Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda’s Swedish star, who turned 32 earlier this month, headed to Tryon, NC., to pose for Behrends who has sculpted the face of every winner since Arie Luyendyk in 1990. By peculiar coincidence, Behrends started work on Luyendyk’s visage in September of that year, the same month Ericsson was born, and this is his 33rd sculpting.
Ericsson joked that his girlfriend Iris Tritsaris “prefers the clay model of me to the real me” before going on to compliment Behrends on his work, and revel in the whole experience of winning the biggest race in the world.
