IndyCar races in Las Vegas
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2011 ) |
The IZOD IndyCar World Championship Presented by Honda was an
Race history
AAA Championship Car
The Silver State Century was a 100-lap/100-mile race at Las Vegas Park, a dirt track in Las Vegas. Jimmy Bryan was the winner of the race's lone running.
Stardust Raceway
The
Caesars Palace
Starting in 1981,
Indy Racing League
In 1996,
For the first four runnings, the race was advertised as a 500 km race. Starting in 1997, the race was moved to a night race. In 2000, it was moved from the fall to the spring, and returned to a day race. After 2000, the race was removed from the IndyCar Series for a decade.
Champ Car
In 2004–2005, the
For 2005, the name of the race was changed to the Hurricane Relief 400, and it served as a fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina recovery.
Fremont Street
In July 2006, the
Lap Records
Category | Time | Driver | Vehicle | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Grand Prix Circuit: 3.927 km (2007) | ||||
Champ Car |
1:19.934 | Will Power | Panoz DP01 | 2007 Vegas Grand Prix |
IZOD IndyCar World Championships
On February 22, 2011, IndyCar CEO
The
battled each other on the final lap, but Carbone cut the new Indy Lights champion Newgarden's tire on the Nellis Straightaway, leading Guerrieri and Carbone to fight for the win in a side-by-side finish, with Carbone winning by .0229 seconds.The 200-lap IndyCar feature ended on lap 12 after a 15-car crash that claimed the life of fellow Sam Schmidt Motorsports driver Dan Wheldon. IndyCar decided that the race would not continue, and spectators were offered refunds of all Sunday tickets that were used, and partial refunds of multiple-day tickets (Qualifying and NASCAR tickets could not be refunded, as Friday qualifying and Saturday NASCAR events finished without incident, so only the portion relating with the Sunday race could be processed).[2]
As a result of the incident, on December 8, 2011, Bernard announced that the IndyCar World Championships would not return to Las Vegas in 2012. The Smith's 350, which had been set for the IndyCar weekend, was moved up two weeks.
IndyCar officials in 2022 returned to the circuit as an autonomous racing event, the Indy Autonomous Challenge.
Past winners
Las Vegas Park (dirt oval)
Season | Date | Driver | Team | Car | Race Distance | Race Time | Average Speed (mph) |
Ref | |
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Laps | Miles (km) | ||||||||
1954 | November 14 | Jimmy Bryan | Dean Van Lines | Kuzma-Offy
|
100 | 100 (160.934) | 1:10:44 | 84.818 | [3] |
Fremont Street circuit
Season | Date | Driver | Team | Car | Race Distance | Race Time | Average Speed (mph) |
Report | Ref | |
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Laps | Miles (km) | |||||||||
2007 | April 8 | Will Power | Walker Racing | Panoz-Cosworth | 68 | 165.92 (267.022) | 1:45:13 | 93.056 | Report | [4] |
Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Season | Date | Driver | Team | Chassis | Engine | Race Distance | Race Time | Average Speed (mph) |
Report | Ref | |
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Laps | Miles (km) | ||||||||||
IndyCar Series history | |||||||||||
1996–97 | Sept 15, 1996 | Richie Hearn | Della Penna Motorsports | Reynard | Ford-Cosworth | 200 | 300 (482.803) | 2:36:17 | 115.171 | Report | [5] |
Oct 11, 1997 | Eliseo Salazar | Team Scandia | Dallara | Oldsmobile | 208 | 312 (502.115) | 2:11:07 | 142.757 | Report | [6] | |
1998 | October 11 | Arie Luyendyk | Treadway Racing | G-Force | Oldsmobile | 208 | 312 (502.115) | 2:18:19 | 135.338 | Report | [7] |
1999 | September 25 | Sam Schmidt | Treadway Racing | G-Force | Oldsmobile | 208 | 312 (502.115) | 2:29:50 | 124.196 | Report | [8] |
2000 | March 22 | Al Unser Jr. | Galles Racing | G-Force | Oldsmobile | 208 | 312 (502.115) | 2:16:57 | 136.691 | Report | [9] |
Champ Car World Series history | |||||||||||
2004 | September 25 | Sébastien Bourdais | Newman/Haas Racing | Lola | Ford-Cosworth | 166 | 249 (400.726) | 1:29:01 | 167.832 | Report | [10] |
2005 | September 24 | Sébastien Bourdais | Newman/Haas Racing | Lola | Ford-Cosworth | 166 | 249 (400.726) | 1:26:22 | 172.962 | Report | [11] |
IndyCar Series history | |||||||||||
2011 | October 16 | Race abandoned after 12 laps -- 15-car crash on lap 11 and death of Dan Wheldon | Report | [12][13] |
Firestone Indy Lights
In 2011, the Firestone Indy Lights support race was added to the World Championships.
Season | Date | Driver | Team | Chassis | Engine | Race Distance | Race Time | Average Speed (mph) |
Ref | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Laps | Miles (km) | |||||||||
2011
|
October 16 | Victor Carbone | Sam Schmidt Motorsports
|
Dallara | Infiniti | 67 | 100.5 (161.739) | 0:35:26 | 175.153 | [14] |
References
- ^ Lewandowski, Dave. "Place your bets on championship round". IndyCar.com. Archived from the original on 25 February 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- ^ Dan Wheldon dies in crash at Las Vegas Indy 300
- ^ "1954 Silver State Century". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
- ^ "2007 Vegas Grand Prix". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
- ^ "1996 Las Vegas 500K". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
- ^ "1997 Las Vegas 500K". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
- ^ "1998 Las Vegas 500K". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
- ^ "1999 Vegas.com 500". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
- ^ "2000 Vegas Indy 300". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
- ^ "2004 Bridgestone 400 Presented by Corona". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
- ^ "2005 Champ Car Hurricane Relief 400". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
- ^ "2011 IZOD IndyCar World Championship". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
- ^ "Wheldon killed in IndyCar horror crash". Motor Sport. 87 (12): 14. December 2011. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
- ^ "Report". Archived from the original on 2011-10-24. Retrieved 2011-11-07.