Japan - Starting lineup for the Indy Japan 300 IRL IndyCar Series
event on the 1.5-mile Twin Ring Motegi, with starting position,
car number in parentheses, driver and chassis-engine.

Field set by entrant points after qualifications were rained out.

 
POS  CAR  DRIVER               CHASSIS-ENGINE         SPEED-N/A   

 1.  (3) Helio Castroneves,   Dallara-Honda,         entrant points
 2.  (9) Scott Dixon,         Dallara-Honda,         entrant points
 3. (10) Dan Wheldon,         Dallara-Honda,         entrant points
 4.  (6) Sam Hornish Jr.,     Dallara-Honda,         entrant points
 5. (11) Tony Kanaan,         Dallara-Honda,         entrant points
 6. (55) Kosuke Matsuura,     Dallara-Honda,         entrant points
 7.  (7) Bryan Herta,         Dallara-Honda,         entrant points
 8.  (8) Scott Sharp,         Dallara-Honda,         entrant points
 9. (14) Felipe Giaffone,     Dallara-Honda,         entrant points
10. (27) Dario Franchitti,    Dallara-Honda,         entrant points
11.  (4) Vitor Meira,         Dallara-Honda,         entrant points
12.  (2) Tomas Scheckter,     Dallara-Honda,         entrant points
13. (51) Tomas Enge,          Dallara-Honda,         entrant points
14. (16) Danica Patrick,      Panoz-Honda,           entrant points
15.  (5) Buddy Lazier,        Dallara-Honda,         entrant points
16. (91) P.J. Chesson,        Dallara-Honda,         entrant points
17. (26) Marco Andretti,      Dallara-Honda,         entrant points
18. (15) Buddy Rice,          Panoz-Honda,           entrant points
19. (20) Ed Carpenter,        Dallara-Honda,         entrant points
20. (17) Jeff Simmons,        Panoz Honda,           entrant points