1925 AAA Championship Car season explained

The 1925 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 11 races, beginning in Culver City, California on March 1 and concluding in the same location on November 29. There were also eight non-championship races. Peter DePaolo won the AAA National Championship, as well as the Indianapolis 500.

Ray Cariens died at Culver City during the last race of the season.^[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 1	Culver City Race 1 - 250	Culver City Speedway	Culver City, California	Board	Ralph DePalma	Tommy Milton
NC	April 19	Culver City Heat 1 - 25	Culver City Speedway	Culver City, California	Board	—	Leon Duray
Culver City Heat 2 - 25		—				Peter DePaolo
Culver City Heat 3 - 25		—				Pietro Bordino
Culver City Heat 4 - 25		—				Bob McDonogh
Culver City Main - 50		—				Harry Hartz
2	April 30	Raisin Day Classic - 150	Fresno Speedway	Fresno, California	Board	Bennett Hill	Peter DePaolo
3	May 11	Southern Speed Classic - 250	Charlotte Speedway	Pineville, North Carolina	Board	—	Earl Cooper
4	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Brick	Leon Duray	Pete DePaolo
5	June 13	Spring Classic - 250	Altoona Speedway	Tyrone, Pennsylvania	Board	Leon Duray	Peter DePaolo
NC	July 4	Rockingham Race - 100	Rockingham Park	Salem, New Hampshire	Dirt	Ralph DePalma	Ralph DePalma
6	July 11	Laurel Race 1 - 250	Laurel Park	Laurel, Maryland	Board	Peter DePaolo	Peter DePaolo
7	September 7	Autumn Classic - 250	Altoona Speedway	Tyrone, Pennsylvania	Board	Bennett Hill	Bob McDonogh
NC	September 19	Syracuse Race - 100	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt	—	Ralph DePalma
NC	October 3	Fresno Race - 150	Fresno Speedway	Fresno, California	Board	Jerry Wunderlich	Fred Comer
8	October 26	Laurel Race 2 - 250	Laurel Park	Laurel, Maryland	Board	—	Bob McDonogh
9	October 31	Autumn Classic - 250	Rockingham Park	Salem, New Hampshire	Board	Peter DePaolo	Peter DePaolo
10	November 11	Charlotte Race - 250	Charlotte Speedway	Pineville, North Carolina	Board	Bennett Hill	Tommy Milton
11	November 29	Culver City Race 2 - 250	Culver City Speedway	Culver City, California	Board	Earl Cooper	Frank Elliott

• Indianapolis 500 was AAA-sanctioned and counted towards the 1925 AIACR World Manufacturers' Championship title.

Shared drive

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 CUL1 FRE CHA1 INDY ALT1 LAU1 ALT2 LAU2 SAL CHA2 CUL2 Pts 1 Peter DePaolo 2 1 5 1* 1 1 DNP 2 1* 15 9 3260 2 Tommy Milton 1* 2 3 5 3 7 3 16 1 7 1745 3 Harry Hartz 3 6 2 4 4 3 2 9 4 2 2 1640 4 Bob McDonogh 4 9 6 14 7 2 1 1 5 16 4 1505 5 Earl Cooper 7 5 1 17 12 14 3 5 3 11 5* 935 6 Frank Elliott 14 8 12 12 2 5 9 14 14 5 1 870 7 Dave Lewis 8 2 18 Wth 465 8 Fred Comer 17 7 4 11 5 4 4 8 15 6 3 459 9 Ralph Hepburn 16 9 8 10 4 2 7 12 380 10 Phil Shafer 16 7 3 17 9 7 6 9 Wth DNS 340 11 Norman Batten 1 6 7 4 Wth 250 12 Leon Duray 13 3 11 6 5 12 5 11 13 8 8 221 13 Jerry Wunderlich 11 10 14 18 11 Wth 11 12 8 3 13 155 14 5 10 8 6 9 13 11 10 122 15 Bennett Hill 19 4 13 18 14 13 15 7 12 13 10 75 16 Earl Devore DNP 13 8 8 12 15 6 14 15 55 17 8 Wth 9 6 46 18 Pietro Bordino 6 9 10 46 19 Ralph DePalma 18 7 8 45 20 Jim Hill 10 6 14 17 40 21 W. E. Shattuc 10 DNP 9 15 DNQ 13 10 10 12 11 40 22 L. L. Corum 8 7 25 23 Antoine Mourre 10 19 24 8 DNS DNQ 10 25 Reginald Johnson 9 15 DNS DNS 17 Wth 10 26 Wade Morton 12 DNQ 15 13 15 8 4 - Ora Haibe 12 0 - 13 0 - Ray Cariens 18 14 0 - Eddie Hearne 15 0 - 15 0 - 19 0 - Alfred Moss 19 0 - Ira Vail 20 0 - Fred Harder 21 0 - 21 0 - Jules Ellingboe 22 0 - Tom Alley DNQ 0 - Clarence Belt DNQ 0 - Nick Eckerle DNQ 0 - Carl Green DNQ 0 - Charles Shambaugh DNQ 0 - Harry Thicksten DNQ 0 - Lou Fink DNQ 0 - Cliff Durant DNS DNS 0 - Stuart Wilkinson DNS 0 - Harold Skelly DNS 0 - Albert Guyot DNP 0 - Steve Smith DNP 0 - Frank Lockhart DSQ 0 Pos Driver CUL1 FRE CHA1 INDY ALT1 LAU1 ALT2 LAU2 SAL CHA2 CUL2 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 1925 Indianapolis 500 References Web site: AAA National Championship 1925 . Åberg, Andreas . Driver Database . 2011-04-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121019120902/http://www.driverdb.com/standings/1140-1925/ . 2012-10-19 . live . Web site: 1925 AAA National Championship Trail . ChampCarStats.com . 2011-04-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120405190657/http://www.champcarstats.com/year/1925.htm . 2012-04-05 . live . Web site: 1925 Championship Driver Summary . Harms . Phil . Motorsport.com . 2011-04-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120810003609/http://old.motorsport.com/stats/champ/data/1925sum.pdf . 2012-08-10 . dead . ]

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1925 AAA Culver City Race 2.
2. Web site: 1925 AAA National Championship Trail.