Indianapolis 500 legend Bobby Unser, who was 87 when he died, won a race at Las Vegas’ old Stardust Raceway and had a brief connection with the entertainer Liberace.
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Action sports star Travis Pastrana successfully jumped the fountains at Caesars Palace Sunday night, completing his attempt to replicate three of legendary daredevil Evel Knievel’s most iconic jumps on the same day.
To acquire the second race, Speedway Motorsports Inc., LVMS’ parent company, had to move the fall race from its sister track at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
It has been 49 years since James Dean, one of the first actor-turned racers, died in a crash while chasing his need for speed in California.
Derrike Cope’s life might have changed forever when he inherited that victory at Daytona in 1990. But now he’s driving in the Nationwide Series, and he has only a three-race deal, and his sponsor is Charlie’s Soap of Mayodan, N.C.
There are four Las Vegans currently running in NASCAR’s top two touring series, which not only is remarkable but only one fewer than from North Carolina.
A couple of nights before last year’s Indianapolis 500 we were at the airport in Indy, picking up our rental car, and the girl wearing the blazer said all they had was a Prius. That was the last electric car, or sort of electric car, I paid much attention to until Monday,
If you ask me, Kowalski from the 1971 movie “Vanishing Point” is the greatest race-car driver of all time. Kurt Busch of Las Vegas is second.
One of the biggest UNLV boosters I’ve known was an old Marine named Bob Snyder. He became a friend. He became a friend of the old baseball manager Dick Williams, too. We’d meet on Thursday for lunch with some other old baseball guys. But then Dick died, and then last September, I guess it was, Bob died, too.
