Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada, just outside Las Vegas, is a 1,200 acre (4.9 km²) complex of multiple tracks for automobile racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.



The drag strip, known as The Strip, is open frequently for locals to drag race in what is called the Midnight Mayhem program. This is an effort to get street racing off of local streets and into a safer environment, however that is not actually the case. Midnight Mayhem allows anyone with a drivers license to race without training or safety equipment which often causes accidents and puts drivers of higher powered cars at risk from fluids on the track. This, along with the fact that vehicles damaged on the track are not covered by the drivers, owners, or the tracks insurance, inturn makes Midnight Mayhem less safe than street racing.