35 points.
It's Ericsson's distance down to the closest chase - Australian Will Power - in the Indycar championship that continues this weekend.
Both on Saturday and Sunday there are races in Iowa and double scoring opportunities are at stake.
A crash, a bad race, he can hunt again.
- I'm always a little nervous.
It's a balancing act there and there are so many points left to compete for.
I can not look too much at it (driver table) but at the same time I have to keep it in the back of my mind so as not to lose unnecessary points, says Ericsson.
At the end of May, the 31-year-old from Kumla won the prestigious Indianapolis 500, also known as the Indy 500, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
A race that Kenny Bräck won in 1999. The former racing star was involved in developing Ericsson in motorsport as a teenager and Ericsson sees Bräck as a big reason for his own success.
In 1998, Bräck won the entire championship, something Ericsson did not do.
On the other hand, to win both the championship and the Indy 500 the same year, he would be the only Swede.
- It is one of the world's toughest, largest and most prestigious competition series.
When I won the Indy 500, I was on the front page of 29 newspapers in the United States.
It's so huge here, perhaps the biggest competition in the world, says Ericsson.
TT: Do you care about becoming historic?
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It's not something you think about when you are in the middle of it, but I was the first Swede in 23 years in Formula 1. If I then become the first Swede in over twenty years to win the championship, then rings are created on the water and can inspire younger drivers.
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Marcus Ericsson wins Indy 500. Photo: Viaplay