{"id":5206,"date":"2011-04-15T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/thunder-thursday-kicks-off-long-beach-grand-prix-weekend\/"},"modified":"2011-04-15T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:19:00","slug":"thunder-thursday-kicks-off-long-beach-grand-prix-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/thunder-thursday-kicks-off-long-beach-grand-prix-weekend","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Thursday Kicks Off Long Beach Grand Prix Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A motorcross rider catches serious air during Thunder Thursday in downtown Long Beach last night.<\/em><\/p>\n

Big crowds flooded the downtown streets last night for the unofficial opening ceremonies of the 37th annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Thunder Thursday was marked with pit crew competitions, motocross extreme riders and a drifting car show. Our photographer Daniel DeBoom was on Pine Street the capture the sights of excited fans and the drivers that will light up Shoreline Drive this weekend. Make sure to check out our Sports coverage all weekend for more outstanding photos and up-to-the-minute race updates!<\/p>\n

Here’s a schedule of the weekend’s racing events. Visit gplb.com<\/a> for ticket information.

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IndyCar Series<\/span>
Friday: Practice 10:00am-11:15am, Practice 2:25pm-3:25pm
Saturday: Practice 10:25am-11:25am, Qualifying 2:30pm-3:50pm
Sunday: Practice 9:15am-9:45am, RACE 1:15pm-3:30pm<\/p>\n

Tequila Patron American Le Mans Series<\/span>
Friday: Practice 7:15am-9:15am, Qualifying 5:00pm-6:30pm
Saturday: RACE 4:30pm-6:30pm<\/p>\n

Firestone Indy Lights<\/span>
Friday: Practice 12:15pm-1:15pm
Saturday: Practice 8:00am-8:45am, Qualifying 12:55pm-1:55pm
Sunday: Practice 8:00am-8:15am, RACE 11:05am-12:05pm<\/p>\n

Toyota Pro\/Celebrity<\/span>
Friday: Practice 11:30am-12:00pm, Qualifying 3:40pm-4:10pm
Saturday: RACE 11:40am-12:40pm<\/p>\n

Pirelli World Challenge Championship<\/span>
Friday: Practice 4:20pm-4:45pm
Saturday: Practice 7:15am-7:45am
Sunday: Qualifying 8:25am-8:55am, RACE 4:15pm-5:15pm<\/p>\n

Team Drifting<\/span>
Friday: 9:35am-9:55am
Saturday: 8:55am-9:20am
Sunday: 3:40pm-3:55pm<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Marco Andretti will look to erase his past bad luck in Long Beach.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ryan  Hunter-Reay, defending champion of the Long Beach Grand Prix, poses for a shot.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Thunder Thursday was marked with pit crew competitions, motocross extreme riders and a drifting car show in the first official event of the Long Beach Grand Prix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":70035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5206"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5206"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}