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Tuesday, May 17
8.00am – Gates open
9.00-9.15 – Install laps for all 33 entries
9.15-11.15am – Practice – Indy 500 oval veterans
1.00-3.00pm – Practice – Indy 500 Refresher Orientation Program for Stefan Wilson
3.00-6.00pm – Practice – all Indy 500 participants
6.00pm – Gates close
Wednesday, May 18
10.00am – Gates open
12.00-6.00pm – Practice – all Indy 500 participants
6.00pm – Gates close
Thursday, May 19
10.00am – Gates open
12.00-6.00pm – Practice – all Indy 500 participants
6.00pm – Gates close
Friday, May 20
‘Fast Friday’ – cars run at qualifying boost (up from 1.3 to 1.4-bar)
10.00am – Gates open
12.00-6.00pm – Practice – all Indy 500 participants, fast Friday with extra boost
6.00pm – Gates close
Saturday, May 21
PPG presents Armed Forces Indy 500 qualifying Day 1
8.00am – Gates open
9.00-10:30am – Practice for all cars
12.00-5:50pm – NTT IndyCar Series qualifying: Setting positions 13-33 (or 13-30 if more than 33 cars enter)
6.00pm – Gates close
Sunday, May 22
PPG presents Armed Forces Indy 500 qualifying Day 2
11.30am-12.30pm – Practice for Last Chance Qualifiers (if more than 33 cars enter)
12.30-2.00pm – Top 12 Practice
2.00-3.00pm – Last Chance Qualifying (if necessary)
4.00pm – Top 12 Qualifying
5.10pm – Firestone Fast Six
5.40pm – NTT P1 award presentation
6.00pm – Gates close
Monday, May 23
11.00am – Gates open
12.00-2.00pm – Practice for all cars
2.00pm – Gates close
Friday, May 27
Miller Lite Carb Day
8.00am – Gates open
11.00am-1.00pm – Practice for all cars
2.30-4.00pm – Indy 500 Pit Stop Challenge
4.00pm – Miller Lite Carb Day concert
6.00pm – Gates close
Saturday, May 28
Legends Day presented by Firestone
8.00am – Gates open
9.00-10.00am – Full field autograph session
10.30am – Public Drivers meeting
Sunday, May 29
6.00am – Gates open
9.00am – Cars to pitlane
9.00-10.00am – Borg-Warner Trophy march to the bricks
10.30am – Cars to grid on front stretch
11.47am – Driver introductions
12.18pm – Invocation and national anthem
12.35pm – “Back home again in Indiana”
12.45pm – 106th running of the Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge
The 33 entries by the numbers
There are eight former winners in the field, who between them have amassed 13 wins: Helio Castroneves (4), Juan Pablo Montoya (2), Takuma Sato (2), Scott Dixon, Tony Kanaan, Alexander Rossi, Will Power and Simon Pagenaud.
The field also comprises seven rookies to Indianapolis Motor Speedway in an IndyCar – Devlin DeFrancesco, Romain Grosjean, Callum Ilott, Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Kirkwood, Christian Lundgaard, David Malukas. Five of these are also classified as rookies in the 2022 NTT IndyCar Series, the two exceptions being Grosjean and Johnson, who competed in all the road and street courses in 2021, with Grosjean also making his oval debut at Gateway’s World Wide Technology Raceway.
There are 13 U.S. drivers in the field – Marco Andretti, Ed Carpenter, Conor Daly, Santino Ferrucci, Colton Herta, JR Hildebrand, Jimmie Johnson, Sage Karam, Kyle Kirkwood, David Malukas, Josef Newgarden, Graham Rahal and Alexander Rossi.
The 20 international drivers represent 14 countries. Helio Castroneves and Tony Kanaan are from Brazil; Devlin DeFrancesco and Dalton Kellett are Canadian; Marcus Ericsson and Felix Rosenqvist are Swedish; Jack Harvey, Callum Ilott and Stefan Wilson are British; Juan Pablo Montoya is Colombian; Romain Grosjean and Simon Pagenaud are French; Scott Dixon and Scott McLaughlin are New Zealanders; Will Power is Australian; Christian Lundgaard is Danish; Pato O’Ward is Mexican; Alex Palou is Spanish; Takuma Sato is Japanese, and Rinus VeeKay is from The Netherlands.
The field comprises 17 Hondas and 16 Chevrolets.
