INDYCAR: 2023 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach Driver Rankings

Kyle Kirkwood: 10
Nearly a perfect weekend with pole position, winning the race, and leading the most laps. This young, tal🔯ented driver is the real deal.
Romain Grosjean: 9
Grosjean ear💙ned his fourth runner-up finish, as he continues to knock on the door for his first IndyCar win.
Marcus Ericsson: 9
After qualifyinꦗg on the front row, Ericsson was the only drivꦫer 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 enough to challenge for the lead.
Alex Palou: 7
Another str♊ong result 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 weekend.
Felix Rosenqvist: 8
His two teammates may have 🔥been faster, but Felix was the only Arrow M🉐cLaren driver to earn a solid finish today.
Marcus Armstrong: 8
He wasn’t discussed much during the race🤡, but this was a fantastic drive by the rookie.
Josef Newgarden: 7
Early on it looked as though Newgarden would score back-toꦯ-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 McL🌠aughlin, 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 Racing💫 team in quite some time.
Graham Rahal: 8
After starting in the back of the pack, Graham did what Graham always does, and drove his way throughꦡ a chunk of the ✅field.
Jack Harvey: 7
He was right there with his teammates, ꦐwhich is something he wasn’ꦆt able to say at all last year.
Christian Lundgaard: 7
♔His race started out well but he and the RLL team were ꦑjust lacking something all weekend.

Simon Pagenaud: 5
Another poor performance by Pagenaud and the Meyer Shankඣ Racing team, who are really struggling right now.
Pato O'Ward: 4
He made two questionable decisions in this race, in the same turn𒁃. Neither of them wor🏅ked out well and his day was ruined even without being penalized.
Callum Ilott: 4
A forgettable weekend for Ilott and 🐬the Juncos Hollinger Racing team.
Helio Castroneves: 3
Crashing on the opening lap of the race is never good, especially when there is🐭 no one else to bl🦩ame.
Alexander Rossi: 7
Rossi had a top-ten run nearly in the💙 bank, but it aꦏll went away on the final lap when he crashed into the tier barriers.
Conor Daly: 4
His 1🥂00th start did not go as well as he or the Ed Carpe🎐nter Racing team had hoped.
Rinus VeeKay: 4
See above, the ECR organization desperately needs to get to Ind📖y.
Scott Dixon: 2
His day was ruined when O’Ward p💖ut him into the tires. Outside of the Indianapolis 500 in 2014 and 2017, his 27th place finish today was the worst of his career, which spans 371 races.