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The 1983 United States Grand Prix West (officially the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach [2]) was a Formula One motor race held on March 27, 1983 at Long Beach, California. It was the second race of the 1983 Formula One World Championship. The 75-lap race was won by Northern Irishman John Watson, driving a McLaren-Ford. Watson took his fifth and ...
The United States Grand Prix West was a race held at Long Beach, California, as a Formula 5000 race in 1975 and a Formula One World Championship event from 1976 to 1983 held in the same location throughout those years.
The 1983 race was, for Spa-Francorchamps circuit in southern Belgium, the first time it had hosted a Grand Prix since 1970; although the circuit had been shortened in 1979 to 7 km from 14 km, and had been made a lot safer than its extremely fast original version but had still managed to retain the fast, flowing nature of the old circuit.
The Long Beach Grand Prix in April is the single largest event in the city of Long Beach. Attendance for the weekend regularly reaches or exceeds 200,000 people. In 2006, the Long Beach Motorsports Walk of Fame was created to honor selected past winners and key contributors to the sport of auto racing.
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The Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race was an annual 10-lap auto race held each April from 1977 until 2016 as part of the United States Grand Prix West, and later the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach weekend at Long Beach, California.
Scott Dixon moves closer to A.J. Foyt on IndyCar's all-time wins list by picking up his 57th career victory Sunday in the Grand Prix of Long Beach.
In 1977, at Long Beach, he became the only American to win the United States Grand Prix West, and the last American as of 2022 to win any US Grand Prix. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] The Lotus 78 "wing car" proved to be the most competitive car of 1977, [ 34 ] but despite winning four races, more than any other driver, reliability problems and collisions with ...