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.
The fire still burns, the refusal to accept anything but victory.
And just like that, NASCAR Cup-style racing is about to turn Sweet 16 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and so it can be said that, yes, John Fogerty was right: Big wheels do keep on turnin’.
His reputation as NASCAR’s bad boy wasn’t holding up on this morning in late January, as Kurt Busch served as the perfect host.
Thanks to these new Generation-6 stock cars, there is an extra day of NASCAR practice at Las Vegas Motor Speedway today, to get them dialed in here. I would arrive early not to beat traffic, but because hearing an auto racing engine at full song reverberate off cavernous and mostly empty grandstands is one of sport’s simple pleasures.
Three drivers went faster than 190 mph in last year’s Kobalt Tools 400 qualifying, among 15 drivers who broke the Las Vegas Motor Speedway qualifying record. That could be nothing compared to qualifying Friday. NASCAR teams have reported faster speeds with the new Generation-6 car, and cars might reach 200 mph entering Turn 1.
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.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is best known for being Danica Patrick’s beau, and Kyle Larson made news for his scary crash into the fence in the Nationwide Series race two weeks ago at Daytona.
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.
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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.