No. | Driver | Best result | Hometown | Car name | Team-Engine |
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1 | Tony Kanaan | W x 1 | Salvador, Brazil | The American Legion Chip Ganassi Racing | Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda |
2 | Josef Newgarden | 3rd | Nashville, Tennessee | Shell Team Penske | Team Penske-Chevrolet |
3 | Scott McLaughlin | 20th | Christchurch, New Zealand | Pennzoil Team Penske | Team Penske-Chevrolet |
4 | Dalton Kellett | 23rd | Stouffville, Canada | K-Line / AJ Foyt Racing | A.J. Foyt Enterprises-Chevrolet |
5 | Pato O'Ward | 4th | Monterrey, Mexico | Arrow McLaren SP | Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet |
06 | Helio Castroneves | W x 4 | Sao Paulo, Brazil | AutoNation / SiriusXM | Meyer Shank Racing-Honda |
6 | Juan Pablo Montoya | W x 2 | Bogota, Colombia | Arrow McLaren SP | Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet |
7 | Felix Rosenqvist | 12th | Varnamo, Sweden | Vuse Arrow McLaren SP | Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet |
8 | Marcus Ericsson | 11th | Kumla, Sweden | Huski Chocolate Chip Ganassi Racing | Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda |
9 | Scott Dixon | W x 1 | Auckland, New Zealand | PNC Bank Chip Ganassi Racing | Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda |
10 | Alex Palou | 2nd | Barcelona, Spain | NTT Data Chip Ganassi Racing | Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda |
11 | JR Hildebrand | 2nd | Sausalito, California | Homes For Our Troops / AJ Foyt Racing | AJ Foyt Enterprises-Chevrolet |
12 | Will Power | W x 1 | Toowoomba, Australia | Verizon Team Penske | Team Penske-Chevrolet |
14 | Kyle Kirkwood | R | Jupiter, Florida | ROKiT / AJ Foyt Racing | A.J. Foyt Enterprises-Chevrolet |
15 | Graham Rahal | 3rd | New Albany, Ohio | United Rentals | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda |
18 | David Malukas | R | Chicago, Illinois | HMD | Dale Coyne Racing with HMD Motorsports-Honda |
20 | Conor Daly | 10th | Noblesville, Indiana | BitNile | Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet |
21 | Rinus VeeKay | 8th | Hoofddorp, Netherlands | Bitcoin Racing Team with BitNile | Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet |
23 | Santino Ferrucci | 4th | Woodbury, Connecticut | Palermo's DRR | Dreyer & Reinbold Racing-Chevrolet |
24 | Sage Karam | 7th | Nazareth, Pennsylvania | AES Indiana DRR | Dreyer & Reinbold Racing-Chevrolet |
25 | Stefan Wilson | 15th | Sheffield, UK | DragonSpeed / Cusick Motorsports | DragonSpeed / Cusick Motorsports-Chevrolet |
26 | Colton Herta | 8th | Valencia, California | Gainbridge | Andretti Autosport w/Curb Agajanian-Honda |
27 | Alexander Rossi | W x 1 | Nevada City, California | NAPA Auto Parts / AutoNation | Andretti Autosport-Honda |
28 | Romain Grosjean | R | Geneva, Switzerland | DHL | Andretti Autosport-Honda |
29 | Devlin DeFrancesco | R | Toronto, Canada | PowerTap | Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport-Honda |
30 | Christian Lundgaard | R | Hedensted, Denmark | Shield Cleansers | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda |
33 | Ed Carpenter | 2nd | Indianapolis, Indiana | Alzamend Neuro | Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet |
45 | Jack Harvey | 9th | Bassingham, UK | Hy-Vee | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda |
48 | Jimmie Johnson | R | El Cajon, California | Carvana Chip Ganassi Racing | Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda |
51 | Takuma Sato | W x 2 | Tokyo, Japan | Nurtec ODT | Dale Coyne Racing with RWR-Honda |
60 | Simon Pagenaud | W x 1 | Montmorillon, France | AutoNation / SiriusXM | Meyer Shank Racing-Honda |
77 | Callum Ilott | R | Cambridge, UK | Juncos Hollinger Racing | Juncos Hollinger Racing-Chevrolet |
98 | Marco Andretti | 2nd | Nazareth, Pennsylvania | KULR Technology / Curb | Andretti Herta Autosport w/ Marco & Curb |