1936 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Championship Trail
Season
Races	4
Start date	May 30
End date	October 12
Awards
National champion	Mauri Rose
Indianapolis 500 winner	Louis Meyer

The 1936 AAA Championship Car season consisted of four races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Westbury, New York on October 12. There were three non-championship events. The AAA National Champion was Mauri Rose, and the Indianapolis 500 winner was Louis Meyer.

Al Gordon and his driving mechanic Spider Matlock died at Ascot during the non-championship race.^[1]

Schedule and results

Rnd	Date	Race Name	Track	Location	Type	Pole Position	Winning Driver
NC	January 12	Oakland 150	Oakland Speedway	San Leandro, California	Dirt	Babe Stapp	Al Gordon
NC	January 26	Ascot 125	Legion Ascot Speedway	Alhambra, California	Dirt	—	Rex Mays
1	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Brick	Rex Mays	Louis Meyer
2	June 20	Goshen 100	Good Time Park	Goshen, New York	Dirt	George Connor	Rex Mays
NC	August 22	Springfield 100	Illinois State Fairgrounds	Springfield, Illinois	Dirt	George Connor	Wilbur Shaw
3	September 15	Syracuse 100	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt	Russ Snowberger	Mauri Rose
4	October 12	George Vanderbilt Cup	Roosevelt Raceway	Westbury, New York	Road	Antonio Brivio	Tazio Nuvolari

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 GOS SYR ROR Pts 1 Mauri Rose 4 6 1 8 610 2 Louis Meyer 1* 13 DNQ 600 3 Ted Horn 2 DNQ DNQ 36 450 4 Doc MacKenzie 3 3 362 5 Tazio Nuvolari  RY  1* 360 6 Wilbur Shaw 7 2 12 45 319.8 7 Chet Miller 5 DNQ 26 300 8 Jean-Pierre Wimille  R  2 270 9 Antonio Brivio  R  3 240 10 Raymond Sommer  R  4 210 11 Rex Mays 15 1 3* DNQ 200 12 Ray Pixley  R  6 200 13 Pat Fairchild  R  5 180 14 George Barringer 8 150 15 George Connor 10 14 2 31 140 16 Bill Cummings 33 11 13 7 120 17 Kelly Petillo 3 118 18 Jimmy Snyder 30 7 4 37 110 19 Carlo Felice Trossi  R  6 102 20 Zeke Meyer 9 DNS 100 21 Frank Brisko 20 9 5 27 80 22 Floyd Roberts 19 4 70 23 Billy Winn 26 5* 9 32 60 24 Philippe Etancelin  R  DNQ 9 60 25 Bob Sall 6 DNS 50 26 Frederick McEvoy  R  6 48 27 Chet Gardner 29 8 14 21 30 28 Deacon Litz 23 15 10 30 29 Shorty Cantlon 14 DNQ 7 38 10.2 30 Babe Stapp 24 10 35 10 - Russ Snowberger DNQ 12 8 33 0 - Floyd Davis DNQ 10 39 0 - Henry Banks DNQ 11 20 0 - Freddie Winnai 11 DNQ DNP 0 - Chuck Tabor  R  DNQ 11 0 - Emil Andres 18 12 0 - Ralph Hepburn 12 0 - Harry McQuinn 13 0 - Francis Curzon  R  13 0 - Dave Evans DNQ 14 0 - Brian Lewis  R  15 0 - Rick Decker DNQ 16 0 - Doc Williams  R  16 0 - Lou Moore 17 DNQ 0 - Al Putnam  R  DNQ 17 0 - Teddy Rayson  R  18 0 - Roy Lake  R  19 0 - Al Miller 21 0 - Tony Gulotta 22 24 0 - Cliff Bergere 22 0 - Gus Zarka  R  22 0 - Bob Swanson  R  23 0 - Phil Shafer DNQ 25 0 - Frank McGurk  R  26 DNQ 0 - Louis Tomei 27 DNQ DNQ 30 0 - Herb Ardinger 28 0 - Lewis Balus  R  28 0 - Ted Chamberlain 29 0 - Johnny Seymour 31 DNS 0 - Fred Frame 32 0 - Joel Thorne  R  DNP DNQ DNS 34 0 - Tony Willman  R  40 0 - Giuseppe Farina  R  41 0 - Raphaël Béthenod  R  42 0 - Overton Phillips  R  43 0 - Milt Marion DNQ DNQ 44 0 - George Wingerter DNQ DNQ DNQ DNS 0 - John Crow DNS 0 - Louis Kimmer DNS 0 - Frankie Beeder DNS 0 - Ben Brandfon DNS 0 - Sidney Cotton DNS 0 - Billy Devore DNS 0 - Goldie Gardner DNS 0 - Attilio Marinoni DNS 0 - Ray Carter DNQ DSQ 0 - George Bailey DNQ 0 - Dusty Fahrnow DNQ 0 - Harry Hunt DNQ 0 - Roy Painter DNQ 0 - Overton Snell DNQ 0 - Walt Brown DNQ 0 - Jack Moon DNQ 0 - Bill Schindler DNQ 0 - Gene Pirong DNQ 0 - Bob Zauer DNQ 0 - Mike Caruso DNQ 0 - John Cebula DNQ 0 - Luther Johnson Wth 0 - Lucky Teter DNP 0 - Lemuel Ladd DNP 0 - Don Moore DNP 0 - John Moretti DNP 0 - Frank Wearne DNP 0 - Don Durfer DSQ 0 - Charles Tramison DSQ 0 Pos Driver INDY GOS SYR ROR 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 1936". Driver Database. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved April 21, 2011.
• "1936 AAA National Championship Trail". ChampCarStats.com. Archived from the original on April 5, 2012. Retrieved April 21, 2011.
• Harms, Phil. "1936 Championship Driver Summary" (PDF). Motorsport.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 10, 2012. Retrieved April 21, 2011.

See also

• 1936 Indianapolis 500