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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.31.2012 - 9:25 am
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One of the signature casinos on the Las Vegas strip, famous for its
ancient Roman theme.

Racing took place in the early 1980s on a track constructed in one of
the casino's parking lots. Though well set up for a temporary circuit
its counter-clockwise direction of racing was unpopular with F1 drivers
and the race lasted just two years as an international Grand Prix as
such (but helping the USA to become the first country ever to host three
F1 races in a single year in the process). The course was remodeled into
a 'distorted oval' pattern when the race continued for another two years
as a CART IndyCar event.


  2.   chris o posted:
  07.25.2012 - 8:19 pm
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this track is no longer used.


  3.   AnonymousEFR posted:
  09.19.2013 - 7:16 am
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Admittedly had good points. It was a smooth surfaced track with sand
runoff and the perfect width, thin enough to be tricky, wide enough for
passing. But it was counterclockwise, putting strain on drivers' necks,
and it was often very hot.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.11.2014 - 9:29 pm
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The distorted oval layout was probably the only "oval" track that SCCA
Trans-Am ever raced on.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.09.2018 - 1:04 pm
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The open parking lot area where this course was set up no longer exists.
In the 1990s it was torn up and redeveloped when Caesars Palace's famous
The Forum Shops mall was built built on the site.


  6.   RaceFanX posted:
  09.17.2020 - 10:16 am
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New pavement was laid down in the Caesars Palace parking lot to set up
this race track. To help with the process of get it smoothed out for the
Formula 1 races the organizers famously hired Las Vegas taxi drivers to
run lap after lap around the circuit, the unorthodox tactic gave this
course its famously smooth as glass surface in time for the races here.


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