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Long Beach Grand Prix!

Road Race in Sunny Long Beach: Race & Relaxation along the Beach

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Pre-Race Activities

Practice & Qualifying

Friday
practice & provisional qualifying

Saturday
practice & final qualifying
Celebrity Race


Competition
(1 day)


Let's Go Racin'


Sunday
and the winner is?




Supplementary Race Topics

Post-Race Addenda


Race Notes
Logbook & war-stories from each race

PHOTO Archive
Photos, categorized by Class & individual racer

VIDEO Archive
Videos, summary of the best highlights

QTVR
(Virtual Reality Experience)

Experience off-road racing, via the QTVR Virtual-Reality technology & the Internet









Miscellaneous

Feedback
Contact Bob Yen for comments & suggestions

About Me
Quickie profile of Bob Yen



Air Extremists

Gnarly Air-Time & Paying the Price

San Felipe 250
Another recent race along the Beach

Off-Road Racing (Archives)
Warriors of the Desert, knarly "air-time"

Crashes (Archives)
notable "out-of-shape" event-horizons..

Mad Mitch MacAleer
"Leading From The Front", Hang Glider Aerobatics World Champion



1999 CART
Long Beach Grand Prix

April 16/17/18


SAME DAY COVERAGE



Race & Relaxation along the Beach..




"loose" rear..

..sideways..

..contact!

limp to pits



B. Herta/Team Rahal making adjustments during qualifying

D. Franchitti/Team Kool Green winking to wailing fans



R. Hearn prressuring T. Marques at beginning of back-straight

R. Gordon & M. Jourdain dicing at the end of back-straight



P. Carpentier discussing car-handling w/engineer

M. Andretti in for adjustments during qualifying



pre-race festivities: Navy Seals parachute in

big-screen TV along pits



A. Fernandez mobbed by autograph-frenzied fans

R. Hearn in a throng of fans



Team Penske attaching trans-axle to engine

Team Target crew member getting after it



REAL race-fan (front)

celebrity-race on Sat



M. Gugelmin (pre-race warmup)

Jourdain, D'Matta, Pruett (pre-race warmup)


Video Action



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Qualifying Session (Group 1), after 1st lap




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Target car exiting pit-lane, into oncoming traffic on front-straight




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Qualifying (Group 2), closely packed cars




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BIG hit during pre-race warmup (S. Hattori) [ NOTE: the idiotic shouting was from the dork next to me ]




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R. Gordon passing Marques, followed by throng of cars




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front-straight, just before Texaco bridge (approaching Turn 1)




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Turn 1: Kanaan, Montoya, Franchitti leading the way..











INDEX






CLICK HERE for '99 SCORE San Felipe 250 (another beach race)


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UPDATE TIMELINE:
  • 4/16/99 (1st stills & video posted)



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