Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada, just outside Las Vegas, is a 1,200 acre (4.9 km²) complex of multiple tracks for automobile racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The drag strip, known as The Strip, is open every other Friday night for locals to drag race in what is called the Midnight Mayhem program. This is an effort to get street racing off of local streets and into a safer environment.

The track is used by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department as their driver training facility. The Las Vegas Motor Speedway is a superspeedway with turns banked 12 degrees, nine degrees banking in the dogleg and three degrees banking in the straights.

Las Vegas Motor Speedway is just a few miles north of “The Strip,” Las Vegas Motor Speedway sits like a diamond in the desert. One of the most complete racing complexes in the world, its 1,600 acres include road courses, a three-eighths mile oval, a dirt track and a state-of-the-art drag racing facility.

The roulette wheels aren't the only things spinning at a high rate of speed in Vegas, baby. The Las Vegas Motor Speedway has plenty of high speed action too. This desert track is one of the newest superspeedways in the nation (second only to California Speedway) and hosts a variety of races each year from NASCAR and NHRA events to the UAW Daimler-Chrysler 400. Along with its 1.5 mile racetrack, Las Vegas Motor Speedway also offers a 2.5 mile road course and a 4,000 ft. drag strip. Its stands seat nearly 130,000 people and has over 100 luxury suites; it is adding another 14,000 premium seats.