1928 AAA Championship Car season explained

The 1928 AAA Championship Car season consisted of seven races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Salem, New Hampshire on October 12. There were also three non-championship races. The AAA National Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Louis Meyer.

Fred Comer died during the season's final event at Rockingham.^[1]

Schedule and results

All races running on Dirt/Brick/Board Oval.

Rnd	Date	Race Name	Track	Location	Type	Pole Position	Winning Driver
1	May 30	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Brick	Leon Duray	Louis Meyer
2	June 10	Detroit Race 1 - 100	Michigan State Fairgrounds	Detroit, Michigan	Dirt	Ray Keech	Ray Keech
3	July 4	Rockingham Preliminary - 15	Rockingham Park	Salem, New Hampshire	Board	Leon Duray	Leon Duray
4		Rockingham Race - 185				Leon Duray	Ray Keech
NC	July 4	Atlantic City Race 1 - 100	Atlantic City Speedway	Hammonton, New Jersey	Board	—	Freddie Winnai
NC	July 15	Detroit Race 2 - 100	Michigan State Fairgrounds	Detroit, Michigan	Dirt	—	Howard Taylor
5	August 19	Altoona Race - 200	Altoona Speedway	Tyrone, Pennsylvania	Board	Leon Duray	Louis Meyer
6	September 1	Syracuse Race - 100	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt	Cliff Woodbury	Ray Keech
NC	September 16	Atlantic City Race 2 - 100	Atlantic City Speedway	Hammonton, New Jersey	Board	—	Ray Keech
7	October 12	International Motor Classic - 200	Rockingham Park	Salem, New Hampshire	Board	Bob McDonogh	Cliff Woodbury

Scheduled for 200 miles, stopped due to track breaking up after 50 laps.

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 DET SAL1 SAL2 ALT SYR SAL3 Pts 1 Louis Meyer 1 DNQ 7 2 1 10 16 1596 2 Ray Keech 4 1* 8 1 6 1 14 915 3 2 3 11 11 13 12 406 4 George Souders 3 14 DNQ 270 5 Bob McDonogh 16 2 6 2 11 248 6 Fred Frame 8 2 146 7 Norman Batten 5 12 9 3 16 8 8 145 8 Cliff Woodbury 23 6 5 10 11 7 1 138 9 7 7 4 3 120 10 7 4 12 4 DNQ 115 11 Russ Snowberger 29 DNQ 2 110 12 Dave Evans 12 13 5 5 5 10 97 13 Fred Comer 9 3 9 3 15 95 14 Zeke Meyer 5 4 DNQ 89 15 Babe Stapp 6 DNQ 14 13 7 12 4 87 16 Ralph Hepburn 24* 4 DNS 15 DNQ 2 70 17 10 3 DNQ 60 18 Leon Duray 19* 11 1 7 8 13 7 49 19 Earl Devore 18 10 8 9 5 22 20 Tony Gulotta 10 21 21 Howard Taylor 5 20 22 Bob Robinson 6 15 23 Cliff Bergere 28 6 12 14 DNQ 6 10 24 Dutch Baumann 10 9 - Louis Schneider 11 8 0 - 14 13 10 9 0 - Wilbur Shaw 25 9 0 - 9 0 - Louis Wilson 11 0 - Frank Farmer 11 0 - 17 12 0 - Jimmy Gleason 15 DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ 13 0 - 13 DNQ 0 - Henry Kohlert 13 0 - W. E. Shattuc 13 0 - Wesley Crawford 14 0 - Ralph DePalma 14 0 - Cliff Durant 16 0 - 18 0 - 20 DNQ 0 - 21 0 - Jack Petticord 21 0 - Pete Kreis 22 0 - Benny Shoaff 26 0 - 27 0 - Buddy Marr DNQ DNQ 0 - L. L. Corum DNQ 0 - Peter DePaolo DNQ 0 - Jim Hill DNQ 0 - Chet Miller DNQ 0 - Kelly Petillo DNQ 0 - Herman Schurch DNQ 0 - Eddie Hearne DNQ 0 - Bill Albertson DNQ 0 - Bo Amos DNQ 0 - Claude Berton DNQ 0 - Frank Conley DNQ 0 - Rick Decker DNQ 0 - Louis Hornbrook DNQ 0 - G. Hunn DNQ 0 - George Huss DNQ 0 - Henry Korgis DNQ 0 - Aguila Lenyard DNQ 0 - Ralph Malamud DNQ 0 - Hap Ray DNQ 0 - Charles Schwab DNQ 0 - Ira Vail DNQ 0 - George Wingerter DNQ 0 - Freddie Winnai DNQ 0 - George Zimmerman DNQ 0 - Ionel Ghica-Cantacuzino DNP 0 - Phil Shafer DNP 0 Pos Driver INDY DET SAL1 SAL2 ALT SYR SAL3 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 1928 Indianapolis 500 References Web site: AAA National Championship 1928 . Åberg, Andreas . Driver Database . 2011-04-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121019120541/http://www.driverdb.com/standings/1140-1928/ . 2012-10-19 . live . Web site: 1928 AAA National Championship Trail . ChampCarStats.com . 2011-04-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120405190622/http://www.champcarstats.com/year/1928.htm . 2012-04-05 . live . Web site: 1928 Championship Driver Summary . Harms . Phil . Motorsport.com . 2011-04-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120810003609/http://old.motorsport.com/stats/champ/data/1928sum.pdf . 2012-08-10 . dead .

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1928 International Motor Classic.
2. Web site: 1928 AAA National Championship Trail.