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

"It's a undamaged unlike state of affairs (than in ancient races)," aforementioned Wynn Las Vegas bet store boss and automotive vehicle athletics authority Chris Chavez.

The Las Vegas track was quite rebuilt in the offseason, calculation accrued 20-degree banking to a new phony and restless pit lane 275 feet someone to the grandstands.

"It (raised finance) will fashion the race noticeably more interesting and the cars will go a lot faster," Chavez said.

Also new is a diamond-shaped, four-building construction named the Neon Garage that will serve multiple purposes, with hosting diversion acts of the apostles through Race Weekend and permitting attendees who acquisition passes to outer shell directly into outbuilding bays as crewmen piece of music their vehicles for gala.

In accessory to Sunday's 1:40 p.m. (PDT) Nextel Cup event, the Busch Series Sam's Town 300 is planned for noonday (PST) Saturday.

Qualifiers for some are regular on Friday.

"I've had the (Nextel Cup contest) probability up since the Super Bowl and I'll put up odds on the Sam's Town competition latter in the week," Chavez aforementioned.

"I have 49 drivers recorded (though single 43 will introduction).

"Some big names will be here on Sunday.

"(Indy Racing League operator) Sam Hornish will be liberal Las Vegas his prime try in seven age.

"I suchlike to wait on the Sam's Town competition until I cognise who's entered.

"So masses of the Nextel Cup drivers too go in the 300 and I hold hindmost on that because I got burned one period of time.

"Jeff Gordon contracted at the finishing minute to contest his Busch car, near won and I didn't have him recorded."

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

"Action hasn't been heavy, but that will come with latter in the week," Chavez said.

"Early business has been on Kahne."

Dale Earnhardt Jr., son of the asleep athletics allegory who was killed on the final lap at Daytona individual geezerhood ago, is 12/1.

"Junior ordinarily doesn't do okay at mid-sized tracks and racing short restrictor plates, conversely it could be dissimilar this year," Chavez aforesaid.

"Another intriguing article is Mark Martin is future out of the box at 10/1 and he's acknowledged to be semi-retired."

Martin presently leads the Nextel Cup points match beside a pair of Top 10 finishes in the two trial that but have been run; Harvick is the principal plunder champion near $1.7 million-plus.

Chavez' private assessment is Tony Stewart, who is 0-8 in his Sin City attempts, but over and done with 2d in 2000.

Las Vegas is one of only 4 tracks where Stewart never has won.

"That's a punk (predicting a vanquisher), but I meditate Tony's going to come with vertebrae from disappointments here," Chavez aforementioned.

Drivers will breed 267 laps circa the 1 1/2-mile path.

Another make over they'll brush this period of time is the use of 13 fairly than 17-gallon oil cells.

Last year, the race player more than 130,000 fans and generated $197 million, making it the biggest sporting case in Nevada during 2006.

"Daytona in use to be our largest yearly (auto racing) write, but Las Vegas passed it whatever old age ago," Chavez said.