{"id":276615,"date":"2026-04-20T10:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276615\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:11:20","slug":"no-tire-change-wins-the-day-again-at-long-beach-sportscar365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276615\/","title":{"rendered":"No Tire Change Wins the Day Again at Long Beach \u2013 Sportscar365"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MTEsMCwxLDEw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.michelinman.com\/why-michelin\/trust?utm_source=sportscar365&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=whymichelin-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MICH_Motorsports-Banner-Ad_728x90.png\" height=\"90\" width=\"728\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For all of the pre-race talk about whether the new Michelin Pilot Sport Endurance tire could lead GTP teams to change tires during the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, the winning strategy ended up looking familiar.<\/p>\n<p>Meyer Shank Racing\u2019s No. 93 Acura ARX-06 went the full 100 minutes without a tire change, making it the fourth consecutive Long Beach race in which the overall winner has done so on a single set of tires.<\/p>\n<p>There were signs earlier in the weekend that the new tire could create more options. <\/p>\n<p>After taking pole, Nick Yelloly said: \u201cthe switch on of the tire seems to be quite a bit faster,\u201d and added that \u201cit does open up a few more strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he also pointed to the risk of giving up track position on a circuit where pit lane time is critical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously what you don\u2019t want to be doing is swapping tires and someone else not,\u201d said Yelloly.<\/p>\n<p>That proved to be the key calculation in the race as the top seven GTP finishers did not change tires. <\/p>\n<p>Renger van der Zande, who brought the No. 93 home to victory, said: \u201cIt\u2019s amazing, these tires, they held on again, so we didn\u2019t change tires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This trend extended to GTD as well, where Aaron Telitz and Benjamin Pedersen won for Vasser Sullivan Racing in the No. 12 Lexus RC F GT3. <\/p>\n<p>The podium finishers in class also completed the race without changing their Michelin Pilot Sport Pro tires. <\/p>\n<p>In the end, even with more discussion than usual about possible tire changes, Long Beach once again rewarded the ability to make one set last.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/eb0bdb6c5958200b684efd47356c4ff04a0d9cc9493aca42127a4990fc233001.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-60 photo\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The latest news, photos and video features from the trusted Sportscar365 web staff.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ss365-1.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For all of the pre-race talk about whether the new Michelin Pilot Sport Endurance tire could lead GTP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-276615","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\/276615","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=276615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}