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Las Vegas Motor Speedway Prez Says More Than 100,000 Fans Expected For Pennzoil 400 NASCAR Weekend

NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace at a luncheon Thursday. Photo credits for story: Hugh Byrne/LVSportsBiz.com

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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer 

Las Vegas Motor Speedway is expecting 100,000 NASCAR fans this weekend for the Pennzoil 400 Sunday and races Friday and Saturday this NASCAR weekend at the big track north of town.

Speedway President Chris Powell said attendance is not typically divulged for the venue’s two annual race weekends, but he said during a Pennzoil 400 luncheon Thursday that a general number for this weekend would be 100,000.

The NASCAR event is a big visitor draw as Powell said about 70 percent of the fans are visitors while 30 percent are locals.

Las Vegas is one of only 10 cities that host two NASCAR weekend weekends. The Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s second NASCAR weekend is anchored by the South Point 400 Oct. 20.

NASCAR stages 36 point races and another two special events for 38 total event weekends.

NASCAR driver Riley Herbst

 

NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace

The big 18-wheelers that haul the race cars were scheduled to roll down the Strip Thursday evening.


 

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.
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