Team and Driver Chart
- All teams compete in Dallara chassis, powered by Honda engines, and utilize Firestone tires.
| Team | No | Drivers | Sponsor(s) | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Target Chip Ganassi Racing | 9 | Scott Dixon | Target | Team did not use the #1 it was entitled to use, owing to sponsor Target Corporation and its IndyCar identity of the #9 and #10. | ||
| 10 | Dario Franchitti | Target | ||||
| Penske Racing | 3 | Hélio Castroneves | Mobil 1/ Verizon Wireless |
Will Power replaced Hélio Castroneves in the #3 car for the St. Petersburg race due to Castroneves' then ongoing tax evasion trial. With Castroneves being acquitted on all tax evasion charges, he returned to the #3 car starting at Long Beach, with Power running the 12 car with Verizon Wireless backing at Long Beach and the Indy 500. Power was later scheduled for five additional races at Toronto, Edmonton, Kentucky, Sonoma and Homestead in the #12 Penske Truck Rental Dallara/Honda. During practice for Sonoma, Power was caught up in a violent accident and suffered fractures to two lumbar vertebrae in his back, ruling him out of Homestead. #3 and #6 cars appear with unbranded Marlboro colors and logos in accordance with the MSA. | ||
| Will Power | ||||||
| 12 | Penske Truck Rental/ Mobil 1/ Verizon Wireless |
|||||
| 6 | Ryan Briscoe | Mobil 1/ Verizon Wireless |
||||
| Andretti Green Racing | 7 | Danica Patrick | Boost Mobile | Ran with Motorola sponsorship at St. Petersburg, Long Beach, and Kansas. | ||
| 11 | Tony Kanaan | 7-Eleven | ||||
| 25 | Franck Montagny | Automatic Fire Sprinklers | Sonoma only | |||
| 26 | Marco Andretti | Venom Energy | ||||
| 27 | Hideki Mutoh | Panasonic/Formula Dream | ||||
| Vision Racing | 20 | Ed Carpenter | Menards | Sponsored by William Rast in the Canadian races, Sonoma, and Motegi. | ||
| 21 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | Izod/William Rast | Moved to Foyt after Texas for the rest of the season. | |||
| Dreyer & Reinbold Racing | 24 | Mike Conway | Henkel/Dad's Root Beer/Roll Coater | Henkel's Purex brand on car for Indy 500. | ||
| 23 | Darren Manning | Charter Communications | St. Petersburg and Long Beach only. | |||
| Milka Duno | CITGO | Kansas, Indy 500, Texas, Watkins Glen, Kentucky, Mid-Ohio, Sonoma, Chicagoland and Homestead only. | ||||
| Roger Yasukawa | Charter Communications | Motegi only. | ||||
| Tomas Scheckter | Charter Communications/Mona Vie | Scheckter ran #23 at Milwaukee, Iowa, Richmond, Toronto and Edmonton. Ran #43 at Texas, Kentucky, Chicagoland, Motegi, and Homestead. |
||||
| 43 | Mona Vie | |||||
| John Andretti | Window World | Indy 500 only; partnership with Richard Petty Motorsports. | ||||
| 44 | Davey Hamilton | Hewlett-Packard | Indy 500 only; partnership with Kingdom Racing. | |||
| Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing | 02 | Graham Rahal | McDonald's | |||
| 06 | Robert Doornbos | McDonald's/flogs.com | McDonald's sponsoring from Richmond onwards. Doornbos parted company with the team after Kentucky after fulfilling the 12 race agreement. Servià replaced Doornbos from Mid-Ohio to Motegi. |
|||
| Oriol Servià | ||||||
| 40202 | Alex Lloyd | HER Energy Drink | Homestead only. The unusual car number (normally the #06, and listed as #40202 on the Versus broadcast and on scoring monitors) is an advertising technique; by texting "stand" to 40202 one can donate $5 to cancer awareness and research. | |||
| Panther Racing | 4 | Dan Wheldon | United States National Guard | |||
| 16 | Scott Sharp | Patrón | Indy 500 only; partnership with Highcroft Racing. | |||
