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Indy 500: Provisional entry list for first ever August race

By Asher Fair

Will Power, Team Penske, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Andretti Autosport, Indy 500, IndyCar (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
Will Power, Team Penske, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Andretti Autosport, Indy 500, IndyCar (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images) /
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The Indy 500 has been postponed by nearly three months from Memorial Day Sunday to the fourth Sunday in August. Here is the current entry list for this race.

For the first time since the final year of World War II in 1945, we will not be “Back Home Again In Indiana” this Memorial Day weekend for the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on what was a 17-race 2020 IndyCar schedule. In total, three races have been canceled, five have been postponed and one has been moved up by a week. The season now contains 14 races, although none of their dates are set in stone.

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The Indy 500, initially scheduled to take place on its usual Memorial Day Sunday date in May, is one of the five races that was postponed, as the series took the unprecedented but correct measure to move the race back by nearly three months from Sunday, May 24 to Sunday, August 23.

It is set to maintain its usual two-week schedule, with practice during one week leading into qualifying over the weekend and the race taking place the following Sunday after a couple more days of practice, including Carb Day.

This schedule overhaul at the Brickyard caused the race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course to be bumped forward by a week while causing the race at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway to be moved back by a week and a day.

With all things considered, the best-case scenario is that the 104th running of the 200-lap “Greatest Spectacle in Racing” takes place around the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) oval in Speedway Indiana on Sunday, August 23 in front of a crowd of over 300,000 fans, as is now planned.

What do we know about the entry list, being more than four and a half months away from the race instead of just a month and a half?

Nothing has changed on the entry list since the scheduled start of the 2020 IndyCar season on Sunday, March 15. There are 32 confirmed cars with 30 confirmed drivers thus far with four additional cars speculated.

The only difference is that the entry list has nearly three additional months to grow than it otherwise would have, assuming that none of the confirmed entries are forced to back out due to the financial strain that has resulted from this pandemic.

Here is an early look.

Full-time drivers

A.J. Foyt Enterprises

  • Charlie Kimball, #4 Chevrolet

Andretti Autosport

  • Zach Veach, #26 Honda
  • Alexander Rossi, #27 Honda
  • Ryan Hunter-Reay, #28 Honda
  • Colton Herta, #88 Honda (Andretti Harding Steinbrenner Autosport)
  • Marco Andretti, #98 Honda (Andretti Herta Autosport with Marco Andretti and Curb-Agajanian)

Arrow McLaren SP

  • Patricio O’Ward, #5 Chevrolet
  • Oliver Askew, #7 Chevrolet

Chip Ganassi Racing

  • Marcus Ericsson, #8 Honda
  • Scott Dixon, #9 Honda
  • Felix Rosenqvist, #10 Honda

Dale Coyne Racing

  • Santino Ferrucci, #18 Honda (with Vasser-Sullivan)
  • Alex Palou, #55 Honda (with Team Goh)

Ed Carpenter Racing

  • Rinus VeeKay, #21 Chevrolet

Meyer Shank Racing

  • Jack Harvey, #60 Honda

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing

  • Graham Rahal, #15 Honda
  • Takuma Sato, #30 Honda

Team Penske

  • Josef Newgarden, #1 Chevrolet
  • Will Power, #12 Chevrolet
  • Simon Pagenaud, #22 Chevrolet

OTHER:

  • Conor Daly
    • #20 Chevrolet – Ed Carpenter Racing (nine road and street course races)
    • #TBD Chevrolet – Ed Carpenter Racing (Indianapolis 500)
    • #59 Chevrolet – Carlin (four non-Indy 500 oval races)

Part-time drivers

A.J. Foyt Enterprises

  • Tony Kanaan, #14 Chevrolet (ovals-only deal)
  • Dalton Kellett, #TBD Chevrolet (seven-race deal)

Andretti Autosport

  • James Hinchcliffe, #29 Honda (three-race deal)

Carlin

  • Max Chilton, #59 Chevrolet (10-race deal)

Dreyer & Reinbold Racing

  • Sage Karam, #24 Chevrolet (four-race deal)

Ed Carpenter Racing

  • Ed Carpenter, #20 Chevrolet (ovals-only deal)

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing

  • Spencer Pigot, #45 Honda (with Citrone/Buhl Autosport)

Remaining full-time seats

  • Carlin, #31 Chevrolet

Indy 500 one-offs

Arrow McLaren SP

  • Fernando Alonso, #66 Chevrolet

Team Penske

  • Helio Castroneves, #3 Chevrolet

Indy 500 one-offs (speculated)

  • James Davison in a Jonathan Byrd’s Racing/Hayward Motorsports entry
  • Dale Coyne Racing, #TBD Honda (third car)
  • Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, #48 Chevrolet (J.R. Hildebrand?)

Other (confirmed)

Other (speculated)

  • Juncos Racing, #32 Chevrolet (Kyle Kaiser?)

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The television broadcast schedule for the 104th running of the Indianapolis 500 has not yet been revealed, but if it stays how it would have looked on Memorial Day Sunday in May, the race would be broadcast live on NBC from Indianapolis Motor Speedway beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET on Sunday, August 23. It is now the 10th of 14 races on the 2020 IndyCar schedule.