|| *Comments on Las Vegas Motor Speedway:* View the most recent comment <#39> | Post a comment <#post> 1. Eric posted: 02.20.2010 - 2:35 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Track was reconfigured in 2006. It was considered a boring 1 1/2 race track. It is owned by SMI. Track was created for open wheel and stock car racing. It hasn't been used for open wheel racing in years. 2. 12345Dude posted: 02.23.2010 - 6:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wow the let you post on the tracks now. Cool. 3. TeamPlayersBlue posted: 02.27.2010 - 10:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Boring race track for stock cars before they reconfigured the track in 2006. Now its one of the best intermediate tracks in nascar. Has hosted Champ car, ALMS and IRL also. 4. Cooper posted: 03.14.2010 - 3:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada, is a 1,200 acres (490 ha) complex of multiple tracks for automobile racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Indy Racing League opened the 1.5-mile superspeedway on September 15, 1996. Champ Car held two races at the speedway in 2004 and 2005, both were won by Sébastien Bourdais. In 2006, plans were announced to reconfigure the track after the March 2006 Sprint Cup Series race. This reconfiguration entailed "progressive banking" which increases the degree of banking the further up the track you are located. This increased side-by-side racing. The speedway also constructed a fan zone called The Neon Garage. This area has live entertainment, unprecedented access to the drivers and teams and is home to the Winner's Circle. The speedway moved pit road 275 feet (84 m) closer to the grandstands, built a new media center and added a quarter-mile Legends Cars oval in the tri-oval area. 5. ClintBowyer33 posted: 03.15.2010 - 8:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kansas Speedway is the best intermidiate track because it has midwestern weather it's flatter the groove is better you could run almost anywhere at Las Vegas everyone runs one groove the bottom but in my opinion no Nascar fan can say a track is boring all tracks are built for a purpose. 6. Eric posted: 03.31.2011 - 5:48 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) ClintBowyer33, Some tracks are naturally boring despite being built for a purpose. Tracks like Auto Club, Las Vegas, Texas, Kansas, Kentucky, and Chicagoland were built from mid 1990's to early 21st century for being a open wheel and stock car track. The formula as whole doesn't work for stock car racing at the same track. Those tracks purpose was making profits first, quality racing 2nd. ISC and SMI owned most of the tracks I mentioned when they started out. Those companies thought tracks that are 1 and a half miles can have bigger grandstands than shorts tracks do. That also means more money for ISC and SMI. 7. RaceFanX posted: 04.01.2011 - 11:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Site of the Busch Series' first-ever race west of the Mississippi River in 1997 8. ClintBowyer33 posted: 05.07.2011 - 11:27 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Thank You Eric I know I can count on a know it all like you to correct my opinion! 9. KurtBusch22Fan posted: 10.16.2011 - 5:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) IndyCar's return to the track in more then a decade starts in disaster with a 15 car pile-up, which involved Dan Wheldon being air lifted to the hospital and Will Power losing the championship. 10. New 14&88 Fan posted: 10.16.2011 - 6:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Five months after winning his second Indy 500, Dan Wheldon loses his life in a horrible 15 car wreck when his car launched off another and into the catch fence.The drivers had been worried the whole weekend about the three wide and the fact that banked ovals like this just aren't safe for open wheel racing for this exact reason. R.I.P. Dan Wheldon 11. Anthony posted: 01.31.2013 - 1:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) This track will get a second date in 2014 12. EricB posted: 03.03.2014 - 6:42 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) No Anthony it won't. Nice try on your speculation though. 13. DH101 posted: 10.30.2014 - 7:41 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) To clarify there was a lot of speculation on Jayski around the time he posted but nothing was confirmed. 14. Dave posted: 02.01.2015 - 3:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I live in Arizona, but I used to live in Texas. After going to NASCAR races at Texas Motor Speedway and Talladega, I went to a race at Phoenix. I was a little disappointed with the one mile track as I was used to seeing higher speeds. This year, I bought a ticket for the NASCAR race at Las Vegas on March 8, 2015, since Las Vegas is the closest bigger track to Arizona. I can't wait! It should be a blast! 15. FrontRowMotorsportsFan posted: 09.29.2016 - 11:41 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) As much as I love standalones, I am really surprised NASCAR keeps this race on the schedule given the travel from Loudon to Las Vegas. 