If a street race works there, it should work here, right? Wrong. LONG BEACH, California – It does not take long to walk the 40th Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach and realize why we’ve seen street races everywhere from Des Moines (TransAm) to Dallas (Formula One) to Denver (Champ Car). Unfortunately, we’ve also seen them fail. The illusion about Long Beach is that they make it look so easy. Downtown Long Beach cheerfully gives up its streets, local businesses either close or prepare for a weekend onslaught, depending on what they sell. The police are cool. The schedule is packed with everything from TUDOR United SportsCar Championship to Robby Gordon’s Speed Energy Truck Racing;...
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