The 1934 AAA Championship Car season consisted of four races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Inglewood, California on December 23. The AAA National Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Bill Cummings.
Pete Kreis died at Indianapolis, during practice. George Brayen died at Syracuse during the race.
Schedule and results
Rnd Date Race name Track Location Type Pole position Winning driver 1 May 30 International 500 Mile Sweepstakes Indianapolis Motor Speedway Speedway, Indiana Brick Kelly Petillo Bill Cummings 2 August 25 Springfield 100 Illinois State Fairgrounds Springfield, Illinois Dirt Johnny Sawyer Billy Winn 3 September 9 Syracuse 100 New York State Fairgrounds Syracuse, New York Dirt Bill Cummings Shorty Cantlon 4 December 23 Mines Field Race Mines Field Inglewood, California Road Doc MacKenzie Kelly Petillo
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 SPR SYR MIF Pts 1 Bill Cummings 1 13 7 8 681.7 2 Mauri Rose 2 3 530 3 Kelly Petillo 11 5 DNQ 1 300 4 Russ Snowberger 8 2 5 12 300 5 Joe Russo 5 300 6 Al Miller 6 11 6 10 280 7 Frank Brisko 9* 4 2 9 264.5 8 Lou Moore 3 DNS 248 9 Shorty Cantlon 20 6 1 7 211.2 10 Billy Winn 7 1 3 211 11 Babe Stapp 4 18 185.5 12 Wilbur Shaw 28 2 180 13 Cliff Bergere 7 DNQ 177 14 Deacon Litz 4 DNS 164.5 15 Doc MacKenzie 29 DNQ 4 140 16 Chet Gardner 21 DNQ 5 120 17 Al Gordon 22 14 DNQ 6 100 18 Ralph Hepburn 13 3 83.7 19 Floyd Roberts 3 76.2 20 George Barringer 14 10 4 17 70 21 Herb Ardinger 10 8 11 69.7 22 Zeke Meyer 6 40 23 Harry Hunt DNQ 7 40 24 Harris Insinger 7 38.8 25 Gene Haustein 30 12 9 11 30 26 Fred Frame DNQ 8 18.3 27 Danny Day 10 10.2 - Johnny Sawyer 25 9* 12 0 - George Brayen 10 0 - Stubby Stubblefield 12 15 0 - Louis Meyer 18 13 0 - Cy Yocum 13 0 - Bob Sall 14 0 - Phil Shafer 15 0 - Rex Mays 23 16 0 - Charles Crawford 16 0 - Tony Gulotta 17 0 - Dave Evans 19 0 - Guy Devlin 19 0 - Dusty Fahrnow 24 0 - Johnny Seymour 26 0 - Rick Decker 27 0 - Harry McQuinn 31 0 - George Bailey 32 0 - Chet Miller 33 0 - George Lyons DNS 0 - Charles Tramison DNQ DNQ DNQ 0 - Harry Lewis DNQ DNQ 0 - Al Theisen DNQ DNQ 0 - Bill Chittum DNQ 0 - Maynard Clark DNQ 0 - George Connor DNQ 0 - Wesley Crawford DNQ 0 - Leon Duray DNQ 0 - Sam Hoffman DNQ 0 - Ted Horn DNQ 0 - Pete Kreis DNQ 0 - Tee Linn DNQ 0 - Milt Marion DNQ 0 - Vern Ornduff DNQ 0 - Jack Petticord DNQ 0 - Willard Prentiss DNQ 0 - Bob Wallace DNQ 0 - Charles Engle DNQ 0 - Ted Kessler DNQ 0 - Gene Pirong DNQ 0 - Wally Zale DNQ 0 - Peter DePaolo Wth 0 - Harold Shaw DNP 0 - Orville Smith DNP 0 - Doc Williams DNP 0 - Arthur Brandt DSQ 0 Pos Driver INDY SPR SYR MIF 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 1934 Indianapolis 500