[双语简报-Indycar][被欧洲和F1拒绝，在北美重启。埃里克森：苦尽甘来终夺冠]
*ERICSSON SAVORS RETURN OF WINNING FEELING AFTER LONG DROUGHT
*原标题：苦尽甘来，埃里克森终夺生涯首冠
**译文版权up所有，原文及图片摘自indycar官网，有删减
Marcus Ericsson is back. Back in Victory Lane, that is.
回来了，都回来了，马库斯·埃里克森找回了那个去赢得胜利的自己。
In his third NTT INDYCAR SERIES season and 37th career INDYCAR race, the Swedish driver Scored his first career win in Race 1 of the Chevrolet Dual in Detroit doubleheader Saturday at the Raceway at Belle Isle.
在自己的第三个Indycar赛季，第37场比赛中，瑞典车手从底特律百丽岛首回合的车阵中杀出，拿到了自己的职业生涯首胜。
More importantly for Ericsson, it was his first trip to Victory Lane in eight years. His last win was a GP2 victory at Nurburgring in 2013. In 2014, Ericsson began his Formula One career and went winless for five seasons before moving to the NTT INDYCAR SERIES in 2019.
更加重要的是，这是埃里克森升至顶级赛事后，八年职业生涯里的首个冠军，他上一次获胜还要追溯到2013年纽博格林的GP2比赛。2014年伊始，瑞典人毕业加入F1，在2019赛季转战北美前，他在F1里度过了颗粒无收的五个赛季。
Ericsson joked he was a kid the last time he won a race, and he said going eight years without a win was something he struggled with at times. Ericsson, 30, was a consistent winner in Europe while moving up the ranks in his early days and said winning was almost second nature to him.
埃里克森调侃说，自己上一次赢比赛的时候还是个孩子呢。八年来未拿一冠让他感到很挣扎。30岁的瑞典车手在他早年欧洲的晋升之路中也算是名常胜将军，他觉得赢得比赛就是自己的本能。
And then it went away.
然后，一切戛然而止。
“It was something that you were sort of used to and targeting,” he said. “That's a tough thing with European racing: When you reach the top level like I did in 2014 to F1, I was in smaller teams that didn't have the resources to compete for wins. Then you as a driver sort of forget that feeling to fight and go for wins. It was not until I went to INDYCAR that I realized how much I missed that feeling to go into a weekend and have the mindset to try to win, try to beat everyone.”
“（获胜）永远是你的目标，”埃里克森说道，“但在欧洲，事情很艰难。当你好不容易像我2014年一样，爬到金字塔顶的F1时，我只能在小车队待着，我们没有资源去竞争。然后，作为车手，你慢慢发现自己失去了那种争胜的感觉。知道我加入Indycar，我才找回了那种整个周末都在尝试对抗并礼拜所有人的感觉，我发现自己太想念这一切了。”
Ericsson admitted that his eight-year winless drought took a toll on his confidence at times. But when he moved to INDYCAR in 2019 with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, he said his mentality changed, and he started believing in himself again.
埃里克森承认，八年不胜让自己的信心收到了打击。不过，当他2019年来到北美后，瑞典人认为自己的精神受到了提升，他重新开始相信自己。
“I think it would be tough for anyone to go eight years without winning a race when that's what you do. My job is to win a race, and I haven’t done it for eight years. Of course, it's going to take a toll on. Today I think I showed that I can do it. I think it's going to help going forward.”
“我相信对任何人来说，当你习惯获胜，又八年不得一冠，这情况都会很艰难。我的工作就是赢得比赛，可八年了，我都没这机会。是的，这的确让人灰心。今天我证明自己仍旧有实力一战，这让人备受鼓舞。”
After pushing Power late in the race after the final round of green flag pit stops cycled through, Ericsson started to fade to as much as one second behind Power. Then, Romain Grosjean struck the wall in Turn 9 in the No. 51 NURTEC ODT Honda, bringing out a red flag with just six laps to go.
在比赛还剩6圈，格罗斯让的事故引发红旗前，埃里克森在进站后努力追赶着领头的鲍威尔，但渐渐被拉开到一秒开外。
As the field refired their engines after nearly eight minutes, Power’s car wouldn’t start, and Ericsson inherited the lead. He held off a hard-charging Rinus VeeKay in the No. 21 Sonax/Autogeek Chevrolet and Pato O’Ward in the No. 5 Arrow McLaren SP Chevrolet.
八分钟后，比赛正要重启，而鲍威尔的赛车居然无法点火发动，埃里克森就这样拿到了头车之位。瑞典人成功在最后阶段抵挡住了身后维凯和奥沃德的进攻，守住了这个冠军。
Ericsson said when he was sitting behind Power’s silent machine on pit lane, noticing that it wouldn’t refire, he knew the race was his for the taking.
埃里克森表示，当他在后面看到鲍威尔无法点火，只得安静得停在维修区里等着退赛时，他知道他的机会来了。
“The immediate thing (I thought) was: ‘This is my day. This is my day,’” he said. “This is the day I've been working eight years to be. I had some bad luck the last couple years. The first red flag was good luck for me. The second red flag and what happened with Will, it was luck. But also we performed. We were fast. We did everything right in the pits, the restarts. We made passes, overtook people.
“我马上想到：机会来了，轮到我了。”埃里克森说，“这是我坚持了八年拿到的机会。过去我有些不走运，但这次，第一次红旗就帮到了我，第二次红旗又幸运得让我取得领先。不过我们也有着不错的表现，我们足够快。不管是进站，重新发车，我们都做得很好。我们还超过了不少车呢。”
“Yeah, we had some luck, but we also delivered.”
“是的，这有点运气的成分，但首先我们也足够快。”
After taking the checkered flag for just his fifth led lap of the day, Ericsson was grinning ear to ear, taking selfies with his pit crew and taking a dip in the James Scott Memorial Fountain, a tradition for NTT INDYCAR SERIES winners at Belle Isle. He was happy to be in Victory Lane. Happy to be back.
能在一场仅仅领跑了五圈的比赛中拿下冠军，埃里克森禁不住喜笑颜开，和车组玩起了自拍。作为百丽岛夺冠传统，瑞典人还饮了一瓢詹姆斯·斯科特纪念喷泉的泉水。真高兴，一切都回来了。
原文地址：
https://www.indycar.com/news/2021/06/06-12-ericsson-win-feature
