McLaren beats Williams in Long Beach

Forcing his 27-year-old McLaren M23 up from fourth on the grid, Danny Baker passed and re-passed poleman Charles Nearburg's 1980 Williams FW07B, finally winning the 20-minute Historic Grand Prix vintage race at Long Beach, California, by 1.2 seconds.

The Sunday morning eye-opener to the CART main event featured the largest, loudest field of the day, with 25 starters drawn from the 1968-1983 period of F1 history. Third, 18 sec. behind the winner, was Erich Joiner in his 1983 Williams FW08C.

Duncan Dayton finished fourth with his ex-Mario Andretti Lotus 79, but afterward received Historic Grand Prix's Pete Lyons Cup. Motorsports writer Lyons said Dayton and his team best recreated the spirit of the eight-year era when Long Beach was home to the US Grand Prix-West.

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