GRAND PRIX ASSOCIATION OF LONG BEACH

The 35th Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach will take place April 16-19, 2009. Along with the local debut of the IndyCar Series, five other racing series will run on the 1.97-mile race circuit encompassing the Pike at Rainbow Harbor, Aquarium of the Pacific and Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center.

There will be music concerts, action sports demonstrations, the Lifestyle Expo and much more. Tickets: toll free- 888-82 SPEED.

The rest of the racing lineup is headlined by the world's longest-running and most prestigious celebrity racing event, the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race. Top celebrities from film, television, sports and fashion bang fenders with top professional drivers in a 10-lap sprint behind the wheel of modified, race-ready Scion tCs. More than 300 of your favorite stars - from Clint Eastwood to Cameron Diaz – have participated in the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race over the past 32 years.

Other racing series include the American Le Mans Series, bringing its high-tech brand of sports car racing to Long Beach with the “Batmobile”-like Le Mans Prototypes and the more familiar-looking GT cars in the same race. The Firestone Indy Lights runs in Long Beach for the first time, showcasing future IndyCar drivers.

Formula Drift returns for the fifth consecutive year, with its drivers sliding their cars through the 11-turn Grand Prix course looking for style points. And the SCCA SPEED World Challenge GT sports car series pits Lamborghinis, Vipers, Mustangs, Corvettes, Cadillacs and Porsches – among others – in a hotly contested race event that will conclude Sunday’s activities.