1941 AAA Championship Car season

1941 AAA Championship Car season
1941 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Championship Trail
Season
Races	3
Start date	May 30
End date	September 1
Awards
National champion	Rex Mays
Indianapolis 500 winner	Floyd Davis; Mauri Rose
	← 1940 1946 →

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.

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
1	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Paved	Mauri Rose	Mauri Rose^A
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
-		DNQ			0
-	Jean Trévoux R	DNQ			0
-	R	DNQ			0
-	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)
Blank	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.

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AAA	1905 1906–1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 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
USAC	1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95
CART / CCWS	1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 ~~2008~~
IRL / INDYCAR	1996 1996–97 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Years marked in italics are not official championship years or upcoming seasons.

v t AAA Championship Cars (1905–1955)
Seasons	1905 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 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
Indianapolis 500s	1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 ~~1942~~ 1943–1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
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.

1941 AAA Championship Car season

Contents

Schedule and results[]

Leading National Championship standings[]

Final points standings[]

References[]

See also[]