F1 races inch closer to a Las Vegas return

Formula One races are increasingly looking likely to be held in Las Vegas with an announcement possibly made in the first half of 2022.

Discussions with Nevada governor Steve Sisolak that began on October 2021 have since accelerated and have later involved the city, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, and businesses around the central strip.

Consequently, the series is now working on logistics for a possible race.

Formula One officials have recently visited Las Vegas several times to work on a hosting deal.

A potential race track could pass the dancing fountains outside the Bellagio and run a mile up the strip to Wynn Las Vegas.

The US is increasingly becoming an important market for Formula One, set to conduct a race in Miami for 2022 on top of the Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas in Texas.

The series has been held in Las Vegas in the car park of Caesars Palace in the 1980s.