Last year in Detroit, Ericsson scored his first IndyCar win after a late-race stoppage, while in Nashville he took off from the back of another car on the opening lap yet came through to win, after several race stoppages.
Today in the 106th running of the Indianapolis 500, having passed the two Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolets, he built up a three-second lead, only for it to be scrubbed as the field was bunched up under yellow and then stopped under red following his teammate Jimmie Johnson’s crash on Lap 194. However, Ericsson held off a strong challenge from Pato O’Ward to clinch the team’s fifth Indy 500 win, 10 years after its fourth.
