IndyCar: 2018 Bommarito Automotive Group 500 entry list

MADISON, IL - AUGUST 10: The two Target Chip Ganassi Racing Toyota GForce of Scott Dixon #9 and Tomas Scheckter are followed by Tony Kanaan in the #11 Andretti Green Racing Honda Dallara and eventual race winner Helio Castroneves in the Marlboro Team Penske Toyota Dallara during practice for the Emerson Indy 250, round 11 of the IRL (Indy Racing League) IndyCar Series on August 10, 2003 at the Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Illinois. (Photo by Darrell Ingham/Getty Images)
MADISON, IL - AUGUST 10: The two Target Chip Ganassi Racing Toyota GForce of Scott Dixon #9 and Tomas Scheckter are followed by Tony Kanaan in the #11 Andretti Green Racing Honda Dallara and eventual race winner Helio Castroneves in the Marlboro Team Penske Toyota Dallara during practice for the Emerson Indy 250, round 11 of the IRL (Indy Racing League) IndyCar Series on August 10, 2003 at the Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Illinois. (Photo by Darrell Ingham/Getty Images)

The 15th race of the 2018 IndyCar season is the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at Gateway Motorsports Park. Here is the entry list for this race.

A total of 14 races on the 17-race 2018 IndyCar schedule are in the books, meaning three more are scheduled to be contested before the champion is crowned. The first of those three races is the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at Gateway Motorsports Park.

The Bommarito Automotive Group 500 is scheduled to last for 248 laps around the four-turn, 1.25-mile (2.012-kilometer) Gateway Motorsports Park oval in Madison, Illinois.

Just 21 drivers are on the entry list for the Bommarito Automotive Group 500, which is the lowest total of the season so far. Through the season’s first 14 races, three races featured just 22 drivers, but none of them featured just 21 drivers.

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The most recent IndyCar race that featured only 21 drivers is last season’s race at Watkins Glen International, which was held on Sunday, September 3 and was the penultimate race of the season. A total of 15 races have been contested since then.

While the driver total of 21 on the entry list for the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 is the lowest of the season so far, the fact that this race is the first race with just 21 drivers on the entry list so far this season is encouraging, especially after 10 of the 17 races that were contested last season featured only 21 drivers. In fact, only one race, the Indianapolis 500, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway featured more than 22 drivers last year (33).

A total of 18 drivers (19 including James Hinchcliffe, who attempted to qualify for the Indy 500 but failed to do so) have driven in each of the 14 races that have been contested so far this season.

However, only 17 of those drivers (18 including Hinchcliffe) are set to compete in this Saturday’s Bommarito Automotive Group 500, as Schmidt Peterson Motorsports rookie Robert Wickens is set to miss the rest of the season as a result of the injuries that he sustained in this past Sunday’s ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway.

There are three part-time drivers who are set to compete in the Bommarito Automotive Group 500. However, there is no replacement driver for Wickens in the #6 Honda for this weekend.

Here is a list of the three part-time drivers who are set to compete in the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at Gateway Motorsports Park this Saturday night.

RankDriverCar, Team, Engine
1Pietro Fittipaldi#19, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda
2Ed Carpenter#20, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet
3Gabby Chaves#88, Harding Racing, Chevrolet

Tune in to NBC Sports Network at 8:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, August 25 for the live broadcast of the 2018 Bommarito Automotive Group 500 from Gateway Motorsports Park.