NASCAR Fans Descend On Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sunday
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Photo coverage for LVSportsBiz.com by J. Tyge O’Donnell
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — On Saturday night he coached the UNLV football team to an eight-point win over Oregon State.
But on Sunday he was ready to roll at Las Vegas Motor Speedway where UNLV head coach Barry Odom served as the grand marshal of the NASCAR race.
It was obvious that Odom still had some juice less than 24 hours after the UNLV Rebels defeated Oregon State, 33-25, to win their sixth game out of seven so far this season. And on Friday night, UNLV plays a monster conference game against Mountain West perennial bully, Boise State.
But Sunday was a fun day for Odom.
It was a gorgeous day in metro Las Vegas and the big crowd enjoyed yet another win by Joey Logano, who qualified for a championship race in Phoenix in three weeks.
While the national media had focused on metro Las Vegas’ public subsidies to build Raiders and A’s stadiums in the entertainment corridor, the sprawling Speedway site off Interstate 15 on the north edge of the Vegas area drew 100,000 plus NASCAR fans on race weekends and was the big leagues of racing in the U.s..
It’s still the major leagues of stock car racing and Las Vegas Motor Speedway stages two NASCAR weekends a year, with the dragsters also using the site.
