Marcus Ericsson

Marcus Thorbjörn Ericsson was born on September 2, 1990 in Kumla, Sweden, in the province of Örebro County. At nine years old, he sat in a kart for the first time, discovered by Fredrik Ekblom, who eventually convinced Ericsson’s father Tomas to buy his son his own kart. Over the following years, Ericsson collected numerous national titles in karting before being discovered and promoted by Kenny Bräck, the former Champ Car pilot and 1999 Indianapolis 500 winner, at a race in Gothenburg in 2006.

Through Bräck’s mediation, Ericsson made his single-seater debut in 2007 with Fortec Motorsport and immediately won the title in the British Formula BMW UK. This was followed by a move to the British Formula Three Championship, where he finished fifth in the overall standings in 2008 as one of the best rookies. In 2009, he moved to Japan, where he competed for Petronas Team TOM’S in the All-Japan Formula 3 Championship and won the championship in his debut year with five victories. From 2010 to 2013, Ericsson competed in the GP2 Series for Super Nova Racing, iSport, and DAMS, scoring three race wins and finishing his final season in 2013 as overall sixth before making the jump to Formula 1 with Caterham F1 in 2014.

Between 2014 and 2018, Ericsson contested 97 Grand Prix in Formula 1, first for Caterham, then for Sauber and Alfa Romeo Sauber, where he achieved his best Formula 1 season in 2018 alongside rookie Charles Leclerc with 17th place in the championship standings. In 2019, he switched to Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports in the IndyCar Series and celebrated his first podium in Detroit. From 2020 onwards, he drove for Chip Ganassi Racing and became a fixture at the top in 2021 with two race wins in Detroit and Nashville and sixth place in the championship. Ericsson celebrated the greatest success of his career in 2022 with victory at the 106th Indianapolis 500, becoming only the second Swede after Kenny Bräck. In 2023, he followed up with a win at the season opener in St. Petersburg and second place at the Indy 500.

For the 2026 season, Marcus Ericsson joins Andretti Global, where he will be a full-time driver and bring the consistency and racing pace he has demonstrated in recent years. Following the switch from Chip Ganassi Racing to the Andretti camp, the Swede continues to seek a path back to victory lane and top championship positions, which he had already achieved multiple times with Ganassi. With his experience from Formula 1 and IndyCar as well as his status as the 2022 Indianapolis 500 winner, Ericsson is considered one of the drivers who will have a say in the fight for podium finishes and race wins this season.