Overview
- Renger van der Zande and Nick Yelloly delivered Meyer Shank Racing a 0.818‑second victory Saturday over Jack Aitken and Frederik Vesti in the 100‑minute street race.
- A pit stop moments before a full‑course yellow from Philipp Eng’s turn‑8 crash cycled van der Zande to the front when rivals stopped under caution.
- Race control later issued Eng a stop‑and‑60‑second hold for avoidable contact after contact with Laurin Heinrich scattered debris and reshuffled strategies.
- Repeated late restarts let Vesti attack, yet van der Zande managed tire wear and traffic to seal Acura’s first Long Beach IMSA win since 2009.
- The Whelen Cadillac of Aitken and Vesti logged a third straight podium without a win, while GTD honors went to Aaron Telitz and Benjamin Pedersen, marking Pedersen’s first IMSA victory.