Following a poor final restart, Ericsson was applying pressure to leader O’Ward in the closing stages of today’s race when the Mexican ace suffered what was described as a “plenum event” that briefly zapped the car’s power under acceleration from the final turn. With Ericsson just 0.6sec behind, the delay was enough to see the reigning Indy 500 champion zap past with four laps to go and come home a winner.
It was Ericsson’s fourth triumph in IndyCar, the 124th for Chip Ganassi in Indy car racing but only the second for the team in 20 races at the St. Petersburg, FL street/airport course.
