2024 NTT IndyCar Series (NaBB737)

The 2024 NTT INDYCAR Series is set to be the 113th official championship season of American open wheel racing and the 29th season under IndyCar Series sanction. The premier event will be the 2024 Indianapolis 500. It will be the fifth year under Penske management after they took over in late 2019.
==Contracted teams and drivers==
The following teams, entries and drivers have been announced to compete in the 2024 NTT IndyCar Series season. All teams use a spec Dallara IC-24 chassis with universal aero kits (one each for speedways, short ovals, and road courses) and Firestone tires. This is the first season of the new IC-24 chassis as well as the new 2.4L twin turbo hybrid engine formula. The latter change has enabled Toyota to rejoin the series through its GR subsidary.
There are 10 full-time entries for Honda (4 Andretti, 3 RLL, 3 Shank), 10 full-time entries for Chevrolet (3 Penske, 3 AMSP, 2 Juncos, 2 Foyt), and 10 full-time entries for GR (4 Ganassi, 2 ECR, 2 VSR, 2 HMD Coyne). (Cue the Thanos meme: "Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.") A total of 38 cars are entered for the Indianapolis 500, with Honda and Chevrolet supplying 13 engines each and Toyota supplying 12.
Team 	Engine 	No.	Driver(s) 	Round(s)
AJ Foyt Enterprises 	Chevrolet	4 	Dalton Kellett 	All
AJ Foyt Enterprises 	Chevrolet	14 	Tatiana Calderon 	All
AJFE-Cusick Motorsports 	Chevrolet	41 	Stefan Wilson 	5-6
Andretti Autosport 	Honda 	26 	Christian Lundgaard 	All
Andretti Autosport 	Honda 	27 	Matthew Brabham 	All
Andretti Autosport 	Honda 	28 	Romain Grosjean 	All
Andretti Autosport 	Honda 	29 	Devlin DeFrancesco 	All
Andretti Autosport 	Honda 	98 	Marco Andretti 	6
Arrow McLaren SP 	Chevrolet	5 	Pato O'Ward 	All
Arrow McLaren SP 	Chevrolet	6 	Alexander Rossi 	All
Arrow McLaren SP 	Chevrolet	7 	Linus Lundqvist 	All
Chip Ganassi Racing 	GR 	8 	Marcus Ericsson 	All
Chip Ganassi Racing 	GR 	9 	Scott Dixon 	All
Chip Ganassi Racing 	GR 	10 	Alex Palou 	All
Chip Ganassi Racing 	GR 	19 	Callum Ilott 	All
Chip Ganassi Racing 	GR 	48 	Jimmie Johnson 	6
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 	Chevrolet	24 	Sage Karam 	6
ECR Force Indy 	GR 	20 	Ernie Francis Jr. (R)	All
Ed Carpenter Racing 	GR 	21 	Rinus VeeKay 	All
Ed Carpenter Racing 	GR 	22 	Fernando Alonso 	6
HMD Coyne Racing 	GR 	18 	David Malukas 	All
HMD Coyne Racing w/ Rick Ware Racing	GR 	51 	Benjamin Pedersen (R)	All
Juncos Hollinger Racing 	Chevrolet	55 	Kyffin Simpson (R) 	All
Juncos Hollinger Racing 	Chevrolet	77 	Conor Daly 	All
Meyer Shank Racing 	Honda 	TBA	TBA 	All
Meyer Shank Racing 	Honda 	6 	Tom Blomqvist 	All
Meyer Shank Racing 	Honda 	60 	Simon Pagenaud 	
Paretta Autosport 	Honda 	16 	Simona de Silvestro 	5-6
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 	Honda 	15 	Graham Rahal 	All
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 	Honda 	30 	Kevin Magnussen (R) 	All
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 	Honda 	35 	Takuma Sato 	6
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 	Honda 	45 	Jack Harvey 	All
Team Penske 	Chevrolet	2 	Josef Newgarden 	All
Team Penske 	Chevrolet	3 	Scott McLaughlin 	All
Team Penske 	Chevrolet	12 	Will Power 	All
Team Penske 	Chevrolet	33 	Helio Castroneves 	6
Vasser Sullivan Racing 	GR 	11 	Kyle Kirkwood 	All
Vasser Sullivan Racing 	GR 	17 	Felix Rosenqvist 	1, 3, 7-8, 11-13, 15-17
Vasser Sullivan Racing 	GR 	17 	JR Hildebrand 	2, 4-5, 9-10, 14
Vasser Sullivan Racing 	GR 	17 	Kyle Busch (R) 	6
===Driver/Team Changes===
*The AJFE-Cusick Motorsports entry that ran the full season in 2023 reverts to part-time status, putting Foyt back at 2 cars. Stefan Wilson runs the Month of May events while returning to full-time sportscar racing. This subtraction, however, should allow AJFE to become more competitive (especially with the new engines).
*Following Andretti's establishment of a Formula 1 team for the 2024 season onwards, the #26 Honda becomes vacant as Colton Herta moves to the Andretti F1 squad. His vacancy is filled by Christian Lundgaard, formerly of RLL. With the Andretti F1 team running Renault (aka Alpine) powertrains, Lundgaard as a graduated Alpine Academy driver is able to move to Andretti with Alpine partially funding it.
