INDYCAR: 2023 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach Driver Rankings

Kyle Kirkwood: 10
Nearly a perfect weekend with pole positio🐓n, winning the race, and leading the most laps. This young, talented driver is the real deal.
Romain Grosjean: 9
Grosjean earned his fourth runn🔯er-up finish, as he continues to knock on th🐼e door for his first IndyCar win.
Marcus Ericsson: 9
After qualifying on the front row, Ericsson was the only driver that could keep up with the🐬 A🐟ndretti cars, and takes over the championship lead.
Colton Herta: 8
He was right there along with his teammates, bu🦂t just didn’t have enough to c⛎hallenge for the lead.
Alex Palou: 7
Another strong result for Palou, who is quietly off t𒈔o a fantastic start this season.

Will Power: 8
A much-needed result for the r🐷eigning series champion, after a no-show in Texas and a shaky qualifying performance this weekend.
Felix Rosenqvist: 8
His two teammates may have be💖en faster, but Felix was the only Arrow McLaren driver to earn 🐻a solid finish today.
Marcus Armstrong: 8
He wasn’t discussed much during the race𝐆, but this was a fanta♈stic drive by the rookie.
Josef Newgarden: 7
Early on it looked as though Newgarden would score back-to-back wins, but strategy di🍸d not go their way and he got eaten up late in the race.
Scott McLaughlin: 6
It was a decent result for McLa🥃ughlin, but he was never a🦋ble to challenge at the front of the field.
Santino Ferrucci: 8
Clearly one of the best results for the AJ Foyt Racing team in quit🐼e some tꦫime.
Graham Rahal: 8
After starting in the back of the pack, Graham did what Graham always does, and drove his way through aꩵ chunk of the field.
Jack Harvey: 7
He was right there with his teammates, which is somethin෴g he wasn’t able to s🎀ay at all last year.
Christian Lundgaard: 7
His race sta𒉰rted out well but he and the RLL team were just lacking someth😼ing all weekend.

Simon Pagenaud: 5
A𒐪nother poor performance by Pagenaud and the Meyer Shank Racing team, who are really struggling riꦯght now.
Pato O'Ward: 4
He made two questionable decisions in this race, in the same turn. Neither of them worked out well and his day was r♏uined even without being penalized.
Callum Ilott: 4
A forgettable weeken﷽d for Ilott and the Juncos Hollinger Racing team.
Helio Castroneves: 3
Crashing on the opening lap of the race is never good, especially when t♈here is no one else to blame.
Alexander Rossi: 7
Rossi had a top-ten run nearly in the bank, but it all went away on the final lap whe✱n he crashed int🃏o the tier barriers.
Conor Daly: 4
His 100th start did not gﷺo as well as he or the Ed Carpenter Racin🀅g team had hoped.
Rinus VeeKay: 4
See above,ꦍ the ECR organiz🀅ation desperately needs to get to Indy.
Scott Dixon: 2
His day was ruined when O’Ward put him into the tires. Outside of the Indianapolis 500 in 2014 and 2017, his 27th place finish tod✨ay was the worst of his car🎃eer, which spans 371 races.