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  Eagle Eye: Inaugural Long Beach Grand Prix
The first annual Long Beach Grand Prix will be held, with some of the top drivers in the world of racing zooming through the streets of the busy California port city.
Long Beach perhaps, does not conjure up the same old visions of romance and exotic atmosphere as do some of the older cities on the Grand Prix circuit; Monaco for instance.
As a result, the Long Beach race course will be the most modern in the world, specifically designed for safety, while preserving the excitement that has made Grand Prix racing one of the world's most popular spectator sports.
www.allamericanracers.com /inaugural-lbgp.html   (856 words)

  
 Long Beach Grand Prix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Grand Prix is also the longest running major "street" race held on the North American continent, having completed its 32nd event.
The Long Beach Grand Prix has been announced since 1978 by Bruce Flanders (and his assorted guest announcers) and is frequently a fan favorite.
The circuit is situated on the Long Beach waterfront, and is lined with palm trees (especially along the front straightaway), making for a scenic track.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Long_Beach_Grand_Prix   (506 words)

  
 Long Beach, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Long Beach is the 34th-largest city in the nation, 5th in California and 2nd in Los Angeles County (after Los Angeles).
The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 was a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that caused significant damage to the city and surrounding areas.
Long Beach once had a sizable Japanese-American population mostly working in the fish canneries on Terminal Island and small truck farms in the area, but with intermarriage and other factors, it is now less than 1% of the population of Long Beach.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Long_Beach,_California   (6737 words)

  
 Motorsport.com: News channel
Long Beach, Calif. (April 8, 2006) -- In just their fourth start in the Grand American Daytona Prototype Series, Derhaag Motorsports with drivers Chris Bingham and Randy Ruhlman got their first top ten of the season at the Grand Prix of Long Beach.
Both Randy Ruhlman and Chris Bingham had driving experience at the Long Beach Grand Prix race and were happy to take on the challenges of this fast, 1.968-mile street course that runs along the beautiful Long Beach harbor.
As well as being the winner of the 2005 Long Beach Grand Prix Trans-Am race, Randy Ruhlman was named the 2005 BBS "Most Improved Driver of the Year", won the Cleveland Grand Prix, and was runner up for the 2005 Trans-Am Drivers' Championship.
www.motorsport.com /news/article.asp?ID=214569&FS=GRANDAM-GRANDCUP   (914 words)

  
 Toyota of Long Beach Grand Prix celebrity race   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Celebrity Grand Prix was held at noon on Saturday, April 8, 2006.
The fare is low, and the bus drops you off at the transit station on 1st street, near Long Beach Boulevard.
The Grand Prix cars race through the streets of downtown Long Beach, just south of Ocean Boulevard and northeast of Shoreline Village; a route which includes Shoreline Drive and Seaside Way.
www.seeing-stars.com /Play/GrandPrix.shtml   (1566 words)

  
 Grand American Road Racing Association
LONG BEACH, Calif. (April 5, 2006) -- This weekend marks a return to the streets of Long Beach California for the drivers of the No. 40 Preformed Line Products Pontiac Riley for the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
Both Chris Bingham and Randy Ruhlman have driving experience at the Long Beach Grand Prix race and are looking forward to the challenges of this fast, 1.968-mile street course that runs along the beautiful Long Beach harbor.
Both Bingham and Ruhlman are confident of the improvements the car has made over the last several races and of their ability to learn the track quickly in the new car to make a good showing for the sponsors for the 4 PM PDT start on Saturday, April 8.
www.grandamerican.com /News/Article.asp?ID=6044   (852 words)

  
 Long Beach Grand Prix 2006 Party Guide Miss Grand Prix Pageant Girls Photos
It was covered locally by the Long Beach Press Telegram, which ran a story and two photos the next day, as well as several other national photoraphers and the Miss Grand Prix film crew.
The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach is a Southern California happening, a sun-splashed must-attend event for those into speed, sound and, of course, suds.
The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach has become such a fixture on the local social calendar, it's hard to imagine the days prior to its existence.
www.pubclub.com /happyhour/longbeachgp03.htm   (1773 words)

  
 SPEEDtv.com
Dan Gurney and Phil Hill (center L and R) pose near their new plaque on the Long Beach Grand Prix walk of fame.
On Thursday afternoon the city that was rejuvenated by an auto race honored Gurney and Hill by placing their names in the Long Beach Motorsport Walk of Fame.
The renainssance of Long Beach, thanks to the race, is everywhere as more and more high rise buildings and fancy resturants go up on Ocean Blvd. every year.
www.speedtv.com /articles/auto/indycar/22969   (780 words)

  
 Yamoto by Patriot Scores Big Win at Long Beach Grand Prix Business Wire - Find Articles
The season opener of the 2005 Champ Car World Series in Long Beach was also the official kick-off for the 70-city Boost Mobile Freestyle MX tour presented by Yamoto by Patriot.
At Long Beach, a total of 1,200 Yamoto by Patriot "Ride to Freedom" CDs were given to fans of all ages, and after each performance superstar MX freestyle riders (such as Jim McNeil and Jeremy Lusk) lined-up to personally greet fans and autograph their copies.
Long Beach was the first stop on the 70-city 2005 Boost Mobile Freestyle MX Tour presented by Yamoto by Patriot - and the first issue of the "Ride to Freedom" interactive CD brochure.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_April_14/ai_n13608938   (908 words)

