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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.03.2012 - 4:58 pm
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A flat 3-mile road course with 13 turns and quarter-mile drag strip,
this track was built and owned by Las Vegas' Stardust Hotel and Casino
as a way of attracting high rollers to its hotel on the Strip.

The track was built in 1965 and the starting the following year hosted
some major events including the USAC Champ Car, Can-Am, Trans-Am and the
United States Road Racing Championship. It's time as a high-level track
would be short lived though, in 1969 the Stardust Hotel changed hands
and the new owners largely abandoned the facility. Drag racing continued
until 1970 but after that the property was sold to real estate
developers, demolished and the land used for the first construction of
what is today the Spring Valley community. Spring Valley has since grown
to a town covering 33 square miles and has a population of 178,000;
maybe fittingly NASCAR racers Kurt and Kyle Busch went to high school in
Spring Valley.

The Stardust hotel that built this track has itself been reduced to dust
and memories. The once iconic casino couldn't compete with the newer Las
Vegas mega-resorts that sprang up over the years and it closed on
November 1, 2006. The building was demolished by implosion the following
March to be replaced by a new complex dubbed Echelon Place before
construction stalled out in 2009.


  2.   A posted:
  12.21.2020 - 9:45 pm
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Fairly significant remnants of this track were still present as late as
1983 on historic aerials before developments finally covered all of the
former track site


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