Las Vegas Strip Circuit (Las Vegas Grand Prix)
The Las Vegas Strip Circuit is a 6.201 km temporary street track that runs at night down the Las Vegas Strip. Defined by very long straights and a cold desert-night surface, it is one of the highest-top-speed, lowest-downforce races of the year, where keeping tyres in their working window in the cold is the central challenge.
At a glance
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (along the Strip)
- Length: 6.201 km
- Corners: 17
- Layout: temporary street circuit, run at night, anti-clockwise
The character
:::analysis Las Vegas is a low-downforce power circuit dressed up as a spectacle. Long straights down the Strip mean teams trim wing aggressively for top speed, and the late-night slot in the desert leaves track temperatures very low. That cold is the real story: getting heat into the tyres on the out-lap and keeping them in their window through the long straights, where they cool down, defines qualifying and race pace alike. :::
Strategy and overtaking
The huge straights with DRS make overtaking straightforward, so track position is comparatively cheap to recover[1]. The dominant tyre issue is graining and warm-up in the cold rather than thermal wear, which can flip the usual compound logic and reward a car that switches its tyres on quickly.
Related
- [1]Las Vegas Grand Prix (Wikipedia) (wikipedia-en). Accessed 2026-06-18.