  
 Revving up: Long Beach Grand Prix reaching out to Hispanic audience Los Angeles Business Journal - Find Articles
Last year's Grand Prix showed some improvement, and officials are hoping to accelerate the growth.
Race officials believe that the Long Beach event, the first in the Champ Car World Series, is regaining traction.
Last summer, the rights to the Long Beach race also changed hands, when the assets of the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach were sold by Dover Motorsports Inc. for $15 million to two of the Champ Car World Series coowners: Kalkhoven and Forsythe.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_11_28/ai_n16114818   (914 words)

  
 Overboost.com - Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Overboost.com - Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
Last year at 'da Beach Tracy drove to victory from the 17th starting position (this was actually the second-deepest position on the grid from which anyone has driven to victory in a CART road- or street-course event).
Defending Celeb Grand Prix champ Josh Brolin returned to defend his crown as a Pro driver.
www.overboost.com /story.asp?id=364   (847 words)

  
 Sales Collaboration is Grand in Long Beach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Long before the checkered flag drops and we learn who’s won this year’s Long Beach Grand Prix, we already have one winner:
In addition, the race week special section — the signature piece for the 2002 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach — will be posted online in its entirety.
The content of the special section, as well as dailies from the paper and supplemental content from across the international Grand Prix circuit will be posted on the Web site.
www.naa.org /Electronic-Publishing/Sales-Collaboration-is-Grand-in-Long-Beach.aspx   (950 words)

  
 Press-Telegram - Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
Press-Telegram - Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
LONG BEACH - For advertisers, one cardinal rule still applies: When in doubt, use women in revealing clothing to attract customers.
Thematically the gimmick was fitting for the annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, often touted by fans as Southern California's biggest beach party.
www.presstelegram.com /grandprix   (161 words)

  
 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
The 33rd Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach will be the third stop on the 12-race American Le Mans Series schedule next year.
The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach - April 13-15, 2007 — will be the second race of the Champ Car season next year.
The Toyota Grand Prix — and the role it has played in revitalizing downtown Long Beach — has earned the city the prestigious Crystal Eagle Award from the California Downtown Association (CDA), which each year honors outstanding achievements in a number of categories.
www.longbeachgp.com   (274 words)

  
 Long Beach Grand Prix Tickets at StubHub!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Long Beach Grand Prix will be the third stop on the 12-race American Le Mans Series in 2007.
Long Beach Grand Prix Tickets are currently not available on StubHub.
Find out as soon as Long Beach Grand Prix Tickets are available to buy or sell.
www.stubhub.com /long-beach-grand-prix-tickets   (579 words)

  
 United States Grand Prix West - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The United States Grand Prix West was a race held at Long Beach, California, as a Formula 5000 race in 1975 and a Formula One championship event from 1976 to 1983.
The street circuit was an immediate success from its first race in 1976, and it became the U.S.'s answer to the Monaco Grand Prix.
In the final event in 1983, John Watson won from 22nd place on the grid, the farthest back from which a modern Grand Prix driver had ever come to win a race.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Grand_Prix_West   (234 words)

  
 Didier Pironi signed hotel bill, Long Beach Grand Prix 1981 - Ferrari !
This is a bill from the Queen Mary Hotel in Long Beach, Califonia, where Didier resided in the days preceding the 1981 Long Beach Grand Prix.
According to this bill, Didier checked out on March 11, 12.42 P.M. The Long Beach Grand Prix took place on March 15 so it is very well possible that Didier stayed in this hotel at his own expense and changed hotels when the race team arrived for the race.
He crashed heavily during practice for the 1982 German Grand Prix, badly injuring both his legs of which he never regained full use.
www.zagato-cars.com /en-us/p_967.html   (318 words)

  
 26th Annual toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach - Sport Compact Car Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
We're all totally envious of Troy's adventures at Long Beach, but our photographers still got full access to it all and some surprisingly candid shots of the people who make up this awesome weekend.
If you didn't make it out to Long Beach, we've got you covered with these behind-the-scenes photos from the Goo Goo Dolls concert at the Pioneer Stage in front of the Terrace Theater, and a whole bunch of pics from inside pit row and more from the vendor's midway.
The midway at Long Beach was a circus, complete with tattoo artists.
www.sportcompactcarweb.com /motorsports/0206scc_26th_annual_toyota_grand_prix_of_long_beach/index.html   (636 words)

  
 ToyotaCelicas.com - Features - Long Beach Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The race takes place in the streets of downtown Long Beach surrounding the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center and encompassing the Aquarium of the Pacific complex.
The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach generates an economic impact of approximately $39 million to the Long Beach area.
Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach - FOX - Sunday, April 14, 3:30 - 6 p.m.
www.toyotacelicas.com /features/longbeachgp.html   (452 words)

