Location | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America | ||
Venue Type | Outdoor | ||
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Circuit Direction | Clockwise | ||
Circuit Type | Oval | ||
Surface Type | Clay, Asphalt | ||
Length | 2.41 km (Tri-Oval Superspeedway), 0.604 km (The Bullring Oval), 0.8 km (Dirt track) |
Las Vegas Motor Speedway is a much-publicized motorsport facility, located in Clark County, Las Vegas, United States. It is about 15 miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip. The complex consists of multiple tracks for motorsports racing and is about 1,200 acre (490 hectare).
Speedway Motorsports, Inc. owns the complex and was formerly called the "Las Vegas Speedrome". It was opened in 1972 and the speedway is much-publicized for hosting NASCAR Series such as Kobalt 400, Boyd Gaming 300, and Las Vegas 350.
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Major Events held at Speedway |
1. |
NASCAR Cup Series |
2. |
Pennzoil 400 |
3. |
South Point 400 |
4. |
NASCAR Xfinity Series |
5. |
Alsco Uniforms 300 |
6. |
Alsco Uniforms 302 |
7. |
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series |
8. |
Bucked Up 200 |
9. |
Victoria's Voice Foundation 200 |
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NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series |
11. |
DENSO Auto Parts NHRA Four-Wide Nationals |
12. |
Dodge NHRA Nationals |
13. |
Baja 1000 (Qualifying for Trophy Trucks and Class 1) |
14. |
K&N Spring Fling Million bracket race |
In 1971, after the closure of the Stardust International Raceway, plans of new racing were developing in Las Vegas. The new facility was selected in 1972.
Alexander Rodriguez leased the facility from the City of Las Vegas and constructed more 3/8 mile short track in 1985.
In 1989 Ralph Engelstad of the Imperial Palace purchased the track and renamed the facility as Las Vegas Speedway Park. With contribution of 72 million US dollars from William Bennett of Sahara Hotel opened a new speedway on the same site.
In 1998 Speedway Motorsports purchased Las Vegas Motor Speedway from the Engelstad and Bennett for 215 million US dollars. Chris Powell was named the general manager and president of speedway.
The tracks of Las Vegas Motor Speedway are as follows:
Speedway Track Length
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (“NASCAR”) timing and scoring use a length of 1.5 miles (2.4 km) and this length was also used by IndyCar Series League between 1996 and 2000. Moreover in their last race that is in 2011 IndyCar had scaled again the track length to 1.544 miles (2.485 km).
Moreover in between the old layout (2005) and new layout (2011) no IndyCar race was held and NASCAR still uses the old layout for the reconfigured oval.
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