LVCVA Chief: Entire Length Of Las Vegas Grand Prix 3.8-Mile Route Will Be Rebuilt; Road Construction Set For April

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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer

Not only will the Las Vegas Strip section of the Las Vegas Grand Prix road circuit be rebuilt for the race, the entire 3.8-mile route will be rebuilt for the F1 road race set for Las Vegas in November 2023.

This is no repaving job. The rebuild of the 14-turn road circuit will involve work crews digging a foot deep and rebuilding the entire length of the route, said Steve Hill, chief executive officer and president of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA).

Grand prix racing on the Strip in November 2023. Photos: Formula 1

Hill expects the road construction to start in April or some time in the second quarter of 2023.

LVCVA chief Steve Hill . Photo: J. Tyge O’Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com

The route will be a counter-clockwise circuit and include other roads like Koval Lane, Sands Avenue and Harmon Avenue.  There will be a 1.2-mile section on the Strip, a southbound stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard. Here’s a look at the route:

In May, the LVCVA tourism agency approved a $19.5 million deal with F1 for three years.


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Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.