The 48th Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, which will run from Friday to Sunday, April 14-16, has been dubbed “Southern California’s 200-mph beach party.”
The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, the city’s largest sporting event, will have some chill, Cali vibes when it returns to the city’s downtown this weekend — and could be the biggest ever in the race’s nearly 50-year history.x, which will run from Friday to Sunday, April 14-16, is looking to build on last year’s event, which was the most successful, race officials say. The Grand Prix has brought back one of its concerts and has implemented environmental sustainability measures.
The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach will return this weekend. This file photo shows 2022 Grand Prix winner Josef Newgarden spray second-place finisher Romain Grosjean with champagne as they celebrate in victory lane. The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach will return this weekend — and one of the races is the Historic Formula 1 Challenge. Formula 1 ran from 1976 to 1983 in Long Beach. Mario Andretti, pictured above, won the 1977 race. .The historic challenge, though, won’t be like the current D1. Rather, as its name suggests, the Long Beach challenge will feature cars from a bygone era.
The Grand Prix is also Long Beach’s biggest economic driver, bringing thousands of dollars in revenue to local hotels, restaurants, bars and clubs. It also helps, Michaelian added, that he and the GPALB have been working to capitalize on the additional exposure to help bring in a larger, younger and more diverse audience to the Grand Prix — to and Long Beach.Thunder Thursday, a free kick off event at the Pike Outlets, will return once again this year. It will feature freestyle motocross, an exotic car show and a driver autograph session.
There’s also the Grand Prix’s annual Saturday night concert, which will take place at 6:30 p.m. at the Terrace Theater plaza and will feature a performance from the. That band is composed of a revolving lineup of big-name rock stars, including Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, Living Colour’s Corey Glover, Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale, Guns N’ Roses’ Gilby Clark, Megadeth’s James LoMenzo and Sublime’s Rome Ramirez.
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