1922 AAA Championship Car season explained

The 1922 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 18 races, beginning in Beverly Hills, California on March 5 and concluding in the same location on December 13. There were also 2 non-championship races. The AAA National Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Jimmy Murphy.

Roscoe Sarles died at Kansas City Speedway on September 17.^[1]

Schedule and results

All races running on Dirt/Brick/Board Oval.

Rnd	Date	Race Name	Track	Location	Type	Pole Position	Winning Driver
1	March 5	Beverly Hills Race 1 - 250	Los Angeles Motor Speedway	Beverly Hills, California	Board	—	Tommy Milton
2	April 2	Beverly Hills Heat 1 - 25	Los Angeles Motor Speedway	Beverly Hills, California	Board	—	Pietro Bordino
3		Beverly Hills Heat 2 - 25				—	Tommy Milton
4		Beverly Hills Heat 3 - 25				Frank Elliott	Jimmy Murphy
5		Beverly Hills Heat 4 - 25				—	Frank Elliott
6		Beverly Hills Main - 50				Frank Elliott	Tommy Milton
7	April 16	Golden State Motor Derby - 150	San Francisco Speedway	San Carlos, California	Board	—	Harry Hartz
8	April 27	Raisin Day Classic - 150	Fresno Speedway	Fresno, California	Board	—	Jimmy Murphy
9	May 7	Cotati Race 1 - 100	Cotati Speedway	Santa Rosa, California	Board	—	Jimmy Murphy
10		Cotati Race 2 - 50				—	Pietro Bordino
11	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Brick	Jimmy Murphy	Jimmy Murphy
NC	June 14	San Carlos Race - 150	San Francisco Speedway	San Carlos, California	Board	—	Joe Thomas
12	June 17	7th Annual Universal Trophy Race - 225	Uniontown Speedway	Hopwood, Pennsylvania	Board	Jimmy Murphy	Jimmy Murphy
13	July 4	Tacoma Montamarathon - 250	Tacoma Speedway	Tacoma, Washington	Board	Jimmy Murphy	Tommy Milton
14	August 6	Cotati Race 3 - 100	Cotati Speedway	Santa Rosa, California	Board	—	Frank Elliott
15		Cotati Race 4 - 50				—	Frank Elliott
NC	September 16	Syracuse Race - 50	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt	—	Tom Alley
16	September 17	Kansas City Race - 300	Kansas City Speedway	Kansas City, Missouri	Board	Bennett Hill	Tommy Milton
17	September 30	San Joaquin Valley Classic - 150	Fresno Speedway	Fresno, California	Board	Art Klein	Bennett Hill
18	December 3	Beverly Hills Race 7 - 250	Los Angeles Motor Speedway	Beverly Hills, California	Board	Al Melcher	Jimmy Murphy

Final points standings

• Note 1: Pietro Bordino was not eligible for points.
• 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.
• The final standings based on reference.^[2]

Pos Driver BEV1 BEV2 BEV3 BEV4 BEV5 BEV6 SCA FRE1 COT1 COT2 INDY UNI TAC COT3 COT4 KAN FRE2 BEV7 Pts 1 Jimmy Murphy 2 3 2 1 2 2 1* 1* 3 1* 1* 1 3 9 14 8 1 3420 2 Tommy Milton 1* 2* 1 1* DNS 24 10 2* 2 2 1* 2 5 1910 3 Harry Hartz 3 8 4 2 4 3 1* 3 3 2 2 6 6 7 8 2 3 3 1788 4 Frank Elliott 4 4 3* 4* 1* 6 7 2 2 5 16 7 DNP 1* 1* 3 5 8 905 5 Bennett Hill DNP DNP 4 5 6 1* 4 459 6 Eddie Hearne 5 5 8 8 5 10 10 3 11 6 3 10 6 10 390 7 Jerry Wunderlich 6 7 6 6 6 6 10 8 6 3 4 8 4 5 4 15 372 8 Roscoe Sarles 11 7 5 3 2 5 3 9 4 4 23 3 10 11 280 9 Earl Cooper 2 260 10 Ralph Mulford 19 2 9 4 255 11 Art Klein 10 10 DNS 5 3 7 4 4 5 6 21 7 5 6 7 6 227 12 Ralph DePalma 8 DNS 7 7 4 DNP 11 150 13 Joe Thomas 6 9 6 7 DNS 5 8 8 9 10 8 DNQ 9 7 135 14 Ora Haibe 5 5 DNQ 109 15 I. P. Fetterman 7 4 7 108 16 Howdy Wilcox 27 5 8 50 17 12 8 7 6 DNS 20 Wth 12 50 18 Tom Alley 9 35 19 Eddie Miller 7 DNS 25 20 Ira Vail 8 21 21 8 19 22 7 17 23 Wade Morton 10 17 15 24 Al Melcher DNP 9 7 DNP 9 16 5 - 9 1 4 5 9 1* 0 - 14 8 0 - 22 9 DNP 13 14 0 - Cliff Durant 12 10 DNS 13 0 - 11 0 - Ray Howard 11 0 - Dave Lewis 12 0 - Earl Devore 12 0 - 13 0 - 13 0 - 14 0 - Wilbur D'Alene 15 0 - Riley Brett 15 0 - 17 0 - 18 0 - Jules Goux 25 0 - Jules Ellingboe 26 0 - Leo Nordenschuld DNQ DNS 0 - Jim Crosby DNP DNQ 0 - Frank Davidson DNQ 0 - William Gardner DNQ 0 - Tom Mulligan DNQ 0 - Rudolph Wehr DNQ 0 - Allen Mulford DNQ 0 - Louis Hansen DNQ 0 - Herschell McKee DNQ 0 - Wallace Reid Wth 0 - Charles Shambaugh Wth 0 - W. W. Brown DNS 0 Pos Driver BEV1 BEV2 BEV3 BEV4 BEV5 BEV6 SCA FRE1 COT1 COT2 INDY UNI TAC COT3 COT4 KAN FRE2 BEV7 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 *|style="background:#F2F2F2;" align=center|Led most race laps|-|style="background:#FDE910;" align=center colspan=2|Rookie of the Year|-|style="background:Orange;" align=center colspan=2|Rookie|}|}|} See also 1922 Indianapolis 500 References Web site: AAA National Championship 1922 . Åberg, Andreas . Driver Database . 2011-04-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121019120932/http://www.driverdb.com/standings/1140-1922/ . 2012-10-19 . live . Web site: 1922 AAA National Championship Trail . ChampCarStats.com . 2011-04-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120405190808/http://www.champcarstats.com/year/1922.htm . 2012-04-05 . live . Web site: 1922 Championship Driver Summary . Harms . Phil . Motorsport.com . 2011-04-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120810003609/http://old.motorsport.com/stats/champ/data/1922sum.pdf . 2012-08-10 . dead . ]

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1922 Kansas City Race.
2. Web site: 1922 AAA National Championship Trail.