Grand Prix Long Beach

Long beach
A place	Long beach; USA
Track	Temporary street track
Time	UTC-8 , in summer - UTC-7
Owner	Christopher Puck
Main competitions	ALMS; IRL IndyCar
A circle	3,167 km

**Grand Prix Long Beach**
Track	Long Beach , USA
Title sponsor	Toyota
First race	1975
The first race of the series	1975
Lap duration	3,167 km
Previous Names	Inaugural Long Beach Grand Prix (1975); Grand Prix of the USA-West (1976-1983); Grand Prix of Long Beach (1984-1985)

Grand Prix Long Beach - a major motorsport event, traditionally held in the California city of Long Beach on one of the weekends of spring. The competition from the day of its foundation is held on a temporary highway along the streets of the village.

The total attendance of the weekend of the Grand Prix often exceeds 200,000 people.

The owner of the rights to conduct and the founder of the stage is Chris Pook.

Since 1975, the track annually hosts one of the major championships in open-wheel drive vehicles , being one of the longest running road racing competitions in North America:

in 1975 - the stage of Formula 5000 ,
in 1976-1983 - Grand Prix of the USA-West of Formula 1,
in 1984-2008 - the stage of the IndyCar / CART / ChampCar series (including the last stage in the history of the series ^[1] ^[2] ).
since 2009 - stage IRL IndyCar .

Formula Atlantic and Indy Lights , IMSA GT and Grand Am , ALMS were held at different times as support races to complement the weekend.

Content

Track

The current racing ring has a length of 3.167 km . The track is located on the streets of Long Beach - around the center of the Conventions .

One of the characteristic parts of the route is the start / finish curve, passing along the promenade lined with palm trees .

Competition

Boris Seyd competes at the 2005 stage.

In addition to the main competition, which in recent years is the Izod IndyCar series race, the organizers periodically draw the stages of other series onto the track:

since 1989, the circuit has been carrying out stages either one or both of the main junior racing series on open-wheel cars in the USA (in 1989-2008, Formula Atlantic racers competed here annually, and from 2009 Indy Lights took its place (already previously held its stages here in 1989-2001)).
In 1990-1991, the IMSA GT was held in Long Beach,
in 2006 - the stage of Grand Am ,
since 2007 - ALMS stage.

In addition to all this, since 1977, the track has hosted the charity Toyota Pro / Celebrity Race .

2008 year. Long Beach Separate Weekend / Motegi

The negotiations on the merger of Champ Car and IRL, which ended before the start of the 2008 season, rested on only one discrepancy in the calendar - the Long Beach Grand Prix of the Champ Car series and Indy Japan 300 IRL series could not be parted by week. Heads of the series Tony George and Gerald Forsyth have agreed on a separate weekend for the series - IRL racers will start in Japan , and Champ Car racers in the USA . The participation of one of the riders in both races was excluded, despite the fact that physically it was possible - the Japanese race was held on Saturday morning, and the American race on Sunday evening. For each of the races, standard points were awarded for the IRL IndyCar series. The Long Beach Grand Prix formally became the last race in Champ Car history.

Drift

Since the 2005 Grand Prix draw, the stage of the popular American Formula D drift series has also been included in the competition program.

Past Winners

Formula 5000 Steps

Season	date	Winner	Chassis	Engine	Report
1975	September 28th	Brian Redman	Lola	Chevrolet	Report

Formula 1 Stages

The circuit diagram used for the stages of Formula 1

Season	date	Pilot	Constructors	Report
1976	March 28	Clay Regazzoni	Ferrari	Report
1977	April 3	Mario andretti	Lotus - Ford	Report
1978	April 2	Carlos Reuteman	Ferrari	Report
1979	April 8th	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	Report
1980	30th of March	Nelson Piquet	Brabham - Ford	Report
1981	March 15th	Alan Jones	Williams - Ford	Report
1982	April, 4	Nicky Lauda	McLaren - Ford	Report
1983	March 27th	John Watson	McLaren - Ford	Report

CART / ChampCar / IndyCar Stages

Season	date	Winner	Chassis	Engine	Team	Report
CART / ChampCar Period
1984	March 31	Mario andretti	Lola	Cosworth	Newman / haas racing	Report
1985	14th of April	Mario andretti	Lola	Cosworth	Newman / haas racing	Report
1986	April 13th	Michael Andretti	March	Cosworth	Kraco racing	Report
1987	5th of April	Mario andretti	Lola	Chevrolet - Ilmor	Newman / haas racing	Report
1988	April 17th	Al Anser Jr	March	Chevrolet - Ilmor	Galles racing	Report
1989	April 16th	Al Anser Jr	Lola	Chevrolet - Ilmor	Galles racing	Report
1990	April 22	Al Anser Jr	Lola	Chevrolet - Ilmor	Galles / Kraco Racing	Report
1991	14th of April	Al Anser Jr	Lola	Chevrolet - Ilmor	Galles / Kraco Racing	Report
1992	12th of April	Danny Sullivan	Galmer	Chevrolet - Ilmor	Galles / Kraco Racing	Report
1993	April 18th	Paul Tracy	Penske	Chevrolet - Ilmor	Penske racing	Report
1994	April 17th	Al Anser Jr	Penske	Ilmor	Penske racing	Report
1995	April 9th	Al Anser Jr	Penske	Mercedes-Benz - Ilmor	Penske racing	Report
1996	14th of April	Jimmy Wasser	Reynard	Honda	Chip ganassi racing	Report
1997	April 13th	Alex Zanardi	Reynard	Honda	Chip ganassi racing	Report
1998	5th of April	Alex Zanardi	Reynard	Honda	Chip ganassi racing	Report
1999	April 18th	Juan Pablo Montoya	Reynard	Honda	Chip ganassi racing	Report
2000	April 16th	Paul Tracy	Reynard	Honda	Team green	Report
2001	April 8th	Elio Castronevez	Reynard	Honda	Penske racing	Report
2002	14th of April	Michael Andretti	Reynard	Honda	Team green	Report
2003	April 13th	Paul Tracy	Lola	Ford cosworth	Forsythe racing	Report
2004	April 18th	Paul Tracy	Lola	Ford cosworth	Forsythe racing	Report
2005	April 10th	Sebastien Burde	Lola	Ford cosworth	Newman / haas racing	Report
2006	April 9th	Sebastien Burde	Lola	Ford cosworth	Newman / haas racing	Report
2007	April 15th	Sebastien Burde	Panoz	Cosworth	Newman / haas racing	Report
2008	20 April	Will power	Panoz	Cosworth	Kv racing	Report
Period IRL IndyCar
2009	April 19th	Dario Franchitti	Dallara	Honda	Chip ganassi racing	Report
2010	April 18th	Ryan Hunter Rey	Dallara	Honda	Andretti autosport	Report

