Grand Prix of Long Beach: Mexico’s Pato O’Ward becoming quite the popular guy, by design

Grand Prix of Long Beach kicks off Day 2 festivities

After a fun-filled kick-off on Friday, the second day of the 50th annual Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach is officially underway. While crowds are typically smaller on the first day of the Grand Prix, with its light schedule and folks still tied up in work and school — Saturday and Sunday tend to draw massive crowds. The Grand Prix, in fact, is among the region’s biggest events, drawing around 200,000 people each year and generating millions for t…

Grand Prix of Long Beach: Mexico’s Pato O’Ward becoming quite the popular guy, by design

LONG BEACH — Two-time Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach winner Alexander Rossi on Friday was asked about the rising popularity of fellow driver Pato O’Ward. Rossi drives for Ed Carpenter Racing and O’Ward is with Arrow McLaren, but the two were teammates with Arrow in 2023 and 2024. “I think he is at the correct age group and he’s fast,” said Rossi, of Auburn, Calif. “Colton (Herta) is in the same age group, but Colton doesn’t lean into the social …

Long Beach Grand Prix to Begin With Practices, Qualifying

The three-day 50th Long Beach Grand Prix begins Friday with qualifying or practice sessions for all races, the start of the drifting competition and a concert by the Canadian DJ duo DVBBS. A practice session for Sunday’s featured IndyCar race will be from 3:05 to 4:25 p.m. on the 1.97-mile, 11-turn street circuit surrounding the Long Beach Convention Center. IndyCar drivers will participate in an autograph session from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. in the I…

Duck O'Ward has fought the current over the weekend in Long Beach, but rescued the ninth starting place for the third date of IndyCar's 2025 season. The Mexican starred in contact with the containment barrier during the first practice of the Californian event, which put him against the wall as he almost had no opportunity to accumulate kilometers with the soft tire, a variable that complicated him in the first round of the campaign. Despite rema…

Five Key Storylines: 50th Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach Preview | Kickin' the Tires

By Austin Lawton, Staff Writer The third round of the NTT IndyCar Series season is tomorrow, with the second biggest race on the calendar: The 50th Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. The green flag flies at 4:47 p.m ET on FOX, so to get you ready for the race, here are five storylines to follow: Can anyone stop Alex Palou?  It’s a serious question. Can Palou be stopped? He’s currently on track to be the first driver since Scott Dixon in 2020 to wi…

The current season of the IndyCar has been a positive one for the Mexican Pato O’Ward, who in Long Beach Grand Prix just didn’t have his best performance. You might be interested: A wink to the future? Czech appears in Cadillac and the ARDEN networks In Friday’s only session, the Mexican crashed into a wall and missed most of the session. Carlos Ancelotti’s words after qualifying to the final of the Super Cup of Spain How did Pato O’Ward hit the…