Drivers
IndyCar 2026 Drivers
33 drivers are classified in the 2026 IndyCar championship, across 12 teams. Alex Palou leads on 631 points for Chip Ganassi Racing. 8 of them have won a race this season. 2 engines are represented, the largest being Chevrolet with 16 cars. The widest gap between teammates is Alex Palou, 300 points clear of Scott Dixon in the same equipment.
Leading the field · 2026 IndyCar
Chip Ganassi Racing · Honda
631
Points
6
Wins
33
Drivers
across 12 teams
2
Engines
largest Chevrolet
Widest gap between teammates: Alex Palou is +300 clear of Scott Dixon in the same equipment.
The 2026 field
| Pos | Driver | Team | Engine | Pts | Wins | vs teammate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alex Palou | Chip Ganassi Racing | Honda | 631 | 6 | +300 |
| 2 | Kyle Kirkwood | Andretti Global w/ Curb-Agajanian | Honda | 545 | 2 | — |
| 3 | Christian Lundgaard | Arrow McLaren | Chevrolet | 535 | 2 | +13 |
| 4 | Pato O'Ward | Arrow McLaren | Chevrolet | 522 | 3 | −13 |
| 5 | David Malukas | Team Penske | Chevrolet | 514 | 0 | +32 |
| 6 | Scott McLaughlin | Team Penske | Chevrolet | 482 | 1 | −32 |
| 7 | Marcus Ericsson | Andretti Global | Honda | 429 | 1 | +61 |
| 8 | Josef Newgarden | Team Penske | Chevrolet | 423 | 2 | −91 |
| 9 | Felix Rosenqvist | Meyer Shank w/ Curb-Agajanian | — | 412 | 1 | +92 |
| 10 | Rinus VeeKay | Juncos Hollinger Racing | Chevrolet | 378 | 0 | +196 |
| 11 | Will Power | Andretti Global | Honda | 368 | 0 | −61 |
| 12 | Scott Dixon | Chip Ganassi Racing | Honda | 331 | 0 | −300 |
| 13 | Kyffin Simpson | Chip Ganassi Racing | Honda | 327 | 0 | −304 |
| 14 | Marcus Armstrong | Meyer Shank w/ Curb-Agajanian | — | 320 | 0 | −92 |
| 15 | Alexander Rossi | ECR | — | 307 | 0 | +62 |
| 16 | Graham Rahal | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | Honda | 302 | 0 | +35 |
| 17 | Santino Ferrucci | A.J. Foyt Enterprises | — | 280 | 0 | +77 |
| 18 | Louis Foster | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | Honda | 267 | 0 | −35 |
| 19 | Romain Grosjean | Dale Coyne Racing | Honda | 259 | 0 | +31 |
| 20 | Nolan Siegel | Arrow McLaren | Chevrolet | 259 | 0 | −276 |
| 21 | Christian Rasmussen | ECR | — | 245 | 0 | −62 |
| 22 | Dennis Hauger | Dale Coyne Racing | Honda | 228 | 0 | −31 |
| 23 | Mick Schumacher | Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing | Honda | 213 | 0 | −89 |
| 24 | Caio Collet | A.J. Foyt Enterprises | — | 203 | 0 | −77 |
| 25 | Sting Ray Robb | Juncos Hollinger Racing | Chevrolet | 182 | 0 | −196 |
| 26 | Conor Daly | — | Chevrolet | 24 | 0 | +4 |
| 27 | Takuma Sato | — | Chevrolet | 20 | 0 | −4 |
| 28 | Jack Harvey | — | Chevrolet | 8 | 0 | −16 |
| 29 | Jacob Abel | — | Chevrolet | 6 | 0 | −18 |
| 30 | Helio Castroneves | — | Chevrolet | 5 | 0 | −19 |
| 31 | Ed Carpenter | — | Chevrolet | 5 | 0 | −19 |
| 32 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | — | Chevrolet | 5 | 0 | −19 |
| 33 | Katherine Legge | — | Chevrolet | 5 | 0 | −19 |
Drivers per engine
| Engine | Drivers | Share of grid |
|---|---|---|
| Chevrolet | 16 | 48% |
| Honda | 11 | 33% |
About this list
This is the classified championship field, taken from official NTT IndyCar Series points and race classifications, so it reflects who is actually scoring rather than a pre-season entry list. Replacement and wildcard drivers appear once they have started a race, and the order follows championship position rather than car or bike number.
Points and wins are this season only. The engine column is what they compete on, which is not the same as the team they are contracted to - satellite and customer teams run another engine’s cars, and the second table shows how the grid splits.
vs teammate is the points difference to the best-scoring driver in the same team. Teammates share equipment, which makes it the closest thing this championship offers to a like-for-like comparison of the person rather than the machine - a driver sitting mid-table while beating a highly rated teammate is having a very different season from one at the same position whose teammate is clear of them. Drivers in a single-car team have no comparison and show a dash rather than a zero.