Albuquerque has twice won the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s round supporting IndyCar’s Grand Prix of Long Beach, but at that time he was driving for Action Express Racing in a Cadillac DPi-V.R, a type yet to be defeated at the 1.968-mile street course.
Although Acura Team Penske won pole at Long Beach in 2018 and ’19, and Dane Cameron and Juan Pablo Montoya earned a win for the same team at Detroit, generally the turbocharged ARX-05s have been known to struggle on bumpy temporary tracks compared with the naturally aspirated DPi-V.Rs.
