Late night motorists should avoid portions of Las Vegas Boulevard this week as overnight shutdowns are planned for Las Vegas Grand Prix track testing.
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Formula One will return to Southern Nevada for the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday, more than 40 years after the Caesars Palace Grand Prix was run.
The stretch of road is probably the smoothest in the Las Vegas Valley, with the circuit seeing two rounds of paving operations over the course of several months to get the track up to race code.
Max Verstappen is the undeniable favorite to win the Las Vegas Grand Prix, but don’t expect the three-time Formula One champ to stick around and celebrate if he does.
Netflix’s “Formula One: Drive to Survive” has increased the sport’s popularity in the U.S. and is at least part of the reason the Las Vegas Grand Prix was created.
Security will be tight and in some areas visitors will need a ticket or hospitality reservation.
Organizers of the Formula One race posted a preview video on social media roughly a week before the scheduled start of the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
After over 500 days of preparation, Formula One fans from around the world are ready to gather for the Las Vegas Grand Prix, the biggest event in the city’s history.
Before the Las Vegas Grand Prix, there was the Caesars Palace Grand Prix in 1981.
Police “will have a large presence both inside the track and outside the track” during the Las Vegas Grand Prix, a Metro official said.
Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend room rates on the Strip continue to decrease one week out from the inaugural race.
It likely wouldn’t take a major storm to cause problems for fans as well as Formula One drivers and teams.
The mall, located at the corner of Spring Mountain Road and Las Vegas Boulevard, set rates for its usually free parking garage located directly outside of the race circuit.
Crews on Tuesday were painting the track and installing fixtures in various hospitality spaces in and around the Formula One pit building, readying the area for next week’s inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Fans looking to get their hands on Las Vegas Grand Prix merchandise will be able to do so at a soon-to-open retail pop-up shop on the Strip.
