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Race 3 of 16

Race - Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach

Location - Streets of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

Date - Sunday, April 15th

Time & TV Schedule - Pre-Race Show - 3:30PM , Green Flag -4:15PM - NBC Sports Network

Course Type - 1.968 Mile Street Course

Distance - 85 Laps / 167.28 Miles

Practice Sessions -

Friday, April 13th -1:00-1:30pm Group A & 1:30-2:00pm Group B / 5:15pm-6:15pm Eastern
Saturday, April 14th - 1:25 PM- 2:25 PM Eastern
Sunday, April 15th -Warm-Up - 12:15 -12:45 pm Eastern

Qualifications - Saturday, April 14th - 5:00 pm- 6;20 pm Eastern

2011 Pole Sitter -#12 Will Power - 1:09.0649 / 102.582 MPH

2011 Winner - #27 Mike Conway

** Note - All times listed are in Eastern time. California is 3 hours behind.
 
2011 Long Beach Race Statistics

Time of Race - 1 hour, 53 minutes, 11 seconds
Margin of Victory - 6.3203 seconds
Number of Cautions - 3 for 12 laps
Lead Changes - 7 among 6 drivers (Power, Tagliani, Briscoe, Hunter-Reay,Dixon, Conway)
 
Practice Group B is all drivers. Practice Group A is as follows...

#77 Simon Pagenaud
#10 Dario Franchitti
#5 EJ Viso
#26 Marco Andretti
#7 Sebastien Bourdais
#83 Charlie Kimball
#18 Justin Wilson
#67 Josef Newgarden
#22 Oriol Servia
#4 JR Hildebrand
#98 Alex Tagliani
#19 James Jakes
#20 Ed Carpenter
#78 Simona De Silvestro
#15 Takuma Sato
#6 Katherine Legge
#11 Tony Kanaan
#8 Rubens Barrichello
 
Also starting at this race and the rest of the season... Pit lane will be open from the outset of non-emergency full-course cautions on road/street courses. Also lapped traffic will move to the back of the field on restarts during the final 20 laps of a road/street course.
 
Congratulations to Ryan Briscoe for winning the pole. However, due to the Chevy 10 grid penalty, Dario Franchitti will start at the pole. He was the fastest non-Chevy engine (Honda) at 4th quickest.
 
Here is how they qualified. However, tomorrow, the actual starting grid will up and official. This is going to take work and time to figure out.

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Watch Pagenaud in this one. Great chance to make some noise with all the penalties.
 
Sato leading. This is usually when it all goes wrong for him.
 
Congrats to Will Power. My boy Marco had a scare during that race. Im just glad that tire barrier was there because the wall behind it was concrete, that would of been real bad.

The Chevy engines showed thier dominance again, even after the 10 position penalties. They took 8 out of the top 10 finishes. This doesnt look good for Honda and Lotus.
 
Here are the final results..

1. #12 Will Power
2. #77 Simon Pagenaud
3. #27 James Hinchcliffe
4. #11 Tony Kanaan
5. #4 JR Hildebrand
6. #28 Ryan Hunter-Reay
7. #2 Ryan Briscoe
8. #15 Takuma Sato
9. #8 Rubens Barrichello
10. #18 Justin Wilson
11. #19 James Jakes
12. #5 EJ Viso
13. #3 Helio Castroneves
14. #20 Ed Carpenter
15. #10 Dario Franchitti
16. #22 Oriol Servia
17. #7 Sebastien Bourdais
18. #83 Charlie Kimball
19. #6 Katherine Legge
20. #78 Simona De Silvestro
21. #98 Alex Tagliani
22. #14 Mike Conway
23. #9 Scott Dixon
24. #38 Graham Rahal
25. #26 Marco Andretti
26. #67 Josef Newgarden
 
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