The 1949 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 14 races, beginning in Arlington, Texas on April 24 and concluding in Del Mar, California on November 6. There were also two non-championship events. The AAA National Champion was Johnnie Parsons, and the Indianapolis 500 winner was Bill Holland. The season was marred by George Metzler's death at Indianapolis in practice, Bill Sheffler's death at Trenton also in practice, and Rex Mays's death in the final race at Del Mar.
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8, 1984) was an American racing driver in the AAA and USAC ChampionshipCar series. He was the 1949AAA national champion, and won the 1950 Indianapolis...
the National Championship in the same year (such as the Automobile Club of America), and the AAA Big car meetings held in the 1946 season. The most recent...
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notable for his Indy car career. He finished runner-up in the American Automobile Association (AAA) National Championship in 1948 and 1949, and twice raced...
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still won the AAA Midwest championship. Webb started the 1949season with a new sprint car that he co-owned; by June he had moved back to a car owned by Johnny...
500 in 1949 and finished second in 1947, 1948, and 1950. He was runner-up in the 1947 American Automobile Association (AAA) National Championship. Holland...
California. Stevenson drove in the AAA and USAC ChampionshipCar series, racing in the 1949–1954, 1960–1961, and 1963–1965 seasons with 54 starts, including the...
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win the Indianapolis 500, the AAA big car National Championship, and the Midwest sprint carchampionship in the same season. In May 1956, at his final return...
career. He twice won the National Championship, doing so in 1951 and 1958. He also competed in stock cars, winning under AAA and USAC sanction. Bettenhausen...
Circuit Championship. He won the 1947 Night before the 500 midget car race. He was the 1949AAA National Midget champion. He won the 1953 AAA National...
Elgin Trophy, on the only road-course in the AAA Championship. Chevrolet won the AAAseasonchampionship; despite being killed at the end of the year in...
becoming the race's third three-time winner. He also won the AAA National Championship in 1936. Although Rose had driven in every Indianapolis 500 since...
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Indy Car (American Championshipcar) races from 1905 up to and including the 2024 season. The lists include IndyCar events sanctioned by the AAA, USAC...
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winning two National Championships, and two Indianapolis 500s, both in 1959 and 1962. He also won the AAA National Stock CarChampionship in 1951. Ward was...
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