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32 entries confirmed for next week’s Indy 500 test

32 entries confirmed for next week’s Indy 500 test

All those driver/team combinations who have been announced for the 106th running of the Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge will be in action at the Speedway, on Wednesday-Thursday, April 20-21.

Marco Andretti will return to his favorite track with Andretti Autosport-Honda, where he scored Rookie of the Year honors in 2006 with a close runner-up finish and where he took pole position in 2020. Tony Kanaan is the fifth member of the Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda team, the 2013 Indy 500 winner preparing for his first and likely only IndyCar race of the season. Teammate Jimmie Johnson needs to complete the Rookie Orientation Program he started last fall as he prepares for his first ever 500.

Given that this is his first year racing ovals in IndyCar, those with whom Johnson will battle for Indy’s Rookie of the Year honors include 2022’s full-time NTT IndyCar Series rookies Romain Grosjean and Devlin DeFrancesco of Andretti Autosport-Honda, Christian Lundgaard of Rahal Letterman…

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