Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach 2015: Saturday Notes and Photos

Day 2 of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Full docket Saturday, including Indy Car qualifying and the 100 minute Tudor Championship race. We also saw qualifying for the World Challenge, Stadium Supertrucks and Indy Lights.

Helio Castroneves takes the pole in Indy Car and in doing so also set a new track record with a time of 1:06.6294.

In the Tudor Championship, Ricky and Jordan Taylor of Wayne Taylor Racing, would take their pole position start in Daytona Prototypes all the way through the checkered flag, picking up their first win of the season.

Bill Auberlen and Dirk Werner, driving the No. 25 BMW Team RLL Z4 took the win in GTLM.

Here are my favorite photos from Saturday:

Supertrucks get sideways, and plenty of air, as well.

Robbie Gordon

Pro Celebrity race winner, Alfonso Ribeiro

World Challenge Turner BMW exiting turn 11

Will Power around the fountain turn

RHR around the fountain

Overhead view of the C7R Corvette

Porsche through the trees

Falken Porsche exiting the fountain turn

Traxxas Supertruck getting big air

World Challenge Audi moving quickly through 10

World Challenge Mercedes looking smart on the exit of 11

A pair of BMW’s coming through turn 5

Ken Stouffer

I've been around some form of racing since I was a kid. First hanging around Ascot in Southern California. Then, after moving to Texas as a teen, I got hooked on drag racing and did that for almost fifteen years. In between I have raced Dirt bikes and Quads. 2011 Marked my 8th and final year racing up Pikes Peak: Five in the Pro Quad division and three in Time Attack. Future racing plans are in the works, but until then I'm at the track shooting for My Life at Speed as much as I possibly can.