August 19 Buffalo 5 Kenilworth Park Buffalo, New York Barney Oldfield
9 September 9 Readville 5 Readville Trotting Park Readville, Massachusetts Barney Oldfield
NC September 18 Syracuse 5[note 1] New York State Fairgrounds Syracuse, New York Guy Vaughn
10 September 23 Providence 5 Narragansett Park Speedway Cranston, Rhode Island Barney Oldfield
11 September 29 Poughkeepsie 5 Hudson River Driving Park Poughkeepsie, New York Barney Oldfield
  Non-championship race

Leading National Championship standings
 #  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 Vaughn Decauville
Maurice Bernin Renault
Frank Durbin Stanley

In 1951, Victor Hémery, winner of the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup, was retroactively awarded a national championship.

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References

Works cited
  • Åberg, Andreas. "AAA National Championship 1905". Driver Database. Archived from the original on 2009-05-14. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  • "1905 AAA National Circuit Championship". ChampCarStats.com. Archived from the original on 2009-05-14. Retrieved 2009-05-12.

Footnotes
  1. "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).
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