LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY Las Vegas hosted its first major league drag racing event in 2000, when the inaugural NHRA SummitRacing.Com Nationals came to the all-new, state-of-the-art Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Taking place just a few miles north of the fabled Las Vegas strip, Built by Speedway Motorsports Corp., which built and developed Bristol Dragway. The facility features luxury suites constructed above the grandstands covering the quarter-mile — a first in drag racing.