Las Vegas Motor Speedway

More than the oval

Las Vegas Motor Speedway is roughly 1,000 acres off the I-15 northeast of the city — far more than the NASCAR oval, as the exclusive complex tour walks it: a drag strip (the film walks the burnout box and staging lanes of The Strip at LVMS with a meet running), a dirt oval and more, racing happening on the big track as they film. The venue tour with media access (a 2020 race-weekend Friday) is the definitive inside look at the oval's signature space: the Neon Garage, a diamond-shaped fan zone with its stage at the center, second-level picnic tables and concessions, and windows straight into the working garages — plus pit road while Xfinity practice runs.

Exploring Las Vegas Motor Speedway | Neon Garage, Pit Road and More!

Eric Estepp

Eric Estepp explores Las Vegas Motor Speedway with media access on a race-weekend Friday (2020): the Neon Garage from the inside — the diamond-shaped fan zone with its stage at the center, second-level picnic tables and concessions, and windows straight into the working garages — plus pit road while Xfinity practice runs. The definitive venue tour on this page.

Key takeaways

The Neon Garage toured with media access
Fan windows into the working garages
Pit road on a live race weekend

Full NASCAR Race Day UP CLOSE Experience at Las Vegas Motor Speedway!

Eric Estepp

Eric Estepp's full race day up close (2020): Sunday in the Neon Garage with a ZZ Top cover band on the stage, then out to pit road as the 40-car field grinds into its grid spots — Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr., Kevin Harvick — with qualifying rained out and the grid set on points. The companion film to his venue exploration, and the fullest race-day record here.

Key takeaways

Race day from pit road, not the grandstand
The 40-car grid forming up close
Neon Garage raceday atmosphere

My First NASCAR Experience/Race Day Las Vegas 2025/High-Speed Action and Excitement!🏁🏎️

Lola’s World

Lola's World attends her first NASCAR race ever — Las Vegas, 2025 — and films the whole learning curve: the ride out, the hat, the scale of the place ('my goodness, it's huge'), the pre-race scene and the speed. A genuine first-timer's race day, excitement first and expertise later, which is exactly how most visitors will experience LVMS.

Key takeaways

A true first NASCAR race, filmed as it happens (2025)
The speedway's scale through new eyes
Pre-race festivities and fan scene

Race day, up close

The companion film spends Sunday in that garage — a ZZ Top cover band on the stage — then out on pit road as the 40-car field grinds into its grid spots (Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr., Kevin Harvick; qualifying rained out, grid set on points). A fan's fall-weekend film covers the South Point 400 (October 2024, watch content), and the suite-level first-race film (South Point 400, 2022) adds the calendar note that matters for trip planning: the speedway runs events throughout the year, not just Cup weekends — with the pre-race scene where fans meet drivers and get close to the cars. (The up-close films are 2020-era; the speedway and its garage are unchanged in format, and the summaries date them.)

The conversions, and driving it yourself

Two films are first NASCAR races ever, filmed as they happen — a 2025 newcomer's whole learning curve ('my goodness, it's huge… the speed') and a lifelong Las Vegan's hometown check-off (2022) — exactly how most visitors will experience LVMS: excitement first, expertise later. Then the participatory layer: the NASCAR Racing Experience puts you alone in a full-blown stock car on the 1.5-mile oval — four-speed manual, though staff will put it in gear for you; the 2024 group's top speed was 140 mph as filmed, an on-track box blamed, cheerfully, for the record that got away. Three experience films (2024–2026) close the page as watch content: the drive, from inside the car, is the review.

Sources: the nine videos on this page — a Neon Garage venue tour, a race-day pit-road film, a complex overview, two first-race diaries, a South Point 400 weekend film, and three NASCAR Experience films — summarized from their entries in our catalog.

Las Vegas NASCAR racing experience

FRS2K

A group takes the NASCAR Racing Experience at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (2024): suited and booted into a full-blown stock car — four-speed manual, though staff will put it in gear for you — and out alone on the 1.5-mile oval. Top speed of the day: 140 mph, with an on-track box blamed, cheerfully, for the record that got away.

Key takeaways

Drive-it-yourself stock car experience
Solo laps on the LVMS oval
140 mph reached (as filmed)

Largest Racetrack in Nevada | Las Vegas Motor Speedway | LVMS | TheVENUE

TheFOAT Media

TheFOAT's exclusive tour of the whole Las Vegas Motor Speedway complex: roughly 1,000 acres off the I-15 containing far more than the NASCAR oval — a drag strip (the film walks the burnout box and staging lanes with a meet running), a dirt oval and more, with racing happening on the big track at the start-finish line as they film. The venue-overview film the page needed.

Key takeaways

~1,000 acres: oval, drag strip, dirt track and more
The Strip at LVMS drag racing up close
A working multi-venue motorsport park

🏁 My FIRST NASCAR Race - It Was a BLAST! 🏁

Laci McCarty - Las Vegas Gal

A lifelong Las Vegan checks off the one hometown experience she'd never done: her first NASCAR race, invited out to the South Point 400 (2022). Laci McCarty films the suite-level race day — the pre-race scene where fans meet drivers and get close to the cars — with a local's running commentary and a calendar note: the speedway runs events throughout the year, not just Cup weekends.

Key takeaways

A Vegas local's first race (South Point 400, 2022)
Suite-level race day
Driver access before the race

Watch: Las Vegas Motor Speedway, guided

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Nascar Experience at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Johnny Dangerous

Johnny Dangerous films his NASCAR Experience day at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (2026) — the drive-yourself stock car program on the 1.5-mile oval. No usable caption track exists, so it loads as watch content.

NASCAR South Point 400 | Las Vegas Motor Speedway | October 2024

Jess Gold

Jess Gold's South Point 400 race-weekend film from Las Vegas Motor Speedway (October 2024) — the fall Cup Series weekend as a fan lives it. No usable caption track exists, so it loads as watch content.