IndyCar: Post-Season Driver Grades
By Asher Fair
With the 2017 IndyCar season now complete, which drivers looked good, and which drivers didn’t? Here are the post-season driver grades.
With 17 races complete and none remaining on IndyCar‘s 2017 schedule, the season is now over, and drivers and teams are looking ahead to the 2018 season.
While drivers and teams are looking ahead to the 2018 season now that the 2017 season is complete, there are still nearly six months to go until the 2018 season begins.
Therefore, it’s time to grade the performances of each of IndyCar’s 19 full-time drivers, who represented a total of eight different teams, in the 2017 season.
Here is an alphabetical list of the 19 full-time drivers before we get started.
- Marco Andretti, No. 27, Andretti Autosport, Honda
- Sebastien Bourdais, No. 18, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda
- Helio Castroneves, No. 3, Team Penske, Chevrolet
- Max Chilton, No. 8, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda
- Conor Daly, No. 4, AJ Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet
- Scott Dixon, No. 9, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda
- JR Hildebrand, No. 21, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet
- James Hinchcliffe, No. 5, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda
- Ryan Hunter-Reay, No. 28, Andretti Autosport, Honda
- Ed Jones, No. 19, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda
- Tony Kanaan, No. 10, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda
- Charlie Kimball, No. 83, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda
- Carlos Munoz, No. 14, AJ Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet
- Josef Newgarden, No. 2, Team Penske, Chevrolet
- Simon Pagenaud, No. 1, Team Penske, Chevrolet
- Will Power, No. 12, Team Penske, Chevrolet
- Graham Rahal, No. 15, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda
- Alexander Rossi, No. 98, Andretti Herta Autosport, Honda
- Takuma Sato, No. 26, Andretti Autosport, Honda