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aprile 11, 2022 - Honda Corporate
Herta, Honda claim the pole for Sunday’s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach
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Herta, #honda Claim the Pole for Sunday’s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach
April 9, 2022 — LONG BEACH, Calif.
- Defending race winner #coltonherta tops NTT INDYCAR SERIES qualifying on the streets of Long Beach
- Defending series champion #alexpalou qualifies third in 26-car field
- Alexander Rossi to start fifth, Romain Grosjean sixth as #honda drivers claim four of the “Fast Six” final qualifying positions
Colton Herta, the popular hometown winner of last year’s #acuragrandprixoflongbeach, headed the time sheets in today’s qualifying action and will lead a 26-car field to the green flag in his Andretti Autosport #honda for Sunday’s third round of the 2022 NTT INDYCAR SERIES.
Herta was the quickest of four #honda drivers to advance to the “Fast Six” final qualifying round on the streets of Long Beach, with defending series champion #alexpalou ending the session third in his Chip Ganassi #racing #honda. Two other Andretti Autosport Hondas, driven by two-time Long Beach winner Alexander Rossi and Formula One veteran Romain Grosjean will start fifth and sixth, respectively.
Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach #honda Qualifying Results
1st Colton Herta Andretti Autosport Honda
3rd Alex Palou Chip Ganassi #racing Honda
5th Alexander Rossi Andretti Autosport Honda
6th Romain Grosjean Andretti Autosport Honda
8th Marcus Ericsson Chip Ganassi #racing Honda
10th Simon Pageaud Meyer Shank #racing Honda
13th Graham Rahal Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda
14th Helio Castroneves Meyer Shank #racing Honda
16th Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi #racing Honda
17th Devlin DeFrancesco-R Andretti Autosport Honda
19th David Malukas-R Dale Coyne #racing with HMD Honda
20th Christian Lundegaard-R Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda
21st Jack Harvey Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda
23rd Takuma Sato Dale Coyne #racing with RWR Honda
25th Jimmie Johnson Chip Ganassi #racing Honda
Quotes
Colton Herta (#26 Andretti Autosport Honda) pole qualifier, his first pole of 2022 and first pole at Long Beach, eighth career INDYCAR pole; defending race winner: “I’m super-happy with how qualifying went. The car is really good, #honda was spectacular and we’re starting from the best spot tomorrow. I’m thrilled to finally get a pole here. The reason I became an Indy car driver was because of this race. To get a win here last year was amazing, and we checked another box off today with the pole. It feels incredible.”
Alex Palou (#10 Chip Ganassi #racing Honda) will start third, defending series champion: " “Qualifying was a good start to the weekend for us. We were working on the car all day today, changing [the car] a lot with the [changing weather] conditions. We were lacking a bit more with the cooler temperatures [today], but we made it happen. The ‘Fast Six’ was the target, so starting on the second row is really good for the No. 10 NTT DATA #honda car.”
Fast Facts
This weekend’s return of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES to Southern California marks the third year of Acura title sponsorship of the #acuragrandprixoflongbeach, and the 47th running of North America’s oldest and most successful street circuit event.
Honda-powered drivers and teams have won the Grand Prix of Long Beach 15 times in 21 appearances. This includes victories in eight of the last 12 races; and a seven-year victory streak in Championship Auto #racing Teams competition, against multi-manufacturer competition, from 1996-2002.
Honda’s most recent Long Beach success was recorded last year by today’s pole qualifier, #coltonherta, a native of nearby Valencia, California.
Other Honda-powered winners at Long Beach include Jimmy Vasser (1996), Alex Zanardi (1997-98), Juan Pablo Montoya (1999), Paul Tracy (2000), Helio Castroneves (2001), Michael Andretti (his final Indy car victory, in 2002), Dario Franchitti (2009), Ryan Hunter-Reay (2010), Mike Conway (2011), Takuma Sato (2013), James Hinchcliffe (2017), and Alexander Rossi, who scored back-to-back Long Beach victories in 2018 and ’19.
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