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2025 Indy 500 entry list

01. Josef Newgarden - (#2, Team Penske)

02. Scott McLaughlin - (#3, Team Penske)

03. David Malukas - (#4, A.J. Foyt Racing)

04. Pato O'Ward - (#5, Arrow McLaren)

05. Nolan Siegel - (#6, Arrow McLaren)

06. Hélio Castroneves - (#06, Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian)

07. Christian Lundgaard - (#7, Arrow McLaren)

08. Kyffin Simpson - (#8, Chip Ganassi Racing)

09. Scott Dixon - (#9, Chip Ganassi Racing)

10. Álex Palou - (#10, Chip Ganassi Racing)

11. Will Power - (#12, Team Penske)

12. Santino Ferrucci - (#14, A.J. Foyt Racing)

13. Graham Rahal - (#15, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing)

14. Kyle Larson - (#17, Arrow McLaren with Rick Hendrick)

15. Rinus VeeKay (#18, Dale Coyne Racing)

16. Alexander Rossi - (#20, Ed Carpenter Racing)

17. Christian Rasmussen - (#21, Ed Carpenter Racing)

18. Ryan Hunter-Reay - (#23, DRR-Cusick Motorsports)

19. Jack Harvey - (#24, DRR-Cusick Motorsports)

20. Colton Herta - (#26, Andretti Global with Curb-Agajanian)

21. Kyle Kirkwood - (#27, Andretti Global)

22. Marcus Ericsson - (#28, Andretti Global)

23. Devlin DeFrancesco - (#30, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing)

24. Ed Carpenter - (#33, Ed Carpenter Racing)

25. Louis Foster - (#45, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing)

26. Jacob Abel - (#51, Dale Coyne Racing)

27. Felix Rosenqvist - (#60, Meyer Shank Racing)

28. Marcus Armstrong - (#66, Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian)

29. Takuma Sato - (#75, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing)

30. Conor Daly - (#76, Juncos Hollinger Racing)

31. Sting Ray Robb - (#77, Juncos Hollinger Racing)

32. Robert Shwartzman - (#83, Prema Racing)

33. Callum Ilott - (#90, Prema Racing)

34. Marco Andretti - (#98, Andretti Global)Marcus Ericsson - (#28, Andretti Global)

Seems to pretty On Topic for me. Especially with one or our sprint car hero's driving one of the cars.

Hell of a lot more on topic than Illinois late model race schedules.

Not to forget two-time USAC Sprint Winner (at Salem of all places!) / USAC midget winner (KY) / 2nd place finisher of the Belleville Nationals Special Ed (who also had numerous other top 5s in basically all the USAC divisions, including the 3 national ones - link below), Chili Bowl alphabet star Santino, and Conor Daly who gave Tulsa and some outdoor midget events a run a time or two.

So, if all goes well, there should be FOUR guys in the field with front engine OW car experience. We should take it for what it is. We can all hope for more, & guys like Larson need to run these cars more than once a year (hope he proves me wrong on raceday, I think he could very well run top 5; but even Tony admitted over 20years ago just getting in for the one race a year, he didn't think he could win it). Either way, it's cool and great to see!

https://www.thethirdturn.com/wiki/Ed_Carpenter

I miss bump day action at Indy. What I wouldn't give to see 40 cars entered.

Well, there is 34. lol. Iiwii. Roger and the other owners don't wana be knocked out (I think I read if you aren't a full-time team, it's only around $100,000 to start the race now...that's how they are controlling it...). Thankfully no one is officially locked in, this year.

They say the engine OEMs won't supply more than just a couple more engines; and I think $ is tightening up in many areas of racing (17 Silver Crowns entered for the postponed Winchester race...).

Legge took her $ to NASCAR (I suspect there wasn't a long line of Indycar teams looking to sign her)...was talk of a Tom Brady effort (not sure if there was a driver named for that), that went nowhere...this year anyway...

The Indycar car count is about the strongest they have been in many years for the rest of the season at least. Time will tell if they can get 700,000-800,000 people watching Sunday in Alabama...

I'm afraid if the ratings can't get up to maybe like one million (for the races outside of the 500) and once they introduce a stupid new chassis (this one is fine / safest ever) it will go back to where they barely even get 33 again. So, I'm gona enjoy it this year with 34...