🇺🇸 Marco Andretti

Marco Andretti is an entry-level professional racing driver competing in IndyCar, where he races for Andretti Autosport. He holds an FIA Gold rating, placing him among the full-professional grades in sportscar and endurance racing. His career spans 22 seasons across multiple series, with over 300 starts on record from 2004 to 2025.[1]

Andretti has accumulated two wins and 21 podiums across his racing career. In IndyCar, where he has made 255 starts since 2006, he has taken two wins and 20 podiums. His early career included a single podium in the Star Mazda Championship in 2004–2005, finishing sixth in the 2005 championship standings. In 2024 he raced ARCA events on both coasts as well as the full ARCA Menards Series, competing primarily on ovals. He has also made occasional starts in other major series, including one Formula E appearance in 2014 and a single IMSA WeatherTech entry in 2021. In IndyCar proper, his record is split across ovals, where he has contested 147 of his 255 starts, and road and street courses.[2]

In the IndyCar field, Andretti typically finishes behind established drivers such as Scott Dixon, a six-time series champion. He has raced closely with Tony Kanaan, an IndyCar champion, finding themselves evenly matched through their head-to-head meetings. He has finished ahead of elite professionals including Alex Palou, a five-time champion, and Pato O'Ward, an Indy NXT champion and former IMSA prototype driver, though such results remain occasional rather than routine in a field where both drivers regularly compete ahead of him overall.