RACE REPORT: Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach

• Representing new primary partner PreFab, Kirkwood dominated the California street circuit once again, converting his pole position to a win for the second time (2023) in his three-year INDYCAR career.
• Kirkwood never finished a session lower than sixth, and today’s result is his fourth career podium appearance.
• Kirkwood led the most laps of the race with 46, and he recorded the fastest leader lap on Lap 61 with a lap time of 1:08.475.

“Hats off to the No. 27 PreFab Honda team today. We had a really good qualifying, an awesome race and an amazing strategy. Execution all across the board is what won us the race – we controlled the race the whole time. With this being our Coast to Coast weekend with Andretti and TWG Motorsports, it was so cool to finish it off with a win – props to the entire organization, they really deserve this one. Before this weekend, I said that this race is where we turn it around, so we’re super happy with this, but we’re also upset that Palou finished second. We need to start getting more of these [wins] – that’s the only way to beat him. We’re going to reflect on this one, soak in this win and go straight into Barber, where hopefully, we can do this all over again. This is a good one. It’s been a long time. I had a drought last year of no wins, so this is huge for my morale, huge for the No. 27 crew and huge for Honda. Winning at the 50th Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach is just amazing.”