| HVM Racing | 00 | Nelson Philippe | EcoDrivingUSA | Indy 500 only | ||
| 13 | E. J. Viso | PDVSA | ||||
| 33 | Robert Doornbos | iTeamSports | Raced for HVM from Mid-Ohio onwards. | |||
| A. J. Foyt Enterprises | 14 | Vitor Meira | ABC Supply | Meira injured at Indy 500; out for season. Paul Tracy replaced Meira at Milwaukee. A. J. Foyt IV replaced Meira at Texas. Ryan Hunter-Reay was named as a replacement for the remainder of the season beginning at Iowa. Meira tested at Indy on Sept. 30th, but did not return for the Homestead finale as was originally planned. | ||
| Paul Tracy | ||||||
| A. J. Foyt IV | ||||||
| Ryan Hunter-Reay | ||||||
| 41 | A. J. Foyt IV | ABC Supply | Indy 500 only | |||
| Team 3G | 98 | Stanton Barrett | Interush | St. Petersburg, Long Beach, Kansas and Motegi only. Failed to qualify at Indy 500, did not start at Milwaukee. | ||
| Jaques Lazier | Interush/Novicomm | Texas, Iowa, Richmond, Kentucky, Chicago and Homestead only. | ||||
| Richard Antinucci | Watkins Glen, Toronto, Edmonton, Mid-Ohio and Sonoma only. | |||||
| Luczo-Dragon Racing | 2 | Raphael Matos | US Marines/US Air Force | |||
| KV Racing Technology | 5 | Mario Moraes | Votorantim Group/Azul Tequila | Out for Mid-Ohio (bereavement) | ||
| Paul Tracy | In #5 car for Mid-Ohio (Moraes Bereavement). | |||||
| 15 | Geico/ Ontario Honda Dealers Association |
Indy 500, Watkins Glen, Edmonton, and Toronto only. Ontario Honda Dealers Association and Wounded Warriors.ca sponsorship for Toronto and Edmonton. | ||||
| 8 | Townsend Bell | Herbalife | Indy 500 only. | |||
| Dale Coyne Racing | 18 | Justin Wilson | Z-Line Designs | Number changed to match NASCAR Nationwide Series cars of Joe Gibbs Racing that are also sponsored by Z-Line (#18) starting at Long Beach. | ||
| 19 | Sonny's Real Pit Bar-B-Q | St. Petersburg only. | ||||
| Tomas Scheckter | Mona Vie | Indy 500 only. | ||||
| Part-time entries | ||||||
| Conquest Racing | 34 | Alex Tagliani | Edmonton Indy | St. Petersburg, Long Beach, Indianapolis, Texas, Toronto and Edmonton only. Tagliani failed to qualify this car for Indy 500. | ||
| Kosuke Matsuura | CLICK Securities | Motegi only. | ||||
| Nelson Philippe | EcoDrivingUSA | Philippe suffered a fractured foot after a practice accident at Infineon Raceway. | ||||
| 36 | Alex Tagliani | All Sport/Big Red | Indy 500 only; Junqueira qualified car, but was replaced by Tagliani for sponsorship reasons. Partnership with the Rubicon Race Team. | |||
| Bruno Junqueira | ||||||
| Sarah Fisher Racing | 67 | Sarah Fisher | Dollar General | Kansas, Indy 500, Texas, Kentucky, Chicago and Homestead only. | ||
| Sam Schmidt Motorsports | 99 | Alex Lloyd | HER Energy Drink | Indy 500 only; partnership with Chip Ganassi Racing. | ||
| Hemelgarn Racing | 91 | Buddy Lazier | Great Lakes Leasing | Indy 500 only; failed to qualify. | ||
| Rahal Letterman Racing | 17 | Oriol Servià | DAFCA | Indy 500 only. | ||
Read more about this topic: 2009 Indy Car Series Season
Famous quotes containing the words team, driver and/or chart:
“Is my team ploughing,
That I was used to drive
And hear the harness jingle
When I was man alive?”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)
“God help the horse, and the driver too!
And the people and beasts who have never a friend!
For the driver easily might have been you,
And the horse be me by a different end!
And nobody knows how their days will cease!
And the poor, when they’re old, have little of peace!”
—James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)
“Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)