Five teams file Indy entries on deadline day.

Five teams - Cheever Indy Racing, Hemelgarn Racing, McCormack Motorsports, PDM Racing and Walker Racing - filed a total of seven entries on April 11, the entry deadline day for the 85th Indianapolis 500.

The 85th Indianapolis 500 is scheduled for May 27. Entries must be postmarked by April 11, so the Indy Racing League expects to receive additional entries in the next few days. All drivers will compete for one of the 33 starting spots in the world's most prestigious auto race.

1998 Indianapolis 500 winner Eddie Cheever Jr. and two-time Indy runner-up Scott Goodyear were named as the drivers for Cheever Indy Racing. Walker Racing named sophomore sensation Sarah Fisher as the driver for one of its two entries, while Jeret Schroeder was named to drive for PDM.

Rookie Brandon Erwin was named by McCormack Motorsports as the driver of its single entry.

Hemelgarn Racing became the first team to submit four entries for the Indianapolis 500 this year, naming no driver for its fourth entry.

Cheever, from Orlando, Fla., will drive the #51 Excite@Home Indy Race Car Dallara/Infiniti/Firestone, with an identical backup entered. Owen Snyder III is the chief mechanic, and Richard Caron is the team manager - the same braintrust that helped Cheever to victory in 1998.

1990 Indianapolis 500 Bank One Rookie of the Year Cheever will attempt to make his 12th start at Indianapolis. He has five career top-10 finishes at Indy.

Goodyear, from Carmel, Ind., will drive the No. 52 Cheever Indy Racing Dallara/Infiniti/Firestone, with an identical backup entered. Dane Harte is the chief mechanic, and Caron is team manager.

Just six-tenths of a second has separated Goodyear from victory at Indy. Goodyear, who will attempt to make his 11th Indy start, finished second to Al Unser Jr. by .043 of a second in 1992 in the closest finish in Indianapolis 500 history. Goodyear was second to then-teammate Arie Luyendyk by 0.570 of a second in 1997.

Fisher, from Indianapolis, will drive the No. 15 Walker Racing Kroger Special Dallara/Oldsmobile/Firestone, with an identical backup entered. Ron Catt is the chief mechanic, and Gilbert Lage is the team manager.

Fisher, 20, finished 31st as a rookie last year at Indianapolis. She was just the third woman to ever start the race. She recorded a second-place finish on April 8 in the Indy Racing Northern Light Series event in Miami, the best ever by a woman in a major North American open-wheel series.

Walker also fielded the No. 25 Walker Racing Special. No driver, chassis, engine or tyre was named.

Schroeder, from Vineland, N.J., will drive the No. 9 Purity Products Dallara/Oldsmobile/Firestone, with an undisclosed backup entered. Paul Murphy is the chief mechanic, and team co-owner Paul Diatlovich is the team manager.

Schroeder will attempt to make his third consecutive Indianapolis start since his rookie year in 1998. His best finish was 14th in 2000. Schroeder is the full-time driver for PDM in the Indy Racing Northern Light Series.

Erwin, from Denton, Texas, will attempt to make his first Indianapolis 500 start in the No. 30 WorldBestBuy.com/McCormack Motorsports G Force/Oldsmobile/Firestone, with an identical backup entered. Larry Sisk is the chief mechanic, and Michael McCormack the team manager.

Hemelgarn added a fourth entry, the #94 Hemelgarn Racing Dallara/Oldsmobile/Firestone, to its burgeoning stable. An identical backup car also was entered. No driver or chief mechanic was named. Greg Wattles is the team manager.

2001 INDIANAPOLIS 500 ENTRIES (as of April 11):

Driver
Entrant
Car
C/E/T
Entry Date

Arie Luyendyk
Treadway/Hubbard Racing
#5, #5T Meijer
G/O/F
March 1

Felipe Giaffone (R)
Treadway/Hubbard Racing
#21, #21T Hollywood
G/O/F
March 1

Scott Sharp
Kelley Racing
#8, #8T Delphi Automotive Systems
D/O/F
March 12

Mark Dismore
Kelley Racing
#28, #28T Delphi/Bryant Heating and Cooling
D/O/F
March 12

