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Santino Ferrucci found Long Beach a good learning experience

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Dale Coyne Racing's Santino Ferrucci labelled the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach a "learning experience", after a tough debut outing on the South Californian street circuit.

After being jumped by team-mate Sebastien Bourdais at the initial start of the race, Formula 2 convert Ferrucci felt it best to watch the vastly more experienced Frenchman make his way through the field and follow suit.

Ferrucci's race fell apart after his first pit-stop on lap 26 whereupon leaving the pit lane his #19 David Yurman car bottomed out, causing the 20-year-old to go deep into the run-off area; race control opted against throwing a caution.

Ferrucci stalled his Honda engine as he attempted to re-join the action, which meant he plummeted down the field.

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He was able to keep posting competitive lap times once he had got restarted but eventually finished the race two laps down in 21st place.

"We had a clean start, Sebastien seemed pretty quick so when he got close to me, I didn’t fight him," explained Ferrucci.

"I’m happy I didn’t because he passed a couple of cars and I watched and followed suit, so it was a good learning experience for me.

"We seemed pretty quick as well and wanted to run his strategy. But when I came out of the pits, with a heavy fuel load I just bottomed too hard coming into 1, locked the fronts and went into the runoff.

"Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the car spun with the heavy fuel load, I spun halfway and that caught me off guard and I stalled it. There was nothing we could do from that point on but to turn it into a learning race."

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