Marcus Ericsson and Linus Lundqvist in big crashes in Indy 500 Practice 4
Marcus Ericsson and Linus L🌌undqvist admit errors leading to wrecking cars
Marcus Ericsso🍃n and Linus Lundqvist were involved in the first big smashes of Indy 500 practice.
Both drivers wrecked their cars during Thursdaꦬy’s Practice 4 session.
Andretti Global driver Ericsson - the 2022 winner of the famous race - crashed at 🍃Turn 4🎃 then slid down the straight.
He experienced three big impacts but was🅺 able to clamber out of the car.
Ericsson was cleared of any injuries after being checked by the me🥂dical ♏team.
"I'm feeling okay. Obviously it was quite a decent hit," Ericsson 𓃲said.
"The safety in these cars is pretty impressive. I neeཧd to watc෴h it back.
“Obviously, lost it in the middle there. I don't knꦗow if I brushed the kerb a li📖ttle bit.
“💞Yeah, I 💛think I brushed the kerb a little bit and that's probably enough to send it.
"Then you're a passenger. Very disappointing.
“I'm very sorry to ꦍmy team. They've done a very good job with and they have a lot of work ahead of them now, so that's probably the worst part of the whole thing."
Chip Ganassi Racing driver Lundqvist was also cleared of injury after his crash a🍃t Turn 2.
“I’m alri🎃ght,” said Lundqvist. “Just want to apologis🧔e to the team. Obviously not what we’re looking to do. It’s a shame.
“I know that the guys work🐼ed so hard to put this car 🍸together. It sucks.
“It’s my mistake. I kn♔ow exactly what I did. Iಌ touched the kerb in Turn 2 and couldn’t hold onto it.
“It’s something that you talk about often at this place, but it’s just a mistake on my part and the team’s 👍going to pay the price for it.
“It♌ goes so fast, and when you get down th🌠ere and you realise where you’re at, it’s kind of too late.
“It’s a small mistake. Easy❀ thing to happen, but big consequences.
“I know we’re goingꦯ to bounce back from something like this.
“Doesnꦿ’t mean that it doesn’t suck in the moment. Obviously it hurts and especially when it’s your mistake.
“But we’ll rebound, I’ll learn from it. There’s another week or so until the race so we’l⭕l bounce bac𝓀k for that.”
James wa📖s a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Amer▨ican sports, to football, to F1.
