Las Vegas Strip Circuit

Racing circuit in Las Vegas, USA

Las Vegas, a Night Race Down the Strip

A night street circuit past the hotels and casinos of Las Vegas Boulevard brought Formula 1 back to the city in 2023.

Formula 1's second stay in Las Vegas is a good deal grander than its first. Where the sport once raced around a hotel parking lot, the Las Vegas Strip Circuit now runs down the Strip itself, the stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard lined with the city's great hotels and casinos, on streets that belong to Paradise, Nevada, next door to Las Vegas. Carsten Tilke, son of the circuit designer Hermann Tilke, drew the layout. Work started in March 2022, the circuit opened on the 16th of November 2023 for the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix, and the county has granted Formula 1 use of the roads for ten years.

The 6.201 km lap runs counterclockwise from a former parking lot that Formula 1 bought for $240 million and turned into a permanent pit and paddock, so the parking lot has made a comeback of its own. From a hairpin at the first corner the cars head onto Koval Lane, swing around the Sphere arena, wriggle through a twisting section and take a pair of fast bends on Sands Avenue. A slow left puts them on Las Vegas Boulevard for a flat out run of about 1.9 km past the Venetian, the Flamingo, Paris, the Bellagio, Caesars Palace and the Cosmopolitan, all lit up against the night. Three tight corners at Planet Hollywood lead onto Harmon Avenue and back to the pits. The design began with 14 corners and gained a chicane to reach 17.

All that boulevard makes for remarkable speed. In 2025 Yuki Tsunoda reached 358.3 km/h at the end of the Strip, which is not a speed the Strip normally permits.

Three championship rounds have been run here, from 2023 to 2025. Max Verstappen won the first and the third for Red Bull, and George Russell won from pole for Mercedes in 2024. The 2026 race is set for November, when the Strip will light up for it again.

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