IndyCar: Way-too-early look at the 2023 Indy 500 entry list

With more than four months to go until IndyCar’s biggest race, the Indy 500 entry list is already nearing 33 cars. Let’s take a look.

The start of the 2023 IndyCar season is still about a month and a half away, and the Indy 500 isn’t scheduled to take place for more than two and a half months after that.

Yet with three confirmations from earlier this week, there are already 32 confirmed entries for this year’s running of the 200-lap race around the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval in Speedway, Indiana.

There are 27 cars set to run full-time throughout the season, including 26 with full-time drivers, and five additional entries have already been confirmed for the 107th running of the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing”. Of those five entries, four have confirmed drivers.

Let’s have a way-too-early look at the entry list for this May’s Indy 500, starting with the full-time entries and then moving to the part-time/Indy 500-only entries.

Full-time IndyCar teams (27)

A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Chevrolet

• No. 14 – Santino Ferrucci
• No. TBD – Benjamin Pedersen (R)

Andretti Autosport, Honda

• No. 26 – Colton Herta
• No. 27 – Kyle Kirkwood
• No. 28 – Romain Grosjean
• No. 29 – Devlin DeFrancesco

Arrow McLaren, Chevrolet

• No. 5 – Pato O’Ward
• No. 6 – Felix Rosenqvist
• No. 7 – Alexander Rossi

Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda

• No. 8 – Marcus Ericsson
• No. 9 – Scott Dixon
• No. 10 – Alex Palou
• No. 11 – Takuma Sato

Dale Coyne Racing, Honda

• No. 18 (with HMD Motorsports) – David Malukas
• No. 51 (with Rick Ware Racing) – Sting Ray Robb (R)

Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet

• No. 20 – Conor Daly
• No. 21 – Rinus VeeKay

Juncos Hollinger Racing, Chevrolet

• No. 77 – Callum Ilott
• No. 78 – Agustin Canapino (R)

Meyer Shank Racing, Honda

• No. 06 – Helio Castroneves
• No. 60 – Simon Pagenaud

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda

• No. 15 – Graham Rahal
• No. 30 – Jack Harvey
• No. 45 – Christian Lundgaard

Team Penske, Chevrolet

• No. 2 – Josef Newgarden
• No. 3 – Scott McLaughlin
• No. TBD – Will Power

Part-time/Indy 500-only entries (5)

Andretti Autosport, Honda

• No. 98 – Marco Andretti

Arrow McLaren, Chevrolet

• No. TBD – Tony Kanaan

Dreyer & Reinbold Racing / Cusick Motorsports, Chevrolet

• No. 24 – Stefan Wilson

Ed Carpenter Racing, Chevrolet

• No. TBD – Ed Carpenter

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Honda

• No. TBD – TBD

Worth noting is the fact that the Indy 500 entry list could reach 33 at any moment, since Chip Ganassi Racing are reportedly waiting to see whether or not Jimmie Johnson wants to return in a fifth entry. Whether the team would field the fifth entry if Johnson decides against a return is unknown.

The 107th running of the Indy 500 is set to be broadcast live from Indianapolis Motor Speedway on NBC beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET on Sunday, May 28