A night race through the middle of the city
The Las Vegas Strip Circuit is 6.2 kilometres of public road: down Las Vegas Boulevard past the Bellagio and Caesars Palace, along Koval Lane and round the Sphere, with the pit building and paddock on the east side of the Strip. Fifty laps under floodlights, on a Saturday night, in a city that already has the hotels, the restaurants and the stages to fill the three evenings around it.
That is also what makes it awkward. The roads that carry the race are the roads to your hotel, they close for each session, and every private airport in the valley runs a reservation programme for race week. Arriving well is a question of which airport, which hotel and which day, settled together and early.