Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach Day: Here’s what to do during Day 2

The 2nd time of the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach has begun — and Saturday, Sept. 25, is erstwhile the racing competitions footwear disconnected successful earnest.

Long Beach’s biggest yearly enactment — and 1 of the region’s biggest sporting events — kicked disconnected connected Friday. But, arsenic is emblematic for the Grand Prix, Friday represented a build up of vigor and excitement, with the existent enactment acceptable for Saturday.

Around 10 a.m. Saturday, for example, the crowds were bigger than they were astatine the aforesaid clip Friday. Of course, Friday was the past time of the workweek. And the schoolhouse week.

Indeed, the Grand Prix concourse, successful downtown Long Beach, had acold much children bouncing astir Saturday greeting than connected Friday.

Saturday’s schedule, meanwhile, is filled with competitions, dissimilar Friday, which was mostly a signifier time — but for immoderate qualifying races and a drifting contention successful the evening.

Racing fans were inactive filing successful astir 10 a.m. Saturday, astir the clip the archetypal Stadium Super Trucks contention kicked disconnected a slate of 5 competitions.

The grandstands were filling up astir past and promised to beryllium packed by the clip 1 of day’s biggest events happens: IndyCar qualifying.

The qualifying, scheduled to commencement astatine 12:05 p.m., volition acceptable the signifier for the weekend’s headlining event, Sunday’s Grand Prix of Long Beach.

The Long Beach thoroughfare race, which volition statesman astatine 12:45 p.m. Sunday and volition beryllium televised connected NBC Sports Net, volition besides instrumentality connected greater value this year. It volition extremity the NTT IndyCar Series aft being delayed from its accepted April moving to September due to the fact that of the coronavirus pandemic.

But racing fans won’t privation to miss Saturday either. Besides the trucks contention and the Grand Prix qualifying, determination are besides sports car races, including the International Motor Sports Association Grand Prix of Long Beach.

And for those who caput downtown little for the racing and much for the partying, there’s besides the Saturday nighttime performance to look guardant to.

Vince Neil, the person of Mötley Crüe, volition execute astatine 5:30 p.m.

Here’s what other folks tin look guardant to Saturday:

11:05-11:20 a.m.: Global Time Attack Competition No. 1.

12:05-1:20 p.m.: IndyCar Qualifying and Firestone Fast 6.

2:06.-3:46 p.m.: IMSA SportsCar Grand Prix of Long Beach.

4:30-4:50 p.m.: Historic Formula Atlantic Challenge Race No. 1

5:30 p.m.: Saturday nighttime performance featuring Vince Neil.

6-7:30 p.m.: Formula D Super Drift Challenge Competition No. 2.

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