For the second consecutive year, status quo was the winning tire strategy in the IMSA Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. Electing to run the 100-minute race without a tire change, the No. 01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac leap-frogged the pole-sitter in the pits and held on for the victory in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

Bourdais and van der Zande’s margin of victory was .564 seconds over Derani and Jack Aitken. Porsche Penske Motorsport’s Dane Cameron and Felipe Nasr were third, followed by teammates Mathieu Jaminet and Nick Tandy. Proton Competition’s Gianmaria Bruni and Mike Rockenfeller were fifth.

Cadillac Racing swept the top two spots at Long Beach on April 20th, 2024, with the No. 01 V-Series.R in Victory Lane and the No. 31 in second.

Sebastien Bourdais, Renger van der Zande put Chip Ganassi Racing-prepared Cadillac V-Series.R in victory lane.

Racing is always a game of seconds, but sometimes where those seconds happen makes the difference between winning and losing. In this case, those three seconds were on the respective out laps of the top two GTP finishers following pit