2025 IndyCar Series

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2025 IndyCar season
NTT IndyCar Series
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Start dateMarch 2
End dateAugust 31
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The 2025 NTT IndyCar Series is scheduled to be the 114th official championship season of American open wheel racing and the 30th season under IndyCar Series sanction. Its showcase event will be the 109th running of the Indianapolis 500.

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Chip Ganassi Racing driver Álex Palou will enter the season as the defending champion, while Team Penske driver Josef Newgarden is the defending Indianapolis 500 winner.

Background and series news

After IndyCar's television contract with NBC Sports lapsed in 2024, the series signed a new agreement with Fox Sports that will see all races being covered on the Fox Broadcast Network. [1]

On September 23, 2024, IndyCar announced its first ever charter system, which would begin in 2025 and extend until 2031. 25 charters were awarded, with a maximum of 3 for each team. Chartered entries are guaranteed a starting position for every race, excluding the Indianapolis 500. Charters are required to qualify for the Leaders Circle. [N 1] [4]

Confirmed entries

The following teams, entries, and drivers are contracted to compete in the 2025 NTT IndyCar Series season. All teams will use a spec Dallara DW12 chassis with 2018 universal aero kit and Firestone tires.

All full-season entries barring the two from Prema Racing were awarded "charters" which enables those entries to participate in the Leaders Circle program. 25 charters were awarded in total, and those chartered entries will compete for 22 Leaders Circle contracts. [5]

As there are 27 or fewer entries confirmed for the full season (including Prema), no entries will be "bumped" from (fail to qualify for) events outside the Indianapolis 500, which maintains its 33-car starting grid with no guaranteed entries. [5]

As part of the language contained in the charter agreement, teams will be limited to three drivers per entry during a season. [5]

TeamEngineNo.Driver(s)Round(s)Ref(s)
A. J. Foyt Racing [N 2] Chevrolet 14 Flag of the United States.svg Santino Ferrucci All [6]
41 Flag of the United States.svg David Malukas All [7]
Andretti Global with Curb-Agajanian Honda 26 Flag of the United States.svg Colton Herta All [8]
Andretti Global 27 Flag of the United States.svg Kyle Kirkwood All [9]
28 Flag of Sweden.svg Marcus Ericsson All [10]
TBAFlag placeholder.svg TBA6 [11]
Arrow McLaren Chevrolet 5 Flag of Mexico.svg Pato O'Ward All [12]
6 Flag of the United States.svg Nolan Siegel All [13]
7 Flag of Denmark.svg Christian Lundgaard All [14]
Arrow McLaren/Rick Hendrick 17 Flag of the United States.svg Kyle Larson  R 6 [15]
Chip Ganassi Racing Honda 8 Flag of the Cayman Islands.svg Kyffin Simpson All [16]
9 Flag of New Zealand.svg Scott Dixon All [17]
10 Flag of Spain.svg Álex Palou All [18]
Dale Coyne Racing Honda 18Flag placeholder.svg TBATBA
TBAFlag placeholder.svg TBATBA
DRR-Cusick Motorsports Chevrolet 23 Flag of the United States.svg Ryan Hunter-Reay 6 [19] [20]
24 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jack Harvey 6 [20]
Ed Carpenter Racing Chevrolet 20 Flag of the United States.svg Alexander Rossi All [21]
21 Flag of Denmark.svg Christian Rasmussen All [21]
33 Flag of the United States.svg Ed Carpenter 6 [21]
Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet 77 Flag of the United States.svg Conor Daly All [22]
78 Flag of the United States.svg Sting Ray Robb All [23]
Meyer Shank Racing [N 3] Honda 06 Flag of Brazil.svg Hélio Castroneves 6 [24]
60 Flag of Sweden.svg Felix Rosenqvist All [25]
66 Flag of New Zealand.svg Marcus Armstrong All [26]
Prema Racing Chevrolet 83 Flag of Israel.svg Robert Shwartzman  R All [27]
90 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Callum Ilott All [28]
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda 15 Flag of the United States.svg Graham Rahal All [29]
30 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Devlin DeFrancesco All [30]
45 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Louis Foster  R All [31]
Team Penske Chevrolet 2 Flag of the United States.svg Josef Newgarden All [32]
3 Flag of New Zealand.svg Scott McLaughlin All [33]
12 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Will Power All [34]
R Eligible for Rookie of the Year

Driver changes

Preseason

Team changes

Preseason

  • On April 9, 2024, Italian junior formula and endurance racing team Prema Racing announced it would enter two full-time entries in IndyCar in 2025 and will utilizing Chevrolet engines. [37] [38]
  • On August 19, 2024, Meyer Shank Racing confirmed that it would be switching technical alliance partners from Andretti Global to Chip Ganassi Racing, having been with Andretti since 2020. [39]
  • On September 4, 2024, Racer reported that Chip Ganassi Racing would downsize its IndyCar operation from five to three cars. [40]

Schedule

The schedule was released on June 13, 2024. [1]

Rd.Race nameTrackLocationDate
1 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg  S  Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida March 2
2 The Thermal Club IndyCar Grand Prix  R  The Thermal Club Thermal, California March 23
3 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach  S  Streets of Long Beach Long Beach, California April 13
4 Children's of Alabama Indy Grand Prix  R  Barber Motorsports Park Birmingham, Alabama May 4
5 Sonsio Grand Prix  R  Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course Speedway, Indiana May 10
6 109th Running of the Indianapolis 500  O  Indianapolis Motor Speedway May 25
7 Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix  S  Streets of Detroit Detroit, Michigan June 1
8 Bommarito Automotive Group 500  O  World Wide Technology Raceway Madison, Illinois June 15
9 XPEL Grand Prix at Road America  R  Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin June 22
10 Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio  R  Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio July 6
11 Hy-Vee Homefront 250  O  Iowa Speedway Newton, Iowa July 12
12 Hy-Vee One Step 250 July 13
13 Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto  S  Exhibition Place Toronto, Ontario July 20
14 Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey  R  WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey, California July 27
15 BitNile.com Grand Prix of Portland  R  Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon August 10
16 Hy-Vee Milwaukee Mile 250  O  Milwaukee Mile West Allis, Wisconsin August 24
17 Big Machine Music City Grand Prix  O  Nashville Superspeedway Lebanon, Tennessee August 31

 O  Oval/Speedway
 R  Road course
 S  Street circuit

Schedule changes

Points standings

Position 1st  2nd  3rd  4th  5th  6th  7th  8th  9th  10th  11th  12th  13th  14th  15th  16th  17th  18th  19th  20th  21st  22nd  23rd  24th  25th+ 
Points504035323028262422201918171615141312111098765

Driver standings

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Leaders Circle program provides approximately $1 million dollars to the top-22 eligible entries by entrant points at the end of a season, in what has been described by sources as a "socialized financial incentive program" [2] [3] .
  2. ↑ Technical partnership with Team Penske.
  3. ↑ Technical partnership with Chip Ganassi Racing.

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