Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located at 7000 Las Vegas Boulevard North in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a 1,200 acre (4.9 km²) complex of 4 different tracks for automobile racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is located in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The complex is home to several race teams. Currently, March, 2005, the track is open two nights a week for locals to drag race. This is an effort to get this activity off of local streets and into a safer environment.

The track is used by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department as their driver training facility.

In 2006, plans were announced to reconfigure the track after the March 2006 NEXTEL Cup Series Race. This reconfiguration will entail raised banking to increase side by side racing, and the construction of a new fan zone and pit road.

Current Events

• Superspeedway, a 1.5 mile (2.4 km) tri-oval hosts:
• NASCAR Sprint Cup - Shelby American
• NASCAR Nationwide Series - Sam's Town 300
• NASCAR Camping World Truck Series - Las Vegas 350

• The quarter-mile (400 m) dirt oval hosts:
• World of Outlaws event
• other dirt-racing events
• The quarter-mile (400 m) drag strip hosts:
• Two NHRA events every year

Tracks

• Bullring
• Dirt Track 0.5 mile (800 m) clay oval
• Dragstrip
• Superspeedway 1.5 mile (2.4 km) tri-oval

Racing Schools

• 600 Racing Driving Schools[1]
• The Derek Daly Academy[2]
• Drivers Edge[3]
• Mario Andretti Racing School[4]
• Richard Petty Driving Experience[5]
• Freddie Spencer's High Performance Riding School[6]

External links

• Las Vegas Motor Speedway Official Site
• Las Vegas Motor Speedway Page on NASCAR.com
• GNEXTINC.com: Las Vegas Page - Local area information, track specs, mapping, news and more.
• Jayski's Las Vegas Speedway Page - Current and Past Las Vegas Motor Speedway News
• High Resolution image from Google Maps