All News: Long Beach

Cooper Webster unstoppable in INDYCAR ButtKicker iRacing Pro Series second round at Long Beach

September 27th, 2024 by

For the second-straight week to open the inaugural INDYCAR ButtKicker iRacing Pro Series season, it was a Team Redline Honda taking the checkered flag. Cooper Webster wasn’t among the group of Team Redline drivers that locked out the top-five finishing positions at Indianapolis, but he was unstoppable on Thursday night, claiming a dominant win at the … Read the Rest »

INDYCAR ButtKicker iRacing Pro Series | Race Preview: Long Beach

September 26th, 2024 by

On Thursday night, the INDYCAR ButtKicker iRacing Pro Series continues its inaugural 2024 season with the second race of the 2024 season at the Long Beach Street Circuit. This next challenge for the top-33 INDYCAR competitors will be a 40-lap feature at the only street circuit on the calendar, the top-split race won by Luke … Read the Rest »

Kevin Nielsen victorious in Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup Contender Series Feature at Long Beach

October 30th, 2023 by

Nielsen takes points lead with Feature victory; Christensen scores “extremely important” Sprint race win The penultimate battle of the 2023 Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup Contender Series took to the Streets of Long Beach for the first and only street race of the season on Saturday. Ultimate victory belonged to Denmark’s Kevin Nielsen, winner of … Read the Rest »

Lionheart IndyCar Series: Karam cruises to victory in inaugural race at Long Beach

April 9th, 2021 by Justin Prince

Broadcast Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIAKmrORU10 Sage Karam has dominated the streets of Long Beach, Calif., to win the first race at the virtual street circuit in Lionheart IndyCar Series history by more than 15 seconds. The BDE Motorsports driver looked comfortable from the start in the HyperX Grand Prix of Long Beach, leading 60 of the 64 … Read the Rest »

Elite Race Tightens as Espitee Takes Long Beach

March 28th, 2017 by Dan Ensch

Five weeks into the Apex InfoTech Indy Elite Series and only 11 points separate the top three positions as Austin Espitee survived an epic battle with Brandon Trost to win his second race of the season at Long Beach. Espitee, who finished dead last at Long Beach after an early accident one year ago,  brought … Read the Rest »

Steele Wins Battle of Survival at Richmond

March 21st, 2017 by Daniel Ensch

Christian Steele managed to sift his way through nine yellows that consumed almost a third of the total laps available to claim his first win of the 2017 campaign Sunday evening at Richmond in the fourth round of the Apex InfoTech Indy Elite series. At first glance the scheduled 150 lap distance (105 miles) seemed … Read the Rest »

Gooden Plenty Good at Long Beach

April 14th, 2016 by Donald Wayne Strout

17 sim racers took the green flag in the only street course scheduled as part ot the 2016 iAdvance Motorsports Indy Elite Series (12 races—11 ovals and one street course in Long Beach). Wyatt Gooden took the pole with an impressive time of 1:07.925, almost 0.5 seconds a lap quicker than Tim Holgate, with Bradley … Read the Rest »

Be Prepared

April 16th, 2015 by

Editor’s note:  Oswaldo Negri, Jr’s name should be familiar to iRacers.  Apart from being a long-time member of iRacing, he’s been a mainstay of Michael Shank Racing since 2004 and has a win and a couple of pole positions in the Rolex 24 at Daytona to show for his efforts.  This year finds “Ozz” doing … Read the Rest »

ESM Wins Long Beach…with a little help from iRacing

April 24th, 2013 by

It’s no small challenge for Extreme Speed Motorsports to transition to HPD prototypes after campaigning GT Ferraris the past couple of seasons in the American Le Mans Series.  But, with a little help from their friends at iRacing, the Florida-based team finished an impressive one-two in last weekend’s Tequila Patrón American Le Mans Series at … Read the Rest »