1925 AAA Championship Car season

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.

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 MiltonNCApril 19 Culver City Heat 1 - 25Culver City SpeedwayCulver City, CaliforniaBoard — 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 DePaoloNC 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 McDonoghNC September 19 Syracuse Race - 100 New York State Fairgrounds Syracuse, New York Dirt — Ralph DePalmaNC 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.

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 Pete Kreis 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 Dave Evans 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 Vic Spooner 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 - Glenn Shultz 13 0 - Ray Cariens 18 14 0 - Eddie Hearne 15 0 - Jimmy Gleason 15 0 - Herbert Jones 19 0 - Alfred Moss 19 0 - Ira Vail 20 0 - Fred Harder 21 0 - Melville Jones 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 notparticipate(DNP) Not competing In-line notationBoldPole positionItalicsRan fastest race lap*Led most race lapsRookie of the YearRookie

See also 1925 Indianapolis 500

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