There’s good news for locals who want the affected roads cleared faster than winner Max Verstappen hoped to see our fair city in his rearview mirror.
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A class action lawsuit has been filed against the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix in relation to fans being forced to leave Thursday’s practice session after an hourslong delay.
TSA officials expect over 98,000 people at Harry Reid International Airport on Sunday and 94,000 on Monday following the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix.
The head of Formula One’s parent company issued an apology to Las Vegas residents for the months of road work needed to prepare the Las Vegas Grand Prix circuit.
The National Weather Service lists the chance for rain for some of the Las Vegas Grand Prix events at 70 percent.
“It makes a bunch of sense,” LVCVA president and CEO Steve Hill said. “If you go out there now, traffic is better than it was before we built all this and that bridge is a big part of that.”
The Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix is one of the top selling events this year globally on secondary ticket marketplace StubHub, while hotel room rates have stabilized.
Rain is possible on the Strip during all three days of F1 action, says the National Weather Service.
The stretch of road is probably the smoothest in the Las Vegas Valley, with the circuit seeing two rounds of paving operations over the course of several months to get the track up to race code.
Partly cloudy skies will turn mostly cloudy on Wednesday with rain a 30 percent chance by Thursday and perhaps closer to 50 percent on Friday.
Douglas Bowman, 91, a veteran and former race car driver, has been a Formula One enthusiast for decades.
Crews on Tuesday were painting the track and installing fixtures in various hospitality spaces in and around the Formula One pit building, readying the area for next week’s inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix.