1924 AAA Championship Car season

1924 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Championship Trail
Season
Races	9
Start date	February 24
End date	December 14
Awards
National champion	Jimmy Murphy
Indianapolis 500 winner	Joe Boyer L. L. Corum
←  1923 1925  →

The 1924 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 9 races, beginning at Beverly Hills, California on February 24, and concluding at Culver City, California on December 14. The AAA National Champion was posthumously won by Jimmy Murphy. The Indianapolis 500 co-winners were Joe Boyer and L. L. Corum - the first of two occasions where co-winners were awarded a victory.

The 1924 season suffered three fatal accidents. Joe Boyer at the Altoona Race on September 1. ^[1] On September 15, Jimmy Murphy - winner of both the Indianapolis 500 and the National Championship in 1922 - perished at Syracuse. ^[2] On October 16, Ernie Ansterburg died at Charlotte during a practice run. ^[3] Murphy won the championship posthumously after Earl Cooper failed to win at Culver City, the final race of the season.

Schedule and results

All races running on Dirt/Brick/Board Oval.

Rnd	Date	Race name	Track	Location	Type	Pole position	Winning driver
1	February 24	Beverly Hills Race - 250	Los Angeles Motor Speedway	Beverly Hills, California	Board	Phil Shafer	Harlan Fengler
2	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Brick	Jimmy Murphy	Joe Boyer
							L. L. Corum A
3	June 14	Altoona Race - 250	Altoona Speedway	Tyrone, Pennsylvania	Board	Ira Vail	Jimmy Murphy
4	July 4	Kansas City Race - 150	Kansas City Speedway	Kansas City, Missouri	Board	Tommy Milton	Jimmy Murphy
5	September 1	Fall Classic - 250	Altoona Speedway	Tyrone, Pennsylvania	Board	Ray Cariens	Jimmy Murphy
6	September 15	Syracuse Race - 150	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt	Norman Batten	Phil Shafer
7	October 3	Raisin Day Classic - 150	Fresno Speedway	Fresno, California	Board	Fred Comer	Earl Cooper
8	October 25	Charlotte Race - 250	Charlotte Speedway	Pineville, North Carolina	Board	Bennett Hill	Tommy Milton
9	December 14	Culver City Race - 250	Culver City Speedway	Culver City, California	Board	—	Bennett Hill

^A Shared drive

Final points standings

• Note 1: Joe Boyer started the No. 9 car during the Indianapolis 500, but dropped out early with mechanical issues. On lap 112, he relieved L. L. Corum in the No. 15 car, and went on to finish first. While both Boyer and Corum were recognized as co-winners - the first of two such occasions in Indianapolis 500 history - the winner's points went to Corum, who started and qualified the No. 15 car.
• Note 2: 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.
• Final standings based upon reference: ^[4]

Further information: List of American Championship car racing point scoring systems

Pos Driver BEV INDY ALT1 KAN ALT2 SYR FRE CHA CUL Pts 1 Jimmy Murphy 7 3 1* 1 1* 6 1595 2 Earl Cooper 8* 2 6 5 5 5 1* 2 16 1240 3 Bennett Hill 4 5 DNQ 3 14 2 2 3 1 1214 4 Tommy Milton 5 21 7 2 3 8 3 1 3 1101 5 Fred Comer 14 7 2 12 2 4 4 8 4 725 6 Harry Hartz 3 4 5 6 10 11 8 5 2 666 7 L. L. Corum 1 8 11 570 8 Harlan Fengler 1* DNQ 4 7 10 12 Wth 563 9 Phil Shafer 11 13 4 1* 7 7 7 430 10 Jerry Wunderlich 2 12 DNQ 13 6 13 295 11 Peter DePaolo 6 DNQ 10 12 3 11 4 12 230 12 Antoine Mourre  RY  16 9 3 7 6 9 15 225 13 Bob McDonogh  R  10 4 9 9 9 5 9 10 160 14 W. E. Shattuc  R  5 50 15 Eddie Hearne 6 19 Wth 9 45 16 Stuart Wilkinson  R  6 35 17 Ira Vail 17 8 9 16 10 34 18 Ernie Ansterburg 12 22 10 15* 13 DNS 6 DNQ 25 19 Ray Cariens  R  8 15 20 Pietro Bordino 8 15 21 Wade Morton 17 7 11 8 12 10 14 14 22 Joe Boyer 9 18 DNQ 13 11 10 23 Cornelius Van Ranst 8 8 24 Louis Wilson 9 16 8 25 Cliff Durant 10 13 DNQ 5 - Norman Batten  R  7 0 - Frank Elliott 15 20 DNQ 14 11 DNQ 0 - Jules Ellingboe 11 0 - Ralph DePalma 11 0 - Ralph Hepburn  R  13 0 - Bill Hunt  R  14 0 - Elmer Dempsey  R  15 DNQ 0 - Ora Haibe 15 DNQ 0 - Alfred Moss  R  16 0 - Fred Harder  R  17 0 - Thane Houser 18 0 - Tom Alley DNQ DNS 0 - Wally Butler DNQ 0 - Calvin Hartley DNQ 0 - C. J. Ramsey DNQ 0 - Giovanni Rossi DNQ 0 - Charles Shambaugh DNQ 0 - Herbert Scheel DNQ 0 - Harry Thicksten DNQ 0 - Hollis Wells DNQ 0 - Pete Kreis DNQ 0 - Ralph Mulford DNS 0 Pos Driver BEV INDY ALT1 KAN ALT2 SYR FRE CHA CUL 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

1. "1924 Fall Classic".
2. "1924 Syracuse Race".
3. "1924 Charlotte Race".
4. "1924 AAA National Championship Trail".

See also

• 1924 Indianapolis 500