Street-Circuit

About

The modern Long Beach street circuit is a tight, 1.968‑mile ribbon of asphalt wrapped around the Convention Center and waterfront, framed by palm trees and unforgiving concrete walls.

From the long blast down Shoreline Drive into the heavy-braking Turn 1, through the fountain complex and rhythm of right‑angles, it rewards precision and punishes the slightest lapse of attention.

Then, as if to underline its theatrical nature, the lap concludes with that a twist around Queen’s Hairpin, where cars pivot almost on their axis before being fired back onto the front stretch, past the marina and out over the sea of noise and color.