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From the new RACER magazine: Monaco, California
Well, kinda… 50 years ago, California unveiled its harborfront street race, and while perhaps less glamorous than Monaco, the birth of the Grand Prix of Long Beach is no less extraordinary. When a pack of Formula 5000 cars bellowed into life on Friday, Sept. 26, 1975, somewhere around 1:15pm PT, then rumbled out of the pits to embark on their 80-second, 90mph route around the streets of downtown Long Beach, it was the penultimate step in a dream sequence initiated, devised and delivered by California-based Englishman, Chris Pook. The growl of those 302cu.in Chevys (and a couple of Dodges) rattled the glass of pawnshops and (somewhat disguised) porn shops, and by the end of Sunday, a...
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