Andretti settles on three entries for 2024

Andretti Global will move forward with three full-time NTT IndyCar Series entries.

“There will be just the three,” Andretti COO Rob Edwards told RACER.

The decision signals an end to its recent practice of fielding a fourth car for hire by a driver bringing funding to race alongside the team’s paid professionals; prior to accepting paying drivers, Andretti used all four of its cars to compete for wins and podiums.

The expansion to four cars delivered immediate success with championships for Tony Kanaan in 2004, Dan Wheldon in 2005, and Dario Franchitti in 2007, and the change to running three comes after entering four full-time cars in 16 of the last 18 seasons.

In recent years, the Andretti team’s sustained competitiveness with four has wavered; it’s more than a decade removed from its last championship victory, earned by Ryan Hunter-Reay in the first year of IndyCar’s new chassis and engine formula in 2012.

Andretti had run four full-time entries for much of the last two decades – Dan Wheldon, Tony Kanaan, Bryan Herta and Dario Franchitti pictured at Michigan in 2004. Phillip Abbott/Motorsport Images