{"id":275277,"date":"2026-04-19T07:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/275277\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T07:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:06:15","slug":"meyer-shank-racing-team-wins-imsa-race-on-long-beach-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/275277\/","title":{"rendered":"Meyer Shank Racing Team Wins IMSA Race on Long Beach Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meyer Shank with Curb-Agajanian\u2019s No. 93 Acura, with two-time Long Beach winner Renger van der Zande and Nick Yelloly, won the IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship race.<\/p>\n

Yelloly, who called this course \u201cone of my most favorite street tracks in the world,\u201d said before the race that \u201clast year, we felt like we should have gotten a better result than we did. So, we\u2019ll try to make amends and get Acura at the front and on the podium.\u201d He helped put them at the top of the podium, giving Acura its first victory here since 2019, when it assumed the race title sponsorship.<\/p>\n

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Cadillac Whelen tandem of Frederik Vesti and Jack Aitken grabbed second place, just 0.818 of a second slower.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerfect scenario for me Saturday in Long Beach; we had to work for it,\u201d van der Zande said, surrounded by his family in victory lane. \u201cCadillac seemed very fast and I was barely holding on. The rear tires were completely gone. But we did it. I was in the zone and pulling away in traffic. Traffic for me in IMSA is where my experience counts. The Cadillac came so close. But man, that was great.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Acura Meyer Shank Racing w\/Curb Agajanian drivers Renger van der Zande and Nick Yelloly celebrate in victory lane.<\/p>\n

Porsche Penske Motorsport\u2019s No. 6 Porsche 963 of Kevin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor finished third.<\/p>\n

Acura won overall and Grand Touring Prototype (GTP), and Lexus won here for the second time in the three seasons in the Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) class.<\/p>\n

IMSA\u2019s next race, fourth on the calendar, will be May 3 up the coast at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.<\/p>\n

In GTD, Vasser Sullivan Racing\u2019s weekend pace with its Lexus RC F GT3 of Aaron Telitz and Benjamin Pedersen paid off with a victory\u2014on the 30th anniversary of team co-owner Jimmy Vasser\u2019s 1996 win at Long Beach.<\/p>\n

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Susan Wade has lived in the Seattle area for 40 years, but motorsports is in the Indianapolis native\u2019s DNA. She has emerged as one of the leading drag-racing writers with nearly 30 seasons at the racetrack, focusing on the human-interest angle. \u00a0She was the first non-NASCAR recipient of the prestigious Russ Catlin Award and has covered the sport for the Chicago Tribune, Newark Star-Ledger, and Seattle Times. She has contributed to Autoweek as a freelance writer since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meyer Shank with Curb-Agajanian\u2019s No. 93 Acura, with two-time Long Beach winner Renger van der Zande and Nick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[47544,119082,9569,9568,131,133,132,119081,116227],"class_list":["post-275277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-892cc741-a208-4b53-b036-807aea8b5baf","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-shorttitle-meyer-shank-racing-team-wins-imsa-race-on-long-beach-streets","tag-subsection-more-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275277","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=275277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}