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The American Automobile Association (the "AAA" or "Triple-A") was founded on March 4, 1902, in Chicago, Illinois, in response to a lack of roads and highways suitable for automobiles. [4][5] At that time, nine motor clubs with a total of 1,500 members banded together to form the AAA. Those individual motor clubs included the Chicago Automobile ...
Chicago Motor Club. The Chicago Motor Club, or CMC, is local chapter of the American Automobile Association in Chicago, Illinois. The CMC sponsored the first Elgin National Road Races in 1909. [1] Growing from concern for the well-being of students walking to school, the CMC pioneered the concept of School Safety Patrols in 1920.
The AAA Contest Board was the motorsports arm of the American Automobile Association. The contest board sanctioned automobile races from 1904 until 1955, establishing American Championship car racing. Modern-day Indy car racing traces its roots directly to these AAA events. All of the races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during that time ...
Chairman. Jeff Stoops. Official website. www.usacracing.com. The United States Auto Club (USAC) is one of the sanctioning bodies of auto racing in the United States. From 1956 to 1979, USAC sanctioned the United States National Championship, and from 1956 to 1997 the organization sanctioned the Indianapolis 500.
AAA: Illinois State Fairgrounds: 100-mile race [note 2] Lion Oil Schrader-Miller: Race Floyd Roberts (USA) [36] May 30, 1939 AAA: Indianapolis Motor Speedway: Indianapolis 500: Lou Moore: Wetteroth – Offenhauser "Burd Piston Ring" Race George Bailey (USA) [37] May 7, 1940 AAA: Indianapolis Motor Speedway: Indianapolis 500: Gulf Oil
Chicago Motor Speedway: 1999–2002 4 4 Ted Horn Memorial: DuQuoin State Fairgrounds Racetrack: 1948–1949 1956–1961 1963–1970 1981–1983 26 24 PPG 375: Texas Motor Speedway: 1997–2023 35 26 Tony Bettenhausen 100 Illinois State Fairgrounds Racetrack: 1934–1940 1947–1955 1956–1970 1981–1982 37 33 Trenton 150: Trenton Speedway ...
TourBook. TourBook is the brand name of a series of United States travel guides published by the American Automobile Association (AAA). The books are published annually in editions that cover one to five states each (depending on size). Editions covering Canadian provinces are also available, created in association with the Canadian Automobile ...
The AAA Contest Board began sanctioning races as early as 1904. In the early years of the sport, only two seasons (1905 and 1916) an official national championship was recognized and awarded. Individual events from 1904, 1906–1915, and 1917–1919 are specifically excluded from the table below, due to the fact that they were not part of an ...