4 less cars for IndyCar opener in St. Pete

UPDATE Darren Manning brings this weekend's car count to 22 now that Ryan Hunter-Reay has been officially confirmed to Vision Racing. Tomas Scheckter had hoped to make it 23, but he said today that his deal with Team 3G will not begin until the second race of the season, April 19 in Long Beach, Calif.

03/31/09

Car	Driver	Hometown	Car Name	Entrant
2	Raphael Matos (R)	Belo Horizonte, Brazil	Luczo Dragon Racing	Luczo Dragon Racing
3	Will Power	Toowoomba, Australia	Team Penske	Team Penske
4	Dan Wheldon	Emberton, England	National Guard Panther Racing	Panther Racing
5	Mario Moraes	Sao Paulo, Brazil	KV Racing /Votorantim	KV Racing Technology
6	Ryan Briscoe	Sydney, Australia	Team Penske	Team Penske
7	Danica Patrick	Roscoe, Ill.	Motorola	Andretti Green Racing
9	Scott Dixon	Auckland, NZ	Target Chip Ganassi Racing	Target Chip Ganassi Racing
10	Dario Franchitti	Edinburgh, Scotland	AirWick	Target Chip Ganassi Racing
11	Tony Kanaan	Salvador, Brazil	Team 7-Eleven	Andretti Green Racing
13	E.J. Viso	Caracas, Venezuela	PDVSA HVM Racing	HVM Racing
14	Vitor Meira	Brasilia, Brazil	ABC Supply Co. AJ Foyt Racing	A.J. Foyt Enterprises
19	Justin Wilson	Sheffield, England	Sonny’s Bar-B-Q	Dale Coyne Racing
20	Ed Carpenter	Indianapolis	Menards/Vision Racing	Vision Racing
21	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Boca Raton, Florida	Vision Racing	Vision Racing
23	Darren Manning	North Yorkshire, England	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
24	Mike Conway (R)	Bromley, England	Dad’s Root Beer	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
26	Marco Andretti	Nazareth, Pa.	Andretti Green	Andretti Green Racing
27	Hideki Mutoh	Tokyo	Formula Dream	Andretti Green Racing
34	Alex Tagliani	Lachenaie, Quebec	Conquest Racing	Conquest Racing
98	Stanton Barrett (R)	Bishop, Calif.	CURB/Agajanian/Team 3G	CURB/Agajanian/Team 3G
02	Graham Rahal	New Albany, Ohio	McDonald’s Racing Team	NHL Racing
06	Robert Doornbos(R)	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing	NHL Racing