Grand Prix of Long Beach (Sports Car Racing)

As part of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach , a sports car race will take place at the Long Beach Grand Prix Circuit in Long Beach , California , United States , which is currently (2013) under the name Tequila Patrón American Le Mans Series at Long Beach .

history

In 1990 there was a sports car race for the first time as part of the Grand Prix weekend's supporting program. The IMSA GT Championship drove in its two smallest classes, the GTO ( GT O ver 2.5L) and the GTU ( GT U nder 2.5L) class, a 1-hour race on the Saturday before the Grand Prix. The race was repeated the following year, after which the sports cars said goodbye to the Grand Prix. It was not until 2006 that a sports car race was held again as part of the Grand-Am Sports Car Series . It was only the top class with the Daytona prototypes at the start, Scott Pruett and Luiz Díaz won the race, which was held only once.

In 2007 the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) took over the Grand-Am. Since then, the race has been held as a 100-minute race, making it the shortest of any ALMS season. At every appearance so far, all four or five classes of the series were at the start, the highest number of starters was achieved in 2010 with 35 vehicles.

In 2014 , the sports car race will be held as part of the United SportsCar Championship , the association of ALMS and Grand-Am. Due to the high number of starters in the new series, only the classes for prototypes (P) and Le Mans GT vehicles (GTLM) will be at the start. The race length will continue to be 100 minutes.

Results

• Overall winner in bold shown

season	class	driver	team	vehicle
IMSA GT Championship
1990	GTO	Dorsey Schroeder	Whistler Radar	Mercury Cougar
	GTU	John Finger	Mazda Motorsports	Mazda MX-6
1991	GTO	Steve Millen	Cunningham Racing	Nissan 300ZX
	GTU	John Fergus	Full time racing	Dodge Daytona
Grand-Am Sports Car Series
2006	DP	Scott Pruett Luis Díaz	Chip Ganassi Racing	Riley Mk XX Lexus
	GT	not at the start
American Le Mans Series
2007	LMP1	Rinaldo Capello Allan McNish	Audi Sport North America	Audi R10 TDI
	LMP2	Romain Dumas Timo Bernhard	Penske Racing	Porsche RS Spyder
	GT1	Oliver Gavin Olivier Beretta	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R
	GT2	Mika Salo Jaime Melo	Risi Competizione	Ferrari F430 GT
2008	LMP1	Marco Werner Lucas Luhr	Audi Sport North America	Audi R10 TDI
	LMP2	Scott Sharp David Brabham	Highcroft Racing	Acura ARX-01b
	GT1	Johnny O'Connell Jan Magnussen	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R
	GT2	Dominik Farnbacher Dirk Müller	Blackboard Racing	Ferrari F430 GT
2009	LMP1	Gil de Ferran Simon Pagenaud	de Ferran Motorsports	Acura ARX-02a
	LMP2	Adrián Fernández Luis Díaz	Fernández Racing	Acura ARX-01b
	GT1	Oliver Gavin Olivier Beretta	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R
	GT2	Patrick Long Jörg Bergmeister	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR
2010	LMP	David Brabham Simon Pagenaud	Highcroft Racing	HPD ARX-01c
	LMPC	Elton Julian Gunnar Jeannette	Green Earth Team Gunnar	Oreca FLM09 / Chevrolet
	GT	Patrick Long Jörg Bergmeister	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR
	GTC	Juan González Butch Leitzinger	Alex Job Racing	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup
2011	LMP1	Klaus Count Lucas Luhr	Muscle Milk AMR	Lola-Aston Martin LMP1
	LMP2	Scott Tucker Christophe Bouchut	Level 5 motorsports	HPD ARX-03b
	LMPC	Gunnar Jeannette Ricardo Gonzalez	CORE Autosport	Oreca FLM09 / Chevrolet
	GT	Dirk Müller Joey Hand	BMW Team RLL	BMW M3 GT2
	GTC	Tim Pappas Jeroen Bleekemolen	Black Swan Racing	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup
2012	LMP1	Klaus Count Lucas Luhr	Muscle Milk Pickett Racing	HPD ARX-03a
	LMP2	Scott Tucker Christophe Bouchut	Level 5 motorsports	HPD ARX-03b
	LMPC	Alex Popov Ryan Dalziel	CORE Autosport	Oreca FLM09 / Chevrolet
	GT	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GT2
	GTC	Peter LeSaffre Damien Faulkner	Green Hornet Racing	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup
2013	LMP1	Klaus Count Lucas Luhr	Muscle Milk Pickett Racing	HPD ARX-03a
	LMP2	Scott Sharp Guy Cosmo	Extreme speed motorsports	HPD ARX-03b
	LMPC	Jon Bennett Colin Brown	CORE Autosport	Oreca FLM09 / Chevrolet
	GT	Bill Auberlen Maxime Martin	BMW Team RLL	BMW Z4 GTE
	GTC	Sean Edwards Henrique Cisneros	NGT Motorsport	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup
United SportsCar Championship
2014	P	Scott Pruett Memo Rojas	Chip Ganassi Racing	Riley / Ford EcoBoost
	GTLM	Antonio Garcia Jan Magnussen	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R

Web links

• Official website