Continental Tire Keys to the Race: Long Beach

Race: Bubba Burger Sports Car Grand Prix at Long Beach

Track: Streets of Long Beach; 11-turn, 1.968-mile temporary road course

Length: 1 hour, 40 minutes

Entries: 25 cars spread across two classes: 8 cars (P), 7 cars (PC), 10 cars (GTLM)

Schedule:

Friday, April 15 (all times PT)
Practice 1 – 7:40 – 9:40 a.m.
Practice 2 – 5-5:25 p.m.
Qualifying –  5:35 – 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 16
Race –  4:05 – 5:45 p.m. (1 hour, 40 minutes)

Previous Winners: Wayne Taylor Racing (P), BMW Team RLL (GTLM); PC – New Event

Previous Polesitters: Ricky Taylor (P), Bill Auberlen (GTLM); PC – New Event

Driver Insight: “It’s an interesting track for our cars. Most of the corners are pretty tight, so the PC cars don’t get to use all the downforce they make, but there’s also a couple quick corners that our cars make pretty good downforce on and it’s pretty fun… A track like Long Beach is really hard to pass on, so track position is really important. However, with the drive-time rules for our class, it makes for a pretty narrow window to make the drive-time requirements and have enough fuel for a one-stop strategy. You’d have to catch all the right yellows. There’s a lot of factors that will play into making it a one-stop versus a two-stop race.” – Colin Braun, driver No. 54 CORE autosport Oreca FLM09

Drive Times: Minimum: 35 minutes for PC Silver/Bronze; Maximum: None

Tires: Continental Tire “Black” for P and PC. Michelin for GTLM

Pit Stops: 40-45 minute stint length for P and PC; 55-60 minutes for GTLM

Weather: Sunny, High: 74 F, 0 percent chance of rain

TV: Saturday April 16 at 7 p.m. ET (FS2)
Repeats on FS1 (April 16 at 11 p.m. ET & April 17 at 12:30 p.m. ET)

Streaming: Saturday April 16 at 7 p.m. ET (Intl viewers)

Radio: Complete session-by-session coverage on IMSA Radio

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