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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