By the Numbers the 40Th Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach

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BY THE NUMBERS THE 40TH TOYOTA GRAND PRIX OF LONG BEACH SOME NUMBERS OF NOTE ENTERING THE 2014 TOYOTA GRAND PRIX OF LONG BEACH: DAN GURNEY’S NO. 48 JORGENSEN EAGLE FORMULA 5000 CAR WAS THE FIRST RACE CAR TO TAKE TO THE CITY STREETS ON SEPT. 16, 1975, DRIVEN BY VERN 1SCHUPPAN. MOST POLES EARNED BY MARIO ANDRETTI (1984, ’85 AND ’87), MICHAEL ANDRETTI (1991, ’92 AND ’95), GIL DE FERRAN (1996, ’97 AND 2000) AND MOST RECENTLY (AND CONSECUTIVELY) BY WILL POWER OF TEAM PENSKE (2009, 2010 AND 2011). POWER WON THE 2012 RACE AND THE 2008 RACE (THE LAST CHAMP CAR-SANCTIONED EVENT). AL UNSER JR. WAS DOMINANT AT LONG BEACH, WINNING SIX TIMES: 1988, ’89, ’90, ’91, ‘94 AND ’95. HE ALSO WAS RUNNER- UP IN 1986 AND ’87 AND FINISHED THIRD IN 1996 IN THE RACE WON BY KV RACING TECHNOLOGY CO-OWNER JIMMY VASSER. NEWMAN/HAAS RACING HAS THE MOST VICTORIES BY A TEAM WITH SIX (1984, ’85, ’87, 2005-07). SINCE THE FIRST INDY CAR RACE AT LONG BEACH IN 1984, EIGHT DRIVERS HAVE WON THE RACE AND GONE ON TO WIN THE SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP. DARIO FRANCHITTI (2009) IS THE MOST RECENT. OTHERS ARE MARIO ANDRETTI, AL UNSER JR., JIMMY VASSER, ALEX ZANARDI, JUAN MONTOYA, PAUL TRACY AND SEBASTIEN BOURDAIS. THE RACE CIRCUIT HAS BEEN ALTERED NINE TIMES SINCE THE FIRST RACE IN 1975 (2.028 MILES, NINE FEATURING THE “LINDEN LEAP” WHEN CARS WOULD BARREL DOWN OCEAN BOULEVARD AND MAKE A HARD RIGHT ONTO LINDEN – OCCASIONALLY BECOMING AIRBORNE). THE CURRENT CONFIGURATION (SINCE 2000) IS 1.968 MILES AND 11 TURNS (SIX LEFT AND FIVE RIGHT IN A CLOCKWISE DIRECTION). THE VERIZON INDYCAR SERIES RACE IS 80 LAPS (157.4 MILES). THE GRAND PRIX IS THE LONGEST-RUNNING MAJOR STREET RACE IN NORTH AMERICA. IT STARTED IN 1975 AS A FORMULA 5000 RACE ON THE STREETS OF DOWNTOWN (BRIAN REDMAN WON) AND BECAME A FORMULA ONE EVENT THE NEXT YEAR (CLAY REGAZZONI WON). THE FIRST CART RACE WAS IN 1984 (MARIO ANDRETTI WON) AND THE FIRST INDYCAR- SANCTIONED RACE WAS 2009 FORTY (DARIO FRANCHITTI WON). INDYCAR 2014: BY THE NUMBERS.

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April 7-9, 2017 Gplb.Com 1
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