{"id":24581,"date":"2020-12-05T10:32:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T10:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/drivers\/marcus-ericsson\/"},"modified":"2023-11-07T15:19:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T15:19:48","slug":"marcus-ericsson","status":"publish","type":"driver","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/drivers\/marcus-ericsson\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Ericsson"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n<section class=\"hero hero--small-image\">\n    \n            \n<section class=\"c-site-breadcrumbs site-breadcrumbs proxima \">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <nav class=\"breadcrumbs\"><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/\">Home<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/nav>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n    \n    <div class=\"hero__content\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n                            <div class=\"circular-image\">\n                                            <picture>\n            <source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"\" >\n            <img decoding=\"async\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" alt=\"_r6t6987\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/r6t6987-200x200.jpg\" srcset=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\"  \/>\n        <\/picture>\n                                    <\/div>\n                        <h1 class=\"hero__title sanomat\"><\/h1>\n                                <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"anchor-menu container-no-breakpoints proxima\">\n    <ul>\n                    <li><a href=\"#biography\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Biography<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#championship-seasons\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Championship Seasons<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#non-championship-races\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Non-Championship Races<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#teams\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Teams<\/a><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n<\/section>\n\n<div class=\"container\" id=\"biography\">\n            <div class=\"post__item\">\n                <div class=\"js-react\" data-behaviour=\"driver-data-box\" data-driver-id=\"24581\"><\/div>\n                <\/div>\n        <aside class=\"sidebar\" data-target=\"ad-container\">\n            <aside class=\"broadcast-space \">\n            <div class=\"broadcast-space__element\" id=\"div-gpt-ad-1563288058060-3\" data-behaviour=\"ad-target\"><\/div>\n    <\/aside>\n        <\/aside>\n    <\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" id=\"\">\n    \n        \n        <section class=\"c-expanding-content expanding-content content-section toggle\">\n            <p>Marcus Ericsson was a\u00a0race\u00a0winner throughout his career in the junior formulae and 2009\u00a0Japanese Formula 3 Champion, although it was a surprise when he graduated to Grand Prix racing. Steady rather than spectacular for Caterham during his rookie campaign in 2014,\u00a0he spent\u00a0the following\u00a0four\u00a0seasons\u00a0with Sauber\u00a0with little reward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karting and early career\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hailing from the same region as the ultimate Swedish racing hero Ronnie Peterson, he began racing karts seriously when nine years old. With both Eje\u00a0Elgh\u00a0and Kenny\u00a0Br\u00e4ck\u00a0as mentors, Ericsson joined\u00a0Fortec\u00a0Motorsports for the 2007 Formula BMW UK Championship. He won seven times as the teenager beat Josef Kr\u00e1l to the title in his first season racing cars.<\/p>\n<p>He remained with\u00a0Fortec\u00a0for the 2008 British F3 Championship when driving a Dallara F308-Mercedes-Benz. However, the team was unable to match Carlin Motorsport for whom Jaime\u00a0Alguersuari\u00a0and Oliver Turvey finished first and second overall. The Swede did register two pole positions and five top three finishes on the way to fifth in the points.<\/p>\n<p>Ericsson moved to the Japanese series in 2009 with Petronas Team TOM\u2019s. On pole for his debut, he won five times to clinch the title against an admittedly thin field. Occasional British F3 Championship outings that year for Robertson R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen Racing were a more competitive test of Ericsson\u2019s potential so victories at Rockingham and Hockenheim were welcome. Back in his regular TOM&#8217;s Dallara F308-Toyota for Macau, he qualified on pole before finishing fourth against the best F3 talent of the year. 2009 also included Ericsson&#8217;s first F1 experience, completing three days of F1 testing for new World Champions Brawn Grand Prix at Jerez.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mixed fortunes in GP2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, disappointing outings with ART Grand Prix and then Super Nova Racing followed in the 2009\/10 GP2 Asia Series but Ericsson remained with the latter for the main GP2 Series in 2010. It proved to be a mixed campaign although he did translate his front row start (thanks to the top eight grid positions being reversed) into victory in Valencia\u2019s sprint race. He only scored twice more and finished a disappointing 17th overall.<\/p>\n<p>Ericsson moved to\u00a0iSport\u00a0International for the curtailed 2010\/11 GP2 Asia Series. A couple of top four finishes during Abu Dhabi\u2019s opening weekend saw him finish sixth in the four-race championship. He remained with\u00a0iSport\u00a0for the summer series and was third at Barcelona (sprint race) and Silverstone (feature) although 10th in the points represented a lacklustre return.