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The Long Beach Grand Prix has announced that in addition to the Indycar and IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship races, the 2019 street race, to be held April 12-14, will also include an historic race featuring IMSA GTO machinery. This new historic IMSA race will feature IMSA sports cars from the 1970s, \u201980s and \u201990s.<\/p>\n

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\nThe weekend\u2019s family entertainment menu also includes free Friday and Saturday night concerts and the Lifestyle Expo featuring a large Family Fun Zone with racing simulators, kids\u2019 racing cars, computer games and action sports. Add to that driver autograph sessions from all racing series, special events and exhibits highlighting the Grand Prix\u2019s history, the popular Food Truck Experience and Sunday\u2019s Mothers Exotic Car Paddock, it\u2019s a weekend that will be packed full of activity.<\/p>\n

More details will be forthcoming. For information on the Long Beach Grand Prix visit\u00a0gplb.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Long Beach Grand Prix has announced that in addition to the Indycar and IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship races, the 2019 street race, to be held April 12-14, will also include an historic race featuring IMSA GTO machinery. This new historic IMSA race will feature IMSA sports cars from the 1970s, \u201980s and \u201990s. The weekend\u2019s family entertainment menu also includes free Friday and Saturday night concerts and the Lifestyle Expo featuring a large Family Fun Zone with racing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":654702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,13063],"tags":[11469,679,15234,11658,17790,17799],"class_list":["post-497863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-events","category-vintage-car-racing","tag-hmsa","tag-imsa","tag-events-vintage-racing","tag-long-beach","tag-race-grand-prix-of-long-beach","tag-vintage-race-historic-imsa-gto"],"yoast_head":"\nHistoric IMSA GTO to Support LBGP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A new Historic IMSA GTO race has been added to the schedule for the 2019 Long Beach Grand Prix.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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