Trying to predict a winner of today\u2019s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach got just a little bit harder after the 30-minute warmup.<\/p>\n
Two-time NTT INDYCAR SERIES champion Josef Newgarden led with a top lap of 1 minute, 7.9685 seconds in the No. 2 Astemo Team Penske Chevrolet on the 11-turn, 1.968-mile temporary street circuit. There have been four on-track sessions this weekend at this iconic street race, with a different driver topping each \u2013 Will Power (practice 1), Kyle Kirkwood (practice 2), Felix Rosenqvist (qualifying) and Newgarden.<\/p>\n
SEE:\u00a0Warmup Results<\/a>\u00a0| Starting Lineup\/Tire Choice<\/a><\/p>\n Six-time series champion Scott Dixon was second at 1:08.1479 in the No. 9 PNC Bank Chip Ganassi Racing Honda, followed by NTT P1 Award winner Rosenqvist at 1:08.2157 in the No. 60 SiriusXM\/Acura Honda of Meyer Shank Racing w\/ Curb-Agajanian.<\/p>\n Four-time and reigning series champion Alex Palou was fourth at 1:08.4126 in the No. 10 OpenAI Chip Ganassi Racing Honda. Graham Rahal rounded out the top five at 1:08.4944 in the No. 15 One Cure Honda of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.<\/p>\n The air of mystery surrounding the 90-lap race (5:30 p.m. ET today, FOX, FOX Deportes, FOX One, FOX Sports app, INDYCAR Radio powered by OnlyBulls) also increased due to problems encountered by two favorites for victory.<\/p>\n Pato O\u2019Ward, who is starting second, turned just 13 laps and was 24th at 1:09.8382 in the No. 5 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet. He spent a healthy portion of the 30-minute session in the pits as the team tried to secure a loose heel rest in his cockpit.<\/p>\n Series leader and reigning Long Beach winner Kirkwood also spent time parked on pit lane in the No. 27 JM Bullion \/ Gold.com Honda as his Andretti Global crew continued to wrestle with a problem with the car\u2019s hybrid energy system that appeared after qualifying. Kirkwood managed just 12 laps and was 20th quickest at 1:09.5215.<\/p>\n \u201cWe didn\u2019t get a really good read on anything, to be honest,\u201d Kirkwood said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what the tires are going to be like, what the conditions are going to be like.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trying to predict a winner of today\u2019s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach got just a little bit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-275869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","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\/275869","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=275869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}