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, talented driver is the real deal.
Romain Grosjean: 9
Grosjean earned his fourth runner-up fini𝐆sh🤪, as he continues to knock on the door for his first IndyCar win.
Marcus Ericsson: 9
After qualifying on the fro𓆏nt row, Ericsson was the only driver that could keep up with the Andretti cars, and takes over the championship lead.
Colton Herta: 8
He was right there a🔯long with his teammates, but just didn’t have enou༺gh to challenge for the lead.
Alex Palou: 7
Another 🐷strong result for Palou, who is quietly off to a fantastic start ♎this season.

Will Power: 8
A much-needed result for the reignin🎉g 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 Felix𓆏 was the only Arrow McLaren driver to earn a solid finish today.
Marcus Armstrong: 8
He wasn’t discussed much duringꦗ the rac🦩e, but this was a fantastic drive by the rookie.
Josef Newgarden: 7
Early on 🦹it looked as though Newgarden would score back-to-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 resu♈lt for McL𓂃aughlin, 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 Fo🐭ytꦍ Racing team in quite some time.
Graham Rahal: 8
After starting in the back of the pack, Graham did what Graham always does, and dro🥀ve his way through a chunk of the field.
Jack Harvey: 7
He was right there with his teamm🍸ates, which is some🍰thing he wasn’t able to say at all last year.
Christian Lundgaard: 7
His race started out 🔴well but he and the RLL team were just lacking so🌸mething all weekend.

Simon Pagenaud: 5
Another poor performance by Pagenaud and the Meyer Shank Racing team, who are really strug📖gling right 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 ruined even 🔯without being penalized.
Callum Ilott: 4
A forgettable weekend f💛or 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 blame.
Alexander Rossi: 7
Rossi had a top⛎-ten run nearly in the bank, but it all went away on the final lap when he crashed into the tier barriers.
Conor Daly: 4
His 100th start did not go as well as h🌳e or the Ed Carpenter Racing team had hoped.
Rinus VeeKay: 4
See above, the ECR organization d🎀esperately needs to getꦚ 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 today was the worst of his career, which spans 371 races.