updated 3:05 a.m. ET April 4, 2007

INDIANAPOLIS - Michael Andretti, who came out of retirement for one race last year and was oh-so-close to finally winning the Indianapolis 500, will try again next month.

The co-owner of Andretti Green Racing filed entries for 10 cars Tuesday, listing himself, his son Marco Andretti and teammates Danica Patrick, Tony Kanaan and Dario Franchitti as drivers for the May 27 race.

Other cars for the Panther, Vision and Beck Motorsports teams raised the tentative entry list to 37, with more expected before the deadline at midnight Wednesday.

Entries postmarked before then will be accepted even if they arrive after the deadline. Those include Penske Racing entries for defending Indy and IRL champion Sam Hornish Jr. and two-time winner Helio Castroneves, and Ganassi Racing teammates Dan Wheldon, the 2005 Indy winner, and Scott Dixon, the series leader after two races this season.

Michael Andretti, who retired as a driver after the 2003 race, did not race after that until last year’s Indianapolis 500, where he started 13th, led four laps and finished third behind Hornish and son Marco, who was the rookie of the year.

“Last year when I returned, at first it was all about getting to race with Marco,” Michael said in February, when he announced his intention to try again this year. “Then, we both had a shot at winning it, and I knew it would be very tough for me to walk away knowing that I’m still very capable of winning that race.”

Michael, whose 430 career laps led in his 15 Indy starts is a record for race non-winners, lost the lead to Marco with three laps to go. Hornish then passed the 19-year-old Marco on the last lap, about 300 yards from the checkered flag, to win by .0635 second, the second-closest finish in Indy history.

Kanaan was fifth and Franchitti was seventh, giving Andretti Green four of the top seven spots. Patrick, then driving for Rahal Letterman Racing, was eighth.

Michael’s best finish at Indianapolis was second in 1991 to four-time winner Rick Mears.

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Patrick will be trying for her first Indy start for Andretti Green after two years with Rahal Letterman. She was the rookie of the year in 2005, when she started and finished fourth and became the first woman to lead at Indy. She was eighth last year.

Sarah Fisher and rookie Milka Duno were listed on entries last month, offering the possibility for the first Indy lineup with three women.

Other entries Tuesday included two Panther Racing cars each for veteran Vitor Meira, the runner-up in 2005, and Kosuke Matsuura, the 2004 rookie of the year.

No drivers were assigned to the new entries by Vision Racing, which last month entered cars for Tomas Scheckter, Ed Carpenter and A.J. Foyt IV, or by Beck Motorsports.

Practice for the race will begin with the annual rookie orientation program on May 6-7.

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