45th Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach

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Rosenqvist had a spot in the fast 6, he didn't need to push that second lap IMO.

Rookie mistake, but I like how he wants to take it to Dixon and just not play second fiddle.
 


TK needs to hang it up and become a 500-only driver already. Rosenqvist has been off track God knows how many times already this weekend...welcome to Long Beach, rookie. And that's a much-needed qualifying result for Pagenaud, who now needs to make the most of it on Sunday. His seat might be getting a little warm.
 
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Well, you guys will have to tell me what is going on during the race since I have no tv reception of the race. So I'll be listening.

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FLRacingFan said:


TK needs to hang it up and become a 500-only driver already. Rosenqvist has been off track God knows how many times already this weekend...welcome to Long Beach, rookie. And that's a much-needed qualifying result for Pagenaud, who now needs to make the most of it on Sunday. His seat might be getting a little warm.
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Hiring TK and Leist has come to bite Foyt in the ass. Firing Daly and Munoz looks more foolish by the day IMO.
 
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Hiring TK and Leist has come to bite Foyt in the ass. Firing Daly and Munoz looks more foolish by the day IMO.
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Leist brings some extra funding from Brazilian TV who want to help Brazil have a presence in IndyCar. Who knows, he might be better elsewhere (probably, actually) because Foyt just aren't that good as a team. And Kanaan is supposed to be his mentor of sorts...not sure that's panning out though.

Felipe Nasr is the best hope for Brazilians in IndyCar, IMO. Daly keeps grinding and finally has a good car for the 500 so he has a great opportunity. Munoz badly needs at least a 500 ride again, he's one of the best around the Speedway.
 
Huge crowd expected, 185 thousand last year wow
But this wasn’t race day; this was just Friday, the opener of what amounts to a three-day festival of racing. With fans seemingly spread all over the 1.968-mile course, it’s not hard to see why Long Beach reached an 18-year-high in total attendance last year — hosting 185,000 people over the course of the weekend.


https://jeffgluck.com/long-beach-grand-prix-2019-friday/
 
a bit of smack talking at the press conference


Posted on April 13, 2019 by Jeff Gluck

The IndyCar drivers who qualified first through sixth at Long Beach on Saturday — Alexander Rossi, Scott Dixon, Will Power, Josef Newgarden, Simon Pagenaud and Graham Rahal — held a smile-filled news conference after the session, cracking jokes and laughing through several exchanges.
Graham Rahal and Simon Pagenaud on starting alongside each other Sunday despite their incident at the start of last year’s Long Beach Grand Prix:

Rahal: “(Last year) was like a very minor love tap.”

Pagenaud: (Scoffs in disagreement.)

Rahal: “It’s going to be a lot harder to hit him when he’s next to me. So if I’m going to do it again, I’m going to try really hard to do it.’

Pagenaud: “I think you were next to me…”

Rahal: “No, I was behind you and…”

Alexander Rossi: “It was like a torpedo.”

Pagenaud: “Yeah, a torpedo!”

Rahal: “That’s Power’s issue now, right?”

Will Power: “You behind me?”

Rahal: “Yeah.”

Power: “The difference is I’m from Toowoomba, see, and we fight.”

Rahal: “I’m really not worried about you. I’ve got like 50 pounds on you.”

Pagenaud: “I might not brake in Turn 1 just to make sure I don’t get hit.”

Rahal: “Actually, I would be perfectly fine with that. If you want to do that, that would help. You could like take out everybody and I’ll be good.”
 
Ok, another engine problem for Power. I wonder if he isn't just too rough on the equipment.

And man, brake dust was spewing out of that thing.
 
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