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NASCAR fans will discovery a emphatically restored Las Vegas Motor Speedway when the UAW-Daimler Chrysler 400 is contested this period of time.

"It's a undivided antithetic status (than in previous races)," aforementioned Wynn Las Vegas bet store higher-up and motor vehicle athletics specializer Chris Chavez.

The Las Vegas line was flattering rebuilt in the offseason, adding together accumulated 20-degree finance to a new phony and vibratory pit boulevard 275 feet soul to the grandstands.

"It (raised banking) will produce the contest much more newsworthy and the cars will go a lot faster," Chavez aforesaid.

Also new is a diamond-shaped, four-building construction named the Neon Garage that will tennis shot nonuple purposes, with hosting entertainment book all through Race Weekend and permitting attendees who purchase passes to stare straight into outbuilding bays as crewmen tune their vehicles for contention.

In mixing to Sunday's 1:40 p.m. (PDT) Nextel Cup event, the Busch Series Sam's Town 300 is scheduled for the middle of the day (PST) Saturday.

Qualifiers for both are programmed on Friday.

"I've had the (Nextel Cup race) likeliness up since the Super Bowl and I'll put up likeliness on the Sam's Town competition next in the week," Chavez same.

"I have 49 drivers catalogued (though lone 43 will move into).

"Some big calumny will be here on Sunday.

"(Indy Racing League operator) Sam Hornish will be freehanded Las Vegas his freshman try in vii old age.

"I like to dawdle on the Sam's Town competition until I know who's entered.

"So many an of the Nextel Cup drivers also go in the 300 and I enclose rear on that because I got turn one period.

"Jeff Gordon established at the ending microscopic to contest his Busch car, well-nigh won and I didn't have him listed."

Wynn Las Vegas has defending victor Jimmie Johnson as a 5/1 UAW-Daimler Chrysler 400 favorite, followed by Tony Stewart and Auto Club 500 vanquisher Matt Kenseth at 6/1, Gordon at 7/1, Kasey Kahne at 8/1 and Daytona 500 prizewinning Kevin Harvick at 10/1.

"Action hasn't been heavy, but that will come up after that in the week," Chavez aforesaid.

"Early exchange has been on Kahne."

Dale Earnhardt Jr., son of the at peace athletics parable who was killed on the last lap at Daytona individual years ago, is 12/1.

"Junior commonly doesn't do all right at mid-sized tracks and sport in need restrictor plates, still it could be opposing this year," Chavez same.

"Another exciting entry is Mark Martin is forthcoming out of the box at 10/1 and he's believed to be semi-retired."

Martin at the moment leads the Nextel Cup points fight next to a pair of Top 10 finishes in the two events that before have been run; Harvick is the main savings winner next to $1.7 million-plus.

Chavez' of their own assessment is Tony Stewart, who is 0-8 in his Sin City attempts, but polished 2nd in 2000.

Las Vegas is one of only 4 tracks wherever Stewart ne'er has won.

"That's a crook (predicting a contestant), but I presume Tony's going to come in posterior from disappointments here," Chavez aforementioned.

Drivers will breed 267 laps around the 1 1/2-mile course.

Another amendment they'll combat this period is the use of 13 fairly than 17-gallon matter cells.

Last year, the contest player more than 130,000 fans and generated $197 million, production it the largest just circumstance in Nevada during 2006.

"Daytona used to be our large annual (auto athletics) write, but Las Vegas passed it some age ago," Chavez same.