Chevrolet will supply 14 different cars with engines for the 2025 IndyCar season after adding PREMA to their pool this summer.
Fresh from winning their second consecutive manufacturers’ championship, the American giant is primed for another run in 2025.
Sadly, they didn’t supply the car that went on to win the drivers’ title – which their rivals Honda had the pleasure of doing with Alex Palou in the number 10 Chip Ganassi car.
But that won’t bother them too much, as they remain focused on the teams that they provide engines to ahead of next year.
Chevrolet IndyCar supply capacity ‘maxed out’ for now
Formula 1 teams find it difficult enough to manage their own pool of engines for two cars, let alone distribute them amongst multiple teams and ensure their reliability and effectiveness.
Chevrolet is an incredibly well-established brand in the IndyCar world, and that creates a demand for their products.
So much so, that they are now at maximum capacity as General Motors’ executive director of global motorsports competition, Eric Warren, revealed to Motorsport.com.
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“It is difficult as we add teams because, again, as much as we as Chevrolet want the teams to work totally together for Chevrolet, they’re still racing each other and still competitive. It creates more mouths to feed, information.
“We see that as a positive. The more we can learn, more we can try different things. But there’s a limit of we don’t want to spread our resources out too thin and not be able to compete.
“I always say we’re over the limit. Certainly I get told that by our finance people (smiling). But we keep pushing. We’re maxed out.”
Who has the best chance of winning the drivers’ title with a Chevrolet engine in 2025?
There are a few drivers who would be considered as front-runners for a shot at the drivers’ championship in 2025.
The two teams that spring to mind are McLaren and Team Penske, who had three drivers in the top six of the standings this season.
In fact, both teams combined for 11 wins between four drivers this season, but no one managed to place inside the top two of the championship.
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It’s fair to say that Will Power – who competed down to the wire in 2024 is a safe bet for contention, while Pato O’Ward could be in contention is McLaren can find some more consistency.
But it’s Scott McLaughlin who carries the biggest threat – a man who would’ve come points from winning the title if he hadn’t been disqualified from the opening race that he won for a push-to-pass infringement.
“It’s important to us that the series is successful,” Warren continued. “Sometimes just the attrition of people and teams and everything, we have to keep investing in it. We try to look at each situation individually and whether we can handle it. I think we’re okay.”