Las Vegas Motor Speedway is a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) tri-oval intermediate speedway in North Las Vegas, Nevada. The track complex, since its inaugural season of racing in 1972 with off-road and drag racing, has seen expansion and has hosted various racing series, including NASCAR, IndyCar, and Champ Car. The track has been owned by Speedway Motorsports, LLC (SMI) since 1999, with Chris Powell serving as the track's general manager. The track is served by the nearby Interstate 15 and Las Vegas Boulevard.
An overhead picture of Las Vegas Motor Speedway taken in 2011.
The infield of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, pictured in 2004.
The lap 11 crash at the 2011 IZOD IndyCar World Championship. The crash took the life of Dan Wheldon, which led to the cancelling of the race and scrapped any future normal human-driven IndyCar races at the track. The track has become the home of IndyCar-sanctioned autonomous vehicle competitions since 2022.
Oval track racing is a form of motorsport that is contested on an oval-shaped race track. An oval track differs from a road course in that the layout resembles an oval with turns in only one direction, and the direction of traffic is almost universally counter-clockwise. Oval tracks are dedicated motorsport circuits, used predominantly in the United States. They often have banked turns and some, despite the name, are not precisely oval, and the shape of the track can vary.
Martinsville Speedway, a symmetrical oval, following a race in 2006.
Pack racing at Daytona International Speedway (2015)
Bristol Motor Speedway, a short oval (2008)
Las Vegas Motor Speedway (2005)
