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Auto racing’s biggest day is here again

In keeping with the pedal-to-the-metal theme of Memorial Day Weekend, Las Vegas drivers, teams, races play a big part in annual celebration of speed.

Former Indy 500 champ Villeneuve to drive for Sam Schmidt

When he was only 24, Jacques Villeneuve won the Indy 500 before moving on to Formula 1 and winning that championship. This year, at 42, he will drive at Indianapolis again, for a team headed by Henderson’s Sam Schmidt.

One of winner’s many hugs reserved for man behind bull

On Saturday night, after he posted a rousing score of 90.75 aboard a snorting hunk of beast called Breakdown to take control of these PBR World Finals at the Thomas &Mack Center, the bull rider J.B. Mauney from North Carolina had some huggin’ to do.

In NHRA victory lane, it’s always Wally World

This is how John Bisci, the longtime Las Vegas Motor Speedway media expert and drag racing enthusiast, describes the NHRA Mello Yellow Drag Racing tour: “Everybody wants to go home with Wally.”

Busch family role reversal: Like son, like father

This is what Tom Busch sees weekly that NASCAR fans don’t: one of the best Sprint Cup drivers in the world spending his day off under the hood of a car for six hours with a young driver eager for guidance.