By Staff Writer
Apr 9, 2025
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Long Beach Grand Prix
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Whether you lived it or not–and until that time machine is working–turn back the clock with IMSA and relive the action from the 1990 Long Beach Grand Prix.
4/9/25 8:39 a.m.
Last year, Classic Mazda had the GTO RX-7 on display during the dealer’s annual Race Exhibition.
The event takes place again this coming Saturday. Eager to see if it’s back.
4/9/25 8:40 a.m.
And more on the Mazda RX-7 GTO from our pals at Classic Motorsports.
4/9/25 9:21 a.m.
I'm totally digging the intro, by the way.
4/9/25 9:31 a.m.
In reply to Colin Wood :
The intro was very '90s and felt like a video game intro. I love it.
Also, at 25:30, it was cool that they happened to have a camera right there. The other cars were almost kissing the nose of the stopped car to get by.
4/9/25 12:23 p.m.
I totally get why the switch toward the homologated GT3 standard in the doorslammer classes is necessary, but I do miss the tube-frame days and all of the wild combinations it produced.
4/9/25 1:58 p.m.
Same course as the 1990 Toyota Pro/Celebrity Grand Prix? Where you can see my car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zfQEQoD-ag
(Did the ability to embed Youtube videos go away?)
4/9/25 1:59 p.m.
In reply to JG Pasterjak :
So hear me out: Was the Cannibal the final evolution of the tube-frame GT concept?
4/9/25 3:43 p.m.
It didn't seem like it at the time, but looking back now something filmed in 1990 might as well have been filmed in 1975...
4/9/25 6:14 p.m.
In reply to JG Pasterjak :
yep. Grand Am Rolex series was the last time we could see something surreal like an "RX-8" chasing a Ferrari 458.
4/9/25 9:23 p.m.
The cars were just cooler looking then. It takes me back.
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