16. RaceFanX posted: 10.01.2016 - 9:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rare for an oval course the backstretch on this track has a name, the Nellis Straightaway. The track is built alongside the USAF's Nellis Air Force Base, home of the service's famous Thunderbirds aerial display team, with the base's two runways located just off the backstretch. 17. RaceFanX posted: 12.10.2016 - 11:02 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) This track is only located 12 miles from the famous Las Vegas Strip. 18. JSPorts posted: 12.10.2016 - 11:43 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I went to the race there this year and last, it is a great race to attend. Especially this year's race, when the dust/mud storm blew through and there was a great battle for the win. 19. Anthony posted: 03.04.2017 - 7:27 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) So it seems that LVMS will be getting a second race in 2018, as to what its going to replace, unsure. It seems that its going to be in the Chase, so one of the SMI Chase tracks will lose one. At a time when we desperately need a road course in the Chase, we end up instead with a cookie cutter. 20. James posted: 03.04.2017 - 8:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hope it replaces one of the New Hampshire races or the Kansas race 21. 28DaveyAllison28 posted: 03.04.2017 - 9:06 am Rate this comment: (0) (2) Get rid of boring Dover. Replace New Hampshire with Road Atlanta or a street course on Long Beach and replace Texas with Las Vegas 22. JSPorts posted: 03.04.2017 - 9:18 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I've been trying to figure out what track it will replace. It will definitely replace a Speedway Motorsports track, because the 5-year contracts NASCAR has with tracks will mean they can't swap with a non-SMI tack. I've heard it will be a Chase race, which eliminates Atlanta, Bristol, Sonoma & Kentucky. So the new race will most likely replace Charlotte, Texas or New Hampshire. New Hampshire is an interesting track, because it's very unique and the first half of those races are usually relatively single-file and tame. But when they pass the halfway point, it's like someone turns up the heat and the 2nd half of races at NHMS are often crazy. I think they should keep it. This 2nd one is harder for me, because Texas is my home track and I don't want them to lose a Cup race. Right now, I'd say that's probably the race most likely to be replaced, and based on how TMS has been the past few years, it probably doesn't deserve 2 dates. But with the repave and reconfiguration, I'd be very hesitant to replace the 2nd race there until we get a few races under our belt there. That leaves Charlotte. I think this should be the race that's replaced. It's not unique like New Hampshire, and doesn't have the repave aspect like Texas. But that will never happen, because Charlotte is in NASCAR's backyard and the track has a lot of history. All that said, I think it's a bad idea to give LVMS a 2nd date. It's a cookie cutter, and though it can be more exciting than the other cookie cutters sometimes, what the Chase needs is a road course. In my ideal schedule (which doesn't include a Chase), each track would only get 1 race, and there would be an equal balance of superspeedways, speedways, short tracks, road courses & dirt tracks. 23. Tyson posted: 03.04.2017 - 10:26 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) The rumblings I've heard are Charlotte losing its fall date. It makes sense. They already have the 600 and All-Star weekend. I'd much rather see Texas lose its second (and first) date, but I don't see it happening. Actually, I'd rather see Vegas not get a second date as it does not need one. Vegas is one of the more tolerable 1.5-mile tracks, but it's still not great. Fans have been asking for less of these types of races, not more. 24. Eric posted: 03.04.2017 - 1:09 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) This is not a shock about Las Vegas getting a second date, but I think it is going to blow up in Bruton Smith and his family's face. It is well known that Bruton Smith doesn't have a great relationship with the politicians of Charlotte and has threatened to movie a track date away to Las Vegas as result. 25. Eric posted: 03.05.2017 - 10:51 am Rate this comment: (1) (1) What I meant by "I think it is going to blow up in Bruton Smith and his family's face" is the track would be having problems selling out 2 dates a year just like Auto Club Speedway did. 26. BMan0213 posted: 03.08.2017 - 4:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Well sbnation is reporting that Vegas will in fact be getting New Hampshire's Chaste date starting in 2018. Will be interesting to see what else comes out of this. As it stands right now I'm not a fan of it but there are a few thing NASCAR could do to really make it work. IMO the best thing to happen would be to have the Tucks run with the Cup cars in the Spring and the Xfinity Series with them in the fall. That way the Truck Series could have a much needed date at the beginning of the year. Form the New Hampshire side of things NASCAR should just move the old standalone Truck race that was in Vegas to New Hampshire so they at least still have 2 race weekends. Also they should try switching their remaining Cup date with Sonoma. Living in New Hampshire it's crazy how many times the week before the July race it was actually a reasonable temperature out only to have it be 95 on race day. Moving the race back just a few weeks could make a huge difference in terms of attendance. 