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1923 AAA Championship Car season
1923 AAA Championship Car season
AAA National Championship Trail
Season
Races	8
Start date	February 25, 1923
End date	November 29, 1923
Awards
National champion	Eddie Hearne
Indianapolis 500 winner	Tommy Milton
	← 1922 1924 →

The 1923 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 8 races, beginning at Beverly Hills, California on February 25, 1923, and concluding at the same location on November 29, 1923. The AAA National Champion was Eddie Hearne, and the Indianapolis 500 winner was Tommy Milton.

1919 Indianapolis 500 winner Howdy Wilcox died during the Altoona Speedway event on September 4, 1923.^[1]

Schedule and results

All races running on Dirt/Brick/Board Oval.

Rnd	Date	Race Name	Track	Location	Type	Pole Position	Winning Driver
1	February 25, 1923	Beverly Hills Race 1 - 250	Los Angeles Motor Speedway	Beverly Hills, California	Board	Frank Elliott	Jimmy Murphy
2	April 26, 1923	Raisin Day Classic 150	Fresno Speedway	Fresno, California	Board	—	Jimmy Murphy
3	May 30, 1923	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	Brick	Tommy Milton	Tommy Milton
4	July 4, 1923	Kansas City Race 1 - 250	Kansas City Speedway	Kansas City, Missouri	Board	Jimmy Murphy	Eddie Hearne
5	September 4, 1923	Altoona Race - 200	Altoona Speedway	Tyrone, Pennsylvania	Board	Earl Cooper	Eddie Hearne
NC	September 15, 1923	Syracuse Race - 100	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse, New York	Dirt	—	Tommy Milton
6	September 29, 1923	San Joaquin Valley Classic - 200	Fresno Speedway	Fresno, California	Board	Harlan Fengler	Harry Hartz
7	October 21, 1923	Kansas City Race 2 - 250	Kansas City Speedway	Kansas City, Missouri	Board	—	Harlan Fengler
8	November 29, 1923	Beverly Hills Race 2 - 250	Los Angeles Motor Speedway	Beverly Hills, California	Board	—	Bennett Hill

Non-championship race

^A 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.^[2]

Pos	Driver	BEV1	FRE1	INDY	KAN1	ALT	FRE2	KAN2	BEV2	Pts
1	Eddie Hearne	4	2	4	1	1*	2	2	2	1882
2	Jimmy Murphy	1*	1*	3	6			3	3	1350
3	Bennett Hill	2	3	19	11	5	7	5	1	955
4	Harry Hartz	14	8	2	7	12	1	11	Wth	820
5	Tommy Milton	6	10	1*	9	8	10*	10*	13	810
6	Harlan Fengler RY			16	3	14	5	1	4	750
7	Jerry Wunderlich	10	DNQ	10	12	2	3	4	14	368
8	Earl Cooper	11	4	21	2	13	9	12	12*	310
9	Frank Elliott	5	5	6	5	6	6	7	5	301
10	Dave Lewis			6	4	3		6		234
11	Ralph DePalma	3		15	8			8	6	190
12	Fred Comer R					4	4		9	115
13	L. L. Corum			5		11		13		90
14	Cliff Durant	9	9	7			DNS		9	42
15	Bertrand Lucinge R			9						35
16	Phil Shafer			10					7	33
17	Wade Morton	7	7	10						32
18	Leon Duray	12	12	13	DNQ	7		9	10	30
19	Max Sailer R			8						25
20	Joe Thomas	DNS	6							20
21	Joe Boyer			18					8	15
22	Karl Sailer R			8						15
23	Dario Resta	8		14						13
24	Al Melcher	DNS					8			10
25	Ora Haibe			10	10	9		14		9
-	Howdy Wilcox			17	DNS	10				0
-	Thane Houser R			10						0
-	Peter DePaolo		11							0
-	Christian Werner R			11						0
-	Wesley Crawford R								11	0
-	Pierre de Vizcaya R			12						0
-	Ralph Snoddy	13								0
-	Louis Wilson R		DNS	13			DNS			0
-	Ernie Ansterburg R			14					15	0
-	Art Klein	15	DNQ							0
-	Louis Zborowski R			20						0
-	Tom Alley			21						0
-	Raúl Riganti R			22						0
-	Christian Lautenschlager R			23						0
-	Martín de Álzaga R			24					DNP	0
-	Herbert Scheel			DNQ						0
-	Ira Vail			DNQ						0
-	Cornelius Van Ranst			DNQ						0
-	Jules Goux			Wth						0
-	Albert Guyot			Wth						0
-	Charles Shambaugh			Wth						0
-	Hollis Wells			Wth						0
-	P. O. Palmer		DNS							0
-	William White					DNS				0
-	Herschell McKee		DNP							0
-	Harry Thicksten			DNP						0
-	Louis Chevrolet					DNP				0
-	Antoine Mourre								DNP	0
-	Ernie Olsen								DNP	0
-	Wally Butler								DSQ	0
Pos	Driver	BEV	FRE	INDY	KAN	ALT	FRE	KAN	BEV	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
*	Led most race laps
Rookie of the Year
Rookie

References

Åberg, Andreas. "AAA National Championship 1923". Driver Database. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
"1923 AAA National Championship Trail". ChampCarStats.com. Archived from the original on April 5, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
Harms, Phil. "1923 Championship Driver Summary" (PDF). Motorsport.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 10, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2011.