1941 AAA Championship Car season

1941 AAA Championship Car season

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Season
Races	3
Start date	May 30
End date	September 1
Awards
National champion	Rex Mays
Indianapolis 500 winner	Floyd Davis Mauri Rose

Chronology
Previous season	Next season
1940	1946

The 1941 AAA Championship Car season consisted of three races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Syracuse, New York on September 1. There was also one non-championship event in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. The AAA National Champion was Rex Mays and the Indianapolis 500 winners were Floyd Davis and Mauri Rose. The National Championship was not held again until 1946, due to World War II

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	Paved Oval	Mauri Rose	Floyd Davis Mauri Rose^A
NC	June 22	Langhorne 100	Langhorne Speedway	Langhorne, Pennsylvania	Dirt Oval	?	Duke Nalon
2	August 24	Milwaukee 100	Wisconsin State Fair Park Speedway	West Allis, Wisconsin	Dirt Oval	Rex Mays	Rex Mays
3	September 1	Syracuse 100	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt Oval	Rex Mays	Rex Mays

^A Floyd Davis and Mauri Rose shared a drive, but Davis received the National Championship points as the starting driver.

#	Driver	Team	Points
1	Rex Mays	Bowes Seal Fast	1225
2	Ted Horn	Ted Horn Engineering	675
3	Ralph Hepburn	Bowes Seal Fast	550
4=	Floyd Davis		450
4=	Cliff Bergere	Noc-Out Hose Clamp	450

American Championship car racing (IndyCar) seasons

AAA	1905 1906–1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942–1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955

NASCAR	1952 1953

USAC	1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84

CART / CCWS	1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 ~~2008~~

IRL / INDYCAR	1996 1996–97 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Years marked in italics are not official championship years.

AAA Championship Cars (1905–1955)

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National Champions	Billy Arnold • Henry Banks • Tony Bettenhausen • Jimmy Bryan • Bob Carey • Gaston Chevrolet • Bill Cummings • Peter DePaolo (twice) • Sam Hanks • Harry Hartz • Eddie Hearne • Ted Horn (three times) • Rex Mays (twice) • Louis Meyer (three times) • Tommy Milton • Jimmy Murphy (twice) • Barney Oldfield • Johnnie Parsons • Kelly Petillo • Dario Resta • Floyd Roberts • Mauri Rose • Louis Schneider • Wilbur Shaw (twice) • Chuck Stevenson • Bob Sweikert

AAA Contest Board Years marked in italics are not official championship years.