<\/p>\n<p>Another season with\u00a0iSport\u00a0followed in 2012 and that campaign included winning the crash-interrupted Spa-Francorchamps\u00a0feature race \u2013 his first victory in more than two seasons. However, it had been a story of &#8220;feast and famine&#8221; once more and the Swede\u2019s career appeared to have stagnated despite him being just 22 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Ericsson joined reigning champions DAMS for his fourth GP2 season and was expected to challenge for the 2013 title. He suffered a frustrating start to the campaign and did not finish in the top 10 until mid-season. Feature race victory at the N\u00fcrburgring proved the highlight and another four visits to the podium followed as Ericsson finished sixth in the championship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Formula 1 with Caterham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite four largely underwhelming years in GP2, Ericsson graduated to Formula 1 in 2014 with Caterham. The Caterham CT05-Renault was as slow as it was ugly and the season was further blighted by the team\u2019s financial troubles. Although unable to match more experienced team-mate Kamui Kobayashi for much of the year and having crashed too often, Ericsson finished 11th at Monaco to equal Caterham\u2019s best F1 finish. The team entered administration and missed the United States and Brazilian GPs before returning for the final race. By that time, Ericsson had severed his ties with Caterham as he worked on securing his F1 future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sauber career\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He joined Sauber for 2015 but legal action from Guido van der Garde dominated the opening race in Australia \u2013 the Dutchman having also signed for the\u00a0beleaguered\u00a0Swiss team. That was eventually settled out of court and rookie team-mate Felipe Nasr and Ericsson finished that race in fifth and eighth respectively as Sauber scored its first points in over a year. The Swede qualified ninth two weeks later in Malaysia \u2013 his best F1 grid position to that date. Ericsson scored further top 10 finishes at three mid-season races in-a-row as he came 18th in the final standings.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s financial woes continued in 2016 and, despite generally outperforming Nasr, Ericsson was never quite able to coax his Sauber C35-Ferrari into the points.\u00a0It was a similar pointless season in 2017, 11th place in Spain and Azerbaijan his best results of the season. The closest he came to scoring was on the streets of Baku where he\u00a0was ordered to let\u00a0team-mate Pascal Wehrlein\u00a0take 10th for fear of losing that position to the\u00a0fast closing\u00a0McLaren-Honda of Stoffel Vandoorne.<\/p>\n<p>He was joined by Formula 2 Champion Charles Leclerc in 2018 and spent his final F1 season racing in the rookie\u2019s shadow. Ericsson did score points on six occasions in a\u00a0much improved\u00a0season for the team but while Leclerc earned promotion to Ferrari, the Swede was replaced by Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indycars\u00a0with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ericsson turned down the opportunity to remain with the rebranded Alfa Romeo Racing (Sauber) as fulltime reserve driver in 2019 preferring to switch to the IndyCar Series with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports instead. The team struggled and second in race two at Detroit was a rare highlight for the Swede. Ericsson set the fastest race lap in Toronto and missed the penultimate round at Portland when an unused substitute at the Belgian GP in case R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen did not recover from a muscle strain. 17th overall was an underwhelming return from his first Indycar campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Ericsson moved across to Chip Ganassi Racing for the 2020 IndyCar season. He improved to 12th in the championship in his second season in the U.S. and signed a multi-year extension with CGR.<\/p>\n\n                    <\/section>\n\n                                \n   <\/div>\n\n<section class=\"content-section content-section--no-padding-bottom database-table-collapsible toggle open\" id=\"championship-seasons\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"js-react\" data-behaviour=\"driver-seasons-table\" data-driver-id=\"\"><\/div>            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"content-section content-section--no-padding database-table-collapsible toggle open\" id=\"non-championship-races\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        \n<header class=\"content-header content-header--alt\">\n\n    <h2 class=\"content-header__small-title sanomat u-bold \">\n                Non Championship Races\n    <\/h2>\n\n    <div class=\"content-header__dropdown database-table-collapsible__toggles proxima\">\n        <a href=\"#\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/articles\/single-seaters\/f1\/fia-error-that-changed-f1-title-race-why-james-hunt-shouldnt-have-been-champion\/\">\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"article-item__image article-item__image--cropped\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<picture>\n            <source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2164503855-450x253.jpg.webp 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" height=\"253\" width=\"450\" alt=\"The other F1 title- changing error: why James Hunt shouldn&#8217;t have been champion\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2164503855-450x253.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2164503855-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>\n        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