It was announced just before 2017 NASCAR Weekend that Las Vegas Motor Speedway would host two such weekends starting in 2018, providing new challenges for the speedway and its staff.
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Last year’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway had just about everything — a late lead change, a fistfight on pit road featuring a hometown hero, a deserving winner who would go on to win his first Cup Series championship.
There is a consensus among auto racing fans that racing on one’s home track provides a home track advantage, which doesn’t hold true for the Busch Brothers of Las Vegas.
It was a fight to the finish during the 2017 Las Vegas 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It was a fight after the finish, too.
The NASCAR hauler parade returned to the Las Vegas Strip on Thursday night.
Las Vegan Noah Gragson drove his No. 18 Toyota to the high side of pockmarked Atlanta Motor Speedway and passed nearly everything in sight during a late race restart last week.
Ultimate Vegas Sports Weekend is finally here. The five-sport extravaganza began at noon Thursday at Orleans Arena with the West Coast Conference women’s basketball tournament.
NASCAR weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will be capped by the Monster Energy Cup Pennzoil 400 at 12:30 p.m. Sunday.
It’s only the third race of 36, but already there are storylines heading into Sunday’s NASCAR Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
A list of driver appearances for NASCAR’s Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Those NASCAR racers won’t be driving 55 and neither should you. Cabo Wabo Cantina at the Miracle Mile Shops is featuring the Can’t Drive 55, a blend of Cabo Wabo blanco tequila, Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum, vodka, gin, four fruit juices and a touch of amaretto Disaronno for $15. It’ll be available all weekend, as will beer buckets and shot specials. And on Thursday, you can quaff while watching the Hauler Parade from Cabo Wabo’s Strip-side patio.
It doesn’t happen every year that the driver who wins the Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway goes on to be toasted during NASCAR Champion’s Week here in December.
He grew up in Rochester Hills, Michigan, on the northern outskirts of Detroit. But the way Brad Keselowski gets around Las Vegas Motor Speedway, one might think he keeps a bungalow in Summerlin or Green Valley.
The weather is expected to cool, breezy and dry at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with highs approaching 60 degrees.
You could make a case for Spencer Gallagher having turned in the most impressive drive of the local drivers who made left-hand turns at Daytona.
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