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2010 IZOD IndyCar Series - Round 4

36th Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, CA USA


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The IZOD IndyCar Series returns to the Streets of Long Beach for its second visit to the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.

Circuit Information:

Circuit Length: 1.97 mile temporary street course
Race Distance: 85 laps, 168 miles
Turns: 11

View the official circuit map here

2009 Winner: Dario Franchitti, Chip Ganassi Racing

Official Lap Record: 1:06.886 (Sebastian Bourdais, 2006, Newman/Haas/Lanigan, ChampCar)
IndyCar Lap Record: 1:09.711 (Will Power, 2009, Team Penske, IndyCar)

View 2009 highlights and an onboard lap of the circuit:
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Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Entry List:

Car  Driver               Country  Team                     Car Name
#2   Raphael Matos        BRA      Luczo Dragon/de Ferran   HP Luczo Dragon
#3   Helio Castroneves    BRA      Team Penske              Team Penske
#4   Dan Wheldon          GBR      Panther Racing           National Guard
#5   Takuma Sato          JPN      KV Racing Technology     Lotus-KV Racing Technology
#6   Ryan Briscoe         AUS      Team Penske              Team Penske
#7   Danica Patrick       USA      Andretti Autosport       Team GoDaddy.com
#8   EJ Viso              VEN      KV Racing Technology     PDVSA-Jet Aviation
#9   Scott Dixon          NZL      Chip Ganassi Racing      Target Chip Ganassi
#10  Dario Franchitti     GBR      Chip Ganassi Racing      Target Chip Ganassi
#11  Tony Kanaan          BRA      Andretti Autosport       Team 7-Eleven
#12  Will Power           AUS      Team Penske              Verizon Team Penske
#14  Vitor Meira          BRA      A.J.Foyt Enterprises     ABC Supply Co.
#18  Milka Duno           VEN      Dale Coyne Racing        CITGO
#19  Alex Lloyd           GBR      Dale Coyne Racing        Boy Scouts of America
#22  Justin Wilson        GBR      Dreyer & Reinbold        Team Z-Line Designs
#24  Mike Conway          GBR      Dreyer & Reinbold        Dreyer & Reinbold
#26  Marco Andretti       USA      Andretti Autosport       Team Venom Energy
#32  Mario Moraes         BRA      KV Racing Technology     KV Racing Technology
#34  Mario Romancini      BRA      Conquest Racing          Conquest Racing
#36  Bertrand Baguette    BEL      Conquest Racing          Conquest Racing RACB
#37  Ryan Hunter-Reay     USA      Andretti Autosport       Team IZOD
#67  Graham Rahal         USA      Sarah Fisher Racing      Dollar General
#77  Alex Tagliani        CAN      FAZZT Race Team          FAZZT Race Team
#78  Simona de Silvestro  CHE      HVM Racing               Team Stargate Worlds HVM
#06  Hideki Mutoh         JPN      Newman/Haas/Lanigan      Formula Dream/Panasonic

Twenty-five cars entered. All cars use Dallara chassis, Honda engines and Firestone tires.

View the official IndyCar entry list here
View the car liveries/spotter guide here

Indy Lights Entry List:

Car  Driver               Country  Team                     Car Name
#2   James Hinchcliffe    CAN      Team Moore Racing        Xtreme Coil Drilling
#4   Carmen Jorda         ESP      Andersen Racing          Andersen Racing
#5   Joel Miller          USA      Andersen Racing          Andersen Racing/Mockett/Allied
#6   Junior Strous        NLD      HVM Racing               Shell HVM Racing
#7   Jean-Karl Vernay     FRA      Sam Schmidt Motorsports  Lucas Slick Mist
#10  Gustavo Yacaman      COL      Cape/Wayne Taylor        Cape/Wayne Taylor
#11  Pippa Mann           GBR      Sam Schmidt Motorsports  Sam Schmidt Motorsports
#18  Rodrigo Barbosa      BRA      PDM Racing               PDM Racing
#22  Adrian Campos        ESP      Team Moore Racing        Xtreme Coil Drilling
#26  Charlie Kimball      USA      AFS/Andretti Autosport   Levemir FlexPen
#27  Martin Plowman       GBR      AFS/Andretti Autosport   Automatic Fire Sprinklers/KEP
#28  Stefan Wilson        GBR      Bryan Herta Autosport    Bryan Herta Autosport
#29  Sebastian Saavedra   COL      Bryan Herta Autosport    William Rast
#35  Tonis Kasemets       EST      Palm Beach Indy Racing   Team Palm Beach Indy Racing
#37  Niall Quinn          IRE      Palm Beach Indy Racing   Team Palm Beach Indy Racing
#40  Dan Clarke           GBR      Walker Racing            Wasteco Deans Knight Special
#49  Philip Major         CAN      Sam Schmidt Motorsports  Sam Schmidt Motorsports
#77  James Winslow        GBR      Sam Schmidt Motorsports  Bright Side of the Road

Eighteen cars entered. All cars use Dallara chassis and Firestone tires.

