Photos from the

1999 Toyota

Grand Prix of Long Beach

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lngbch99_10.jpg The hairpin offers great opportunities for multi-car shots. lngbch99_35.jpg Long Beach has a long pit road that allows you to get some great shots.
lngbch99_45.jpg Without the helmet, Alex Barron looks like he should still be in high school. lngbch99_06.jpg Gil Deferran turns into the hairpin.
lngbch99_04.jpg Our race day seats were in grandstand 19 at the end of Seaside Way at Turn 6. lngbch99_08.jpg Robby shows them how its done.
lngbch99_11.jpg If Patrick Carpentier didn't have bad luck, he would have no luck at all. lngbch99_02.jpg Daryl "chill" Miller, forgot to turn the radio off on his Celica.
lngbch99_01.jpg Al Unser Jr was mending his Homestead injuries.  This is his substitute Tarso Marques. lngbch99_43.jpg Wouldn't you know my best driver portrait of the weekend is of the cool one.
lngbch99_34.jpg Sunday morning warm-up on the Seaside Way back straight. lngbch99_09.jpg Chiggers was second best this time.
lngbch99_13.jpg While in Long Beach we shopped at Richie Hearn's sponsor Ralph's Supermarket. lngbch99_14.jpg Greg Moore had a ho-hum weekend and finished 8th.
lngbch99_15.jpg These photo passes rule!   Here's J in the hairpin tower. lngbch99_27.jpg Rumor has it celebrity racer Melissa Hart of "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" has a big crush on PJ!
lngbch99_16.jpg With a little trick photography, you can even make "Shaggy" look fast! lngbch99_20mp.jpg The start of the Toyota Celebrity race is usually interesting.
lngbch99_44.jpg The toyota celebrity race doesn't seem able to draw the marquee names it once did. lngbch99_17.jpg Juan Montoya made it 4 wins in a row for Ganassi Racing at Long Beach.
lngbch99_19mp.jpg "hurray for Hollywood"! lngbch99_26.jpg Alex Barron takes a tight line through the hairpin.
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Shigeaki "Shaggy" Hattori lost it on cold tires during Sunday morning warm-up and smacked the wall on Seaside Way.
lngbch99_23.jpg Even this race's still-life art shot came out super. lngbch99_36.jpg You can almost see Michael's vandyke in this shot.
lngbch99_28.jpg Patrick and his race engineer look deep in conversation. lngbch99_40.jpg Mark Blundell started 12th and finished 13th.
lngbch99_32.jpg If you search long enough, you can find some photo spots where there are no fences. lngbch99_25.jpg I love it when I can get on the other side of the pit wall.
lngbch99_30.jpg Richie's pretty cool, but he needs to take a few lessons from Robby. lngbch99_24.jpg Gaulter Salles wouldn't get in the car until he saw the entire episode of "I Love Lucy".
lngbch99_31.jpg Which is longer, the beach or pit road? lngbch99_18.jpg Finally after his TV fix, Gaulter got in the car.
lngbch99_07.jpg This weeks paint scheme on the Player's cars looks a tad on the generic side. lngbch99_03.jpg Michael Andretti gets his souvenir stand help from  the same temp agency as Cathy Lee Gifford.
lngbch99_29.jpg This weekend I just couldn't take a bad shot of Michael Andretti. lngbch99_21mp.jpg A couple of years back Christian tried to pick a fight with Moore after a wreck.
lngbch99_12.jpg Bryan Herta's solid weekend was rewarded with a trip to the podium. lngbch99_41.jpg Have you driven a Ford lately?
lngbch99_37.jpg This is becoming the cliche shot of the Gurney Eagle. lngbch99_39.jpg Vasser and Hearn accelerate out of the hairpin, onto Shoreline Drive.
lngbch99_46.jpg Special guest crewman Chuck "The Rifleman" Conners. lngbch99_38.jpg By any chance is Michel Jourdain Jr Mexican?
lngbch99_22mp.jpg I wonder how the "V Man" likes his new teammate? lngbch99_05.jpg Pole sitter Tony Kanaan showed speed, but cracked under pressure.
lngbch99_42.jpg Its hard to imagine Paul Tracy having a worse season than he did in 1998.

 

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