Atlantic Formula Stages / Indy Lights

Season	date	Pilot
Atlantic Formula Stages
1989 - West Bank	April 16th	Hiro Matsushita
1990 - West Bank	The 21st of April	Mark Dismore
1991	14th of April	Jimmy Wasser
1992	April 10th	Mark Dismore
1993	April 17th	Claude Bourbonne
1994	April 17th	Richie hearn
1995	April 17th	David ampringham
1996	April 13th	Case Montgomery
1997	12th of April	Alex Tagliani
1998	April, 4	Memo Gidley
1999	April 17th	Alex Tagliani
2000	April 15th	Buddy rice
2001	April 8th	David Routledge
2002	14th of April	Michael Valante
2003	April 13th	AJ Allmendinger
2004	April 18th	Ryan Dalziel
2005	April 10th	Katherine Legg
2006	April 9th	Andreas Wirth
2007	April 15th	Raphael Matush
2008	20 April	Simone de Silvestro

Season	date	Pilot
Stages of Indy Lights
1989	April 16th	Tommy Byrne
1990	April 22	Paul Tracy
1991	14th of April	Eric Bachelard
1992	12th of April	Frank Freon
1993	April 18th	Steve Robertson
1994	April 17th	Steve Robertson
1995	April 9th	Greg Moore
1996	14th of April	David ampringham
1997	April 13th	Elio Castronevez
1998	5th of April	Cristiano da Matta
1999	April 18th	Philip Peter
2000	April 16th	Scott Dixon
2001	April 8th	Townsend Bell
In 2002 - 2008, the stages were not carried out.
2009	April 19th	Jay Ar Hildebrand
2010	April 18th	James hinchcliff

ALMS / Grand-Am / IMSA Stages

IMSA GT Championship
Year	GTO	GTU			Report
1990	Dorsey Schroeder * Mercury cougar	John Finger Mazda MX-6			Report
1991	Steve Millen Nissan 300ZX	John Fergus Dodge daytona			Report
Rolex Sports Car Series
Year	DP				Report
2006	Scott Prowet Louis Diaz Riley MkXX - Lexus				Report
American Le Mans Series
Year	Lmp1	Lmp2	GT1	GT2	Report
2007	Rinaldo Capello Alan McNish Audi R10 TDI	Romain Dumas Timo Bernhard Porsche RS Spyder	Oliver Gavin Olivier Beretta Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Mika Salo Jaime Melo Ferrari F430 GT	Report
2008	Marco Werner Lucas lour Audi R10 TDI	Scott Sharp David Brabham Acura ARX-01b	Johnny o'connell Jan Magnussen Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Dominic Farnbacher Dirk Muller Ferrari F430 GT	Report
2009	Gilles de Ferrand Simon Pazhno Acura ARX-02a	Adrian Fernandez Louis Diaz Acura ARX-01b	Oliver Gavin Olivier Beretta Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Patrick Long Jörg Bergmeister Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Report
Year	Lmp	LMPC	GT	GTC	Report
2010	David Brabham Simon Pazhno HPD ARX-01c	Elton Julian Gunnar Jeannette Oreca FLM09 / Chevrolet	Patrick Long Jörg Bergmeister Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Juan Gonzalez Butch Lightzinger Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Report

* - where the competition was held in several classes, there the winner in the overall classification is additionally highlighted in bold.
** - The winning crew is first indicated in the cell, and then the make and model of their car.

2005 year . Panorama of the track before the tenth turn.

Notes

↑ Morales, Robert . Champ Car finale to roar into LB , The Long Beach Press-Telegram (February 27, 2008). Archived on April 19, 2008. Date of treatment February 27, 2008.
↑ Steven Cole Smith. Champ Car schedule "stable" for 2008 (unopened) (link not available) . www.autoweek.com (November 6, 2007). Date of treatment October 30, 2007. Archived November 10, 2007.

Links

[1] Morales, Robert . Champ Car finale to roar into LB , The Long Beach Press-Telegram (February 27, 2008). Archived on April 19, 2008. Date of treatment February 27, 2008.

[2] Steven Cole Smith. Champ Car schedule "stable" for 2008 (unopened) (link not available) . www.autoweek.com (November 6, 2007). Date of treatment October 30, 2007. Archived November 10, 2007.

Long beach

A place	Long beach USA
Track	Temporary street track
Time	UTC-8 , in summer - UTC-7
Owner	Christopher Puck
Main competitions	ALMS IRL IndyCar
A circle	3,167 km