Bobby Rahal, president of the Highway Racing Drivers Membership (RRDC), has introduced an expanded 2025 RRDC Legends Dinner and Gala, which is able to have fun the 50 years of racing on the streets of Lengthy Seaside, and can honor Mario Andretti, Al Unser Jr. and Brian Redman.
The fifteenth annual dinner and gala is scheduled for April 10, 2025, and will probably be held at a brand new venue – the Westin Lengthy Seaside Lodge at 333 E. Ocean Blvd. – in the future earlier than the beginning of the fiftieth Anniversary Acura Grand Prix of Lengthy Seaside, the third race of the 2025 NTT IndyCar Collection. It will likely be open to the general public. Extra particulars and hyperlinks to register for the occasion will comply with quickly.
All proceeds of the dinner will profit The Mark Donohue Basis, which helps the RRDC’s SAFEisFAST initiative, and the Grand Prix Basis of Lengthy Seaside, which helps charities within the Lengthy Seaside space. The Basis’s proceeds from the gala will go to Lengthy Seaside Metropolis Faculty’s Automotive Know-how Program.
Andretti, Unser and Redman will probably be honored on the occasion and attendees will probably be handled to a ‘David Letterman-style’ interview of the honorees by Rahal.
Andretti received at Lengthy Seaside 4 instances and is credited with establishing the race as a world-class occasion, successful the 1977 Components 1 United States Grand Prix West and the 1984 race when the occasion switched to Indy automobiles. Unser Jr. is the winningest driver at Lengthy Seaside, with six victories (1988-91 and 1994-95) over a dominant eight-year span. Redman received the inaugural Lengthy Seaside race in 1975, an SCCA/USAC Components 5000 occasion, which set the stage for Components 1 to race on the town streets for the following eight years.
“We on the Highway Racing Drivers Membership are thrilled to affix the Acura Grand Prix of Lengthy Seaside in celebrating 50 years of ‘racing by the streets’ of this lovely California shore metropolis,” mentioned Rahal. “This occasion has change into an icon of the game, and never simply with IndyCars. Its historical past contains Components 1, Components 5000, Trans-Am, and even the favored movie star races.
“We’re honored to acknowledge three of our favourite legends and RRDC members, Mario, Little Al and Brian. They’re true champions and supporters of the game, and notably the RRDC’s initiatives.”
“Every year, the Highway Racing Drivers Membership occasion is a spotlight of the Acura Grand Prix of Lengthy Seaside weekend,” mentioned Grand Prix Affiliation of Lengthy Seaside President & CEO Jim Michaelian.
“And this yr is very significant as we be a part of with the RRDC in honoring three true legends of the game—Mario Andretti, Al Unser Jr., and Brian Redman. Their contributions to Lengthy Seaside motorsports historical past have impressed generations of drivers and followers alike, and we’re thrilled to have fun their unimaginable legacies throughout this particular night.”