27. 18fan posted: 03.08.2017 - 6:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Both of the weekends at LVMS will be triple headers. 28. JSPorts posted: 03.08.2017 - 8:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) From a competition standpoint, this isn't actually that bad of a move. The average race at New Hampshire features 8 cautions for 41 laps, a margin of victory of 2.193 seconds & 15 lead changes. The average attendance of a race is 97,381. The average Las Vegas race has 7 cautions for 32 laps, a margin of victory of 1.738 seconds, and an attendance of 150,100. The average LVMS race has 20 lead changes. 29. Eric posted: 03.21.2017 - 5:12 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) @28, Your average of attendance at the track is really outdated. The media estimated the LVMS race had around 70,000 fans. Your average also is off because the track's capacity since 2015 is around 108,000 seats. SMI is considering getting a ride of seating at the track and make it around 80,000 seats. Here is my proof: http://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/motor-sports/nascar/las-vegas-motor-speedway-considers-eliminating-seats-nascar-races 30. Mannoroth posted: 05.24.2017 - 7:29 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Finally - we won't have two useless one month breaks between races in Trucks. Las Vegas weekend is now a tripleheader early in the season and that means Kyle Busch can finally literally win at all Cup Series tracks in this series. He can also add Las Vegas to the list of tracks with at least one win in each series (it would be his 15th track on the list). And finally, one month break is now just a 3 week brake. 31. Seibaru posted: 12.11.2017 - 12:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The NASCAR West Series will be going to LVMS' DIRT TRACK in 2018. No joke. 32. Seibaru posted: 03.02.2018 - 3:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) NASCAR West will be running a 100-lap race known as the Star Nursery 100 at the Las Vegas Dirt Track later this year. 33. Timothy Eklund posted: 07.25.2018 - 11:34 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Can't wait 34. Matt19 posted: 12.11.2018 - 11:45 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Announced today that the playoff opener for the Cup Series will be a night race, starting at day, but ending at night, with the race starting at 4 p.m. local time, 7 p.m. ET. Don't know what this means in regards to the Truck and Xfinity races. 35. Bayne&BowmanFan posted: 12.11.2018 - 8:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It looks like the race will be Sunday night as opposed to Saturday night. I expect trucks Friday night and maybe the Xfinity series will move under the lights too Saturday. 36. German500 posted: 01.25.2019 - 3:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the prototype of the "cookie cutters". The ICS measured the length in 2011 with 1.544 miles. The track or rather the racing line has become slightly longer since repavement in 2006. In "NASCAR Racing 2003", I like driving the track pretty much. 37. German500 posted: 01.25.2019 - 4:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @ #6 Do not forget the great success of the Michigan Speedway. That's why Roger Penske and his company made the California Speedway a copy of the Michigan Speedway. In addition, it was probably easier for him to have two racetracks with identical length and shape and thus similar requirements for future repavement and development. The circuits in Las Vegas, Kentucky, Chicago and Kansas are such a cross from the D oval in Michigan and the quad oval in Charlotte. It is an attempt to unite both types of ovals. It works just not quite. 38. JSPorts posted: 04.20.2020 - 12:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Top 10 drivers since 2017: 1st: Martin Truex, Jr. 2nd: Joey Logano 3rd: Brad Keselowski 4th: Kyle Larson 5th: Ryan Blaney 6th: Kevin Harvick 7th: Chase Elliott 8th: Kyle Busch 9th: Aric Almirola 10th: Jimmie Johnson 39. RaceFanX posted: 01.17.2021 - 12:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) A segment for a 2005 episode of then quite popular video game review show "X-Play" was filmed here at the track. It involved host Morgan Webb facing off against the host of another G4 television show in a series of challenges at the track's Derek Daly Academy at a promotional event for the then-upcoming street racing video game "Juiced." Webb prevailed with the challenges including a cone slalom and what looked like a drag race in BMW Z3s in the infield plus a tire-change on an open wheel car in the garage area. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: