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                                                              July 25, 2024

William M. Brown
Chief Executive Officer
Andretti Acquisition Corp. II
7615 Zionsville Road
Indianapolis, IN 46268

        Re: Andretti Acquisition Corp. II
            Registration Statement on Form S-1
            Filed June 28, 2024
            File No. 333-280552
Dear William M. Brown:

       We have reviewed your registration statement and have the following
comments.

       Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement
and providing the
requested information. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts
and circumstances
or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your
response.

       After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the
information you
provide in response to this letter, we may have additional comments.

Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed June 28, 2024
Cover Page

1.     We note your disclosure that nine institutional investors have expressed
an interest in
       purchasing up to an aggregate of 17.82 million of the units in this
offering. Please revise
       to: (i) disclose the potential material impact of these purchases on
public investors, (ii)
       clarify whether the potential limited number of public investors would
impact your
       eligibility to list your securities on Nasdaq, and (iii) to the extent
material, identify each
       institutional investor.
Summary
Our Management Team, page 2

2.     Please expand your disclosure to clearly identify any special purpose
acquisition company
       business combinations in which your management team has participated and
disclose the
       current trading prices, including for Zapata Computing, Inc.
 July 25, 2024
Page 2

3.     We note footnote 1 on page 3 with respect to William J. (Bill)
Sandbrook. Please revise
       your disclosure in your management and conflicts of interest sections,
and elsewhere as
       appropriate, to address the information in the footnote.
Summary of Risk Factors, page 39

4.     Please revise to limit your summary of risk factors to no more than two
pages highlighting
       the principal factors that make an investment in the registrant or
offering speculative or
       risky. Refer to Item 105(b) of Regulation S-K.
Risk Factors
To mitigate the risk that we might be deemed to be an investment company . . .,
page 53

5.     Please disclose the risk that notwithstanding the investment activities
described in this risk
       factor, you may be deemed to be operating as an investment company at
any time since
       your inception.
        We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for
the accuracy
and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action
or absence of
action by the staff.

       Refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration. Please
allow adequate
time for us to review any amendment prior to the requested effective date of
the registration
statement.

       Please contact Jeffrey Lewis at 202-551-6216 or Kristina Marrone at
202-551-3429 if you
have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related
matters. Please
contact Stacie Gorman at 202-551-3585 or Isabel Rivera at 202-551-3518 with any
other
questions.



                                                             Sincerely,

                                                             Division of
Corporation Finance
                                                             Office of Real
Estate & Construction
cc:   Adam C. Berkaw, Esq.
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