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Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located at 7000 Las Vegas Boulevard North in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a 1,200 acre Las Vegas Motor Speedway tickets (4.9 km²) complex of four different tracks for automobile racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Las Vegas Motor Speedway tickets Motorsports, Inc., which is a company located in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The complex is home to several race teams. Currently, March, 2005, the track is open two nights a week for Las Vegas Motor Speedway tickets locals to drag race. This is an effort to get this activity off of local streets and into a safer Las Vegas Motor Speedway tickets environment.
The track is used by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department as their driver training facility.
In 2006, plans were announced to reconfigure the track after the March 2006 NEXTEL Cup Series Race. This Las Vegas Motor Speedway tickets reconfiguration will entail "progressive banking" which increases in angeling the further up the track you Las Vegas Motor Speedway tickets are located. This is expected to increase side-by-side racing, and the construction of a new fan zone and Las Vegas Motor Speedway tickets pit road.
As of August 8, 2006 the newly reconfigured track reopened to stock cars and 2004 NEXTEL Cup Champion, Las Vegas Motor Speedway tickets Kurt Busch who drives the #2 Miller Lite Penske Dodge Charger, became the first NASCAR NEXTEL Cup driver Las Vegas Motor Speedway tickets to test a stock car on the newly reconfigured track.
* The speedway has often been referred to as "The Blue Oval" because the races have been dominated by Las Vegas Motor Speedway tickets Ford drivers in the Nextel Cup Series. Jimmie Johnson (2), Jeff Gordon (1), and Sterling Marlin (1) are Las Vegas Motor Speedway tickets the only drivers who have won at the track in the Cup Series not driving a Ford.
* The speedway has also been known as "The House Of Roush" because nearly all of his drivers have had Las Vegas Motor Speedway tickets success at the track including Matt Kenseth (2), Mark Martin (1), and Jeff Burton (2).
* The Winston No Bull 5 Million Dollar Bonus was held at the track from 1999 to 2002. Jeff Burton won a million dollars in 2000 and Jeff Gordon won the bonus in 2001. Burton in 1999 and Sterling Marlin in Las Vegas Motor Speedway tickets 2002 were not eligible.
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