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.

Schedule and results

Rnd Date Race name Track Location Type Pole position Winning driverNC January 12 Oakland 150 Oakland Speedway San Leandro, California Dirt Babe Stapp Al GordonNC 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 MaysNC 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.

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 1* 360 6 Wilbur Shaw 7 2 12 45 319.8 7 Chet Miller 5 DNQ 26 300 8 Jean-Pierre Wimille 2 270 9 Antonio Brivio 3 240 10 Raymond Sommer 4 210 11 Rex Mays 15 1 3* DNQ 200 12 Ray Pixley 6 200 13 Pat Fairfield 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 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 Étancelin 9 60 25 Bob Sall 6 DNS 50 26 Frederick McEvoy 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 DNQ 11 0 - Emil Andres 18 12 0 - Ralph Hepburn 12 0 - Harry McQuinn 13 0 - Francis Curzon 13 0 - Dave Evans DNQ 14 0 - Brian Lewis 15 0 - Rick Decker DNQ 16 0 - Doc Williams 16 0 - Lou Moore 17 DNQ 0 - Al Putnam DNQ 17 0 - Teddy Rayson 18 0 - Roy Lake 19 0 - Al Miller 21 0 - Tony Gulotta 22 24 0 - Cliff Bergere 22 0 - Gus Zarka 22 0 - Bob Swanson 23 0 - Phil Shafer DNQ 25 0 - Frank McGurk 26 DNQ 0 - Louis Tomei 27 DNQ DNQ 30 0 - Herb Ardinger 28 0 - Lewis Balus 28 0 - Ted Chamberlain 29 0 - Johnny Seymour 31 DNS 0 - Fred Frame 32 0 - Joel Thorne DNP DNQ DNS 34 0 - Tony Willman 40 0 - Giuseppe Farina 41 0 - Raphaël Bethenod 42 0 - Overton Phillips 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 notparticipate(DNP) Not competing In-line notationBoldPole positionItalicsRan fastest race lap*Led most race lapsRookie of the YearRookie

References

See also 1936 Indianapolis 500