View the official Indy Lights entry list here

Current points standings:

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Indycar Series Standings after Round 3:

Pos Driver               Team                     Points
1   Will Power           Team Penske              136
2   Helio Castroneves    Team Penske              104 -32
3   Dario Franchitti     Chip Ganassi             94  -42
4   Justin Wilson        Dreyer & Reinbold        85  -51
5   Scott Dixon          Chip Ganassi             80  -56
6   Ryan Briscoe         Team Penske              79  -57
7   Ryan Hunter-Reay     Andretti Autosport       77  -59
8   Raphael Matos        de Ferran/Luczo Dragon   72  -64
9   Tony Kanaan          Andretti Autosport       64  -72
10  Marco Andretti       Andretti Autosport       62  -74
10  Vitor Meira          A.J.Foyt Enterprises     62  -74
12  Dan Wheldon          Panther Racing           61  -75
13  Alex Tagliani        FAZZT Race Team          60  -76
14  Mike Conway          Dreyer & Reinbold        58  -78
15  Danica Patrick       Andretti Autosport       53  -83
16  EJ Viso              KV Racing Technology     45  -91

Indy Lights Standings after Round 2:

Pos Driver               Team                     Points
1   JK Vernay            Sam Schmidt Motorsports  105
2   Charlie Kimball      AFS/Andretti Autosport   72  -33
3   Stefan Wilson        Bryan Herta Autosport    63  -42
4   Martin Plowman       AFS/Andretti Autosport   60  -45
5   Sebastian Saavedra   Bryan Herta Autosport    53  -52
6   Gustavo Yacaman      Cape/Wayne Taylor        52  -53
7   James Hinchcliffe    Team Moore Racing        46  -59
8   Junior Strous        HVM Racing               44  -61
9   James Winslow        Sam Schmidt Motorsports  41  -64
10  Jan Haylen           Team E                   40  -65
11  Rodrigo Barbosa      PDM Racing               36  -69
11  Philip Major         Sam Schmidt Motorsports  36  -69
13  Pippa Mann           Sam Schmidt Motorsports  35  -70
14  Carmen Jorda         Andersen Racing          32  -73
15  Adrian Campos        Team Moore Racing        31  -74
16  Dan Clarke           Walker Racing            26  -79

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Weekend Schedule:

Local Time (USA PDT) / USA (EDT) / UK Time (BST) / Europe (CEST)

Friday 16th April
10:15-11:15 / 13:15-14:15 / 18:15-19:15 / 19:15-20:15 IndyCar 1st Practice
12:15-13:15 / 15:15-16:15 / 20:15-21:15 / 21:15-22:15 Indy Lights 1st Practice
14:25-15:25 / 17:25-18:25 / 22:25-23:25 / 23:25-00:25 IndyCar 2nd Practice

Saturday 17th April
08:00-08:45 / 11:00-11:45 / 16:00-16:45 / 17:00-17:45 Indy Lights 2nd Practice
10:25-11:25 / 13:25-14:25 / 18:25-19:25 / 19:25-20:25 IndyCar 3rd Practice
12:55-13:55 / 15:55-16:55 / 20:55-21:55 / 21:55-22:55 Indy Lights Qualifying
14:30-15:45 / 17:30-18:45 / 22:30-23:45 / 23:30-00:45 IndyCar Qualifying

Sunday 18th April
08:00-08:15 / 11:00-11:15 / 16:00-16:15 / 17:00-17:15 Indy Lights Warm-Up
09:15-09:45 / 12:15-12:45 / 17:15-17:45 / 18:15-18:45 IndyCar Warm-Up
10:40-11:45 / 13:40-14:45 / 18:40-19:45 / 19:40-20:45 Indy Lights Race (45 laps)
13:15-15:30 / 16:15-18:30 / 21:15-23:30 / 22:15-00:30 IndyCar Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach (85 laps)

View the complete schedule here


Television Information:

Versus (USA) - Versus (USA) - LIVE race coverage Sunday 18th April at 15:30
Sky Sports 4 (UK) - LIVE race coverage Sunday 18th April at 21:00
Car Channel (NLD) - LIVE online race coverage


Streams & Live Timing
Indycar Video Ondemand - IndyCar.com youtube channel featuring session and race highlights.
Indycar Race Control - live raceday footage and multiple onboard cameras including access to live timing.
Indycar IMS Radio Network - Audio commentary during practice sessions and race.

