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

Leading National Championship standings
 #  Driver Car Points
1 Ohio Barney Oldfield Peerless "Green Dragon" 26
2 Michigan Louis Chevrolet Fiat 90 12
3 Iowa Webb Jay White Steamer 4
4 Ohio Charles Burman Peerless 4
5 Italy Emanuel Cedrino Fiat 4
6 Michigan Dan Wurgis Reo Bird 32 4
7 New York (state) Herbert Lytle Pope-Toledo 2
8 New Jersey Montague Roberts Thomas 2
9 United States Frank Wridgeway Peerless 1
New York (state) Guy Vaughn Decauville
France Maurice Bernin Renault
Massachusetts Frank Durbin Stanley

In 1951, Victor Hémery, winner of the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup, was retroactively awarded a national championship. At a later point, it was recognized by historians that these championship results were revisionist, after discovering published sources naming Oldfield as the National Champion.

References

Works cited
  • Åberg, Andreas. "AAA National Championship 1905". Driver Database. Archived from the original on September 8, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
  • "1905 AAA National Circuit Championship". ChampCarStats.com. Archived from the original on October 10, 2008. Retrieved May 12, 2009.

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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