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The Thermal Club INDYCAR Grand Prix: A Prelude To The 50th Rites Of Spring Acura Grand Prix Of Long Beach
Words and Images by Brandon J. O'Brien.
The second INDYCAR series event for 2025 was held at The Thermal Club this past weekend. Unlike the events held at Thermal in the past, this was a points race which made the teams and drivers happy.
Many of the drivers felt that even though Thermal is considered a "road course" it drives and feels more like a "street course" due to the narrow "cheese grater" racing surface. The two concerns for most of the teams were tire degradation and how the car handled with the extra weight of the new hybrid engineThe Thermal Club INDYCAR Grand PrixThey felt that tire degradation would be similar to Laguna Seca or Iowa Speedway prior to the resurfacing of those tracks. Both the Primary and Alternate tires provided by Firestone this year are different than the ones used in previous years. All the teams were entering this event with a blank sheet of paper. To make matters worse, temperatures for the whole weekend were predicted to be in the high 80's to low 90's.
