Marcus Ericsson, the 2022 #Indy500 winner and 2023 runner-up, faced a challenging qualifying session with last-chance efforts. Ericsson made a crucial error by backing off early during his last run but eventually qualified for the 108th running of the Indianapolis 500. Meanwhile, 19-year-old Nolan Siegel crashed out, missing the race, and Graham Rahal secured the final spot in the 33-car field.
2022 #Indy500 winner Marcus Ericsson came within minutes of being bumped in last-chance qualifying after a bizarre error on his first run 😲 Ericsson's reaction ⬇️ https://t.co/OuVOl5Db8j
🗣 "It’s on me, I messed that up and I shouldn’t be doing that with my experience" 😳 Marcus Ericsson owns up to the moment he backed off after the white flag, not the checker, on his crucial #Indy500 last-chance qualifying lap 👇 #INDYCAR https://t.co/t21LB6dNzl
19-year-old Nolan Siegel and the No. 18 Dale Coyne Racing Honda have missed the race and will not compete in the 2024 #Indy500 He crashes on his final attempt, pushing as hard as he could to bump Graham Rahal. #BumpDay #IndyCar https://t.co/ooyhpInKpC
Graham Rahal takes the 33rd and final spot in the 2024 #Indy500 19-year-old Nolan Siegel and the #18 Dale Coyne Racing Honda have missed the race, crashing out of Turn 1. #BumpDay #IndyCar
Cruel bump for 19-year-old Nolan Siegel. Hit the wall on his last chance qualifying turn and will not make the 33-car field for next week's Indy 500. 2022 champ Marcus Ericsson and Graham Rahal -- who was bumped in 2023 -- survive the cut.
Nolan Siegel has crashed, and his bid to make the field for the #Indy500 is over. Katherine Legge, Marcus Ericsson, and Graham Rahal will advance to the race.
Marcus Ericsson qualifies for the 108th running of the Indianapolis 500 🙏💙 https://t.co/HKBn7kQJAo
NOLAN SIEGEL CRASHES! He will not make the #Indy500
Siegel crashes and is out of the Indy 500. Rahal takes the final spot.
Oh man. Nolan Siegel went for it. And he crashed. Nolan Siegel misses the Indy 500. Graham Rahal makes it.
Siegel's Lap 1: 229.288 And he loses it at the start of Lap 2. Into the wall. Nolan Siegel won't qualify for the Indy 500.
This is it. Either 19-year-old Nolan Siegel bumps Graham Rahal or misses the race himself.
It's Siegel vs. Rahal for the 33rd and final spot on the grid. #Indy500 #BumpDay #IndyCar
Ericsson has bumped into the field. Now it's a question on if Siegel can improve his time. 3 minutes left. Graham Rahal is on the bubble. #Indy500
Drama! Marcus Ericsson MAKES IT into the Indy 500. Now teenage rookie Nolan Siegel will go out and try to bump Graham Rahal out of the race!
Marcus Ericsson jumps Nolan Siegel and Graham Rahal! The DCR #18 is now on the hot seat. #Indy500 #BumpDay #IndyCar
Here we go...Ericsson on track with seven minutes left! #Indy500 #BumpDay #IndyCar
If Siegel's team just sits there and lets Ericsson run out the clock... #Indy500 #BumpDay #IndyCar
2022 #Indy500 winner and 2023 runner-up Marcus Ericsson is currently in the elimination zone with around 35 minutes left in qualifying ... unreal. #Indy500 #BumpDay #IndyCar
NBC confirms it was a mental error for Ericsson. He thought the run was over...WOW. #Indy500 #BumpDay #IndyCar
The drama! 😬 #Indy500 #BumpDay https://t.co/Ti6Eh5lXL6
Seems like Marcus Ericsson just made an incredible gaffe in slowing his car a lap early in last chance qualifying for the Indy 500. Wow. #Indy500
Legge with a moment! This has been such a dramatic session already...omg. #Indy500 #BumpDay #IndyCar
Seems like Marcus Ericcson just made an incredible gaffe in slowing his car a lap early in last chance qualifying for the Indy 500. Wow. #Indy500
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO MARCUS ERICSSON?! Listen to the radio after he finished his third lap of qualifying. 📺 : #Indy500 on NBC and Peacock https://t.co/LPKZN9MU7R
Did Ericsson just think the white flag was the checkered flag during his run and backed out of it? Oh no... #Indy500 #BumpDay #IndyCar
Time for the Bump Day session. Four drivers -- 2022 Indy 500 winner Marcus Ericsson, Graham Rahal (who DNQ'd last year), Katherine Legge and teenage rookie Nolan Siegel -- going for the last three spots. One goes home. https://t.co/TJNmjS9EbT
Uh oh #Indy500 #BumpDay https://t.co/XbdtxxtNzp
Marcus Ericsson has described #Indy500 qualifying as like “driving with a gun to my throat” as he faces the last-chance qualifying group to make the field Full story ⬇️ https://t.co/FquPd9IgGl
🗣 "I put ourselves in this position with my crash" 😔 2022 #Indy500 winner and last year's runner-up Marcus Ericsson faces a battle to qualify on the last row tomorrow 😱 Read more 👇 #INDYCAR https://t.co/joNb76Kpkp
2022 #Indy500 winner and 2023 runner-up Marcus Ericsson right on the edge of the danger zone…did not expect that to be a story this year. #IndyCar
Marcus Ericsson is up next for Andretti and is the 15th qualifier of the day, let’s gooooo 👏 #INDY500 https://t.co/VJtrgiBbD3