Organizers won a 10-year permit for the race.Īfter road work began in April, race organizers asked Clark County to contribute half of an estimated $80 million in repaving costs. When the inaugural Formula One Las Vegas grand prix was added to a 24-race worldwide F1 schedule a year ago, tickets and hotel packages costing tens of thousands of dollars per person went on sale. “It’s all barricades and things blocking traffic,” said Charles Flexer, a tourist from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, who tried to decide how to cross Las Vegas Boulevard with his mother using an electric mobility scooter. “So it’s definitely a bummer, I’d say.”įor now, many familiar Strip sights are blocked by track barriers, fencing, pedestrian walkway screens, scaffolding and advertising erected around the nighttime race on streets usually choked with taxis, buses and rental cars and lined by pedestrians posing for selfies.
“I know a lot of people love the fountains,” Joshua Guray, a visitor from Long Beach, California, said.