TBA
Kelley Racing
#20, #20T TBA
D/O/F
March 12

Greg Ray
Team Menard
#2, #2T Johns Manville/Menards
D/O/F
March 14

TBA
Team Menard
#22, #22T Johns Manville/Menards
D/O/F
March 14

Robbie Buhl
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
#24, #24T Dreyer & Reinbold Racing Team Purex
G/I/F
March 19

Airton Dar?
TeamXtreme Racing
#88, #88T 1-800-BAR-NONE TeamXtreme
G/O/F
March 19

Jaques Lazier
Jonathan Byrd TeamXtreme Racing
#77, #77T Jonathan Byrd's Cafeteria TeamXtreme
G/O/F
March 19

Nicolas Minassian (R)
Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
#33, #33T Target Chip Ganassi Racing
G/O/F
March 20

Bruno Junqueira (R)
Chip Ganassi Racing Teams
#44, #44T Target Chip Ganassi Racing
G/O/F
March 20

Shigeaki Hattori (R)
Vertex/Cunningham Racing
#55, #55T EPSON
G/O/F
March 23

Michael Andretti
Team Green
#39, #39T Motorola/Archipelago
D/O/F
March 27

Jack Miller
Cahill Racing
#11, #11T Olympus/Opalescence/Cahill Racing
D/O/F
March 28

Davey Hamilton
Sam Schmidt Motorsports
#99, #99T Sam Schmidt Motorsports Racing Special
D/O/F
March 29

Helio Castroneves (R)
Penske Racing
#68, #68T Marlboro Team Penske
D/O/F
March 29

Gil de Ferran
Penske Racing
#66, #66T Marlboro Team Penske
D/O/F
March 29

TBA
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
#23, #23T Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
G/I/F
March 29

Stephan Gregoire
Dick Simon Racing
#7, #7T Jack K. Elrod Co./Tokheim/NADA Guides
D/O/F
G/O/F
April 3

TBA
Dick Simon Racing
#17, #17T Dick Simon Racing
TBA
April 3

Cory Witherill (R)
Indy Regency Racing
#16 WSA Motors/Indy Regency Racing
G/O/F
April 4

Sam Hornish Jr.
Panther Racing
#4, 4T Pennzoil Panther Racing
D/O/F
April 4

Robby McGehee
Cahill Racing
#10, #10T Cahill Racing
D/O/F
April 4

Jeff Ward
Heritage Motorsports
#35, #35T Heritage Motorsports Firestone Menard
G/O/F
April 5

Buddy Lazier
Hemelgarn Racing
#91, #91T Tae-Bo-Coors Light-LifeFitness-Delta Faucet-Hemelgarn
D/O/F
April 6

Stan Wattles
Hemelgarn Racing
#92, #92T Hemelgarn-Firestone-Dallara-Oldsmobile
D/O/F
April 6

TBA
Hemelgarn Racing
#93, #93T Metro Management-Super Fitness-Firestone-Hemelgarn Racing
D/O/F
April 6

Buzz Calkins
Bradley Motorsports
#12, #12T Bradley Food Marts/
Sav-O-Mat
D/O/F
April 9

Al Unser Jr.
Galles Racing
#3, #3T Galles Racing Starz SuperPak
G/O/F
April 10

Didier Andr? (R)
Galles Racing
#32 Galles Racing
G/O/F
April 10

Casey Mears (R)
Galles Racing
#31, #31T Galles Racing SportsLine.com
G/O/F
April 10

Billy Boat
Beck Motorsports
#98, #98T Curb Records
D/O/F
April 10

Jeret Schroeder
PDM Racing
#9, #9T Purity Products
D/O/F
TBA
April 11

Brandon Erwin (R)
McCormack Motorsports
#30, #30T WorldBestBuy.com/
McCormack Motorsports
G/O/F
April 11

Sarah Fisher
Walker Racing
#15, #15T Walker Racing Kroger Special
D/O/F
April 11

TBA
Walker Racing
#25, #25T Walker Racing TBA Special
TBA
April 11

TBA
Hemelgarn Racing
#94, #94T Hemelgarn Racing
D/O/F
April 11

Eddie Cheever Jr.
Cheever Indy Racing
#51, #51T #51 Excite@Home Indy Race Car
D/I/F
April 11

Scott Goodyear
Cheever Indy Racing
#52, #52T Cheever Indy Racing
D/I/F
April 11

Key: C/E/T-Chassis/engine/tire; D-Dallara; F-Firestone; G-G Force; I-Infiniti; O-Oldsmobile; TBA - To be announced