18 cars entered for Milwaukee

After squeaking by with 33 cars for the Indy 500, the IRL entry list for Milwaukee is back down to just 18 cars. Everyone complains about Champ Car's 17- car grid, which we agree is too small, but the IRL isn't fairing much better it would seem.

Milwaukee Official Entry List

Car Driver Entrant
2 Tomas Scheckter Vision Racing
3 Helio Castroneves Team Penske
4 Vitor Meira Delphi Panther Racing
5 Sarah Fisher AAMCO/Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
6 Sam Hornish Jr. Team Penske
7 Danica Patrick Andretti Green Racing
8 Scott Sharp Rahal Letterman Racing
9 Scott Dixon Target Chip Ganassi Racing
10 Dan Wheldon Target Chip Ganassi Racing
11 Tony Kanaan Andretti Green Racing
14 Darren Manning A.J. Foyt Enterprises
15 Buddy Rice Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
17 Jeff Simmons Rahal Letterman Racing
20 Ed Carpenter Vision Racing
22 A.J. Foyt IV Vision Racing
26 Marco Andretti Andretti Green Racing
27 Dario Franchitti Andretti Green Racing
55 Kosuke Matsuura Super Aguri Panther Racing

ABC Supply Co./A.J. Foyt 225 /Road Runner 100
FAST FACTS

WHAT:
IndyCar® Series:
ABC Supply Co./A.J. Foyt 225 presented by Time Warner Cable, 6th race in 17-race 2006 season.
Indy Pro Series:
Road Runner 100, 5th race in 16-race 2007 Indy Pro Series season.

WHERE:
The Milwaukee Mile, 1-mile asphalt oval

WHEN:
IndyCar Series: 4 p.m. (ET), Sunday, June 3
Indy Pro Series: 6:15 p.m. (ET), Saturday, June 2

DISTANCE:
IndyCar Series: 225 laps/225 miles
Indy Pro Series: 100 laps/100 miles

POSTED AWARDS:
IndyCar Series: More than $1 million
Indy Pro Series: More than $275,000

CARS:
IndyCar Series: Dallara chassis; Honda Indy V-8 engines; Firestone tires; 100 percent fuel-grade ethanol
Indy Pro Series: Dallara chassis; Firestone tires

PREVIOUS RACE WINNERS:
IndyCar Series: Tony Kanaan (2006), Sam Hornish Jr. (2005), Dario Franchitti (2004).
Indy Pro Series: Jaime Camara (2006), Jeff Simmons (2005), Paul Dana (2004).

2006 SERIES CHAMPIONS:
IndyCar Series: Sam Hornish Jr.
Indy Pro Series: Wade Cunningham

TV:
IndyCar Series: Race: ABC (live), 4 p.m. (ET), June 3
Talent: Marty Reid, Scott Goodyear, (announcers); Jack Arute, Brienne Pedigo, Vince Welch (pit reporters)
Note: Live streaming video coverage of AAMCO Transmissions Pole Qualifying (3:45 p.m., (ET) June 2) is available at www.indycar.com

Indy Pro Series: Race: ESPN2 (tape-delay), 6 p.m. (ET), June 7
Talent: Bob Jenkins, Robbie Buhl (announcers); Mike King (pit reporter)
Note: Live streaming video coverage of the SWE Pole Qualifying (2:40 p.m. (ET) June 2) and the Road Runner 100 (5:15 p.m. (ET) June 2) is available at www.indycar.com