IndyCar: 5 drivers who should attempt the Memorial Day Double

Which five IndyCar drivers should consider attempting the Memorial Day Double by competing in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600?

A total of four drivers have combined to make nine Memorial Day Double attempts over the years, with the most recent attempt having taken place in 2014 when 2004 NASCAR Cup Series champion Kurt Busch came to Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana to make his IndyCar debut in the Indianapolis 500 before flying to Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina  later that night to compete in the Coca-Cola 600 as a part of his regular full-time driver role in the Cup Series.

Like Busch, the other three drivers who have combined to make the other eight Memorial Day Double attempts were also full-time NASCAR Cup Series drivers at the time of their attempt. Never has a full-time IndyCar driver attempted the Memorial Day Double while he or she was an IndyCar driver.

That said, Busch is actually the only one of these four drivers who have attempted the Memorial Day Double when they had not previously been a full-time IndyCar driver. The other three drivers who have attempted the Memorial Day Double are John Andretti, Tony Stewart and Robby Gordon, and they all attempted the Memorial Day Double after they had competed full-time in IndyCar.

In fact, Gordon even returned to IndyCar in each of the next two seasons after attempting the Memorial Day Double in 1997, which was the first year during which he drove in more than just one or two NASCAR Cup Series races.

With all of this in mind, could a current full-time IndyCar driver compete in the Memorial Day Double in the near future? If so, when would this happen, and which driver or drivers would attempt it? Would an IndyCar driver who is not a full-time driver attempt it?

Here are five IndyCar drivers who should consider attempting the Memorial Day Double.