{"id":268985,"date":"2026-04-15T12:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/268985\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:21:08","slug":"acura-grand-prix-of-long-beach-acura-message-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/268985\/","title":{"rendered":"Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach Acura Message Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">Long Beach, CA<br \/>4:00 PM ET \/ 1:00 PM PT Saturday, April 18, 2025<br \/>Live on NBC<\/p>\n<p>Acura at Long Beach<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAcura is celebrating a milestone at this year\u2019s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, as the company honors 40 years since its debut in 1986. Several tributes will be present across the weekend to commemorate the occasion.&#13;<br \/>\nAcura enters the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach weekend looking for their first victory at the track since returning to the top class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2018.&#13;<br \/>\nThis year, Acura will run two electrified ARX-06 GTP class prototypes fielded by Acura Meyer Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian.&#13;<br \/>\nThe #60 ARX-06 will be driven by 2013 Long Beach winner Colin Braun and Tom Blomqvist while the #93 will be driven by multi-time Long Beach winner Renger van der Zande and Nick Yelloly.&#13;<br \/>\nBoth MSR entries are looking for their first podium finishes of the 2026 season.&#13;<br \/>\nAcura and its performance arm, Honda Racing Corporation USA (formerly Honda Performance Development), are both Southern California based\u2014with HRC\u2019s headquarters in Santa Clarita and Acura\u2019s just up the road from the streets of Long Beach track in Torrance, California.&#13;<br \/>\nAlongside the Detroit event, the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach is the shortest race on the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at just 100 minutes.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>How to Watch the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nTelevision coverage for the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach will air on NBC beginning at 4 PM ET \/ 1 PM PT.&#13;<br \/>\nLive flag-to-flag coverage will be available on NBC Peacock in the US and on IMSA\u2019s YouTube channel internationally. Additionally, Radio Le Mans will have live flag-to-flag coverage via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imsa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">IMSA.com<\/a>.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Acura and HRC US social media content and video links can be found on:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nInstagram&#13;<br \/>\nX\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\nLinkedIn&#13;<br \/>\nFacebook&#13;<br \/>\nTikTok\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\nYouTube&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach, CA4:00 PM ET \/ 1:00 PM PT Saturday, April 18, 2025Live on NBC Acura at Long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[117174,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-268985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-041526grandprixhon","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}