Summerlin South, after a great run at the Little League World Series, served as honorary race officials at Sunday’s NASCAR race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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Denny Hamlin won the South Point 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday in the first race of the Round of 8 in the playoffs.
NASCAR Cup Series driver Joey Logano is seeking his fifth win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, which would set him up to win his fourth Cup Series title.
Denny Hamlin won the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series Round of 8 playoff race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Hamlin is seeking his second win at LVMS.
NASCAR driver Christopher Bell has finished second in the past two South Point 400 races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He said he’s optimistic about his 2025 title chances.
Chris Powell, president and general manager of Las Vegas Motor Speedway, had good reason to be relaxed. LVMS has become so adept at welcoming NASCAR and the 100,000-plus fans every March that little has to be changed from previous years.
After hinting for months he wanted to become the fourth driver in auto racing history to attempt the double — driving in the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 on the same day — the Las Vegas lead foot made it official today.
Darrell Waltrip was rolling down U.S. 93 in a motorcoach on Monday. He was saying how beautiful the Arizona desert is, and that he was surrounded by cactus. He had just started to tell me about his emergency gallbladder surgery when he rolled into radio-free Arizona, or at least Verizon-free Arizona.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been on a media tour since winning Sunday’s Daytona 500. Now he must refocus with races in Phoenix and Las Vegas coming up.
By the time Daytona 500 winner finished with media responsibilities, it was 3 a.m., and his crew was “out of spirits” But they found some more.
That Kyle Busch won a truck series race was hardly unusual. It was his 36th victory in those pick-’em-up trucks. Busch the Younger also has thanked his sponsors 63 times after winning Nationwide series races.
Danica Patrick takes the high road after NASCAR legend Richard Petty says she was capable of winning a Sprint Cup race only “if everybody else stayed home.”
Before the gentlemen start their engines for the Boyd Gaming 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, before the announcers tell TV viewers to “crank it up” after coming back from a Chevy commercial — even before Kyle Busch makes another driver mad by passing in a place where one is not supposed to pass — somebody must first sing the national anthem.
Dylan Kwasniewski will compete in the Nationwide Series this season, becoming one of four Las Vegans to drive in one of NASCAR’s top two tiers. Kwasniewski, 18, will drive the No. 31 Chevrolet for Turner Scott Motorsports.
NASCAR announced radical changes to its playoff system Thursday, and Las Vegas Motor Speedway is directly affected.
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Denny Hamlin won the South Point 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday in the first race of the Round of 8 in the playoffs.
NASCAR released its 2026 schedule for all three of its national touring series Tuesday. Las Vegas Motor Speedway will host two Cup Series races, but has lost a race.
Josh Berry won the Pennzoil 400 on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway for his first win in the NASCAR Cup Series.
Joey Logano made a pass with five laps to go to win the South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday and advance to the NASCAR Cup Series championship.
