Long Beach’s career began with a tribute to the victims of explosions Boston and Texas, a race in honor of all the people. After a clean start there was an accident on lap two and it forced to stop the race. Savedra was a mistake trying to overtake another driver and he has contacted protections and has been out of the race this situation made several drivers to use pit and advance their stop. Several errors during the weekend for the pilot Saavedra.
The restars were very dangerous between the first and second turn, overtaking was very difficult in this race very hard overtaking the differences between drivers are minimal
Franchitti has had a mistake in boxes but at the same time there has been a accident between kimball and Tagliani, excessive euphoria by Kimball has made contact between both. Lot of drivers with another strategy they have stopped at the beginning of the round as Simona de Silvestro and Vautier have now won over 10 seats after 30 laps. In a new restart Hinchcliffe has touched Ernesto Viso in Turn 1, the dangerous accident because the cars spun with all the 25 cars running very close, it is a pity after the great race who were achieving both. The experience is a plus and pilots have come from behind as Oriol Servia mid-career have made it to the 8th position, like Simona Power or Vautier or who have arrived on these positions from back. Finally Oriol Serviá got a great 6th place
The biggest comeback of Justin Wilson from position 24 ° but also important comebacks Simona de Silvestro and Servia
Takuma Sato won Long Beach race has been very strong all weekend, a deserved victory and became the first Japanese and his first win in the Indycar.
Finally the final results:
1º. Takuma Sato
2º.Graham Rahal
3º. Justin Wilson
4º. Dario Franchitti
5º. J. R. Hildebrand
6º. Oriol Servià
7º. Marco Andretti
8º. Simon Pagenaud
9º. Simona de Silvestro
10º. Hélio Castroneves
11º. Scott Dixon
12º. James Jakes
13º. Josef Newgarden
14º. Bia Figueiredo
15º. Sébastien Bourdais
16º. Will Power
17º. Tristan Vautier
18º. Ed Carpenter
19º. Alex Tagliani
20º. Tony Kanaan
21º. Charlie Kimball