
With more than a dozen different venues at
Las Vegas Motor Speedway, ranging from go-karts to NASCAR Nextel Cup at
the 1.5-mile superspeedway, there's something for everyone at the
complex.
Short track programs include The
Bullring (a 3/8-mile paved oval), along with road courses, a dirt track,
and a state-of-the-art dragway. On any given weekend, there is activity
in virtually every portion of the facility.
Simply put, if it has wheels, it can be
raced at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. And with the many racing schools like
the Richard Petty Driving Experience, Derek Daly Performance Driving
Academy, 600 Racing, the Mario Andretti Racing School and Freddie
Spencer's Riding School, fans can do more than watch racing.
Since it opened with the Las Vegas 500
Indy Racing League event in 1996, Las Vegas Motor Speedway has
blossomed. And on March 2-4 of 2001, another Nevada attendance record
was established when more than 275,000 fans attended Pennzoil World of
Outlaws, NAPA 300 NASCAR Winston West, Sam's Town 300 and UAW-DaimlerChrysler
400 NASCAR Winston Cup race events. In 2003 and 2004, more than 140,000
fans attended the UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400.
In a city of marquee superstars, this
was strongest group of headliners ever assembled under one marquee.
NASCAR stars Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Kurt Busch, Rusty Wallace, Dale
Earnhardt Jr. and the rest now invade Las Vegas every year to bring a
new meaning to the word "entertainment".
LVMS has been lauded by every driver
and fan who have been to the facility. The tri-oval features 12-degree
banking in all turns, three-degree banking on the backstretch and
nine-degree banking on the front stretch.
The speedway recently constructed the
Dale Earnhardt Terrace, a new 22,000-seat grandstand overlooking the
front straightaway, which opened for the 2004 UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400.
Additionally, the nearly 130,000 hotel
rooms situated throughout Las Vegas provide the perfect getaway with
affordable prices. As one hotel director of advertising said, "We have
the best prices in hotel rooms, food and entertainment. You can't beat
Las Vegas."
Both the fans and the drivers rave
about LVMS. Las Vegas is a fun city, and LVMS is a fun facility. The
combination couldn't be any better, and the hospitality in the city that
never sleeps is virtually unchallenged anywhere else in the nation.
Construction on LVMS began in 1995, and
required crews to move a total of four million cubic yards of dirt,
equaling 35,000 yards per day. A custom-designed lighting system
features 2,600 lighting fixtures on 200 light poles.
In addition, LVMS has 8,000 mirrors,
175 miles of wire, 600 tons of steel and 1,975 tons of concrete. A total
of 42,000 tons of asphalt was added just on the racing surface, equal to
17 miles of residential roadways.
As the perfect icing on the cake, the
air-conditioned infield garages of the super speedway have room for 106
teams.
A $200 million state-of-the-art
facility, Las Vegas Motor Speedway is the crown jewel of auto racing.
The 1,600-acre complex has complete accommodations for virtually every
form of motorsports activity, along with any type of function.
One thing is for sure. In a city that
never sleeps, the action at Las Vegas Motor Speedway never seems to slow
down much either.
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