Race fans who want to beat the Interstate 15 traffic to attend Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 NASCAR Cup Series race can fly in on a 15-minute helicopter flight.
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A new sponsorship agreement will keep two NASCAR races in Las Vegas for another 11 years, although the sponsorship amount will be reduced.
Representatives of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the city’s tourism industry and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority convened Wednesday to officially announce that Las Vegas would become the home of a second yearly NASCAR race beginning in fall 2018. The deal will mean millions to the Las Vegas economy.
Las Vegas is close to getting a second top-tier NASCAR race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The clock was ticking on his speed date, but Justin Fantozzi looked cool and relaxed Friday at the Encore at Wynn Las Vegas. Fantozzi wasn’t looking for love. The Goodyear marketing manager was looking for a fruitful business relationship.
Speedway Motorsports Inc., parent company of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, saw 2012 fourth-quarter revenues drop nearly 8 percent from the previous year and plans to focus on attracting more families and kids to increase revenue in 2013.
If “The Bachelor” TV show can post Twitter feeds from viewers during broadcasts, the Las Vegas Motor Speedway figures it can offer instantaneous social networking quips at a social media nerve center at this weekend’s NASCAR weekend, featuring guests from Team Lowe’s Racing, NASCAR, Sprint and media churning out real-time comments.
The major leagues of car racing comes to Las Vegas next weekend. So race organizers rolled out former mayor and NASCAR fan Oscar Goodman along with Las Vegas native and big-time racer Kurt Busch on Thursday to extol the economic virtues of hosting a NASCAR race.