QOTD: Did You Watch The Las Vegas Grand Prix? Should It Run At Night?

by Tim Healey

Published: November 24th, 2025

qotd did you watch the las vegas grand prix should it run at night

Yes, that's right -- it's a two-fer today. Because the timing of the Las Vegas Grand Prix is bugging me.

I wanted to watch the race but a friend of mine is in town for the holidays and we met up for a beer -- and I honestly forgot the race was on. I'd have recorded it otherwise. I think my local watering hole did have it on TV, but most of the televisions were showing college football.

I guess I don't understand why the race is slated for night time.

Sure, it's not super late in the Pacific time zone, but something like 80 percent of the television viewing public is on Eastern or Central time. I don't understand why this can't be a day race -- or even earlier in the evening, consider it's dark early this time of year.

Yes, I suppose the race organizers want to show off the Vegas Strip at night. Yes, F1 viewers in the U.S. are used to watching races at weird times or recording them.

I suppose you could argue it's cooler at night, but Las Vegas isn't typically super hot in November. A quick Google shows the high was 63 degrees on Saturday during the day -- not a bad temp for racing.

And why wouldn't the Strip also look good during the day? Wouldn't U.S.-based F1 fans be happier to get a third F1 race that's broadcast during daylight hours like Miami and Austin?

Now my questions to you -- did you watch and should the race change times to the daylight hours or earlier in the evening?

You know what to do. Sound off below.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Larry on Nov 26, 2025

GM not having Car Play or Android is a terrible move!

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Jfa138709177 on Nov 26, 2025

Re: Las Vegas F1 No I did not watch it. It’s an ugly street course.

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