Marcus Ericsson of Sweden won last weekend's Indianapolis 500 car race. As is often the case, his girlfriend was in the pits, which can't be an easy thing to do when at any time in the race your boyfriend/husband could go straight into a wall at around 190 miles per hour, or go flying through the air at nearly the same speed. Race cars are safer than they used to be, but crazy accidents can still happen, and do.
And in this race, just when it looked like Ericsson was going to cruise to a victory, there was a crash (Jimmie Johnson, the NASCAR crossover) into the wall in a split-second, and that meant that there had to be a red flagged race stoppage, allowing all the chasing cars to get in nice and close, potentially allowing them to pass Marcus and take the checkered flag for themselves. Dicey. But Marcus managed to hold the lead and cross the finish line first, allowing everyone in the pits, including his short black dress - wearing girlfriend, to celebrate happily.
All of which made me want to find out who his girlfriend was. So I did. Her name is Iris Tritsaris Jondahl, and that's pretty much all I was able to determine.
Her Instagram page, https://www.instagram.com/irisjooondahl/, has a few more pictures, and also informs us that she's from Greece, which explains the Tritsaris, but not the Jondahl.
So here are a few pictures of Iris (and one with Marcus). They went to New York after the race.
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