you can read about it, http://www.dragzine.com/news/flashback-friday-las-vegas-stardust-international-raceway/ but in a nutshell, the Stardust made a dragstrip and race track, in Oct 1965, but as soon as new owners took over the Stardust the track was out of the picture, and the land was sold to developers in 1970
The facility featured a flat, 3-mile, 13-turn road course and a quarter-mile drag strip.
Gurney. Andretti. Jones. Both Unsers, Al and Bobby.
A.J. Foyt, Bruce McLaren, Denis Hulme, Mark Donohue, Chris Amon, Peter Revson, Gordon Johncock and Johnny Rutherford.
George Follmer, Jim Hall, Sam Posey, Lloyd Ruby, Joe Leonard, Gary Bettenhausen, Roger McCluskey, Art Pollard and Swede Savage.
No one knew it at the time, but they could have opened an auto racing hall of fame in the paddock.
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/09/16/organized-crime-showgirls-and-the-best-race-car-drivers-of-their-time-the-story-of-las-vegas-stardust-international-raceway/
http://insideflipside.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=43_184&products_id=3281&zenid=..?r=1
http://lasvegassun.com/news/2003/may/22/stardust-memories/
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/
https://revslib.stanford.edu/?f%5Bevent_ssi%5D%5B%5D=Can-Am+Stardust+Grand+Prix&f%5Bpeople_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Hall%2C+Jim
https://www.michelvaillant.com/forum/index.php?action=vthread&forum=10&topic=990&page=140#msg75272
Skip the first 7 minutes and 30 seconds to get to the start of the race
Was this the track used in Viva Las Vegas? Elvis and Ann Margret! (aka Rusty and Lucky).
ReplyDeleteI don't know... I haven't read anything about that
DeleteWhen I started research for my Stardust International Raceway book, I thought as well that the Stardust Hotel & Casino built the track. That was actually not true, and the truth was much more complex.
ReplyDeleteAnd no, Viva Las Vegas was not filmed the track. VLV was filmed in 1963 and released in 1964. Stardust Raceway, as noted above, opened in 1965. There was some footage of the race scene in VLV, however, that was filmed at the former Thunderbird Speedway in nearby Henderson, NV.