Spaniard Alex Palou won the Long Beach Grand Prix IndyCar race Sunday, finishing 3.9663 seconds ahead of pole-sitter Felix Rosenqvist.<\/p>\n
Palou took the lead from Rosenqvist on the 59th lap of the 90-lap race on the 1.968-mile, 11-turn temporary street circuit surrounding the Long Beach Convention Center and never relinquished it.<\/p>\n
Palou completed the 177.12-mile race in 1 hour, 49 minutes, 9.5058 seconds and had an average speed of 97.356 mph in the No. 10 OpenAI Chip Ganassi Racing Honda. He started third in the 25-car field.<\/p>\n
The victory was Palou\u2019s first in six races in Long Beach. He was the runner-up behind American Kyle Kirkwood last year, finished third in 2022 and 2024, fourth in 2021 and fifth in 2023.<\/p>\n
Kirkwood finished fourth Sunday, 5.973 seconds behind Palou. He continues as the only racer on the circuit to finish in the top five in each of the season\u2019s five races.<\/p>\n
There was one caution in the race, declared on the 57th lap because of debris in Turn 4. Racing under the green flag resumed on the 61st lap.<\/p>\n
Of the 42 IndyCar races in Long Beach, the pole winner has gone on to win the race six times, including Kirkwood in 2023 and 2025.<\/p>\n
Marcus Ericsson was the only driver who failed to complete the race, dropping out after 38 laps because of mechanical issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spaniard Alex Palou won the Long Beach Grand Prix IndyCar race Sunday, finishing 3.9663 seconds ahead of pole-sitter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[59485,174,18532,65321,131,133,132,118147,104690,2211,88895],"class_list":["post-276797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-alex","tag-beach","tag-grand","tag-indycar","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-palou","tag-prix","tag-race","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276797","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=276797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}