2026 Round 5 — Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach

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🏁 RACE INFORMATION

• 🔁 Laps — 90
• 📏 Distance — 177.12 miles (285.047km)
• 🟢 Green flag — 2:57pm PDT

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📺 BROADCAST INFORMATION

Region	Race Broadcast	Green Flag
🌐	INDYCAR LIVE, 5:30pm EDT	5:57pm EDT
🇺🇸	FOX, 5:30pm EDT	5:57pm EDT
🇨🇦	TSN5 or TSN+, 5:30pm EDT	5:57pm EDT
🇧🇷	⏰ Band, 18h40 BRT	18h57 BRT
🇮🇸	Viaplay, 9:30pm GMT	9:57pm GMT
Africa	⏰ CANAL+ SPORT 5, 9:35pm GMT	9:57pm GMT
🇬🇧 🇮🇪	Sky Sports F1 or Sky Sports Mix, 10:30pm BST	10:57pm BST
🇵🇹	SPORT TV 4, 22h30 WEST	22h57 WEST
🇪🇸	M+ Vamos, 23.30h CEST	23.57h CEST
🇫🇷	⏰ CANAL+ SPORT 360, 23h50 CEST	23h57 CEST
🇳🇱	Ziggo Sport or Ziggo Sport 3, 23:30 CEST	23:57 CEST
🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇦🇹	Sky Sport F1 or Motorvision+, 23:30 CEST^(1)	23:57 CEST
🇮🇹	⏰ Sky Sport Uno or Sky Sport F1, 23:45 CEST	23:57 CEST
🇩🇰 🇳🇴 🇸🇪	Viaplay, 23:30 CEST	23:57 CEST
🇩🇰	TV3 MAX, 23:30 CEST	23:57 CEST
🇳🇴	???	23:57 CEST
🇸🇪	V Sport Motor, 23:30 CEST	23:57 CEST
🇭🇺	Net4+, 23:30 CEST^(2)	23:57 CEST
🇫🇮	V Sport+ Suomi or Viaplay, 00:30 EEST	00:57 EEST
🇹🇷	S Sport Plus, 00:30 TRT	00:57 TRT
🇯🇵	GAORA SPORTS, 6:30 JST	6:57 JST
🇦🇺	Stan Sport, 7:30am AEST	7:57am AEST
🇳🇿	Sky Sport 3, 9:30am NZST	9:57am NZST

Broadcast notes:

1. 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇦🇹 — ⏰ Late-join coverage also available on Sky Sport Top Event, from 00:00 CEST.
2. 🇭🇺 — 📼 Tape-delay coverage also available on Match4, Thursday 08:30 CEST.

📝 STARTING LINE UP

Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach Official Starting Line Up and Tire Designation

2026 Round 5 — Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach

Welcome to the r/INDYCAR post-race discussion thread for the 2026 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach.

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🧪 INDY 500 Open Test — April 28–29

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6️⃣ Sonsio Grand Prix — May 7–9

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The addition of the Hybrid system has obviously been detrimental to the product so I won’t beat a dead horse. However, i’ve seen little mention of how poorly Firestone missed on the road & street course tire compounds this season. Due to a handful of tire delamination issues over the past couple of seasons Firestone vastly overcorrected this offseason in relation to the alternate tire compound. Ultimately, we now have alternate tire that can run about the same stint duration as the primary if necessary. The alternate compound should be significantly faster but the falloff should be brutal enough to make for a real trade-off. Instead, the margins are so close between the two compounds that it’s removed some of the strategy & advantage regarding the compound you run. It’s a hard task to find a middle ground, and Firestone is a great partner, but unfortunately it’s our reality right now.

So my father wants to send in last years Indy 500 ticket to Penske so that Newgarden could sign it, while I’m on board I am not sure if they would send it back, of course we could also try to catch newgarden in person next month (hopefully he doesn’t rip my heart out on national tv) but has anyone tried to mail in for autographs?

Made a post earlier asking for some suggestions on what to pay attention to, thanks for all the responses!

To preface, I got into motorsport after watching the F1 movie, but with the current gap in the F1 calendar I started watching a ton of INDYCAR and NASCAR videos on youtube and genuinely enjoyed hearing about and watching both series so figured I'd watch the race today.

Mainly tried paying attention to Rosenqvist, Power, and Schumacher. Overall enjoyed the race, enjoyed that the cards were packed together. Really unfortunate for Rosenqvist :( I was watching the main FOX broadcast, looked like Siegel was having the time of his life with overtake after overtake but I didn't know where to watch onboards until most of the race was done :(

I know you guys probably hear this every day but the commercials REALLY took me out of it, genuinely was completely immersion breaking and was unbearable honestly, took away from the experience so much.

Either way, enjoyed the racing, enjoyed the commentating, nice to hear Buxton! Definitely will watch more races in the future.

With the F1 break been branching out and watching a lot of NASCAR and INDYCAR replays and been really enjoying it. Haven't really latched onto any storylines yet, hoping to tune into my first live INDYCAR race in an hour, any drivers or teams I should be paying extra attention to? :)