Former F1 Driver Marcus Ericsson wins 2022 Indianapolis 500 in a two-lap shootout

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Marcus Ericsson remained on top to win "the Greatest Spectacle in Racing."

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Jimmie Johnson, the NASCAR legend and IndyCar rookie, crashed with six laps to go in the Indy 500

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IndyCar is among the purest forms of motorsports and rarely throws artificial cautions

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Marcus Ericsson, once a Formula One backmarker, is now an IndyCar frontrunner

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The 31-year-old showed up in IndyCar something of a mystery in 2019 following five unremarkable seasons

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He’d worked his entire life to make it to the top level of motorsports then washed out winless

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Ericsson was cut loose from his first IndyCar team after just one year

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