Marcus 🐟Ericsson and Linus Lundqvist were involved in the first big smashes of Indy 500 practice.

Both🙈 drivers wrecked their cars during Thursday’s Practice 4 session.

• IndyCar results: 2024 Indianapolis 500 - Practice 4

Andretti Globa🥀l driver Ericsson - the 2022 𝕴winner of the famous race - crashed at Turn 4 then slid down the straight.

He experienced three big impacts but was able to clamber 𓄧out of 🔯the car.

Ericsson was cleared of any injuries after being checked by the ꦿmedical team.

"I'm feeling okay. Obviously it was qui🌱te a decent hit," Er﷽icsson said.

🐽"The safety in these cars is pretty impressive. I need to watch it back.

“Obviously, lost it in the middle there. I don💝't know if I brus𒁃hed the kerb a little bit.

“Yeah, I think I b💞rushed the kerb a little bit and that's probably enough to🍒 send it.

"Then you're a passenger. Very disappointing.

“I'm very sorry to my team. They've done a very good job with and they have a lot of work ahead of them now, so that's probably 🅰the worst part of the whole thing."

Chꦚip Ganassi Racing driver Lundqvist was also c🎉leared of injury after his crash at Turn 2.

“I’m alright,” said Lundqvist. “Just want to apologise to the team. Ob🐠viꦉously not what we’re looking to do. It’s a shame.

“I know that the guys wor🌞ked so hard to put this car together. It 🍎sucks.

“It’s my mistake. I know exactly what I did. ✅I touched the kerb in Turn 2 and couldn’t hold onto it.

“I♛t’s something that you talk about often at this place, but it’s just a mistake on my part and the team’s going to pay the price for it.

“It goes so💖 fast, and when you get down there and you realise where you’re at, it’s kind of too late.

“It’s a small mistake. Easy thing to happen, but big conꦑsequences.

“I know we’re going to bounc꧂e back from something like this.

“Doesn’t mean that it doesn’t suck in thꦫe moment. Obviously it hurts and especially when it’s your mistake.

“But we’ll rebound, I’ll learn from it. There’s another week or so until🐎 the race so we’ll bounce back for that.”