*Chip Ganassi Racing switches to GR engines after running Honda ones since 2017. CGR previously ran Toyota engines from 2003-2005.
*Callum Ilott moves to Chip Ganassi Racing after two full-time seasons with the small but growing Juncos outfit. While Ilott is not really a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy anymore, he still has close ties with the group and does the IMSA endurance races for AF Corse, plus joins CGR's GTP driver rotation for the Rolex 24 Hours (at least until Ferrari decides to enter a GTP). Ilott takes over the former #48 which is now #19, with this entry swapping sponsors with CGR's #10 and NTT Data therefore coming aboard for most of Ilott's season.
*Jimmie Johnson steps away from full-time racing following two full seasons in IndyCar, but remains in the #48 (now the 5th CGR entry) for the Indianapolis 500 with Carvana sponsorship. Carvana, meanwhile, has downsized its sponsorship but still sponsors two thirds of the season for Alex Palou.
*One of four teams to switch to GR engines, Ed Carpenter Racing sees significant change for 2024. Ernie Francis Jr. replaces Conor Daly in the #20 machine, as the first graduate of the series' Race For Equality And Change program. His entry is named ECR Force Indy as Force Indy partners on the car. Rinus VeeKay returns for a fifth season with ECR, but it is likely to be his last as the Dutchman is expected to replace Will Power in the #12 for Team Penske from 2025 onwards. The legendary Fernando Alonso, who attempted several Indy 500s in the late 2010s in hopes of achieving the Triple Crown but did not succeed, returns for another shot at the Borg-Warner Trophy following his final F1 season in 2023.
*Dale Coyne Racing, like ECR, undergoes significant change heading into 2024. Henry Malukas and his HMD Motorsports team purchase a 40% ownership stake in the team, now called HMD Coyne Racing. The deal includes options to eventually cede 75% majority ownership to HMD. This allows for further strengthening of the connection to HMD Motorsports' Indy Lights team, which graduates Benjamin Pedersen to IndyCar full-time in the #51 entry (which remains partnered with Rick Ware Racing). With HMD Coyne on the rise, it is very likely that a third full-time entry could come to fruition for the team.
*Juncos Hollinger Racing expands to two full-time entries for 2024, with an all-new driver lineup to boot. Its 2010 Indy Pro 2000 champion Conor Daly reunites with the team for a full-time schedule in the #77, and the part-time #71 is renumbered to #55 with Indy Lights standout for TJ Speed Motorsports Kyffin Simpson (will be 19 years old as a rookie) driving it. The latter may be targeted by other teams, though, if his potential continues to skyrocket, making Juncos' return to Indy Lights all the more important.
*With Helio Castroneves leaving the team, Meyer Shank Racing is in familiar territory as it elevates a six-race part-time car to full-time. The #06 returns to full-time status with Christian Rasmussen (2020 USF2000 and 2021 Indy Pro 2000 champ) at the helm, giving MSR a scary 3-car lineup of Rasmussen, Simon Pagenaud, and Nyck de Vries.
*Following a gap year in 2023, Paretta Autosport returns to the IndyCar Series with Simona de Silvestro. The team has swapped to Honda engines and has an alliance with RLL, and has also added the Indy GP to its schedule. Team owner Beth Paretta is continuing to get closer to her goal of having the team be full-time, which would be an extremely welcome addition for the paddock and the series' outlook as a whole.
*After a consistent and successful couple of years at RLL, the team makes a big leap with the signing of Kevin Magnussen to replace fellow Danish driver Christian Lundgaard in the #30. The former F1 driver drove full-time for Peugeot in the WEC in 2022 and 2023, but returns to open-wheel racing full-time and is sure to be a contender quickly. Additionally, RLL adds a fourth car at the Indy 500 for the first time, with Takuma Sato returning for his final IndyCar race.
*Team Penske, like RLL, has a reunion with one of its most storied drivers as Helio Castroneves rejoins for another Indy 500. With Scott McLaughlin in the #3, Helio now pilots the #33 for this one-off.
*Vasser Sullivan Racing's loyalty to Toyota/Lexus pays off in a big way, as they become a two-car team using GR engines with some financial backing from the manufacturer. Kyle Kirkwood returns in the #11 SealMaster entry, while the new #17 entry features three stellar drivers. Felix Rosenqvist, who drove full-time in IndyCar from 2019-2022, returns for 10 races, while also driving for the team full-time in IMSA. JR Hildebrand keeps up his part-time schedule, running six races for the team. Most notably, however, Kyle Busch will make his first attempt at the "Memorial Day Double," as the NASCAR legend enters the Indy 500 to go along with the Coca-Cola 600 that is part of his NASCAR schedule.
== Schedule==
Adjustments from the 2022 NTT INDYCAR Series schedule in terms of new venues have not been substantiated on yet, so the schedule (and therefore the round numbers in the team/driver chart) is that of 2022 including any conflicts with other series.
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