{"id":8004,"date":"2025-04-12T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=8004"},"modified":"2025-04-12T11:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:13:40","slug":"acura-msr-secures-third-row-starting-positions-in-long-beach-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/acura-msr-secures-third-row-starting-positions-in-long-beach-qualifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Acura MSR Secures Third Row Starting Positions in Long Beach Qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONG BEACH, CA (11 April 2025) \u2013 Acura Meyer Shank Racing (“Acura MSR”) w\/ Curb Agajanian locked up the third row in Friday\u2019s spirited qualifying session for the 50th\u00a0Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, the third race of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season.<\/p>\n

Friday set the stage for a quick two-day weekend in Long Beach for the two Acura MSR machines. Two practices sessions started off the day ahead of the early evening qualifying run. Nick Yelloly and Renger van der Zande closed out the first practice session third quickest in the No. 93\u00a0Acura ARX-06 while Colin Braun and Tom Blomqvist worked through some gremlins in the No. 60 Acura ARX-06 during Friday’s practices.<\/p>\n

Yelloly qualified fifth in the No. 93 Acura ARX-06 with a lap of 1:12.414-seconds, 0.032-seconds ahead of teammate Blomqvist, 1:12.446-seconds in the No. 60 Acura ARX-06. The two Acura drivers swapped positions several times throughout the 15-minute session.<\/p>\n

The 100-minute race is set to take the green flag at 5:05 p.m. ET.\u00a0The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach will be televised live on USA network starting at 5 p.m. ET, streamed on Peacock and broadcast on SiriusXM channel 206.
\nAcura Meyer Shank Racing Team Quotes:<\/strong>
\nNick Yelloly:\u00a0<\/strong>“I think both myself and Tom really did everything that we could. Obviously we didn’t quite have the pace but I think lining up on the third row together will be ok and we can race from there. It’s IMSA, there are plenty of strategies we can try and throw at it and also with the traffic in the first stint can also make a difference. Definitely not all lost and we’ll definitely be fighting for that podium tomorrow.”
\nTom Blomqvist:\u00a0<\/strong>“Unfortunately I think that was kind of the best we had. I think that’s kind of what we expected coming into the weekend. It’s been a tough day for our crew with some issues on the car which kind of prevented us from getting some good laps in practice. Tomorrow is a new day. It’s a short race but you can still makes one things happen.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONG BEACH, CA (11 April 2025) \u2013 Acura Meyer Shank Racing (“Acura MSR”) w\/ Curb Agajanian locked up the third row in Friday\u2019s spirited qualifying session [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-meyer-shank-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8006,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004\/revisions\/8006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}