2024 AT&T Champ Car World Series season

The **2024 AT&T Champ Car World Series season** is scheduled to be the 25th season of the Indycar World Championship, and the 112th season of top-tier American open wheel racing. The season's headlining event will be the 111th Indianapolis 500 Mile Race on May 19th.

The 2024 season marks the fifth season of telecommunications conglomerate AT&T sponsoring the series, out of a six year deal.

## Background

The 2024 season marked the 25th season of the Indycar World Championship, marked by numerous celebrations throughout the season. For the season, prize purses from every race outside of the Indianapolis 500 rose by 25%, with series organizers, Horizon Corporation, reaffirming that the increases were just for 2024. Accompanying the purse increases, a tighter restriction on how many full time entries were permitted was also enforced. For road and street course events, the grid sizes were reduced from 28 to 26 cars, while oval events were permitted to continue supporting 30 cars outside of the Triple Crown events at Indianapolis, Pocono, and Fontana.

### Rule Changes

A number of rule changes were implemented by Horizon Corporation, following the 2023 season, mostly in regards to event scheduling and procedure.

## 2024 Teams and Drivers

The following teams and drivers were scheduled to take part in at least one race in the 2024 season. Series rookies are denoted by **(R)**. Former Indycar World Driver's Champions are denoted by **(C)**.

### Team Changes

* Beginning in 2024, Team Impulse will carry entitlement sponsorship from Verizon Wireless, with the team now being identified as Verizon Team Impulse. Panasonic, the team's former title sponsor, will move remain a sponsor in the series.
* Cherokee GP rebranded itself to align with the other racing operations owned by former driver Carmen Sienna. The team will now be known as Arrowhead Racing.

### Drivers Leaving

* Zoe Sharp retired following the 2023 season, returning to an advisory role for Obsidian Racing Team.
* Keisha Fox will leave the series for the NAMRA Cup Series, staying with the Arrowhead Racing team as part of the move.

### Contract Updates

* Evangeline Porter signed a three-year, US$3.9 million deal to remain with Atomic Autosport until the end of the 2026 season.
* Alicja Kowalkiewicz signed a four year, US$4.4 million renewal with Arrowhead Racing keeping the Polish driver in the series until the end of 2027. Kowalkiewicz will be 37 when the deal expires.
* Isabel Espinoza will return to Escuderia Aguila for the 2024 season, following the passing of Cristine Espinoza, and her father Miguel's resumption of team operations. Espinoza last appeared in the 2023 Arasaka 300 at Twin Ring Motegi, where she sustained multiple injuries in a severe crash. Espinoza signed a two-year, US$2.6 million deal with the team keeping her in place until end of 2025.
* Katrina Ochoa resigned a two-year, US$1.4 million deal to stay with Escuderia Aguila until the end of 2025.

## Calendar

The 2024 Champ Car schedule will be ratified on 1 December 2023 by the North American Motor Racing Association (NAMRA) and the Federation International Course d'Artificielle (FICA). The season is expected to be contested across 22 race weekends, competing on a variety of track types throughout the season across multiple countries and continents. Per rules put in place by Horizon Corporation, the series organizers for both the Champ Car World Series, and Champ Car Academy, the series cannot extend beyond 22 weekends, and up to three weekends can be turned into doubleheader weekends, where two equal length races take place on the same weekend at the same venue. For the first time since the 2019 season, a doubleheader will be featured on the calendar.

### Calendar changes

* Phillip Island Circuit will no longer host a round of the series, after serving as the series' opening round from 2020 to 2023. In October, 2023, it was announced that the Albert Park Street Circuit would open the season with a double header weekend, 1 week before the city hosts the Formula One Australian Grand Prix.
* The Bend Motorsports Park will replace the date previously filled by Twin Ring Motegi, ending a 24 year stretch of the series being present in Japan. Tracks from New Zealand, China, and Japan were explored before the series decided to sign the track to a two-year deal.
* Nashville Superspeedway, and Richmond Raceway swap dates to ease logistical strain on the teams.
* Watkins Glen International, Kentucky Speedway, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course all return the calendar after a two year hiatus. The tracks were scheduled for the 2022 season before the 2022 H1N1 global pandemic began, and was left off of the 2023 calendar due to pandemic restraints.
* Portland International Raceway will replace the race in Vancouver in 2024 as the venue receives renovations to its parking and exterior areas.
* The season finale at the Auto Club Speedway has been moved from Sunday afternoon, to Saturday night for the first time since 2020.