1939 AAA Championship Car season

1939 American Championship Car season
Series  : AAA Championship Car
Champion : Wilbur Shaw
Previous: 1938	Next: 1940

The 1939 AAA Championship Car season consisted of three races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Syracuse, New York on September 2. There was also one non-championship event in Springfield, Illinois. The AAA National Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Wilbur Shaw.

Schedule and results

All races running on Oval/Speedway.

Rnd	Date	Race Name	Track	Type	Pole Position	Winning Driver
1	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Paved	Jimmy Snyder	Wilbur Shaw
2	August 27	Milwaukee 100	Wisconsin State Fair Park Speedway	Dirt	Emil Andres	Babe Stapp
3	September 2	Syracuse 100	New York State Fairgrounds	Dirt	Rex Mays	Mauri Rose
NC	October 15	Race of Champions	Illinois State Fairgrounds	Dirt	—	Emil Andres

  Non-championship race

Leading National Championship standings

#	Driver	Team	Points
1	Wilbur Shaw	Boyle	1000
2	Jimmy Snyder	Thorne Engineering	825
3	Ted Horn		685
4=	Babe Stapp		675
4=	Cliff Bergere	Miller	675

References

• Åberg, Andreas. "AAA National Championship 1939". Driver Database. Archived

from the original on 2011-04-20. http://www.driverdb.com/standings/1140-1939/. Retrieved 2009-05-23. 

• "1939 AAA National Championship Trail". ChampCarStats.com. Archived

from the original on 2011-04-20. http://www.champcarstats.com/year/1939.htm. Retrieved 2009-05-23. 

• Harms, Phil. "1939 Championship Driver Summary". Motorsport.com. Archived

from the original on 2011-04-20. http://old.motorsport.com/stats/champ/data/1939sum.pdf. Retrieved 2011-04-20. 

See also

• 1939 Indianapolis 500

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