Gold Coast Indy 2008 Strongest Lineup Ever
October 19th 2008 06:03
Surfers Paradise Street Circuit (Credit Bam Media)
All IndyCars will be using Dallara chassis, Honda engines and Firestone tyres. The following is the 2008 entry list by car number, driver and team:
Helio Castrovenes (Credit IndyCar Series Media)
2. AJ Foyt IV -- Vision Racing
3. Helio Castroneves -- Team Penske
4. Dan Wheldon -- Panther Racing
5. Oriol Servia -- KV Racing Technology
Aussie Ryan Briscoe (Credit IndyCar Series Media)
6. Ryan Briscoe -- Team Penske
7. Danica Patrick -- Andretti Green Racing
8. Will Power -- Team Australia - KV Racing Technology
9. Scott Dixon -- Target Chip Ganassi Racing
Dario Franchitti (Credit IndyCar Series Media)
10. Dario Franchitti -- Target Chip Ganassi Racing
11. Tony Kanaan -- Andretti Green Racing
14. Vitor Meira -- AJ Foyt Enterprises
15. Buddy Rice -- Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
Danica Patrick (Credit IndyCar Series Media)
17. Ryan Hunter-Reay -- Rahal Letterman Racing
18. Bruno Junqueira -- Dale Coyne Racing
19. Mario Moraes -- Dale Coyne Racing
20. Ed Carpenter -- Vision Racing
Queenslander Will Power (Credit IndyCar Series Media)
23. Townsend Bell -- Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
26. Marco Andretti -- Andretti Green Racing
27. Hideki Mutoh -- Andretti Green Racing
33. EJ Viso -- HVM Racing
34. Jaime Camara -- Conquest Racing
36. Alex Tagliani -- Conquest Racing
02. Justin Wilson -- Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing
06. Graham Rahal -- Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing
Scott Dixon (Credit IndyCar Series Media)
The return of former drivers Michael Andretti and Jimmy Vasser as team owners will bring the total number of former Gold Coast race winners on track to five. Andretti and Rahal will be watching their sons from pit lane. Marco and Graham are both IndyCar Series race winners.
AJ Foyt IV, the grandson of four-time Indy 500 winner, 1992 Gold Coast race entrant and current IRL team owner, AJ Foyt, will also be making his Queensland debut.
The five former Indy 500 winners include reigning winner and IndyCar Series champion, Brisbane-born Kiwi Scott Dixon. The sentimental favourite amongst locals, Toowoomba born Will Power, will be aiming to at least finish after being taken out in last years event.
The field will also include high-profile female driver Danica Patrick, who became the first woman to win a major open-wheel event when the IndyCar Series headed to Japan earlier this year.
V8 Supercars
The combination of the IndyCar Series field compliments an impressive field of 29 cars that will compete in Round 11 of the V8 Supercar championship on the same weekend.
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