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Vegas Drifting at the LVMS
photo by Las Vegas Motor Speedway CC BY-SA 3.0 Racers line up at the LVMS starting line
With the next Vegas Drift night just a few days away, many motorsports fans will be heading west to Nevada for some amazing action in an incredible setting. The Las Vegas Motor Speedway is one of the iconic venues on the circuit, boasting no less than nine different tracks over a 1,000-acre site. If you’re heading to the city of sin for the big drift event, here’s everything you need to know about the LVMS.
Where is the course?
The Las Vegas Motor Speedway lies 12 miles north of the city along the i-15 at exit 54. And while it may be out of sight of the famous bright lights and casinos of the Las Vegas strip, there’s still plenty of excitement in store. Las Vegas may no longer be the entertainment capital of the world, since the rise of Macau, but it still knows how to show its visitors a great time, whether they’re spinning roulette wheels or steering wheels.
What kind of racing is on offer?
Basically, whatever kind of racing you are into, from go-karts to Nascar, drag racing to exotic supercars. There are nine tracks at the venue, including the main speedway track, which measures a mile and a half and has 20° banked curves and 9°-12° sloped straights. With seating for 123,000 spectators, it’s an impressive site, even when the track is quiet.
The venue is also home to one of only two four-lane drag strips in the US, a dirt track, an off road track, a go kart track and the bullring for stock car racing. There is an inside road track, measuring 1.1 miles, and an outside road track, which can measure up to 2.4 miles.
photo by Ken Lund CC BY-SA 2.0 The many tracks of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway
The drift racing track
The Vegas Drift events have traditionally taken place on the outside road track, which can be set up in numerous different layouts, including two simultaneous tack circuits. With twelve challenging turns, several sharp hairpins and a smooth asphalt surface, it is perfect for the sliding action of drift racing.
The Vegas Drift event on Saturday 18th August takes place on the North Drag Lot and includes the chance to race your own machine, as well as ride-along with some of the more experienced racers. The track will be hot from 6pm, with registration open from 3.30pm. Racing continues through the evening, with the track hot until almost midnight. It costs just $10 entry (kids can enter for free), and you can test your skills on the wet skid pad for just $40, or ride along for just $10.
Special experiences
If you enjoy your drift day at LVMS, you can always go back for more, with a range of special experiences available on the different tracks. Take a 600hp ride-along on a Nascar experience day, or combine power and poise in one of the world’s most exclusive cars, like a luxury Lamborghini or a fierce Ferrari on an exotics experience. Just don’t forget that you’re not at a drift event when you try it. They probably won’t thank you for throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of supercar sideways around the bends in a huge cloud of tyre smoke!
2018 HEL Performance Driftcup: Round 4 – Ian Wyatt
Teesside Autodrome was a new track for me, I had never driver here but I have seen plenty of videos from other events here including the British Drift Championship Livestream.
FORMULA DRIFT TAKES THE PRO AND PRO 2 CATEGORIES TO THE NEW ST LOUIS ROUND FOR ITS ACTION-PACKED RETURN TO THE MID-WEST
Bringing world-class drifting to the Mid-West, the 2018 Formula DRIFT Black Magic Pro Championship and Link Pro 2 Championship headed to St Louis, MO for Round Six: Advance Auto Parts Crossroads presented by Rain-X. This would be the first time in its 15-year history the series had visited Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, IL and packed grandstands greeted the competitors.
“We’re delighted to bring Formula DRIFT Pro and Pro 2 Championships to St Louis,” beamed a delighted Jim Liaw, FD president. “We’ve been looking for a suitable venue to bring the series back to the Mid-West and Chris Blair proved to be the catalyst. He was formerly the VP of Racing Operations at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and knows what we need. So when he became EVP and GM at Gateway Motorsports Park it was the break we’d been waiting for. The track is adjacent to St Louis and accessible to most of the major cities in the Mid-West so its location is perfect. It also provides the facilities FD needs and we’re in discussions to expand certain areas for next year since we’re already looking at a capacity crowd and need the opportunity to grow. We think this will become one of the most popular events across the country once it’s fully established.”
2018 HEL Performance Driftcup: Round 4 – Craig Taylor
After breaking our diff at Round 3, we now have our new diff with a slightly different ratio, going from a 3.9 to a 4.3 I was super excited to see how it improved the driveability of the car. For round 4 of Drift Cup at Teesside Autodrome we had practice day the day before on Saturday which gave us plenty of time to get use too the track and the new gearing.
2018 HEL Performance Driftcup: Round 4 – James Moore
Teesside Autodrome was the location of Driftcup Round 4, a track I hoped I was able to link by the end of the weekend.
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