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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Felix Rosenqvist\u2019s long-awaited Indianapolis 500 victory lap started sinking in quickly.<\/p>\n

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After gulping the traditional swig of milk and dumping the rest over his head Sunday, the winner of the closest race in Indy 500 history started making the winner\u2019s rounds. He spent two hours answering questions in his fire suit before heading to another photo shoot. Then there was a short celebratory night before hitting the early morning television shows, enduring additional photo shoots and, yes, Monday night\u2019s annual postrace dinner where he\u2019ll find out how much money he won.<\/p>\n

Never mind that there\u2019s another race next weekend in Detroit.<\/p>\n

But the 34-year-old Swede who endured so much heartbreak at Indianapolis and in IndyCars wasn\u2019t about to start complaining. No, he was too busy savoring the spoils of victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can sit here for 24 hours and do this, whatever you want,\u201d Rosenqvist said with a smile. \u201cIt\u2019s funny, someone asked me to sign their beer bottle a minute ago and writing Indy 500 winner was like, it kind of struck me that I\u2019ve done it. I still feel like it\u2019s a dream. I feel like I could wake up at any point and it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s race day, we haven\u2019t run yet.\u2019 I still hope I don\u2019t wake up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rosenqvist probably didn\u2019t get much shut-eye Sunday night and not just because his newborn daughter, Stella, is less than a month old.<\/p>\n

This was the moment Rosenqvist\u2019s family dreamt about from the moment it started scraping together money for his karting career.<\/p>\n

While he barely remembers the effervescent, guitar-playing Kenny Brack becoming the first Swede to win \u201cThe Greatest Spectacle in Racing\u201d back in 1999, he does remember his father telling him how great Brack was and how great a victory it was for the country.<\/p>\n

Twenty-three years later, Marcus Ericsson replicated Brack\u2019s feat on Indianapolis Motor Speedway\u2019s 2.5-mile oval. Ericsson celebrated his 500 win by taking the iconic Borg-Warner Trophy on tour across his home country, which has a population of less than 11 million.<\/p>\n

The Meyer Shank Racing driver isn\u2019t sure if that will be in the plans this time, but he was grateful for Ericsson welcoming him to the club.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m pretty proud to be one of three Swedish (winners), which is a pretty small nation in the grand scheme of things, to have won the biggest race in the world,\u201d he said. \u201c(Marcus) came up to me when we were drinking the milk in victory circle and he said I earned it, that I deserved it. That meant a lot to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rosenqvist certainly earned his place in history with his unforgettably daring move \u2014 hurtling down the front straightaway behind David Malukas on the final lap, making a perfectly timed swing outside, catching a tow and edging his car across the yard of bricks, barely ahead of Malukas.<\/p>\n

The victory margin of 0.0233 seconds was even smaller than Al Unser Jr.\u2019s 0.043-second victory over Scott Goodyear in 1992, and even in the moment, Rosenqvist understood the significance of what happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I was second, to be honest. I was like, this is \u2014 this sucks, now we\u2019re second in the 500,\u201d said Rosenqvist, who made his fifth straight start in the top nine and placed fourth twice in the previous four years. \u201cI thought I didn\u2019t have it, and then I shifted up, and it was just kind of sucking up to David, and it was just enough to get me over the finish line, half a foot ahead of him. You can\u2019t even dream up that stuff. It was just so cool. I\u2019ll watch it a million times.\u201d<\/p>\n

But before Rosenqvist became a winner here, he was there in the shoes of Malukas and Pato O\u2019Ward \u2014 two-time Indy runner-ups who have been unable to bask in their own milk bath. Rosenqvist\u2019s advice: Never give up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019ve done,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you\u2019re knocking on the door, it will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year, it did thanks in part to this first-time father understanding that there\u2019s more to life than racing. His wife, Emille, and his new daughter helped him learn that lesson heading into the biggest race of the IndyCar season, and one day, when old enough, Stella will see her father\u2019s image on the trophy and understand what he did and how she helped.<\/p>\n

And, to Rosenqvist, that will be the sweetest victory of all.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny because if you go to our house, we don\u2019t have any pictures of racing, you wouldn\u2019t know I\u2019m a race car driver because I tried to separate work and home,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I think, yeah, this kind of changes that. I hope she\u2019ll be proud of it, and for her to be our little lucky charm for the rest of her life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AP auto racing: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/auto-racing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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