Forty years after last hosting a Formula 1 race, Las Vegas is to return to the F1 schedule.
F1 has been in negotiations with Las Vegas and Nevada officials for months with an eye toward holding an annual race in and around the Las Vegas Strip.
The race will be officially announced in the coming weeks according to US media reports and will be held in late November next year at Thanksgiving.
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It will mark the third U.S.-based race on the F1 circuit.
Austin, Texas, has hosted a race since 2012 and a new event in Miami will debut this May.
F1 executives have also apparently shown interest in New York as a fourth American venue.
There was briefly an F1 race in Las Vegas between 1981 and 1984 known as the Caesars Palace Grand Prix, for which a temporary track was built in the parking lot of the Caesars Palace hotel.
-Reuters