Phil Allaway At age 45, Jan Magnussen has had a substantial career in motorsports. He made his way up through the ranks of open wheel feeder series all the way up to Formula 1, where he made 25 starts for a combination of McLaren and Stewart, scoring one point for a sixth-place finish. After 1998, Magnussen transitioned …
Aside from the race Saturday night, one of the biggest stories in NASCAR recently is Jimmie Johnson running the Boston Marathon. As we know now, he did it in three hours, nine minutes and seven seconds. Note that Boston’s course is considered to be one of the more difficult marathons. However, Johnson is not the …
Since the Champ Car/Indy Racing League merger, repeat winners have simply not come to pass in Long Beach. On Sunday, Alexander Rossi dominated the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, leading 80 of the 85 laps to defend his victory from 2018. He is the first driver to repeat as champion in Long Beach since …
The Racers Group’s Spencer Pumpelly proved that he had the right stuff on Sunday (April 14), leading flag-to-flag in his Porsche to win the third round of the Pirelli GT4 America Sprint season in Long Beach. He spent the full race with Team Panoz Racing’s Ian James hot on his tail, but he was able …
Saturday’s BUBBA Burger Sports Car Grand Prix at Long Beach was a rough and tumble affair. Action Express Racing’s Joao Barbosa and Filipe Albuquerque were able to avoid the issues and hold off a late Acura Team Penske to win at Long Beach for the second year in a row. “The car was really, really …
Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi was able to put down a lap of 106.569 mph in the closing seconds of the Firestone Fast 6 Saturday afternoon (April 13) to win the pole for Sunday’s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. It is Rossi’s second consecutive pole at Long Beach and he comes into Sunday’s 85-lap race …
On Saturday morning (April 13), The Racers Group’s Spencer Pumpelly won the pole for Sunday’s 50-minute Pirelli GT4 America Sprint race in Long Beach. Pumpelly’s lap of 82.462 mph is the fastest lap of the entire weekend for GT4 equipment. It is also the only Pirelli GT4 America Sprint lap of the weekend completed in …
After flirting with the top of the charts in the two-hour morning practice session, Acura Team Penske’s Helio Castroneves won the pole Friday afternoon (April 13) for Saturday’s BUBBA Burger Sports Car Grand Prix at Long Beach. Castroneves won the pole with a lap at 99.321 mph, a new track record for the IMSA WeatherTech …
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon put down a flyer in the final minutes of Practice No. 2 to top the speed charts for Friday (April 13) in Long Beach. Dixon’s quick lap was at an average of 104.505 mph. This lap was roughly one second off of the current track record. Practice No. 1 Early …
IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship teams had to be ready to go nice and early Friday morning (April 13) for practice at 7:50 a.m. local time. Action Express Racing’s Felipe Nasr set the fastest lap with a few minutes to go at an average speed of 97.864 mph. Nasr’s lap was one-seventh of a second faster …
For Sebastien Bourdais, he’s been all over the world in his racing career. He won the International Formula 3000 Championship in 2001, then came to the United States to dominate Champ Car, winning four championships before leaving to go to Formula 1. There, he competed for Scuderia Toro Rosso for a year and a half …
This weekend, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship has their first sprint race of the 2019 season on the Streets of Long Beach in California. Due to space constraints, only the Prototype and GT Le Mans teams are making the trip this weekend. As a result, only 19 cars are entered. This weekend will be the …
