2010 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
| Race details | |
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| 4th round of the 2010 IndyCar Series season | |
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| Date | April 18, 2010 |
| Official name | Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach |
| Location | Streets of Long Beach |
| Course | Temporary street circuit 1.968 mi / 3.167 km |
| Distance | 85 laps 167.280 mi / 269.211 km |
| Pole position | |
| Driver | Will Power (Team Penske) |
| Time | 1:09.3185 |
| Fastest lap | |
| Driver | Ryan Hunter-Reay (Andretti Autosport) |
| Time | 1:10.5537 (on lap 82 of 85) |
| Podium | |
| First | Ryan Hunter-Reay (Andretti Autosport) |
| Second | Justin Wilson (Dreyer & Reinbold Racing) |
| Third | Will Power (Team Penske) |
The 2010 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was the fourth round of the 2010 IndyCar Series season, and took place on April 18, 2010. The race was contested over 85 laps of the 1.968-mile (3.167 km) street course in Long Beach, California, and was telecast by Versus in the United States. The race also marked the 25th consecutive year of Toyota's sponsorship of the Grand Prix of Long Beach, one of the longest-running active sponsorships of a motor race in North America.
The 27th edition of the Grand Prix of Long Beach got underway at 1:15 p.m. PDT. Points leader Will Power, starting on the pole for the third consecutive race led into the first turn. Justin Wilson attempted to go down the inside of Ryan Hunter-Reay, the man who started alongside Power on the front row, but he eventually settled into third spot. Tony Kanaan moved into fourth having got around both Hélio Castroneves and Ryan Briscoe at the start. The rest of the field got by the first turn without incident, usually uncommon in Long Beach. In the early laps of the race, Hunter-Reay stayed within a second of race leader Power, and Wilson kept a watching brief on the lead duo around 2 seconds behind Hunter-Reay. Fourth placed Kanaan was unable to keep up with the lead trio, but was able to keep Castroneves at arm's length.
This status quo was maintained till lap 17 when, coming off turn 11, race leader Power hit the pit lane speed limiter button by mistake. Both Hunter-Reay and Wilson took advantage of the error to go past, and Power got demoted to third by the time he had corrected it. On the next lap, Ryan Briscoe, who had spent most of the first stint holding off Scott Dixon, got around teammate Castroneves at turn 9 and left the latter to hold off the New Zealander.
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