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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.
AAA created an organization called the Racing Board, and later known as the Contest Board, in 1902 to officiate the Vanderbilt Cup international automobile race in Long Island, New York. In 1909, AAA decided to ban women from any competition they sanctioned after Joan Newton Cuneo had beaten a number of leading male drivers at a variety of ...
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The AAA Contest Board included a substantial number of "Big Car" races in the national championship for 1946, swelling the season to 77 events (6 Champ Car races and 71 Big Car races). Some later texts chose to dismiss the 71 Big Car races from record, but reliable records and historians contend that the season should be regarded as the full 77 ...
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AAA is involved, through the Contest Board, in the cancellation of the Indianapolis 500 and all other races for the duration of World War II. AAA publishes a new defensive driving book. AAA trains bus drivers on school routes. AAA signs its first national sales agreement with an airline, American Airlines. 1943
- 1902-19091902 March 4: Nine auto clubs meet in Chicago to form the American Automobile Association. They are: Automobile Club of America (1899), Chicago Aut...
- 1910-19191910 Feb. 15-17: AAA lobbies at a meeting at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., for passage of the Federal Registration Bill, which would elim...
- 1920-19291920 AAA publishes the first annual Highways Greenbook , a report on road building in the U.S. AAA publishes the first AAA Campground Directory ....
- 1930-19391930 AAA loses more than 300,000 members between 1930 and 1935 during the Great Depression. AAA formulates a taxation program, assuring equity to a...
- 1950-19591950 Membership passes 3 million. AAA opens offices in Paris and Rome. AAA publishes Your Driving Costs pamphlet for the first time. This annual...
- 1960-19691960 AAA wins an award from the National Association of Travel Organizations for its cooperation in Visit the USA Year proclaimed by President Ei...
- 1970-19791970 AAA establishes an Environmental Affairs department to define environmental problems related to motoring and explore solutions. AAA publishes...
- 1980-19891980 AAA records 15.6 million Emergency Road Service calls nationwide. AAA gears up for oil shortage caused by Iranian hostage situation. AAA Presi...
The 1946 AAA Championship Car season was the first season of American Championship car racing following World War II. After four years without automobile racing in the United States, the AAA Contest Board was initially concerned about having enough races, enough entrants, and suitable equipment, to contest season on such short notice for 1946.
Following the 1905 season, the AAA sanctioned no further races until 1909, by which time the Racing Board had been reorganized by the AAA into the Contest Board. [1] Despite the resumption of sanctioned racing, the Contest Board and did not award points towards a championship again until 1916.
