|| *Comments on Long Beach Street Circuit:* View the most recent comment <#11> | Post a comment <#post> 1. Cooper posted: 03.14.2010 - 4:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach is an open-wheel race held on a street circuit in Long Beach, California. Christopher Pook is the founder and promoter which began as a vision while working at a travel agency in downtown Long Beach. It was the premier circuit in the Champ Car from 1996, and was the first event in the World Series each year from 2004. The 2008 race was the last race for Champ Cars as the series merged with the Indy Racing League,and is now an event on the Indycar Series calendar. The Long Beach Grand Prix in April is the single largest event in the city of Long Beach. Attendance for the weekend regularly reaches or exceeds 200,000 people. The Long Beach Grand Prix is the longest running major "street" race held on the North American continent. It started in 1975 as a Formula 5000 race on the streets of downtown, and became a Formula One event the following year. From 1984 to 2008 it was a CART/Champ Car event. Other popular events during the Grand Prix week include an Indy Lights race, an American Le Mans Series race, an Atlantic and the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race. The Long Beach Grand Prix has been announced since 1978 by Bruce Flanders (and his assorted guest announcers) and is frequently a fan favorite. 2. RaceFanX posted: 08.26.2011 - 1:01 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) America's greatest street course and site of the famous Long Beach Grand Prix, America's longest running street course race. The race originated started as a F5000 event (just to prove it would work as a race track) in 1975 than became a Formula 1 event for seven years. It became a CART race in 1984 and carried over into the IndyCar Series after the 2008 merger. 3. NASCAR Predictions OMG! posted: 04.23.2012 - 10:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) My favorite Indycar race besides the 500 4. Anonymous posted: 04.13.2014 - 2:15 pm Rate this comment: (1) (2) The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach is an open-wheel race held on a street circuit in Long Beach, California. Christopher Pook is the founder and promoter which began as a vision while working at a travel agency in downtown Long Beach. It was the premier circuit in the Champ Car from 1996, and was the first event in the World Series each year from 2004. The 2008 race was the last race for Champ Cars as the series merged with the Indy Racing League,and is now an event on the Indycar Series calendar. The Long Beach Grand Prix in April is the single largest event in the city of Long Beach. Attendance for the weekend regularly reaches or exceeds 200,000 people. The Long Beach Grand Prix is the longest running major "street" race held on the North American continent. It started in 1975 as a Formula 5000 race on the streets of downtown, and became a Formula One event the following year. From 1984 to 2008 it was a CART/Champ Car event. Other popular events during the Grand Prix week include an Indy Lights race, an American Le Mans Series race, an Atlantic and the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race. The Long Beach Grand Prix has been announced since 1978 by Bruce Flanders (and his assorted guest announcers) and is frequently a fan favorite. 5. RaceFanX posted: 06.03.2018 - 12:07 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The famous retired ocean liner Queen Mary is permanently docked in Long Beach not far from this street course so it is visible from the track. The former Cunard liner was retired from service in 1967 and was converted into a hotel after its final voyage to California. 6. Canadianfan posted: 03.12.2020 - 6:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Announcement from the City of Long Beach and Mayor Garcia: Long Beach Cancels All Large Scale Events Through April 2020 Cancellation will Affect Beach Streets, Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach and Others 7. Canadianfan posted: 03.12.2020 - 9:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) From Adam Stern: @GPLongBeach organizers have preliminarily identified September as the most likely timeframe to re-schedule the @IndyCar and @IMSA races in 2020, but the feasibility is not yet clear. ? Both IndyCar and IMSA will be on the West Coast in September for races at Laguna Seca. 8. Canadianfan posted: 03.18.2020 - 2:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) From Adam Stern: @GPLongBeach confirms that its race is officially cancelled for 2020 after unsuccessfully looking into the possibility of rescheduling in September. (Unfortunately this one was always going to be very difficult to reschedule.) 9. RaceFanX posted: 04.05.2020 - 5:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Long Beach was the first track Formula E ever raced at that was used by a prior series; making this the first track to be used by Formula 1, Formula E, and IndyCar. Formula E initially planned for its inaugural season to include a Los Angeles street race but the initial plan stalled leading to the organizers moving the event to Long Beach where the city had plenty of experience with street courses. The FE variant of this course was shorter, removing the famous fountain among other features, but was deliberately set up as such since the batteries in the first generation FE cars would not have been able to handle the straightaways on the full course very well. The Formula E event ultimately lasted just two seasons before it was dropped from the electric car series' schedule. 10. Canadianfan posted: 12.04.2020 - 3:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) From Nathan Brown: Just spoke with multiple trusted series sources: No decision has been made yet to either postpone or cancel the 2021 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. The race's drop-dead date to begin building the track (or not) isn't for 8 more weeks or so. Should the race be postponed/canceled, don't expect a decision till January. Not declaring the race will or won't run, but as of now, Long Beach is still the 3rd race of IndyCar's 2021. (This came after someone David Land follows mentioned that the race was cancelled. David spoke to his sources and said the this was a possibility after checking with them.) 11. Canadianfan posted: 12.17.2020 - 12:50 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) From Marshall Pruett: Long Beach moves 2021 event to September; becomes IndyCar season finale. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: