pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/motorsports/" rel="tag"Motorsports/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-grand-prix-of-long-beach/1502256/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/04/tgplb09_lead.jpg" alt="" //abr /emstrongsmallClick above for a high-res gallery of the IndyCar Series at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach/small/strong/embr //div br /In what was the hottest day of the year so far in Southern California, a full field took to to the streets for the 35th running of the Grand Prix of Long Beach. This was the first time the event has been run with the combined teams from IRL and Champ car since a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/breaking-irl-and-champ-car-unification-agreement-signed/"the two joined forces/a early last year. In qualifying on Saturday, Will Power had captured pole just ahead of Dario Franchitti followed by rookie Raphael Matos and E.J. Viso. Just a day after being a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/17/helio-castroneves-acquitted-on-six-counts-of-tax-evasion/"acquited on six accounts of tax evasion/a, Helio Castroneves arrived at the track to qualify in eighth place after just one practice session. Hit the jump for a recap and results from the race, and be sure to check out plenty of high-res photos in the gallery below.br /br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-grand-prix-of-long-beach/"2009 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-grand-prix-of-long-beach/1502256/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/04/tgplb09_58_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-grand-prix-of-long-beach/1502197/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/04/tgplb09_01_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-grand-prix-of-long-beach/1502198/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/04/tgplb09_02_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-grand-prix-of-long-beach/1502199/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/04/tgplb09_03_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-grand-prix-of-long-beach/1502200/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/04/tgplb09_04_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /br /strong style="font-style: italic;"smallPhotos copyright (C)2009 a href="http://www.drewphillipsphotography.com/"Drew Phillips/a / Weblogs, Inc/small/strongpa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/20/spoiler-alert-2009-toyota-grand-prix-of-long-beach/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emSPOILER ALERT: 2009 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/20/spoiler-alert-2009-toyota-grand-prix-of-long-beach/"SPOILER ALERT: 2009 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:58:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/20/spoiler-alert-2009-toyota-grand-prix-of-long-beach/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1521633/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/20/spoiler-alert-2009-toyota-grand-prix-of-long-beach/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/u3OIxcLwUJISEac7_QXDfG7W_gs/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/u3OIxcLwUJISEac7_QXDfG7W_gs/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=mSox0hMBcAM:yW_WDwGoKsY:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=mSox0hMBcAM:yW_WDwGoKsY:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=mSox0hMBcAM:yW_WDwGoKsY:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=mSox0hMBcAM:yW_WDwGoKsY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/mSox0hMBcAM" height="1" width="1"/

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