A green supercar rolls through a night-time car meet as the crowd looks on.

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Las Vegas car & race culture

Neon, night meets, the Speedway and race week on the Strip. 46 licensed photos, credited and growing.

Formula 1 is only one weekend of the Las Vegas car year. The city has a permanent racing home at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, hosts the SEMA Show, the auto aftermarket’s giant trade show, every fall, and draws supercar and tuner meets of its own. Then in November the Strip itself becomes a race track.

This gallery collects that culture in one place: the Boulevard and its neon, trackside details, pit-lane atmosphere, custom builds and the Speedway. Tap any photo to see it larger with its credit.

The Strip & neon

The Boulevard, the resorts along the circuit and Las Vegas neon after dark.

Traffic light trails sweep down Las Vegas Boulevard past New York-New York and the Strip's neon at night. — **Light trails on Las Vegas Boulevard**Photo: David Vives / Pexels

Las Vegas Boulevard at night, lined with casino signs and moving traffic. — **The Boulevard after dark**Photo: Max Fomin / Pexels

The Venetian's bridge, bell tower and canal lit up at night on the Strip. — **The Venetian at night**Photo: M Sides / Pexels

Long-exposure panorama of the Strip skyline with red and white traffic streaks. — **Strip skyline, long exposure**Photo: Paul IJsendoorn / Pexels

Aerial night view of the Paris Las Vegas Eiffel Tower and balloon sign beside the Bellagio fountains. — **Paris and the Bellagio fountains**Photo: Stephen Leonardi / Pexels

The Bellagio resort glowing gold at night across its lake. — **Bellagio after dark**Photo: Andres Daza / Pexels

The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign lit up at night between palm trees. — **The Welcome sign**Photo: David Vives / Pexels

Motion-blurred light streaks rushing past Strip resorts at night. — **Speed on the Strip**Photo: Dominic Müser / Pexels

A pink and blue neon sign reading to Fabulous Las Vegas on a dark wall. — **Neon, Vegas-style**Photo: Vadim Koza / Pexels

A covered casino walkway glowing with red and gold marquee lights at night. — **Marquee lights**Photo: Ricardo Olvera / Pexels

The Strip at dusk from above: Bellagio, the Eiffel Tower replica and the Paris balloon sign under a purple sky. — **The Strip at dusk**Photo: Stephen Leonardi / Pexels

The Venetian's bell tower and canal at blue hour with Strip towers behind. — **Blue hour at the Venetian**Photo: David Vives / Pexels

Night skyline of the Las Vegas Strip seen from high above the north end of the Boulevard. — **The Strip from the north**Photo: King of Hearts / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · license

Heavy evening traffic on Las Vegas Boulevard between brightly lit resorts. — **Rush hour on the Boulevard**Photo: Notdjey / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · license

The Sphere in daylight with its exterior screen switched off, showing the lattice of the structure. — **The Sphere by day**Photo: Y2kcrazyjoker4 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 · license

Crowds under the Fremont Street Experience canopy, surrounded by vintage casino neon in downtown Las Vegas. — **Fremont Street**Photo: John Phelan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · license

The vintage Golden Nugget sign lit up in the Neon Museum boneyard. — **Neon Museum boneyard**Photo: APK / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · license

On track

Speed, kerbs, karts and race-week build-up.

Temporary race-week grandstands and hospitality being built on the Strip in front of the Bellagio, with Caesars Palace behind, in 2023. — **Race-week build on the Strip, 2023**Photo: Tomás Del Coro / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · license

A vintage red race car blurred with speed along a straight lined with red and white kerbs. — **Vintage speed**Photo: Quentin Martinez / Pexels

An orange GT race car leans through a sweeping corner on a sunny circuit. — **Through the sweeper**Photo: Quentin Martinez / Pexels

A red sports car leads through a tree-lined corner on a race circuit. — **Track day**Photo: Wolfgang Vrede / Pexels

Two race cars clip the orange and red kerbs at a corner apex. — **Clipping the apex**Photo: Telmo Antunes / Pexels

Two go-karts line up behind a chequered start line in black and white. — **Lights out, kart style**Photo: Tima Miroshnichenko / Pexels

A red go-kart sweeps through an indoor track with motion blur. — **Indoor karting**Photo: SLR Lounge / Pexels

Chequered flags flying against a pink and purple sky. — **Chequered flags**Photo: Em Everyday Living / Pexels

A red and white race car on a wide circuit with green run-off. — **Flat out**Photo: Telmo Antunes / Pexels

Spectators lean over the fence above a colourful tire wall at a race track. — **The tire wall**Photo: Athena Sandrini / Pexels

A white drift car slides sideways in a cloud of tire smoke. — **Drift smoke**Photo: cnrdmroglu / Pexels

Pit & paddock

Garages, tires, helmets and the people who run a race.

Two track marshals in orange helmets watch a single-seater pass on the pit straight. — **Marshals at work**Photo: Der_ Hördt / Pexels

Racks of racing tires waiting in an open pit garage. — **Tires in the garage**Photo: Jonathan Borba / Pexels

Black-and-white close-up of a driver in a full-face helmet, eyes on the road ahead. — **Focus**Photo: Daniel / Pexels

A white racing helmet resting at sunset. — **Helmet at sunset**Photo: Kerim Isazade / Pexels

Car culture

Supercars, night meets and the SEMA Show, the other side of Las Vegas car life.

The stripped-out cockpit of a modified race car: wheel, gauges and roll cage. — **Cockpit**Photo: 04iraq / Pexels

A red supercar parked on a busy street at a car meet. — **Red on the street**Photo: Bradikan Cars / Pexels

A yellow supercar with its lights on, on a wet street at night. — **After the rain**Photo: Julian Largo / Pexels

Cars and people gathered under floodlights at a night-time car meet. — **Meet under the lights**Photo: Matheus Bertelli / Pexels

Classic Japanese sports cars reflected on a rain-soaked parking lot at night. — **Rainy-night meet**Photo: GMB VISUALS / Pexels

An orange supercar rounds a red and white kerb at a desert track. — **Kerb and sand**Photo: Elijah Davis / Pexels

A silver restomod muscle car on display at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. — **SEMA Show, Las Vegas**Photo: Nick Ares from Auburn, CA, United States / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · license

A dark carbon-bodied fastback custom build at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. — **SEMA custom build**Photo: Nick Ares from Auburn, CA, United States / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · license

A blue classic muscle car with its hood up at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. — **SEMA classic**Photo: Nick Ares from Auburn, CA, United States / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · license

Las Vegas Motor Speedway

The city’s permanent home of racing, 15 miles northeast of the Strip.

Aerial view of Las Vegas Motor Speedway's 1.5-mile oval with the dirt track and drag strip beside it. — **The Speedway from above**Photo: Eddie Maloney from North Las Vegas, USA / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · license

Empty grandstands curving around the oval at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with desert mountains behind. — **Speedway grandstands**Photo: iPhone Photography / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 · license

Spectators in the stands beside the drag strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, with mountains on the horizon. — **The strip at LVMS**Photo: Eddie Maloney from North Las Vegas, USA / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 · license

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