2008 Indy Car Series Season - Team and Driver Chart

Team and Driver Chart

Team Chassis Engine No Drivers Sponsor(s) Notes
Team Penske Dallara Honda 3 Helio Castroneves Kodak/Mobil 1 Both cars appear with unbranded Marlboro colors and logos in accordance with the MSA. No. 77 car was also entered for the Indy 500 but did not appear.
6 Ryan Briscoe Kodak/Mobil 1
Target Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara Honda 9 Scott Dixon Target/Fujifilm/Polaroid
10 Dan Wheldon Target/Fujifilm/Polaroid
Dario Franchitti Surfer's Paradise only
Andretti Green Racing Dallara Honda 7 Danica Patrick Motorola/XM
11 Tony Kanaan 7-Eleven
26 Marco Andretti NYSE/Meijer/Gillette/Blockbuster The car was painted with Indiana Jones sponsorship at Indianapolis and Milwaukee. It was painted with Star Wars: The Clone Wars sponsorship at Infineon.
27 Hideki Mutoh (R) Panasonic/Formula Dream
Rahal Letterman Racing Dallara Honda 16 Alex Lloyd Wii Fit Indy 500 only; run in conjunction with Chip Ganassi Racing
17 Ryan Hunter-Reay Ethanol Promotion and Information Council
Panther Racing Dallara Honda 4 Vitor Meira National Guard/Delphi The No. 83 car was also entered for the Indy 500 but did not appear
Dan Wheldon Surfer's Paradise only
A.J. Foyt Racing Dallara Honda 14 Darren Manning ABC Supply Company
Vitor Meira Surfer's Paradise only
41 Jeff Simmons ABC Supply Company Indy 500 only
Franck Perera (R) Chicagoland only
Vision Racing Dallara Honda 2 A. J. Foyt IV Eli Lilly
20 Ed Carpenter Menards
22 Davey Hamilton HP Indy 500 only
22 Paul Tracy Subway/Edmonton.com Edmonton only; run in conjunction with Walker Racing
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing Dallara Honda 15 Buddy Rice Jordache/Operation Homefront/Express Auto Delivery/Roll Coater
23 Milka Duno Citgo Duno (11 races), Bell (6 races)
Townsend Bell William Rast/Emu Australia/Rigid Building Systems
99 Townsend Bell William Rast In addition to Bell's six races in the No. 23, he ran the Indy 500 in the #99.
Roth Racing Dallara Honda 24 Jay Howard (R) All Sport Ran first 4 races and Watkins Glen
John Andretti 1-800-LAS-VEGAS Drove at Indy 500, Milwaukee, Texas, Iowa, and Richmond
25 Marty Roth LIDS/Men's Warehouse
KV Racing Technology Dallara Honda 5 Oriol Servià Plantronics/CDW/Wall Street Journal/Angie's List
8 Will Power (R) Aussie Vineyards/Smart & Final
Conquest Racing Dallara Honda 34 Jaime Camara (R) Sangari Perera raced first 3 races, replaced by Camara for rest of season
Franck Perera (R) Opes Prime Group/Ares
36 Enrique Bernoldi (R) Sangari Tagliani replaced Bernoldi in the final three races due to injury
Alex Tagliani Ubisoft/Sennheiser/Sangari
Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing Dallara Honda 02 Justin Wilson (R) McDonald's
06 Graham Rahal (R) Rexall/Hole in the Wall Camps
Dale Coyne Racing Dallara Honda 18 Bruno Junqueira Z-Line Designs
19 Mario Moraes (R) Sonny's Real Pit Bar-B-Q
HVM Racing Dallara Honda 33 E. J. Viso (R) PDVSA Former Minardi Team USA in Champ Car. Ran all races with the exception of Nashville (illness).
Pacific Coast Motorsports Dallara Honda 96 Mario Domínguez (R) Mexico City Tourism Board Ran at Long Beach and planned to run full-time starting at Indy (DNQ), but a team re-evaluation after Texas prompted a road/street course focus. Ran four subsequent races: Watkins Glen, Mid-Ohio, Edmonton, and Infineon.
Part-time entries
Luczo Dragon Racing Dallara Honda 12 Tomas Scheckter Symantec Kansas, Indy 500, Texas, Infineon, Detroit, and Chicagoland only.
Rubicon Race Team Dallara Honda 44 Max Papis LifeLock Indy 500 Only – Failed to qualify
Sarah Fisher Racing Dallara Honda 67 Sarah Fisher Dollar General/text4cars.com Indy 500, Kentucky, and Chicagoland only
CURB/Agajanian/Beck Motorsports/Wellman Racing Dallara Honda 77 Roger Yasukawa Interush Motegi Only
98 Curb Records/hhgregg/Real Power Indy 500 only – Failed to qualify
American Dream Motorsports Panoz Honda 88 Phil Giebler Gardner Trucking Indy 500 only – practiced for Indy but wrecked and failed to make a qualifying attempt; formerly Playa Del Racing.
Hemelgarn Johnson Racing Dallara Honda 91 Buddy Lazier LifeLock, MDA Indy 500 only
PDM Racing Panoz Honda TBA TBA TBA Indy 500 only – did not appear
Long Beach only entries
Forsythe/Pettit Racing Panoz Cosworth 3 Paul Tracy INDECK
7 Franck Montagny INDECK
37 David Martínez INDECK
Minardi Team USA/HVM Racing Panoz Cosworth 4 Nelson Philippe Muermans Group
14 Roberto Moreno Muermans Group
Rocketsports Panoz Cosworth 9 Antônio Pizzonia Borla Exhaust
10 Juho Annala Pulp Agency/Rockstar Energy Drink
KV Racing Technology Panoz Cosworth 12 Jimmy Vasser Plantronics/HP
Walker Racing Panoz Cosworth 15 Alex Tagliani CEC Wheels
Pacific Coast Motorsports Panoz Cosworth 29 Alex Figge Imperial Capital Bank
  • All entries utilize Firestone tires
  • On March 5, the IRL announced that former Champ Car teams would be paired with current IndyCar teams to aid their transition.

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