Televised streams of the race will likely be posted by forum members shortly before the race.
Links to some of the common streams will be shown on the MyP2P links page nearer the time.


Sources and links:
IZOD Indycar Series Homepage
Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Homepage

This will be a good one!!

Always looking forward to Long Beach.

Great track. much narrow spots for funny incidents and some very good overtaking points. Should be a really great race!

I've never been convinced Long Beach is a good track for racing, despite the long front straight...

Not since 99 or 98 or whatever since they started going left at turn one instead of right anyway...

But hey, I'm just a bitter old fan whose amazed that we're heading to long beach this year and they're running more than 18 cars *bitter*

The caution Milka Duno will inevitably bring out will help spice up the racing though...

I'm seriously thinking of going there again. Probably Friday and Saturday sessions, tho. Probably planning to use my free ticket for the Friday session (thanks, Tamiya).

If I do go, and I get shown on TV, I'm the guy with an orange lanyard and a Toyota Racing hat.

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Ducks Angels Sounders Spurs

Saturday will have ALMS so its probably worth it

This should be great, love this track.

Qualifying is on at 6 pm eastern Saturday on Versus.

That's midnight here!
Srsly, the should start earlier for the european fans... that have no coverage.... ...

Its the same sort of situation for USA and F1. IndyCar races are generally early evening here, which suits me just fine.

Its a bit late for me as well, but if its an American series then Europe shouldn't get priority when it comes to the race time.

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

I like the sunday races, always a good way to end the weekend. NASCAR on stream and IRL on telly on sunday evening.

Paul Tracy will be holding a press conference this Saturday at Long Beach, at 1.45pm ET, most likely officially announcing the 3 races he will participate in this year (Indy, Toronto and Edmonton).

That'll be interesting.

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Ducks Angels Sounders Spurs

Never seen Long Beach as a "fantastic" street course or that much enjoyable to race (IMO some street courses give much more pleasure for the driver like Belle Isle Park, Toronto, Surfers Paradise, Houston, etc). But Long Beach has tradition, it's in a nice place in California and has a certain glamour around it...but I wouldn't say it's an "extremely fun" street course. Despite that, I'm expecting a great race, go Helio!

From what we see, read and hear about this race it's a one big party over 3 days.

It kind of is. One is that there's plenty of stuff to do when you're bored watching cars pass by on Shoreline Blvd. and Pine Ave. There's a lifestyle expo in the Long Beach Convection Center with a hell lotta activities to do. If you go there one day, I'd suggest going there when you're bored. Some of the stuff there are pretty fun. When the track closes, there's a concert for two days in the "Rock and Roar" stage located just to the side of Seaside Way in the infield, behind the LBCC. I don't go there since the bands don't generate as much interest out of me. The restaurants around the area are pretty good, per se. Shoreline Village is a good place to take a stroll as well.



Since when did anyone actually enjoy a race in Belle Isle Park? Although I agree about the track (layout). The old one is so much better.

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Ducks Angels Sounders Spurs

Who is in the Celebrity race this year?

If I'm lucky, there might be ONE person I've heard of!

The Picks for Long Beach is Open, if anyone are interested.

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Motorsport Lover since 1988
First TBK member to post it with a wiimote

Should be more than one, actually.

Celebrities:
Adam Carolla
Adrien Brody
Anthony Anderson
Brian Austin Green
Christian Slater
Jesse McCartney
Patrick Warburton
Tika Sumpter
Tony Hawk
Zachary Levi

Pros:
Jimmy Vasser
Tanner Foust
Steve Millen
Marty Nothstein
Keanu Reeves (Last year's winner)
Jamie Bestwick

Charity auction winners:
Dave Pasant
Jerry Westlund

Adam Carolla is the favorite to win out of the celebrity drivers, Tanner Foust is the overall favorite.
http://www.toyotaracing.com/motorsports/pro_celeb/news/2010/04-12-10-01.html