In spite of all of these expenses, the major expenditure goes to maintenance and personnel costs.

To meet all of the financial demands outlined above, the Las Vegas Speedway acquires corporate sponsorship for all of their events. Between this corporate sponsorship and the ticket sales, which can range anywhere from $70 to $261.45 per ticket, the speedway can bring in over $50 million per major event (LVMS, 2006). Of course not all the events that are held in the venue are necessarily major.

One way that the Las Vegas Speedway contributes to the Las Vegas local community, besides the generating thousands of jobs both within and without the complex, is that it is open two times a week to local drag racers. This decision was made to help reduce the drag racing activity on the public streets, which was becoming quite a problem for the local authorities, not to mention...
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