Bobby Rahal, president of the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC), has announced an expanded 2025 RRDC Legends Dinner and Gala, which will celebrate the 50 years of racing on the streets of Long Beach, and will honor Mario Andretti, Al Unser Jr. and Brian Redman.
The 15th annual dinner and gala is scheduled for April 10, 2025, and will be held at a new venue – the Westin Long Beach Hotel at 333 E. Ocean Blvd. – one day before the start of the 50th Anniversary Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, the third race of the 2025 NTT IndyCar Series. It will be open to the public. More details and links to register for the event will follow soon.
All proceeds of the dinner will benefit The Mark Donohue Foundation, which supports the RRDC’s SAFEisFAST initiative, and the Grand Prix Foundation of Long Beach, which supports charities in the Long Beach area. The Foundation’s proceeds from the gala will go to Long Beach City College’s Automotive Technology Program.
Andretti, Unser and Redman will be honored at the event and attendees will be treated to a ‘David Letterman-style’ interview of the honorees by Rahal.
Andretti won at Long Beach four times and is credited with establishing the race as a world-class event, winning the 1977 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix West and the 1984 race when the event switched to Indy cars. Unser Jr. is the winningest driver at Long Beach, with six victories (1988-91 and 1994-95) over a dominant eight-year span. Redman won the inaugural Long Beach race in 1975, an SCCA/USAC Formula 5000 event, which set the stage for Formula 1 to race on the city streets for the next eight years.