Las Vegas Pre-Race Thread

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My third year going to the Fall race weekend. Our trip overlaps with another group of friends who were going out already for a music festival. We are all booked at the same condo complex for the weekend... going to be a ridiculously good time.

Tuesday-Thursday- Vegas shenanigans
Friday- cabana day at MGM Grand. Beer on the lazy river is priority #1.
Friday night- LVMS Bullring with a revamped format... out goes ARCA, in comes the CARS West tour. 125 SLM race with Kevin Harvick. 30 lap Legend race with Keelan Harvick. 100 lap regular late model race. Solid deal for $22 tickets bought ahead of time.
Saturday- Xfinity race goes from a 12pm start to 4:30pm. Going to be a true twilight race.
Sunday- Cup racing with Ryan Preece and Jimmie Johnson racing on the same track. That's going to bring a smile on my face... even if they're battling for 25th place 😅

Then it's off to Great Basin NP, the least visited park in the national parks system.
 
I’d think Vegas and Phoenix wouldn’t have a hard time selling tickets considering they and Sonoma are the only tracks out West that fans have to choose from.
 
My prediction is that the 48 car wins and there will be a cement block attached somewhere on the car for extra weight. That car will be so heavy the hauler driver will have to take the back roads and go around all of the chicken coops “aka weigh scales” on the route to LVMS. 😃
 
Nitro Dude said:
My prediction is that the 48 car wins and there will be a cement block attached somewhere on the car for extra weight. That car will be so heavy the hauler driver will have to take the back roads and go around all of the chicken coops “aka weigh scales” on the route to LVMS. 😃
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fuk 😅🤣😂
 
Nitro Dude said:
My prediction is that the 48 car wins and there will be a cement block attached somewhere on the car for extra weight. That car will be so heavy the hauler driver will have to take the back roads and go around all of the chicken coops “aka weigh scales” on the route to LVMS. 😃
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NASCAR's first double-trailer, double-lane hauler. Mr. H. will provide Corvettes for the 'Oversized Load' escort vehicles .
 
Daytripper said:
If they are selling on StubHub then the race could already be sold out, StubHub resells tickets that were already bought.
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My assumption is it's a lot of free corporate tickets that people re-sell.

The track puts out a decent product and Vegas is cheaper lodging and easier than a lot of other races... I wish they were more successful
 
big fan of the tracks this round, cant wait to see how it plays out in that these are probably the most "normal" grouping of tracks we've had this playoffs.
 
Goodyear Fast Facts — Las Vegas

NASCAR Cup Series — Race No. 33 – 267 laps / 400.5 miles
Las Vegas Motor Speedway (1.5-mile oval) – Las Vegas, Nev.

Fast Facts for October 19-20, 2024

Tire: Goodyear Eagle 18-inch Speedway Radials

Set limits: Cup: 1 set for practice, 1 set for qualifying and 9 sets for the race
(8 race sets plus 1 set transferred from qualifying)

Tire Codes:
Left-side — D-5186; Right-side — D-5222

Tire Circumference:
Left-side — 2,263 mm (89.09 in.); Right-side — 2,277 mm (89.65 in.)

Minimum Recommended Inflation:
Left Front — 20 psi; Left Rear — 22 psi;
Right Front — 50 psi; Right Rear — 46 psi

Storyline – The search for grip in the desert: The NASCAR Cup Series races on a wide range of tracks over the course of a season. From the material used in the track surface to the amount of banking in the corners to the radii of those corners to the abrasiveness of the track surface, all those factors go into designing a tire set-up for a particular facility. Las Vegas Motor Speedway has traditionally not produced high tire wear, and when tires don’t wear it allows heat to build up causing a loss of grip.

What Goodyear has done for its Las Vegas set-up is design its tread compounds to wear more, having more heat dissipate through the tread and allowing the tire to run at a more optimal level. Understanding that teams want to maintain as much grip in their tires as possible, one way they do that is reducing the air pressure in their tires. Goodyear recommends that teams observe the minimum posted air pressures so tires don’t over-deflect and cause damage to the sidewall.

“With Las Vegas being a low tire wear track, we have done several things in recent years with the tire set-up,” said Greg Stucker, Goodyear’s director of racing. “From the tread compound side, we bring a tire that encourages wear which, in turn, helps manage the heat in the tire. A tire that wears runs relatively ‘cooler’ over the course of a run.

Also, for this season, we introduced a construction update to the right-side tire that the Cup cars run at Las Vegas and several other tracks, and that gives teams a little more flexibility in using air pressures as a tuning tool in their search for maximum performance.”

Notes – Cup cars back on spring tire set-up at Las Vegas: Being on the 18-inch bead diameter tire, NASCAR Cup teams will run a different tire set-up than those in the Xfinity Series at Las Vegas this weekend . . . this is the same combination of left- and right-side tires that Cup teams ran at Las Vegas in March . . . Cup teams have also run this same tire set-up at Texas, Kansas (twice), Nashville and Pocono this season . . . with this 18-inch tire, and its lower profile sidewall, Cup cars do not run inner liners in any of their tires.
 
Round of 8....Good place for the chips to be moved to the center of the table.
 
I guess those trucks had to detour through Atlanta, Chattanooga, then over to Nashville to make it out there with the intersection between Asheville and Knoxville closed to the flooding from Helene.
 
I love the silver carton 'wheels'. I wonder if the local Walmart staff came up with that, or does a team from Coke do prep work for the driver promo visits?
 
I'm getting pretty sick of the cup wheel/tire combo. Running the big stuff without an interliner is borrowing trouble.
 
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