“As soon as they pressed that red flag button, I was done,” Ericsson said, knowing that the leader had been passed by the second-place car on virtually every restart – just as Newgarden did to win his first Indy 500.

Rather than let the laps run out under yellow with Ericsson as the first repeat Indy 500 winner in two decades, Ind圜ar stopped the race and restarted in a virtually unprecedented situation: Throwing the green and white flag for a one-lap shootout shortly after cars exited the pits. The call that the Ind圜ar scoring tower made was not the one that the Chip Ganassi Racing driver wanted. JOSEF’S FAMILY TIES: Newgarden wins Indy 500 with wisdom of father, wife INDYCAR IN DETROIT: Entry list, schedule, TV info for this weekend

“When I got that lead, and it went yellow, I was screaming in my helmet for a lap and a half, ‘Call it! Call it! Call it! Call it!’ They have to call it.” Better get to the lead and keep that lead, because this is going to be it. “I knew that I better get to the lead as soon as possible because another yellow, that’s going to be it,” Ericsson said Friday before the first practice for the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix.

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