Chip Ganassi Racing driver Ericsson was beaten to victory by Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden by 0.0974s after leading him to the green flag for a green-white-checkered finish.
Although Ericsson held the lead through Turn 1 and 2, Newgarden got a run to pass him on the backstretch into Turn 3, which proved to be the decisive move.
But Ericsson didn’t think the race should’ve been restarted with no time for a full warmup lap.
“It was an unfair and dangerous end to the race,” said Ericsson. “We’ve never done a restart straight out of the pits. We don’t get the tires up to temperature.
“I think it was a tough way to end the race, I don’t really agree with how they did that.
“I don’t think there was enough laps left to do what we did, I don’t think it’s safe to go out of the pits o …