Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Motorsport racing track in North Las Vegas, Nevada.
Las Vegas Motor Speedway is a motorsport facility in North Las Vegas with a main oval circuit, a quarter-mile dragstrip, and an offroad course. The complex also includes paddock areas, garages for racing teams, and service zones where crews prepare vehicles during events.
Racing began at the site in 1971 on a half-mile dirt oval; the drag strip opened in 1972. A 0.375-mile oval, now The Bullring, was added in 1985. The 1.5-mile tri-oval opened in 1996, and Speedway Motorsports bought the complex in 1998. A 2006 reconfiguration raised turn banking to 20 degrees.
The track is nicknamed "The Blue Oval" because Ford drivers long dominated its NASCAR Sprint Cup races; Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon and Sterling Marlin were among the few winners in non-Ford cars. It is also called "The House of Roush" since nearly every Roush Racing driver, including Matt Kenseth, Mark Martin and Jeff Burton, won here.
Seating options range from open-air bleachers to covered grandstands with different views of the track. Visitors should bring sun protection and water for daytime events since desert conditions can be hot.
The 1.5-mile tri-oval's turns are banked at 20 degrees, raised from 12 degrees in a 2006 reconfiguration that also added the Neon Garage, where spectators pay extra to watch teams work on cars. The complex also holds a quarter-mile drag strip expanded to four lanes in 2017 and a half-mile clay oval that opened in 1996.
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