Marcus Ericsson wins ridiculous IndyCar season opener.
Grosjean was able to get side-by-side with McLaughlin heading into a passing corner in turn 4, but McLaughlin held the inside line and had the advantage heading into the corner. If either lifted at that moment, there is no crash. They would also have effectively handed the win to the other driver, though, so both committed fully; McLaughlin slipped into Grosjean, neither made the corner, and both saw their races come to an unceremonious end there.
It is yet another win in a chaotic street circuit race for Ericsson, his third such result. It joins his 2022 Indianapolis 500 victory over O'Ward to make four wins in his IndyCar career. Ericsson becomes the early championship leader, a result that could be significant given how consistently he had run over the course of the schedule in both 2021 and 2022. O'Ward, Scott Dixon, Alexander Rossi, and Callum Ilott completed the top five.
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