INDYCAR: 2023 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach Driver Rankings

Kyle Kirkwood: 10
N🅰early a perfect weekend with pole position, winning the race, and leading the most laps. This🎃 young, talented driver is the real deal.
Romain Grosjean: 9
Grosjean earned his fourth runn☂er-up finish, as he continues to knock on the door for h⛦is first IndyCar win.
Marcus Ericsson: 9
After qualifying on the front row, Ericsson was the only ﷺdriver that could keep up with the Andretti cars, and takes over the championship lead.
Colton Herta: 8
He was right there along with his teammates, but just didn’t have enougᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚh to challenge for the lead.
Alex Palou: 7
Another🍒 strong r⛎esult for Palou, who is quietly off to a fantastic start this season.

Will Power: 8
A much-needed result for the reigning series champion, after a no-show in Texas and a shaky qualifying🌳 performance this weꦜekend.
Felix Rosenqvist: 8
His two teammates may have been faste💮r, but Felix was the only A⭕rrow McLaren driver to earn a solid finish today.
Marcus Armstrong: 8
He wasn’𓆏t discussed much during the race, but this was a fa🅠ntastic drive by the rookie.
Josef Newgarden: 7
Early on it looked as though Newgarden would score back-to-back wins, but strategy did not ﷽go their way and he got eaten up late in the race.
Scott McLaughlin: 6
It was a decent result for McLaug🍎hlin, but he was never able to challenge at the front of the field.
Santino Ferrucci: 8
Clearly one of the best results for the AJ Foyt Raci🎃ng team in 💟quite some time.
Graham Rahal: 8
After s🍌tarting in the back of the pack, Graham did what Graham always does, and drove his way through a chunk of the field.
Jack Harvey: 7
He was right there with his tea𒈔mmates, which is ꦬsomething he wasn’t able to say at all last year.
Christian Lundgaard: 7
His race started out well but he and the RLL te🐷am were just lacking something all weekend.

Simon Pagenaud: 5
Another poor performance by Pagenaud and the Meyer Shank Racing ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚﷺᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚteam, who are really struggling right now.
Pato O'Ward: 4
He made two questionable decisions in this race, in the same turn. Neithꦆer of them worked out well and his day was ruined even without being pe♎nalized.
Callum Ilott: 4
A forgettable weekend for Ilott an🌄༒d the Juncos Hollinger Racing team.
Helio Castroneves: 3
Crashing on the opening lap of the r♌ace is never good, especially when there is no one else to blame.
Alexander Rossi: 7
Rossi had a top-ten run nearly in the bank, but it all went away on the final lap when he𒉰 crashed into the tier barriers.
Conor Daly: 4
His 100th start did not go as well as he or the💟ℱ Ed Carpenter Racing team had hoped.
Rinus VeeKay: 4
See above, the ECR organization despeꦡrately needs to get to Indy.
Scott Dixon: 2
His day was ruined when O’Ward put him into the tires. Outside of the Indianapolis 500 in 2014 and 2017, his 27th plac🐻e finish today was the worst of his career, which spans﷽ 371 races.