Oh I wish it looked like that today, the front of the Bellagio is completely ruined. From the Sphere to the backstretch there are concrete barriers down the middle of the road and same on the sides, they only race on 1/2 it. Same goes from the back stretch to start finish, the turn at the end of the backstretch looks like hell. The section around the Sphere might look ok. The front stretch looks like crap, might look nice as you see the Wynn the whole way down. I assume concrete barriers will be placed along the median on the strip where its trees.
Most of the stands are right on the edge of the track and elevated 10+ ft, almost none of all the stands aside from start finish complex are set back.
I will try to post pics later my friend took, I was driving. We were shocked what a mess the whole area was, would never guess the race weekend starts in 10 days. I never could imagine Vegas would be in such rough shape, its way to busy a place to cause this much disruption. There were 3 temp 4 lane bridges built over the race track and 3 temp bridges for pedestrians, with all that plus the fencing, lights, and temp grandstands we can not even fathom the cost. Only the 2 buildings/stands at start finish are permanent.
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Originally Posted by GuidoK
That doesn't sound good.
I've never been to Las Vegas, but have looked on google maps. But as there most of the track isn't even layed out, it's difficult to get a feeling for the size and conditions etc.
Anyway, the strip should give plenty of visual stimulation.
Having them race with these kind of backgrounds but then lit up at night:
And with the strip being that long, I think they'll be doing ~350kph
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