The 2017 IndyCar Series season will be the 106th edition of American open wheel racing and the 22nd under this name.
Country captains
This is a list of countries' national teams with their captains in the 2017 IndyCar Series season. All countries have opted to go with only one captain in their team.
Squads
- Main article: 2017 IndyCar Series season squads
Known facts
The first team confirmed for 2017 was the Andretti Autosport trio of Munoz, Hunter-Reay and Andretti. The three drove for the team for 2014, 2015 and 2016; now they are confirmed for 2017.
Before the 2016 Indy 500, only four races have been confirmed for 2017: St. Pete, the Indy 500, Long Beach and Phoenix.
Drivers and teams
- Captains
Team | Manufacturer | No. | Captain | Rounds |
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A. J. Foyt Enterprises | Chevrolet | 4 | Allen Ford | All |
14 | Mario Lopez | All | ||
Andretti Autosport | Honda | 26 | Apolo Anton Ohno | All |
27 | Pee Saderd | All | ||
28 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | All | ||
50 | Jack Harvey | 6 | ||
Andretti Herta Autosport with Curb Agajanian | 98 | Metagross | All | |
Chip Ganassi Racing | Honda | 8 | Chespin | All |
9 | Scott Dixon | All | ||
10 | Larvesta | All | ||
83 | Garbiñe Muguruza | 1-5, 10, 13-15, 17 | ||
Ueli Kestenholz | 6-9, 11-12, 16 | |||
Dale Coyne Racing | Honda | 18 | Olga Fatkulina | 1-5 |
Beartic | 6-17 | |||
19 | Jonathan Bald | All | ||
Ed Carpenter Racing | Chevrolet | 20 | Spencer Pigot | Roads/Streets |
Ed Carpenter | Ovals | |||
21 | Pidgeot | 1-2, 4-17 | ||
Magearna | 3 | |||
Juncos Racing | Chevrolet | 17 | Sebastian Saavedra | 6 |
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | Honda | 15 | Graham Rahal | All |
16 | Oriol Servia | 6-8 | ||
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports | Honda | 5 | Pamela Anderson | 1-9 |
James Hinchcliffe | 10-17 | |||
7 | Joey Fatone | All | ||
77 | Jay Howard | 6 | ||
Team Penske | Chevrolet | 1 | Simon Pagenaud | All |
2 | Dragonite | All | ||
3 | Hélio Castroneves | All | ||
12 | Will Power | All | ||
22 | Juan Pablo Montoya | 5-6 |
- Due to Pee Saderd's campaign with Andretti Autosport, Pee Saderd will not be in the 2017 M-150 Thailand Tour from March 3-9.
- Andretti Autosport returns with both Andretti and RHR despite Marco having an awful 2016 season.
- Italy continues driving for Marco in 2017.
- Castroneves stays in the 3 for 2017.
- Josef Newgarden and his entire Croatia national IndyCar team moves from Ed Carpenter Racing to Team Penske for 2017. Newgarden will replace the no.2 car for Dragonite.
- Garbiñe Muguruza stays in the 83 Chip Ganassi Racing car.
- Beedrill leaves Austria for Ryan Hunter-Reay for the 2017 season.
- It is also due to their poor semifinal result in the IndyVision Song Contest 2016.
- Team Penske decided to return with Power and Pagenaud due to the two being 1 and 2 in the standings after Mid-Ohio and having a combined 7 wins.
- After Chip Ganassi Racing left the sponsor Target after the 2016 season, Chip Ganassi Racing will either be a Honda or a Chevrolet.
- Pageanud switches from 22 to 1.
- Pee Saderd keeps the 27 of Marco Andretti from 2016; this was due to the age Saderd started his music career in 1999.
- Sébastien Bourdais leaves KVSH for Dale Coyne Racing.
- Metagross gets new captain teammates such as Ryan Hunter-Reay and Pee Saderd and keeps the 98 for 2017.
- Chip Ganassi Racing will swap from Chevrolet to Honda for the first time since 2013.
- JR Hildebrand secures a Ed Carpenter racing Spot and a full time drive.
- Conor Daly replaces Jack Hawksworth, who was in the "Last Car Standings" for a Foyt drive.
- After Mikhail Aleshin lost his ride, Jack Harvey and Sebastian Saavedra were called up to replace him, but Joey Fatone remained in the 7.
- Carlos Muñoz moves from Andretti to Foyt, doing the Takuma Job.
- Ed Jones joins Sébastien Bourdais in Dale Coyne Racing.
- Simon Pagenaud goes from 22 to 1 in 2017.
- KVSH Racing is dissolved in 2017.
- Dragonite leaves Colombia for Croatia, because it opted to drive for Newgarden in 2017.
- Takuma Sato joins Ryan Hunter-Reay, Metagross, and Pee Saderd (who is also Asian) in the #26 of Andretti Autosport.
- Juan Pablo Montoya stays with Penske, but confirmed for at least the 500.
Schedule
The 2017 schedule was announced on August 25, 2016; the day before the men's singles draw for Gus Kenworthy vs. Sheryl Underwood and David Chokachi vs. Alan Thicke. The 2017 IndyCar Series schedule was revealed to have 17 races, the same sixteen from the 2016 IndyCar Series season returning including Gateway, which returned to the series schedule for the first time since 2003.
Round | Date | Race | Location |
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1 | March 12 | 2017 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg | Streets of St. Petersburg, Florida |
2 | April 9 | 2017 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach | Streets of Long Beach, California |
3 | April 23 | 2017 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama | Barber Motorsports Park |
4 | April 29 | 2017 Phoenix Grand Prix | Phoenix International Raceway |
5 | May 13 | 2017 Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis | Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course |
6 | May 28 | 101st Indianapolis 500 | Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval |
7 | June 3 | 2017 Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit | Streets of Detroit |
8 | June 4 | ||
9 | June 10 | 2017 Firestone 600 | Texas Motor Speedway |
10 | June 25 | 2017 Kohler GP of Road America | Road America |
11 | July 9 | 2017 Iowa Corn 300 | Iowa Speedway |
12 | July 16 | 2017 Honda Indy Toronto | Streets of Toronto |
13 | July 30 | 2017 Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio | Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course |
14 | August 20 | 2017 ABC Supply 500 | Pocono Raceway |
15 | August 26 | 2017 St. Louis 250 | Gateway Motorsports Park |
16 | September 3 | 2017 Watkins Glen IndyCar Open | Watkins Glen International |
17 | September 17 | 2017 Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma | Sonoma Raceway |
- Mid Ohio moved from the Labour Day weekend August to late July.
- The schedule of the weekend of August 5 allowed all IndyCar people to play at the 2017 Mississauga Thailand Grand Festival.
- Due to the huge gap between the first and second races, all IndyCar drivers full-time in 2017 were required to participate in the 2017 IndyCar World Tour events (2017 Sebring Open March 13–17 and 2017 Math Open at Indian Wells March 20–April 2).
- These tournaments were announced when the full 2017 IndyCar World Tour schedule was announced after James Hinchcliffe's participation for DWTS season 23.
Trivia
- Absol will participate full-time in 2017 due to Pokémon Sun and Moon being confirmed.
- Due to Melissa Rycroft's birthday falling on the 11th and Andretti's falling on the 13th of March, Russia, Italy and Kazakhstan will all host St. Pete.
- Spain will host the first Detroit race due to the race falling on Rafael Nadal's birthday.
- Boston was cancelled for 2017 due to the race being cancelled in late April 2016.