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Full 2017 Indianapolis 500 entry list announced by IndyCar

The IndyCar Series has announced the final 33-car entry list for the 2017 Indianapolis 500

Confirmation of 1996 winner Buddy Lazier's Lazier Partners Racing programme completed the list of contenders for the 101st edition of the legendary race.

Lazier is one of seven previous Indy 500 winners in the field, along with Team Penske's Helio Castroneves and Juan Pablo Montoya, Ganassi duo Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan, last year's victor Alexander Rossi and his Andretti Autosport team-mate Ryan Hunter-Reay.

But the driver getting the majority of attention in the build-up has been an IndyCar novice with an illustrious pedigree - double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso skipping the Monaco Grand Prix to contest Indianapolis with Andretti Autosport.

Alonso is not the only IndyCar debutant under Michael Andretti's wing this month.

Briton Jack Harvey, Indy Lights runner-up in both 2014 and '15 and winner of the series' Indy 500-supporting Freedom 100 in the latter year, will make his IndyCar debut in an Andretti entry run by renowned IMSA team Michael Shank Racing (pictured above).

Harvey's former Lights rival Zach Veach (pictured below) was due to be another driver making his IndyCar debut at the 500, but his outing with AJ Foyt Racing in the showpiece event ended up being preceded by a call-up to stand in for the injured JR Hildebrand at Ed Carpenter Racing at Barber Motorsports Park last month.

The fourth Indy 500 debutant is the series' only full-time rookie in 2017: Ed Jones of Dale Coyne Racing.

The reigning Indy Lights champion took pole for last year's Freedom 100, but was narrowly edged to victory by Dean Stoneman.

The race will also feature two teams new to IndyCar.

Leading Road to Indy ladder series team Juncos Racing's toe-in-the-water approach involves a sixth Indy 500 start for sometime Ganassi driver Sebastian Saavedra and a second 500 for Spencer Pigot, off-duty from his normal squad ECR as team owner Ed Carpenter races his car on the ovals.

The other newcomer Harding Racing, run by veteran Indy car team manager and engineer Larry Curry, has a technical alliance with Curry's former employer Dreyer & Reinbold Racing.

This effectively pairs up Harding's driver Gabby Chaves with the DRR/Kingdom-entered Sage Karam.


Other drivers on one-off deals for the 500 or limited programmes include veteran Oriol Servia teaming up with Graham Rahal at Rahal Letterman Lanigan again, Jay Howard making his first IndyCar appearance since the end of 2011 with Schmidt Peterson and Pippa Mann getting another outing with Dale Coyne Racing.

Practice commences on Monday, with qualifying taking place across both days of next weekend.

ENTRY LIST

No.  Driver              Team                                  Engine
 1   Simon Pagenaud      Team Penske                           Chevrolet
 2   Josef Newgarden     Team Penske                           Chevrolet
 3   Helio Castroneves   Team Penske                           Chevrolet
 4   Conor Daly          AJ Foyt Racing                        Chevrolet
 5   James Hinchcliffe   Schmidt Peterson Motorsports          Honda
 7   Mikhail Aleshin     Schmidt Peterson Motorsports          Honda
 8   Max Chilton         Chip Ganassi Racing                   Honda
 9   Scott Dixon         Chip Ganassi Racing                   Honda
10   Tony Kanaan         Chip Ganassi Racing                   Honda
11   Spencer Pigot       Juncos Racing                         Chevrolet
12   Will Power          Team Penske                           Chevrolet
14   Carlos Munoz        AJ Foyt Racing                        Chevrolet
15   Graham Rahal        Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing        Honda
16   Oriol Servia        Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing        Honda
17   Sebastian Saavedra  Juncos/AFS Racing                     Chevrolet
18   Sebastien Bourdais  Dale Coyne Racing                     Honda
19   Ed Jones            Dale Coyne Racing                     Honda
20   Ed Carpenter        Ed Carpenter Racing                   Chevrolet
21   JR Hildebrand       Ed Carpenter Racing                   Chevrolet
22   Juan Pablo Montoya  Team Penske                           Chevrolet
24   Sage Karam          Dreyer & Reinbold/Kingdom Racing      Chevrolet
26   Takuma Sato         Andretti Autosport                    Honda
27   Marco Andretti      Andretti Autosport                    Honda
28   Ryan Hunter-Reay    Andretti Autosport                    Honda
29   Fernando Alonso     McLaren Honda Andretti Autosport      Honda
40   Zach Veach          AJ Foyt Racing                        Honda
49   Buddy Lazier        Lazier Partners Racing                Chevrolet
50   Jack Harvey         Andretti Autosport/Mike Shank Racing  Honda
63   Pippa Mann          Dale Coyne Racing                     Honda
77   Jay Howard          Schmidt Peterson Motorsports          Honda
83   Charlie Kimball     Chip Ganassi Racing                   Honda
88   Gabby Chaves        Harding Racing                        Chevrolet
98   Alexander Rossi     Andretti-Herta Autosport              Honda

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