  
 Long Beach Grand Prix
Long Beach Grand Prix is a street course used once per year in Long Beach, California.
In 1976, Long Beach became a stop on the F1 circuit; in 1984, Long Beach signed up with CART (formerly Indycars) and has been a major race on the CART circuit ever since.
Founded by promotor Chris Pook, the Long Beach Grand Prix is currently owned and operated by Dover Motorsports, Inc., which is parent of a number of race tracks in the US, including Dover Downs in Delaware.
www.na-motorsports.com /Tracks/CA/LongBeach.html   (315 words)

  
 FreshAlloy.com: Formula D Long Beach
The weather was barely cloudy and the ocean breezes along Long Beach made for a near perfect photographic event.
The streets of Long Beach Grand Prix track is a much tougher place to slide than the wider oval of Irwindale.
A week later, Formula D made an exhibition showing during the actual Long Beach Grand Prix event so thousands of non-Drift fans were exposed to this red-hot genre of motorsports.
www.freshalloy.com /site/features/events/2006/formula-d/04-longbeach   (481 words)

  
 Grand Prix of Long Beach Project
From the previous question, it can be inferred that the second place finisher completed the race in the 1996 winner's time plus this margin of victory.
What percent of the total laps did each of the top ten finishers of the 1996 Grand Prix of Long Beach finish?.
What is the ratio of the fastest winner's average speed at the Long Beach Grand Prix to the slowest winner's average speed at the Long Beach Grand Prix (since 1984)?
members.aol.com /dianeford/grandprx.htm   (393 words)

  
 City of Long Beach, CA - FAQs
I would like to report a maintenance problem at a City park or beach.
The 31st Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach will be held April 8-10, 2005.
We (Long Beach Marinas- Alamitos Bay, Long Beach Shoreline Marina, and Rainbow Harbor Marina) do not have any slips available at this time (call for changes in available slips).
www.longbeach.gov /faqs/qanda.asp?id=11   (1071 words)

  
 Inaugural Long Beach Grand Prix Is Canceled
The new event was scheduled for April 3rd on the Long Beach's Grand Prix racecourse.
Ironically, even though the event is dead on arrival for 2005, it managed to breathe new life into the Long Beach Inline Marathon, which International City Racing had been thinking of scrapping this year.
Seagren said that it was the idea of the Grand Prix event that persuaded the company to give the inline marathon another chance.
inlineplanet.com /Articles2/grandprixcanceled.html   (442 words)

  
 SI.com - Motor Sports - CART: Tracy wins Long Beach Grand Prix - Monday April 14, 2003 09:37 AM
LONG BEACH, Calif. (Ticker) -- Canada's Paul Tracy on Sunday became the first driver in Champ Car Series history to open a season with three consecutive wins by taking the checkered flag at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
Tracy took advantage of pole-sitter Michel Jourdain Jr.'s misfortune when the clutch on the Mexican's Ford/Lola failed during his final pit stop with seven laps to go.
The pace was so fast for so long.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /motorsports/news/2003/04/13/champ_car_st   (433 words)

  
 Toyota Long Beach Grand Prix - 2002 -iLoveHeaven.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Toyota Long Beach Grand Prix - 2002 -iLoveHeaven.com
I believe it was his first win at Long Beach, unless I'm mistaken.
LONG BEACH, Calif.— Results of the Johnson Controls 100, Round 1 of the 2002 Trans-Am Series for the BFGoodrich Tires Cup, with starting position, driver’s name, type of car, laps completed, and reason out, if any: 1.
www.iloveheaven.com /GrandPrix.htm   (1186 words)

  
 04.06.2006 - Former WKA And Stars of Karting Drivers Signing Autographs In WKA Booth At The Long Beach Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It’s a weekend full of entertainment for WKA and their karters and families at the Long Beach Grand Prix.
Beginning Friday, WKA will be exhibiting at the Long Beach Grand Prix, where on Saturday, former WKA competitors will be on hand signing autographs.
That night, beginning at 7pm at the Long Beach Convention Center, WKA will be recognizing current competitors at the Manufacturer’s Cup West banquet.
www.worldkarting.com /pg/news/04-2006/longbeachgrandprix.html   (252 words)

  
 Victory Lap -- A Virtual Voyage of the Texaco Grand Prix
LONG BEACH, Calif. - Reigning CART series champion Alex Zanardi of Italy came from nowhere and passed pole-sitter Bryan Herta with two laps left Sunday to win the Long Beach Grand Prix.
Zanardi was referring to a multi-car jam which came to a complete stop in a tight corner of the temporary street course in Long Beach.
Next is the Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix at Nazareth, Pennsylvania, on April 26.-->
www.chron.com /voyager/victorylap/gp/1998/circuit/long_beach   (470 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Long Beach Grand Prix: Bourdais wins Champ Car opener
LONG BEACH – Sebastien Bourdais keeps getting better.
The Frenchman began the quest for his third straight Champ Car World Series title with an overpowering victory Sunday in the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
Winning here for the second straight year, Bourdais trailed only after a midrace pit stop, leading 70 of 74 laps on the 1.986-mile, 11-turn circuit that threads its way through city streets tucked between downtown and the Pacific Ocean.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/20060409-1629-car-champ-longbeach.html   (544 words)

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