Alexander Rossi was the king of Long Beach as he turne🔜d a dominating performance in the 45th Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach.

The win is Rossi's six🍸th NTT IndyCar Series win and his fourth from pole.

The 2018 championship runner up began his jour෴ney to his victory on Saturday with a blistering pole lap. He picked up where he left off at the green flag as he got a jump on outside polesitter Scott Dixon.

Dixon drew alongside Rossi ꦓon the frontstretch but Rossi cleared him coming out of Turn 1.

A few drivers in th𒁃e back of the grid came together in the fountain turn including as Jack Harvey, Spencer Pigot and Marcus Ericsson which brouဣght out the race's only full course caution.

Dixon tried to get a jump on Rossi on the Lap 3 restart, but Rossi once again defꦆended the spot 🔥and began to pull away.

The 27-year-old from Nevada City, California stretched his lead out to five seconds before the first round of pitstops began on Lap 26. The leading pair pitted൲ together with Rossi easily keeping the point.

While the leaders pitted, the T♏eam Penske pair of Will Power and Josef Newgarden stayed out to set some fast laps in clear traffic.

The mov✱e paid off as they le💎apfrogged Dixon during the pitstop exchange to move into second and third.

The Power/Dixon battle didn't last long as Power suffered a misfire coming off Turn 11 on Lap 35. That allowed Dixon to get a run heading into Turn 1 and forced Power off line and he elected to use the escape road rather than risk hitting Dixon. He avoided contact wi✤th the tyre barriers and rejoined the field in eighth place.

Meanwhile, Rossi’s lead grew to nearly 12 seconds by lap 50 when Colton Herta hit the barrier in 𝕴Turn 9. That damaged le📖ft front suspension and wing and ended the winner at COTA’s race.

The second pit cycle opened up on Lap 55 as Ryan Hunter-Reay w🧸as the first of the leaders to piꦕt. His teammate Marco Andretti pitted on the same lap.

Rossi and Dixon made their final stops a lap ꦆlater on Lap 56 but had opposite stops. Rossi’s stop was flawless while Dixon’s crew made a rare mistake and had issues fueling his No. 9 PNC Bank Honda.

J🎶osef Newgarden led one lap before pitting on Lap 57 which handed the lead back to Rossi with Dixon’s mistake elevating Graham Rahal to third.

Rossi pic🔥ked up where he left off and increased his lead up🎐 to 20 seconds as Dixon clawed his way back to Rahal’s rear wing.

With no competition around him, Rossi took the win with 20.2359s in the bওank over Newgarden.

Newgarden’s second place gives him hiܫs third podium in three raꦛces this season and increases his points lead to 28 over Rossi.

Rahal crossed the line ahead of Dixon, but Rahal received a penalty for b🅘locking and move𝕴d back to fourth.

Hunter-Reay completed the tꦚop five as he cᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚlaimed his second top five of the season.

Simon Pagenaud scored his best result of the season so far with a sixth-place fiꦅnish while Team Penske teammate Power fought his way back from his earlier mistake to finish seventh.

A pair of former race winners occupied the next two positions led by Takuma Sato in eighth an♚d James Hinchliffe claiming ninth.

Felix Rosenqvist was the leading rookie of the daꦅy and completed the top ten.

The remaining rookies in the field had bad luck as an early accident knocked Marcus Ericsson down tཧo 20th while Santino Ferrucci went off track in Turn 1 on lap 28 and stalled. He rejoined the race and finished 21st.

Colton Herta was the only retiree from the race following his contact w🐟ith th🍬e Turn 9 wall on Lap 50 and ended the race 23rd.