The Indianapolis 500 isn’t just another race, it’s one of the grandest sporting spectacles on Earth, drawing the largest, single-day audience of any sports event on the planet. It is also one of the most watched motorsports events on television. Last year’s 109th Running of the Indianapolis 500 was the first on FOX and it
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From Indianapolis 500 winner Arie Luyendyk in 1990 to Marcus Ericsson in 2022, sculptor William Behrends is closing in on having one-third of the 109 faces on the Borg-Warner Trophy as his art. Ericsson, who won the 106 th Indianapolis 500 in 2022, was Behrends 33 rd face on the permanent trophy that honors all
It didn’t take long for Marcus Ericsson to realize that winning the 106 th Indianapolis 500 will change his life. It struck him while he was drinking the traditional bottle of milk in victory lane at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 29, 2022. “It was almost like chaos there,” Ericsson recalled. “You are trying…