Las Vegas Motor Speedway Added to Line-Up of Racetracks Available to Simulation Service Members

BEDFORD, MA. December 2, 2008: What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas? Not at iRacing.com, where members will soon be able to race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway without ever leaving home – even if home is halfway around the world from the glitz of the Strip. The 1.5-mile D-shaped oval, with its 20-degree banking, hosts all three of NASCAR’s top stock car series, and has been a venue for top-tier open-wheel competition and sports car racing.

“Las Vegas Motor Speedway is an amazing motorsports complex,” noted Scott McKee, vice president of marketing for iRacing. “Its nickname, ‘The Diamond in the Desert,’ is well-deserved. The facility has the polished brilliance that is a trademark of Speedway Motorsports’ properties, and it is truly multifaceted. Whether they are racing the Chevrolet Silverado or one of the other upcoming Chevy stock cars on the big oval, a Legends Car on the pit-lane-based short oval, or any of our road-racing cars on one of the three infield road courses, from the standpoint of fun racing, our members are going to find themselves winners every time they go to Vegas.”

Although the oval gets much of the prime-time attention these days, LVMS’ multiple infield configurations make the desert speed palace a great venue for road racing and karting. Unlike most road circuit configurations at superspeedways, none of the three at LVMS makes use of the oval, allowing for concurrent use in some situations. In addition, Legends Cars regularly compete on a short oval, which incorporates the superspeedway’s pit lane.