IndyCar: 2019 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg entry list

The 2019 IndyCar season opener, the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, is right around the corner. Here is the entry list for this race.

After an offseason of nearly six months since Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay won the 2018 season finale at Sonoma Raceway and Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon secured his fifth career championship with a second place finish in that race, IndyCar is scheduled to return to action this weekend with the start of the 2019 season.

The first of 17 races on this year’s schedule, the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, is scheduled to take place this Sunday, March 10, and drivers are set to take to the 14-turn, 1.8-mile (2.897-kilometer) temporary street circuit in St. Petersburg, Florida beginning this Friday, March 8.

A total of 24 drivers are on the entry list for this 110-lap race. Of these 24 drivers, 20 are full-time drivers who are set to compete in each of the season’s 17 races.

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Of these 20 full-time drivers, 16 competed in the sport on a full-time basis last season, and all 16 of these drivers are set to drive for the teams for which they drove last season again this season. Meanwhile, the other four full-time drivers who are set to compete in this race are rookies.

Of these four rookies, two have competed in at least one IndyCar race before while two have not. Of the four part-time drivers who are set to compete in this race, two competed in the sport on a full-time basis last season, one competed in the sport on a part-time basis last season and one has never competed in an IndyCar race before.

First, here is a list of the 20 full-time drivers who are set to compete in the 2019 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida.

NOTE: Rookies are listed in italics.

Rank – Driver – Car, Team, Engine
1 – Josef Newgarden – #2, Team Penske, Chevrolet
2 – Matheus Leist – #4, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet
3 – James Hinchcliffe – #5, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda
4 – Marcus Ericsson – #7, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda
5 – Scott Dixon – #9, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda
6 – Felix Rosenqvist – #10, Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda
7 – Will Power – #12, Team Penske, Chevrolet
8 – Tony Kanaan – #14, A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet
9 – Graham Rahal – #15, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda
10 – Sebastien Bourdais – #18, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda
11 – Santino Ferrucci – #19, Dale Coyne Racing, Honda
12 – Spencer Pigot – #21, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet
13 – Simon Pagenaud – #22, Team Penske, Chevrolet
14 – Zach Veach – #26, Andretti Autosport, Honda
15 – Alexander Rossi – #27, Andretti Autosport, Honda
16 – Ryan Hunter-Reay – #28, Andretti Autosport, Honda
17 – Takuma Sato – #30, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda
18 – Max Chilton – #59, Carlin, Chevrolet
19 – Colton Herta – #88, Harding Steinbrenner Racing, Honda
20 – Marco Andretti – #98, Andretti Herta Autosport, Honda

Secondly, here is a list of the four part-time drivers who are set to compete in the 2019 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida.

NOTE: Rookies are listed in italics.

Rank – Driver – Car, Team, Engine
1 – Ed Jones – #20, Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet
2 – Charlie Kimball – #23, Carlin, Chevrolet
3 – Jack Harvey – #60, Meyer Shank Racing, Honda
4 – Ben Hanley – #81, DragonSpeed, Chevrolet

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Be sure to tune in to NBC Sports Network at 12:30 p.m. ET this Sunday, March 10 for the live broadcast of the 2019 IndyCar season opener, the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.