But will the new Aero’ bits improve thou Show?
Now that the Texas Motor Speedway’s (TMS)
Double Header event’s in our Rear-view Mirror, it’s time to Only have Eyes for
Mother Speedway.
As obviously the 24 participants who raced at
TMS make up the Bulk of this year’s fast approaching 105th running
of the Indianapolis 500 on May 30th. And with Dreyer & Reinbold
Racing’s confirmation of Sage Karam in it’s single car entry a few weeks ago,
there were Officially 33 cars entered. With a possible three further “Interlopers”
awaiting confirmation when I began scribbling this following the St Pete
IndyCar race.
Two seem formalities, while the other’s time
seems to be running out? As I’ll list ‘em in alphabetical order. First was a presumed
sixth entry from Mikey A’s cavernous Andretti Autosport stable, with Stefan Stork’ Wilson at the controls of
the #25 being publicly confirmed May 4th. As Stefan runs the No. 25
in honour of his late brother Justin B-I-G UNIT’ Wilson who ran the number when
driving for Andretti in 2015.
As Racer’s article
announcing Wilson claimed Thar’s 35 confirmed entries, with 17 Chevy’s and 18
Honda’s, but as far as I can tell, Stefan’s only the 34th entry
announced…
A second CWR (Coyne Ware Racing) entry and third
overall Dale Coyne & Company entry for Cody Ware, son of NASCAR Team Owner
Rick Ware. As Cody will be making his IndyCar debut upon it’s biggest stage, having
Already “Passed the Audition,” ergo his Rookie Orientation during this April’s
IMS Open Test.
Although believe it was Sunday, April 25th
when I heard via ESPN Online Motorsport Headlines that father Rick Ware said
Cody needs to find more funding to make his Indy 500 debut happen. And if they
cannot find the necessary Dinero’, then another better funded driver would be
brought in for the ride…
Lastly is top gun racing, which has been
teasing us for over a year now about entering R.C. Enerson as the driver of it’s
New IndyCar Team, but never has announced who it’s engine supplier is, i.e.; Can
Y’all Say Chevrolet?
Sunday, May 30th
105th Indianapolis
500
This Entry list is Unofficial
and just what I’ve been able to “Cobble together” so far prior to the first Official
practice session, hence why I haven’t listed Top gun Racing below. As Chevrolet
has mentioned 17 engines to date, and Honda’s Full at 18. Giving us 35
Unconfirmed entries excluding Top gun…
A.J. Foyt Racing (4)
Engine:
Chevrolet
#1 J.R. Hildebrand, #4Dalton
Kellett, #11 Charlie Kimball and #14 Sebastian
Bourdais
Andretti Autosport (4)
Engine:
Honda
#25 Stefan
Wilson, #26 Colton Herta, #27 Alexander
Rossi and #28 Ryan
Hunter-Reay
Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
(1)
Engine:
Honda
#29 James
Hinchcliffe
Andretti Herta Autosport (1)
Engine:
Honda
#98
Marco Andretti
Arrow McLaren SP (3)
Engine:
Chevrolet
#5 Patricio
O'Ward, #7 Felix
Rosenqvist and #86 Juan Pablo Montoya
Carlin (1)
Engine:
Chevrolet
#59 Max
Chilton
Chip Ganassi Racing (4)
Engine:
Honda
#8 Marcus
Ericsson, #9 Scott
Dixon, #10 Alex Palou and #48 Tony Kanaan
Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser
Sullivan (1)
Engine:
Honda
#18 Ed
Jones
Dale Coyne Racing with Rick Ware
Racing (2)
Engine:
Honda
#51
Pietro Fittipaldi and #52 (R) Cody
Ware/TBA
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing (1)
Engine:
Chevrolet
#24 Sage Karam
Ed Carpenter Racing (3)
Engine:
Chevrolet
#20 Ed
Carpenter, #21 Rinus
VeeKay and #47 Conor Daly
Meyer Shank Racing (2)
Engine:
Honda
#06 Helio
Castroneves and #60 Jack
Harvey
(Technical
Partnership with Andretti Autosport)
Paretta Autosport (1)
Engine:
Chevrolet
#16 Simona de Silvestro
(Technical
Partnership with Team Penske)
Team Penske (4)
Engine:
Chevrolet
#2 Joseph
Newgarden, #3 (R) Scott
McLaughlin, #12 Will
Power and #22 Simon
Pagenaud
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (3)
Engine:
Honda
#15 Graham
Rahal, #30 Takuma
Sato and #45 Santino Ferrucci
(R
= Rookie)
